PoP-EYE environment: Mixed Reality using 3D Photo Collections

Abstract

In many application areas such as urban planning or in the interior design, excellent planning tools do exist. These tools often offer 3D visualizations. For a more realistic perception and a better acceptance of these 3D visualizations, it is desirable, to integrate these into real environments. Nowadays, this is complex and time consuming, e.g. either good experience with Photoshop or a high effort to build a Mixed Reality application is necessary. In addition, it is even more expensive to create a MR application with such a quality, that the user can not distinguish real objects of his surrounding area and embedded virtual objects.