Route tapestries: Navigating 360° virtual tour videos using slit-scan visualizations

An increasingly popular way of experiencing remote places is by viewing 360° virtual tour videos, which show the surrounding view while traveling through an environment. However, finding particular locations in these videos can be difficult because current interfaces rely on distorted frame previews...

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Main Authors: LI, Jiannan, LYU, Jiahe, SOUSA, Maurício, BALAKRISHNAN, Ravin, TANG, Anthony, GROSSMAN, Tovi
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-89662023-08-15T01:31:33Z Route tapestries: Navigating 360° virtual tour videos using slit-scan visualizations LI, Jiannan LYU, Jiahe SOUSA, Maurício BALAKRISHNAN, Ravin TANG, Anthony GROSSMAN, Tovi An increasingly popular way of experiencing remote places is by viewing 360° virtual tour videos, which show the surrounding view while traveling through an environment. However, finding particular locations in these videos can be difficult because current interfaces rely on distorted frame previews for navigation. To alleviate this usability issue, we propose Route Tapestries, continuous orthographic-perspective projection of scenes along camera routes. We first introduce an algorithm for automatically constructing Route Tapestries from a 360° video, inspired by the slit-scan photography technique. We then present a desktop video player interface using a Route Tapestry timeline for navigation. An online evaluation using a target-seeking task showed that Route Tapestries allowed users to locate targets 22% faster than with YouTube-style equirectangular previews and reduced the failure rate by 75% compared to a more conventional row-of-thumbnail strip preview. Our results highlight the value of reducing visual distortion and providing continuous visual contexts in previews for navigating 360°virtual tour videos. 2021-10-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7963 info:doi/10.1145/3472749.3474746 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8966/viewcontent/3472749.3474746.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 360° Video Navigation Virtual Tour Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider SMU Libraries
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language English
topic 360° Video
Navigation
Virtual Tour
Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
spellingShingle 360° Video
Navigation
Virtual Tour
Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
LI, Jiannan
LYU, Jiahe
SOUSA, Maurício
BALAKRISHNAN, Ravin
TANG, Anthony
GROSSMAN, Tovi
Route tapestries: Navigating 360° virtual tour videos using slit-scan visualizations
description An increasingly popular way of experiencing remote places is by viewing 360° virtual tour videos, which show the surrounding view while traveling through an environment. However, finding particular locations in these videos can be difficult because current interfaces rely on distorted frame previews for navigation. To alleviate this usability issue, we propose Route Tapestries, continuous orthographic-perspective projection of scenes along camera routes. We first introduce an algorithm for automatically constructing Route Tapestries from a 360° video, inspired by the slit-scan photography technique. We then present a desktop video player interface using a Route Tapestry timeline for navigation. An online evaluation using a target-seeking task showed that Route Tapestries allowed users to locate targets 22% faster than with YouTube-style equirectangular previews and reduced the failure rate by 75% compared to a more conventional row-of-thumbnail strip preview. Our results highlight the value of reducing visual distortion and providing continuous visual contexts in previews for navigating 360°virtual tour videos.
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author LI, Jiannan
LYU, Jiahe
SOUSA, Maurício
BALAKRISHNAN, Ravin
TANG, Anthony
GROSSMAN, Tovi
author_facet LI, Jiannan
LYU, Jiahe
SOUSA, Maurício
BALAKRISHNAN, Ravin
TANG, Anthony
GROSSMAN, Tovi
author_sort LI, Jiannan
title Route tapestries: Navigating 360° virtual tour videos using slit-scan visualizations
title_short Route tapestries: Navigating 360° virtual tour videos using slit-scan visualizations
title_full Route tapestries: Navigating 360° virtual tour videos using slit-scan visualizations
title_fullStr Route tapestries: Navigating 360° virtual tour videos using slit-scan visualizations
title_full_unstemmed Route tapestries: Navigating 360° virtual tour videos using slit-scan visualizations
title_sort route tapestries: navigating 360° virtual tour videos using slit-scan visualizations
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2021
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7963
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8966/viewcontent/3472749.3474746.pdf
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