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Immersive browsing in an image sphere

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In this paper, we present an immersive image database navigation system. Images are visualised in a spherical visualisation space and arranged, on a grid, by colour so that images of similar colour are located close to each other, while access to large image sets is possible through a hierarchical browsing structure. The user is wearing a 3-D head mounted display (HMD) and is immersed inside the image sphere. Navigation is performed by head movement using a 6-degree-of-freedom tracker integrated in the HMD in conjunction with a wiimote remote control.

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IMCOM '17: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
January 2017
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DOI:10.1145/3022227
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  1. head mounted display
  2. image browsing
  3. image database navigation
  4. image databases
  5. immersive browsing

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