Framework for enhancing video viewing experience with haptic effects of motion

Abstract

This work aims at enhancing a classical video viewing experience by introducing realistic haptic feelings in a consumer environment. More precisely, a complete framework to both produce and render the motion embedded in an audiovisual content is proposed to enhance a natural movie viewing session. We especially consider the case of a first-person point of view audiovisual content and we propose a general workflow to address this problem. This latter includes a novel approach to both capture the motion and video of the scene of interest, together with a haptic rendering system for generating a sensation of motion. A complete methodology to evaluate the relevance of our framework is finally proposed and demonstrates the interest of our approach.