mPano: cloud-based mobile panorama view from single picture

Hongzhi Li; Wenwu Zhu

doi:10.1117/12.2022388

26 September 2013 mPano: cloud-based mobile panorama view from single picture

Hongzhi Li, Wenwu Zhu

Proceedings Volume 8856, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI; 88560D (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2022388
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Panorama view provides people an informative and natural user experience to represent the whole scene. The advances on mobile augmented reality, mobile-cloud computing, and mobile internet can enable panorama view on mobile phone with new functionalities, such as anytime anywhere query where a landmark picture is and what the whole scene looks like. To generate and explore panorama view on mobile devices faces significant challenges due to the limitations of computing capacity, battery life, and memory size of mobile phones, as well as the bandwidth of mobile Internet connection. To address the challenges, this paper presents a novel cloud-based mobile panorama view system that can generate and view panorama-view on mobile devices from a single picture, namely mPano". In our system, first, we propose a novel iterative multi-modal image retrieval (IMIR) approach to get spatially adjacent images using both tag and content information from the single picture. Second, we propose a cloud-based parallel server synthing approach to generate panorama view in cloud, against today's local-client synthing approach that is almost impossible for mobile phones. Third, we propose predictive-cache solution to reduce latency of image delivery from cloud server to the mobile client. We have built a real mobile panorama view system and perform experiments. The experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of our system and the proposed key component technologies, especially for landmark images.

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Hongzhi Li and Wenwu Zhu "mPano: cloud-based mobile panorama view from single picture", Proc. SPIE 8856, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI, 88560D (26 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2022388

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