Using stereo camera system to realize realistic video avatar in virtual environment

Author

Ling, Chen ; Mei-Hong, Tian ; Gen-Cai, Chen ; Chun, Chen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Zhejiang Univ., China

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

26-30 Aug. 2002

Firstpage

707

Abstract

With the appearance of different kinds of virtual environment systems, the technology of realistic video avatar is becoming a hotspot of research. Our target is to create a realistic video avatar with less hardware investment and limited computation. In this paper, we introduce a method that combines a single stereo camera and 3D head model to engender a realistic video avatar. To engender the video avatar´s most important part - the face part - we use the 2D image and depth map, which is generated by the stereo camera. To engender the other parts of the 3D head model, we map the head´s texture to the 3D head model.

Keywords

computer vision; image texture; stereo image processing; video signal processing; virtual reality; 2D image; 3D head model; depth map; face part; head texture; realistic video avatar; stereo camera; stereo camera system; virtual environment; Avatars; Cameras; Computer graphics; Computer networks; Computer science; Hardware; Head; Investments; Military computing; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing, 2002 6th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7488-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOSP.2002.1181154

Filename

1181154