Conventional images of tourist sites are trimmed off the unnecessary scenery from the whole scenery in the fixed viewing angle of the cinematographer’s intention. Therefore, when people visit a tourist destination, they are often disappointed about the gap between video image and actual sight. In order to eliminate this gap, we developed the Digital Dome Theatre System in 2009. It can project u...

This paper describes the fully automatic creation of an environment’s description using an image-based representation. This representation is a collection of cylindrical sample images combined into an “image-based virtual reality”. The locations at which the environment will be sampled are chosen automatically using an operator inspired by models of human visual attention and saccadic motion. T...

The present study aimed to design, develop, operate and evaluate a tourism planning support system that can be used decide on places eat lunch dinner, sightseeing spots visit along the way, routes for visiting these destinations. This was developed by integrating web geographic information (Web-GIS) plan creation (an eatery search route system). Additionally, operated one month in Central Yokoh...

The provincial government of Jeju, South Korea, was notified that a 42-year-old man infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus had gone sightseeing in Jeju Island. Although the visiting period might be interpreted as the incubation period of MERS, the province decided to conduct active surveillance to prevent a worst-case scenario. Based on the channel of movement of ...