Technology Description: Inventors at UC San Diego have invented a system to extract the 3D geometrical structure of a scene and generate a novel view simultaneously at exactly the user's specified viewpoint. The invention also enables smooth virtual walkthroughs at a remote scene with a distributed computational framework. With this invention, the camera configuration can be arbitrary and with a wide baseline.
This inventions has the following benefits:
The invention can be applied to:
Keywords: modeling, simulation, surveillance, security, animation, augmented reality, human-machine interfaces
Case Number: SD2000-128
Inquiries To: invent@ucsd.edu