A configurable visual steering architecture based on 3D scene composition

Online visual steering technology provides users a 3D cooperative working environment in the complex or multi-steps task. Due to the difference of role or authority, new demands have risen such as multi-view presentations and conflict solving mechanism for users in the process of cooperative work. Thus, a configurable architecture based on scene composition is proposed for visual steering. It mainly contains several points: (1) Configurable scene structure including geometry data, concept model, user profile, enabling scene composition to build multi-view for different uses in working environment. (2) Browser-based 3D scene rendering page using X3Dom. (3) Loose coupling model sources on web services. A demo is also provided to test our architecture and verified its usability. By comparing with other implement methods, this architecture provides more flexible customizability and expandability, together with light-weight web-based clients.