Novel Advances in Collaborative Environments for Virtual, Augmented, Mixed and Extended Reality
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Big Data and Augmented Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2024) | Viewed by 6145
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer vision (feature extraction and pattern analysis); scene and event understanding (by people and/or vehicles and/or objects); human–computer interaction (pose estimation and gesture recognition by hands and/or body); sketch-based interaction (handwriting and freehand drawing); human–behaviour recognition (actions, emotions, feelings, affects, and moods by hands, body, facial expressions, and voice); biometric analysis (person re-identification by body visual features and/or gait and/or posture/pose); artificial intelligence (machine/deep learning); medical image analysis (MRI, ultrasound, X-rays, PET, and CT); multimodal fusion models; brain–computer interfaces (interaction and security systems); signal processing; visual cryptography (by RGB images); smart environments and natural interaction (with and without virtual/augmented reality); robotics (monitoring and surveillance systems with PTZ cameras, UAVs, AUVs, rovers, and humanoids)
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Interests: WebXR; immersive VR; 3D interfaces; spatial user interfaces; social VR
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent technological advancements have highlighted an intense growth of computational power and sensors’ accuracy, thereby reducing production costs and encouraging researchers and developers to work with advanced immersive devices, e.g., head-mounted displays (HMDs). Moreover, machine and deep Learning (ML and DL) nowadays are exploited almost in every application, since a considerable number of advanced tasks can be completed with remarkable results, such as hand tracking, natural interaction, redirection/reorientation in virtual locomotion, action recognition, and others. In this context, the topic of multi-user environments presents numerous challenges and extensive growth potential. Various tasks, including the latest technologies in networking that provide high-speed communication to reduce latency and increase data transfer, can be explored; however, virtual environments synchronization still has room to grow and concurrency management remains an open problem. Moreover, multi-user environments facilitate the interconnection of multidisciplinary applications, from social studies to simulative experience analysis.
Topics of interest in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- AI in data segmentation, detection, classification, or analysis;
- Network-based applications for VR, AR, MR, or XR environments;
- Multidisciplinary applications exploiting multi-user VR/AR/MR/XR environments;
- AI for interactive or VR, AR, MR, or XR visualization;
- Interactive web-based VR, AR, MR, or XR applications, tools, or services;
- Interaction design process and methods for VR, AR, MR, or XR;
- Human–computer interaction models for VR, AR, MR, or XR;
- Spatial computing and 3D interfaces for VR, AR, MR, or XR;
- Neural radiance fields (NeRF) in virtual spaces.
Dr. Danilo Avola
Dr. Bruno Fanini
Dr. Marco Raoul Marini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- virtual reality
- augmented reality
- mixed reality
- extended reality
- human–computer interface
- human–computer interaction
- gesture recognition
- virtual collaborative environment
- virtual shared environment
- machine learning
- deep learning
- artificial intelligence
- network-based virtual environment
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