Title
Hybrid Camera System For Telepresence With Foveated Imaging
Abstract
To improve the telepresence sense of a local HMD user, a high-resolution view of the remote environment is necessary. However, current commodity omnidirectional camera could not support enough resolution for the human eye. Using a higher resolution omnidirectional camera is also infeasible because it will increase the streaming bandwidth. We propose a hybrid camera system that can convey a higher resolution for the HMD user viewport ROI region in available bandwidth range. The hybrid camera consists of a pair of omnidirectional and PTZ camera which is close to each other. The HMD user head orientation controls the PTZ camera orientation. The HMD user also controls the zooming level of the PTZ camera to achieve higher resolution up to PTZ camera maximum optical zoom level. The remote environment view obtained from each camera is streamed to the HMD user and then stitched into one combined view. This combined view simulates human visual system (HVS) phenomenon called foveation, where only a small part in the human view is in high resolution, and the rests are in low resolution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/VR.2019.8798011
2019 26TH IEEE CONFERENCE ON VIRTUAL REALITY AND 3D USER INTERFACES (VR)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Telepresence, Hybrid Camera, Foveation, HMD
Omnidirectional camera,Human eye,Computer vision,Omnidirectional antenna,Viewport,Human visual system model,Computer science,Zoom,Bandwidth (signal processing),Artificial intelligence,Foveated imaging
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muhammad Firdaus Syawaludin100.34
Chanho Kim2835.57
Jae-In Hwang341.73