Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM 2001)

Download or read book Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM 2001) written by IEEE Computer Society Staff and published by I E E E. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from an October 2001 conference explore technologies and applications of enhanced environments, with a focus on the specific areas of virtual heritage, immersive art and creative technology, and virtual design in industry, architecture, and medicine. Topics include visualizing archaeological reconstruction, cemetery preservation and laser scanning, interactive TV, and a stereo vision-based augmented reality system with marker and natural feature tracking. Other topics include modeling electronic arts and ubiquitous computing in a virtual environment, design considerations for an oxygen flute, character- driven story generation in interactive storytelling, and the role of place in cyberspace. This work lacks a subject index. c. Book News Inc.