We wish to decrease traffic accidents and want to observe drivers' behaviors to find ways to drive safely. Observations at the real environment include many risks to have needless but critical accidents. Using a car driving simulator, we can observe ...

In this paper, we propose the exhibition system using the spatial augmented reality technology for the digital museum. This exhibition system can represent the atmosphere around the exhibits, for example, the bustle of town, a lifestyle of people, and ...

In this paper, the panoramic stereo images are produced from the real environment using a digital camera and a panoramic tripod head. And they are applied to the CAVE system as panoramic stereo background to increase user's immersion. The images for ...

Numerous TV programs have been produced using the virtual reality (VR) technology in Korean Broadcasting System (KBS). A brief history of VR in KBS TV is introduced, with a few current research issues.

We have been developing an outdoor gallery system in Asukakyo. Asukakyo is one of the ancient capitals, which is well-known to has lots of temples, palaces and buildings. Nevertheless, most of the assets have been deteriorated after more than fourteen ...

As depth sensing devices become popular and affordable, end-users can have the freedom to choose a different point of view in a multicamera transmission. In this paper, we propose an image-based rendering (IBR) algorithm to generate perceptually ...

This paper presents a scalable, adaptive algorithm for direct illumination in scenes with many area light sources. Instead of presampling light sources into massive point lights like previous multilight algorithms, the algorithm builds a tree structure ...

Modeling trees in a plausible and fast way is a challenge in virtual reality. A new sketch-based tree modeling method is presented in this paper. A realistic 3D tree model can be generated automatically from freehand sketches of users: sketches of main ...

Typical photo-based augmented reality applications match photos against contents in a database of images, using image retrieval algorithms. Further, in such augmented reality applications, content authoring is a tedious and expensive task that requires ...

Visual tracking for augmented reality tours is still challenging for cultural heritage sites because of the great variation of tracking targets and environments on such sites. Even at today's state of the art, it is almost impossible to apply just one ...

In this paper, we propose a framework to realize a real-time, immersive, and interactive Augmented Reality running on a miniature. We achieve these challenging goals by harmonizing unknown tracking data generation, structure-supported marker-less ...

This paper describes a support system for choreography creation utilizing data on human body motion archived by motion capture systems. Users of the system can synthesize and compose choreographies using a touch panel device. The users set the motions ...

A rotation adjustment method for precisely and efficiently manipulating a virtual 3D object by hand in an immersive virtual environment is proposed. A relative direction between both hands adjusts the rotation of the virtual object. This adjustment ...

Employing an array of nine speakers, five of which were at the listener's ear level, and four of which were elevated well above the listener's ear level, an experimental investigation of virtual sound source elevation was completed in each of three ...

In recent years, ARToolKit has been widely used in the development of Augmented Reality (AR) system. It employs square markers, which are more accurate and reliable to locate the position than other planar markers, such as concentric rings and ...

Recently many live performances use projected visual images and videos. Our goal is to provide a supporting system for the creative use of CG animation for live performances. This paper describes a method of supporting live stage performances by ...

We propose a multimodal digital archiving and reproduction of the world cultural heritage "Gion Festival in Kyoto". In this digital museum project, we make "Virtual Kyoto" more highly-developed and detailed, and develop the system where users can ...

The goal of this project is to augment the visitor's museum experience using digital technologies. For this purpose, the authors have been investigating and developing several systems which can be classified into two categories: (a) mixed reality ...

In this paper, the authors first introduce the outline of "Mixed Reality Digital Museum" project which started as a 5 year national project under the sponsorship of MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). Then, the basic ...

On behalf of the Organizing Committee and Program Committee of VRCAI 2010, The 9th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on VR Continuum and Its Applications in Industry, we welcome you all to VRCAI 2010 in Seoul Korea!

The term Virtual Reality ...