Virtual Video Camera: Image-Based Viewpoint Navigation Through Space and Time Christian Lipski, Christian Linz, Kai Berger, Anita Sellent, Marcus Magnor

Christian Lipski, Christian Linz, Kai Berger, Anita Sellent, and Marcus Magnor: "Virtual Video Camera: Image-Based Viewpoint Navigation Through Space and Time", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 2555–2568, December 2010. Part of project "Virtual Video Camera". [pdf] [bib] [video] [youtube]

Abstract

We present an image-based rendering system to viewpoint-navigate through space and time of complex real-world, dynamic scenes. Our approach accepts unsynchronized, uncalibrated multi-video footage as input. Inexpensive, consumer-grade camcorders suffice to acquire arbitrary scenes, e.g., in the outdoors, without elaborate recording setup procedures, allowing also for hand-held recordings. Acquisition simplification, integration of moving cameras, generalization to difficult scenes, and space-time symmetric interpolation amount to a widely applicable Virtual Video Camera system.

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