Image-based modeling for virtual museum

Abstract

This method focuses on the making a vivid virtual museum in a proper time for the number of complicated artifacts. And another purpose is minimizing undesirable distortions in the process of the modeling and finally, gaining realistic visual effects. In this paper, we present a new method for constructing 3D VR contents by using Smart Billboard, namely for selecting a proper mapping image among the images captured by rotating camera position at regular intervals. Moreover, we describe a simplified calculation method for selecting an adequate image to the viewer. The proposed method is applicable to the industry like as e-commerce, e-learning on the web site and simulations for saving your efforts and resources to make 3D VR contents. And it is validated with the practical embodiments of a virtual museum in which the exhibitions are represented by Smart Billboard that automatically calculates and selects a proper image according to the view change in a cyber space. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.