TiPS: A lightweight Tele-immersive photograph system

Author

Meiyu Huang ; Yiqiang Chen ; Wen Ji

Author_Institution

Beijing Key Lab. of Mobile Comput. & Pervasive Device, Inst. of Comput. Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

15-19 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a lightweight Tele-immersive photograph system named TiPS. TiPS allows remote users to take a photo as a souvenir in a virtual space with natural social behavior, through adaptively merging two participants of remote video interaction into the same shared background. We address two key technologies in this paper, first, we propose an adaptive multi-cue decision fusion algorithm for accurate and robust foreground segmentation of live video. Second, we present a user behavioral intention driven video composition algorithm, aiming at obtaining life-like photographs in real time. Experimental results show TiPS achieves high performance in both foreground segmentation and video composition, which well satisfies remote users´ requirement of taking photos together.

Keywords

behavioural sciences; image fusion; image segmentation; interactive video; video signal processing; TIPS; adaptive multicue decision fusion algorithm; life-like photographs; lightweight tele-immersive photograph system; live video foreground segmentation; natural social behavior; remote user requirement satisfaction; remote video interaction; user behavioral intention driven video composition algorithm; virtual space; Color; Head; Joints; Lighting; Streaming media; Three-dimensional displays; Tele-immersive photograph system; foreground segmentation of live video; user behavioral intention driven video composition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

ISSN

1945-7871

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2013.6607610

Filename

6607610