Title
Exploration of Large Omnidirectional Images in Immersive Environments
Abstract
Navigation is a major challenge in exploring data within immersive environments, especially of large omnidirectional spherical images. We propose a method of auto-scaling to allow users to navigate using teleportation within the safe boundary of their physical environment with different levels of focus. Our method combines physical navigation with virtual teleportation. We also propose a “peek then warp” behavior when using a zoom lens and evaluate our system in conjunction with different teleportation transitions, including a proposed transition for exploration of omnidirectional and 360-degree panoramic imagery, termed Envelop, wherein the destination view expands out from the zoom lens to completely envelop the user. In this work, we focus on visualizing and navigating large omnidirectional or panoramic images with application to GIS visualization as an inside-out omnidirectional image of the earth. We conducted two user studies to evaluate our techniques over a search and comparison task. Our results illustrate the advantages of our techniques for navigation and exploration of omnidirectional images in an immersive environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/VR.2019.8797777
2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Human-centered computing—Human computer interaction (HCI)—HCI design and evaluation methods—User studies,Human-centered computing—Human computer interaction (HCI)—Interaction paradigms—Virtual reality,Human-centered computing—Visualization—Visualization application domains—Geographic visualization
Computer vision,Omnidirectional antenna,Teleportation,Visualization,Computer science,Immersion (virtual reality),Artificial intelligence,User studies,Zoom lens
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2642-5246
978-1-7281-1378-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
34
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
koosha mirhosseini172.02
Parmida Ghahremani200.34
Sushant Ojal310.70
Joseph Marino47011.35
Arie Kaufrnan500.34