This page contains the thesis document (most current version) as well as additional material such as movies and the published papers that are the base of the thesis. My research page briefly explains the research topics included in this thesis.
Thesis document
| Thesis presentations |
| Demos |
Section 4.4: Panorama with depth from laser rangefinder
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An example of rendering using the panorama registered with depth from laser rangefinder |
Chapter 5.2: Global localization using stereo panorama
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Interface showing the global localization with stereo panorama (AVI file runs only with 'xanim') |
Section 5.4: Predictive Display for Remote Robot Environment
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Predictive display interface that shows the synthesized robot view and its position. |
Section 7.1: 3D SSD Tracking
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Section 7.3: Dynamic Model Evaluation and Examples
 | affine model | projective model | 3D translations for projective model |
Section 7.4: Tracking and Predictive Display for a Indoor Robot Environment
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Tracking with predictive display |
| Publications |
The thesis is based on the following published research papers. Some topics that re not directly related to the thesis (e.g. augmented reality applications for the dynamic texture model) are not presented in the thesis.
Chapter 2: Image-based rendering techniques
Recent Methods for Image-Based Modeling and Rendering
IEEE VR 2003 Tutorial 1
Chapter 4 and 5: Panoramic model and applications
| Cobzas, D., Jagersand, M. and Zhang, H. ``A Panoramic Model for Remore Robot Environment Mapping and Predictive Display", under review International Journal of Robotics and Automation (Acta Press) (Download: pdf (1M)) |
| Cobzas, D., Jagersand, M. and Zhang, H. ``A Panoramic Model for Robot Predictive Display'' Proc. of Vision Interface 2003} - to appear Halifax, Canada. (Download: pdf (446K)) |
| Cobzas, D., Zhang, H. and Jagersand, M. ``Image-Based Localization with Depth-Enhanced Image Map", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2003) - to appear May 2003, Taiwan. (Download: pdf (510K)) |
| Cobzas, D., Zhang, H. and Jagersand, M. ``A Comparative Analysis of Geometric and Image-Based Volumetric and Intensity Data Registration Algorithms", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2002) - to appear, May 2002, Washington DC. (Download: compressed postscript (728K)) |
| Cobzas, D. and Zhang, H., ``Cylindrical Panoramic Image-Based Model for Robot Localization", Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2001) , pp. 1924-1930, October 2001, Hawaii, USA. (Download: compressed postscript (262K)) |
| Cobzas, D. and Zhang, H., ``Mobile Robot Localization using Planar Patches and a Stereo Panoramic Model", Proc. of Vision Interface 2001, pp. 94-99, June 7-9, 2001, Ottawa, Canada. (Download: compressed postscript (872K)) |
Cobzas, D. and Zhang, H.,
``Planar Patch Extraction with Noisy Depth Data",
Proc. of Third International Conference on
3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling, pp. 240-245, May 2001, Quebec City,
Canada. (Download:
compressed postscript (715K))
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Cobzas, D. and Zhang, H.,
``2D Robot Localization with Image-Based Panoramic Models
Using Vertical Line Features",
Proc. of Vision Interface 2000, May 14-17, 2000, Montreal,
Canada. (Download:
PDF (260K)
postscript (1.5M))
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Chapter 6 and 7: Dynamic texture model and applications
| Cobzas, D. and Jagersand M. ``A comparison of Viewing Geometries for Augmented Reality'' Proc. of Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2003) - to appear (Download: pdf (203K)) |
| Cobzas, D., Yerex, K. and Jagersand, M. ``Editing Real World Scenes: Augmented Reality with Image-Based Rendering'' Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality 2003 , poster session, (Download: compressed postscript (1.2M), long version PDF(710K)) |
| Cobzas, D., Yerex, K. and Jagersand, M. ``Dynamic Textures for Image-based Rendering of Fine-Scale 3D Structure and Animation of Non-rigid Motion", Proc. of Eurographics (EG 2002) - to appear, September 2002, Saarbrücken, Germany. (Download: compressed postscript (5.1M)) |
| Cobzas, D. and Jagersand, M. ``Tracking and Rendering using Dynamic Textures on Geometric Structure from Motion", Proc. of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2002) - to appear, May 2002, Copenhagen, Danemark. (Download: PDF (234K)) |
| Yerex, K., Cobzas, D. and Jagersand, M., ``Image-based Rendering using Hardware Accelerated Dynamic Textures", Proc. of Western Computing Graphics Symposium 2002, pages 113-119, 2002, Silver Star Resort, Canada. (Download: PDF (513K)) |
| Cobzas, D. and Jagersand, M., `` A comparison of Non-Euclidean Image-Based Rendering", Proc. of Graphics Interface 2001 (poster session), June 7-9, 2001, Ottawa, Canada. (Download: compressed postscript (418K)) |
