An Integrated Visualization Approach with Images and Information of Navigation

Abstract

This report shows a method for visualization of combined observation images from a ship and routing information of the ship. It enables us to browse the scene on problem area efficiently. We use hierarchical image gathering technique to gather moving objects and changes. The technique generates still images by gathering the moving parts from image sequences by fixed camera, and displays them hierarchically, so that a user can easily browse the scene by looking at the images displayed hierarchically. In order to apply the technique for images from ship, We extract sea-sky-lines and unify them of image sequences. And, we plot routing line of a ship and gathered images on map.