3D Synthetic Environment Reconstruction

Preface. 1. 1. Introduction. 2. 3D Synthetic Environment Applications. 3. Synthetic Environment Data. 4. The Synthetic Environment Database Generation Process. 5. Synthetic Environment Database Exchange, Reuse and Sharing. 6. Synthetic Environment Visualization Technologies. 7. Conclusion. 8. Acknowledgements. 2. 1. Introduction. 2. Preliminaries. 3. Multiresolution Meshes. 4. Survey of Existing Models. 5. Conclusions. 3. 1. Introduction. 2. The VPF+ Data Structure. 3. The Prototype. 4. NRL's GIDB. 5. Conclusion. 6. Acknowledgements. 4. 1. Introduction. 2. Data Acquisition. 3. Automated Reconstruction. 4. Texture Mapping. 5. Conclusions and Outlook. 5. 1. Introduction / Photo-Realistic Visualization. 2. Visualization. 3. Capturing. 4. Conclusion and Outlook. 6. 1. Introduction. 2. Modeling Requirements for a Mobile Augmented Reality System. 3. Modeling Methods. 4. Conclusions. 7. 1. Introduction. 2. Data Sources. 3. Background Work on Urban Database Construction. 4. Model Building Strategies. 5. Semi-Automatic Urban Construction. 6. Background Work on Urban Visualization. 7. Real-Time Urban Visualization. 8. Conclusions. 9. Future Directions.