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Viewing omnidirectional images (ODIs) in virtual reality (VR) represents a novel form of media that provides immersive experiences for users to navigate and interact with digital content. Nonetheless, this sense of immersion can be greatly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Zidong Cao , Zhan Wang , Yexin Liu , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan , Wei Zeng , Lin Wang

Omnidirectional image quality assessment (OIQA) aims to predict the perceptual quality of omnidirectional images that cover the whole 180$\times$360$^{\circ}$ viewing range of the visual environment. Here we propose a blind/no-reference…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Wei Zhou , Zhou Wang

As augmented reality and virtual reality applications gain popularity, image processing for OmniDirectional Images (ODIs) has attracted increasing attention. OmniDirectional Image Super-Resolution (ODISR) is a promising technique for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Cuixin Yang , Rongkang Dong , Kin-Man Lam , Yuhang Zhang , Guoping Qiu

Omnidirectional Videos (or 360{\deg} videos) are widely used in Virtual Reality (VR) to facilitate immersive and interactive viewing experiences. However, the limited spatial resolution in 360{\deg} videos does not allow for each degree of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Arbind Agrahari Baniya , Tsz-Kwan Lee , Peter W. Eklund , Sunil Aryal

Omnidirectional image quality assessment (OIQA) has been one of the hot topics in IQA with the continuous development of VR techniques, and achieved much success in the past few years. However, most studies devote themselves to the uniform…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Jiebin Yan , Jiale Rao , Xuelin Liu , Yuming Fang , Yifan Zuo , Weide Liu

Omnidirectional images (ODIs) have obtained lots of research interest for immersive experiences. Although ODIs require extremely high resolution to capture details of the entire scene, the resolutions of most ODIs are insufficient. Previous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-10 Fanghua Yu , Xintao Wang , Mingdeng Cao , Gen Li , Ying Shan , Chao Dong

Despite substantial efforts dedicated to the design of heuristic models for omnidirectional (i.e., 360$^\circ$) image quality assessment (OIQA), a conspicuous gap remains due to the lack of consideration for the diversity of viewing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Xiangjie Sui , Hanwei Zhu , Xuelin Liu , Yuming Fang , Shiqi Wang , Zhou Wang

Omnidirectional and 360{\deg} images are becoming widespread in industry and in consumer society, causing omnidirectional computer vision to gain attention. Their wide field of view allows the gathering of a great amount of information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Bruno Berenguel-Baeta , Jesus Bermudez-Cameo , Jose J. Guerrero

In the context of Omni-Directional Image (ODI) Super-Resolution (SR), the unique challenge arises from the non-uniform oversampling characteristics caused by EquiRectangular Projection (ERP). Considerable efforts in designing complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xuelin Shen , Yitong Wang , Silin Zheng , Kang Xiao , Wenhan Yang , Xu Wang

Omni-directional cameras have many advantages overconventional cameras in that they have a much wider field-of-view (FOV). Accordingly, several approaches have beenproposed recently to apply convolutional neural networks(CNNs) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yeonkun Lee , Jaeseok Jeong , Jongseob Yun , Wonjune Cho , Kuk-Jin Yoon

In contrast with traditional video, omnidirectional video enables spherical viewing direction with support for head-mounted displays, providing an interactive and immersive experience. Unfortunately, to the best of our knowledge, there are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Mai Xu , Chen Li , Zulin Wang , Zhenzhong Chen , Zhenyu Guan

The growing interest in omnidirectional videos (ODVs) that capture the full field-of-view (FOV) has gained 360-degree saliency prediction importance in computer vision. However, predicting where humans look in 360-degree scenes presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Mert Cokelek , Nevrez Imamoglu , Cagri Ozcinar , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

As virtual and augmented reality applications gain popularity, omnidirectional image (ODI) super-resolution has become increasingly important. Unlike 2D plain images that are formed on a plane, ODIs are projected onto spherical surfaces.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Cuixin Yang , Rongkang Dong , Jun Xiao , Cong Zhang , Kin-Man Lam , Fei Zhou , Guoping Qiu

Omnidirectional (360-degree) video is rapidly gaining popularity due to advancements in immersive technologies like virtual reality (VR) and extended reality (XR). However, real-time streaming of such videos, especially in live mobile…

Thanks to the ability of providing an immersive and interactive experience, the uptake of 360 degree image content has been rapidly growing in consumer and industrial applications. Compared to planar 2D images, saliency prediction for 360…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Pan Gao , Xinlang Chen , Rong Quan , Wei Xiang

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) networks trained with perceptual and adversarial losses provide high-contrast outputs compared to those of networks trained with distortion-oriented losses, such as L1 or L2. However, it has been shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Seung Ho Park , Young Su Moon , Nam Ik Cho

Recently, it has been demonstrated that deep neural networks can significantly improve the performance of single image super-resolution (SISR). Numerous studies have concentrated on raising the quantitative quality of super-resolved (SR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Zheng Hui , Jie Li , Xinbo Gao , Xiumei Wang

360-degree/omnidirectional images (OIs) have achieved remarkable attentions due to the increasing applications of virtual reality (VR). Compared to conventional 2D images, OIs can provide more immersive experience to consumers, benefitting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Wei Zhou , Jiahua Xu , Qiuping Jiang , Zhibo Chen

Gaussian Splatting (GS) offers a promising alternative to Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) for real-time 3D scene rendering. Using a set of 3D Gaussians to represent complex geometry and appearance, GS achieves faster rendering times and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Pedro Martin , António Rodrigues , João Ascenso , Maria Paula Queluz

In this work, we propose "tangent images," a spherical image representation that facilitates transferable and scalable $360^\circ$ computer vision. Inspired by techniques in cartography and computer graphics, we render a spherical image to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Marc Eder , Mykhailo Shvets , John Lim , Jan-Michael Frahm