Robotic 360° photography for virtual site visits

Author

Mei, Qunhuan ; Wing, Robert

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil Eng., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

214

Lastpage

219

Abstract

A robotic photographic method has been developed for use in outdoor locations such as construction sites, to provide 360° panoramic visual database material for representation of a virtual site, together with the software for authoring and delivery of the material to users via the Internet. A portable digital photographic system thus built can take a 360° panorama photograph in digital form within minutes. The Java software package can present an image in an efficient and effective “video” style with full dynamic “hyperlink” support

Keywords

Internet; Java; construction industry; photographic applications; photography; telerobotics; virtual reality; visual databases; Internet; Java software package; authoring; construction sites; full dynamic hyperlink support; outdoor locations; panoramic visual database material; portable digital photographic system; robotic 360° photography; robotic photographic method; video style; virtual site visits; Building materials; Civil engineering; Educational institutions; Hardware; Image resolution; Internet; Java; Lab-on-a-chip; Photography; Robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0210-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.1999.781561

Filename

781561