• Spatial Information Research
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.35-45
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• 2013

Most multimedia contains location information whether they are implicit or explicitly, and which are very useful for several purposes. In particular, we may use location information in defining query conditions to retrieve relevant multimedia. For this reason, a number of works have been done to organize and retrieve geo-referenced multimedia data. However, they mostly focus on outdoor space where position is identified by (x, y, z) coordinates. In this paper, we focus on multimedia in an alternative space, indoor space, which differs from outdoor space in several aspects. First indoor space is considered as symbolic space, where location is identified by a symbolic code such as room number rather than coordinates. Second, topological information is a crucial element in providing indoor spatial information services. Third, indoor space is in more micro-scale than outdoor space, which influences on determining the visibility of cameras. Based on these different characteristics of indoor space, we survey the requirements of management systems of indoor geo-referenced multimedia. Then we propose a geo-coding scheme for multimedia in indoor space as an extension of IndoorGML, an OGC(Open Geospatial Consortium) candidate standard for indoor spatial information. We also present a prototype system called, IngC (INdoor Geo-Coding) developed to store and manage indoor geo-referenced multimedia.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.88-95
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• 2008

In this paper, we present an efficient indoor rendering method using BSP(Binary Space Partitioning) and PVS(Potentially Visible Space) algorithms. The proposed method displays efficiently the objects by including the objects in the process of separating the number of BSP area, by jointly using BSP and PVS algorithms. Also, the screen which is checked by PVS from player's location is displayed. From the simulation, we can see that the proposed method improves the rendering speed because of processing the objects with the edges of BSP and PVS.