Communication / Paper

Titre original
Original title
VR Web based tree and vegetation representations for environmental applications and studies, an example on ChongMing Island
Langue / Language
Anglais
Auteur(s) / Author(s)
Jaeger, M.(1,4) ; Jia, J.Y.(2) ; Zhang, X.(3) ; Griffon, S.(1)
Affiliation Auteur
Author affiliation
(1) CIRAD-AMAP ; (2) Tongji University, Shanghai ; (3) LIAMA-NLPR, Institute of Automation, China ; (4) EPI Digiplante, joint INRIA Saclay / École Centrale de Paris / CIRAD
Résumé original
Original abstract
Realistic visualization of crops, forest, peri/urban, natural scenes raises high interest under the environmental pressure and social demand. Unfortunately, despite the capabilities of the Internet and graphic boards, virtual landscapes and scenes are still restricted to small-scale user communities, with low dynamics, low aestheticism, low respect for biophysical laws. Web large-scale VR vegetation scenes are a challenging topic, due to the complex geometry and its rendering; and due to the lack of efficient modeling method and dynamics understanding. Moreover, VR must involve close objects that can interact easily with contextual background objects as to settle applications. However, specific solutions exist, and some of them can be used for WebVR display: light weighted static plant models, paged landscape map geometry, procedural vegetation generation on the fly. Reconstructions from photos, mixture of real and synthetic images in augmented reality are also of interest for this topic. On the study case "the Ecological project of Chinese ChongMing Island", new techniques are shown: Plant billboards and hybrid models, VRML classical scenes of historical farms, and guided maps with 3D web flash panoramic spot views. Perspectives are finally exposed from new developments: rule based geometry generation Web browsing, fast reconstruction from image models, high-level simulator output, with a background of new Web and graphical hardware approaches.
Mots-clés français
French keywords
Reality (VR) ; web visualization ; virtual landscape ; virtual crop ; image-based 3D reconstruction ; billboard ; hybrid model ; VRML ; rule based drawing ; real time rendering
Année / Année
2010
Nombre de pages
Number of pages
8 p.
Section
1. Methodology and modelling tools and platforms
 
Information sur le colloque / Information about the conference
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Titre
LandMod 2010: International Conference on Integrative Landscape Modelling
Date
3/2/2010 - 5/2/2010
Pays
France