Title: Real image based driving view generation system for next-generation traffic experiment space

Speaker: Katsuhi Ikeuchi

Affiliation: ITS Center, Tokyo University, Japan

Abstract:
We have developed a photo-realistic driving view generation system with real-image synthesis. Unlike most driving simulators, this system does not only use CAD-based objects but also use real image captured from real world, which leads to rich photo-reality and less human cost. Our system can change a viewpoint freely according to driving operation of users by image processing. Just capturing omni-directional video along the driving course in advance is enough for acqireing real image data. Both CAD-based view and real image-based view is appropriately synthesized into one according to each depth position from the viewpoint. The system can work as a module of "Mixed-Reality Traffic Experiment Space," a complex of driving and traffic simulator which was developed in a collaborative research project in our institute  (Intelligent Systems Lab , and Computer Vision Lab)