Key issues implemented in the Engineering of Image Information
- Expanding the capabilities of a virtual camera
- Camera in real and virtual environments – a complementary approach
- Virtual measurement environment
- Tester in virtual environment
- Modeling in virtuality
- Symbolic description of reality in virtuality
- Image communication
- Virtualization of interfaces
- Motion activation of users in technological solutions with virtual elements
- Reducing data transfer through usage of virtual environment
The above issues are often strongly connected with each other. It’s just such a combination thereof, demonstrates the hidden potential of engineering of image information. What is very clearly combines virtual technology and vision systems, this tool which is the camera. Particularly important is the possibility of expanding the functionality of the so-called virtual camera. Having such a camera at my disposal, I could consider a similar approach to video systems in both physical and virtual environments which results in a complementary approach that I often use. Although the virtual environment does not offer a rich set of sophisticated measurement tools, it can perform measurement tasks and even support such activities in a real environment. A special property of virtuality is the phenomenon of immersion, thanks to which we can introduce a human being into the digital environment as a functional object that can, among other things, perform measurements in it. It remains to be determined e.g. what will be the subject of measurement activities. This issue is therefore closely related to the modelling of reality in virtual reality. However, in order to get to know the real world we do not always need faithful digital copies of objects. It turns out that better cognitive results can be achieved even with the use of symbolic description of reality. This is how we reach the interaction and communication issues. The symbolic description of reality becomes the basis for new forms of communication, the so-called image communication between man and the virtual environment. On the other hand, great interactive possibilities in virtuality is also a step towards the virtualisation of interfaces. Support for this kind of interfaces causes physical activation of users of such technical solutions. Virtual environment is also a new perspective on data exchange in information systems. By virtualizing reality and simultaneously striving for its symbolic description, we contribute to the reduction of data transfer.
