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Time-of-Flight Cameras in Computer Graphics (2011)
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@MISC{Kolb11time-of-flightcameras,
author = {Andreas Kolb and Erhardt Barth and Reinhard Koch and Rasmus Larsen},
title = { Time-of-Flight Cameras in Computer Graphics},
year = {2011}
}
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Abstract
A growing number of applications depend on accurate and fast 3D scene analysis. Examples are model and lightfield acquisition, collision prevention, mixed reality, and gesture recognition. The estimation of a range map by image analysis or laser scan techniques is still a time-consuming and expensive part of such systems. A lower-priced, fast and robust alternative for distance measurements are Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras. Recently, significant advances have been made in producing low-cost and compact ToF-devices, which have the potential to revolutionize many fields of research, including Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Human Machine Interaction (HMI). These technologies are starting to have an impact on research and commercial applications. The upcoming gen-eration of ToF sensors, however, will be even more powerful and will have the potential to become “ubiquitous real-time geometry devices ” for gaming, web-conferencing, and numerous other applications. This paper gives an account of recent developments in ToF technology and discusses the current state of the integration of this technology into various graphics-related applications.
Keyphrases
computer graphic time-of-flight camera volume xx tof technology ubiquitous real-time geometry device current state many field upcoming gen-eration significant advance compact tof-devices laser scan technique gesture recognition collision prevention range map computer vision human machine interaction numerous application recent development distance measurement various graphics-related application mixed reality robust alternative lightfield acquisition image analysis scene analysis expensive part commercial application tof sensor
