Computer Graphics
TU Braunschweig

Multiview Panorama Alignment and Optical Flow Refinement


Multiview Panorama Alignment and Optical Flow Refinement

Current techniques for “RealVR” experiences are usually limited to a small area around the capture setup. Simple linear blending between several viewpoints will disrupt the virtual reality (VR) experience and cause a loss of immersion for the user. To obtain smoother transitions, optical flow based warping between viewpoints can be utilized. Therefore, the panorama images of these viewpoints do not only need to be upright adjusted but also their viewing direction need to be aligned first. As panoramas for VR are usually of high resolution for high quality results in every direction, the optical flow in a high resolution is also indispensable.

This chapter gives an overview of how to align several viewpoints to a common viewing direction and obtain high resolution optical flow in between.


Author(s):Moritz Mühlhausen, Marcus Magnor
Published:March 2020
Type:Book chapter
Book:Real VR – Immersive Digital Reality: How to Import the Real World into Head-Mounted Immersive Displays (Springer International Publishing, Cham)
ISBN:978-3-030-41816-8
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-41816-8_4
Project(s): Real VR - Immersive Digital Reality  Parallax Panorama Video  Immersive Digital Reality 

BibTex Link 



@incollection{muhlhausen2020multiview,
  title = {Multiview Panorama Alignment and Optical Flow Refinement},
  author = {M{\"u}hlhausen, Moritz and Magnor, Marcus},
  booktitle = {Real {VR} \textendash  Immersive Digital Reality: How to Import the Real World into Head-Mounted Immersive Displays},
  isbn = {978-3-030-41816-8},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-41816-8\_4},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing, Cham},
  editor = {Magnor M., Sorkine-Hornung A.},
  volume = {11900},
  chapter = {4},
  pages = {96--108},
  month = {Mar},
  year = {2020}
}

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