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Adaptive Recommendations for Enhanced Non-linear Exploration of Annotated 3D Objects

Marcos Balsa Rodriguez, Marco Agus, Fabio Marton, and Enrico Gobbetti

2015

Abstract

We introduce a novel approach for letting casual viewers explore detailed 3D models integrated with structured spatially associated descriptive information organized in a graph. Each node associates a subset of the 3D surface seen from a particular viewpoint to the related descriptive annotation, together with its author-defined importance. Graph edges describe, instead, the strength of the dependency relation between information nodes, allowing content authors to describe the preferred order of presentation of information. At run-time, users navigate inside the 3D scene using a camera controller, while adaptively receiving unobtrusive guidance towards interesting viewpoints and history- and location-dependent suggestions on important information, which is adaptively presented using 2D overlays displayed over the 3D scene. The capabilities of our approach are demonstrated in a real-world cultural heritage application involving the public presentation of sculptural complex on a large projection-based display. A user study has been performed in order to validate our approach.

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Marcos Balsa Rodriguez, Marco Agus, Fabio Marton, and Enrico Gobbetti. Adaptive Recommendations for Enhanced Non-linear Exploration of Annotated 3D Objects. Computer Graphics Forum, 34(3): 41-50, 2015. DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12616. Proc. EuroVis 2015.

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@Article{Balsa:2015:ARE,
    author = {Marcos {Balsa Rodriguez} and Marco Agus and Fabio Marton and Enrico Gobbetti},
    title = {Adaptive Recommendations for Enhanced Non-linear Exploration of Annotated {3D} Objects},
    journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
    volume = {34},
    number = {3},
    pages = {41--50},
    year = {2015},
    abstract = { We introduce a novel approach for letting casual viewers explore detailed 3D models integrated with structured spatially associated descriptive information organized in a graph. Each node associates a subset of the 3D surface seen from a particular viewpoint to the related descriptive annotation, together with its author-defined importance. Graph edges describe, instead, the strength of the dependency relation between information nodes, allowing content authors to describe the preferred order of presentation of information. At run-time, users navigate inside the 3D scene using a camera controller, while adaptively receiving unobtrusive guidance towards interesting viewpoints and history- and location-dependent suggestions on important information, which is adaptively presented using 2D overlays displayed over the 3D scene. The capabilities of our approach are demonstrated in a real-world cultural heritage application involving the public presentation of sculptural complex on a large projection-based display. A user study has been performed in order to validate our approach. },
    doi = {10.1111/cgf.12616},
    note = {Proc. EuroVis 2015},
    url = {http://vic.crs4.it/vic/cgi-bin/bib-page.cgi?id='Balsa:2015:ARE'},
}