Omnidirectional or 360° video is increasingly being used, mostly due to the latest
advancements in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technology. However, its wide adoption is …

Abstract The commercialization of Virtual Reality (VR) headsets has made immersive and
360-degree video streaming the subject of intense interest in the industry and research …

Learning depth from spherical panoramas is becoming a popular research topic because a
panorama has a full field-of-view of the environment and provides a relatively complete …

Learning based approaches for depth perception are limited by the availability of clean
training data. This has led to the utilization of view synthesis as an indirect objective for …

In recent years, virtual reality and augmented reality applications have seen a significant
increase in popularity. This is due to multiple technology trends. First, the availability of new …

Owing to its interactive look around nature and very large resolution requirement, providing
immersive omnidirectional video (ODV) streaming experiences in virtual reality applications …

Despite significant research in the area, reconstruction of multiple dynamic rigid objects (eg.
vehicles) observed from wide-baseline, uncalibrated and unsynchronized cameras, remains …

360° videos provide an immersive experience, especially when watched in virtual reality
(VR). Yet, even though the video data is inherently three-dimensional, interfaces to access …

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) has been widely used by several popular
streaming services, such as YouTube, Netflix, and Facebook. Adopting DASH requires to …

This paper presents FastInter360, a fast inter mode decision algorithm for accelerating the
encoding of ERP 360 videos. The development of FastInter360 involves an in-depth and …