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Abstract
Until now, immersive 360° VR panoramas could not be captured casually and reliably at the same time as state-of-the-art approaches involve time-consuming or expensive capture processes that prevent the casual capture of real-world VR environments. Existing approaches are also often limited in their supported range of head motion. We introduce OmniPhotos, a novel approach for casually and reliably capturing high-quality 360° VR panoramas. Our approach only requires a single sweep of a consumer 360° video camera as input, which takes less than 3 seconds with a rotating selfie stick. The captured video is transformed into a hybrid scene representation consisting of a coarse scene-specific proxy geometry and optical flow between consecutive video frames, enabling 5-DoF real-world VR experiences. The large capture radius and 360° field of view significantly expand the range of head motion compared to previous approaches. Among all competing methods, ours is the simplest, and fastest by an order of magnitude. We have captured more than 50 OmniPhotos and show video results for a large variety of scenes. We will make our code and datasets publicly available.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Emerging Technologies |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Number of pages | 2 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450381109 |
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Publication status | Published - 4 Dec 2020 |
Event | ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia - Online Duration: 4 Dec 2020 → 13 Dec 2020 Conference number: 13 https://sa2020.siggraph.org/en/ |
Publication series
Name | SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging Technologies |
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Conference
Conference | ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia |
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Abbreviated title | SIGGRAPH Asia |
Period | 4/12/20 → 13/12/20 |
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Projects
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Fellowship - Towards Immersive 360° VR Video with Motion Parallax
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
25/06/18 → 24/06/21
Project: Research council
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Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA)
Cosker, D., Campbell, N., Fincham Haines, T., Hall, P., Kim, K. I., Lutteroth, C., O'Neill, E., Richardt, C. & Yang, Y.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/09/15 → 28/02/21
Project: Research council