摘要
全世界的觀光旅遊產業都在快速發展，國人旅遊花費也與日漸增。為避免實地旅遊限制與風險，本研究藉由全景街景影像提供實景虛擬旅遊，其功能包括自動規劃路線、串流路線上的全景實景影像，結合影像處理、電腦視覺、空間測量、網路搜尋等技術，並可做旅遊互動及影像中目標辨認與資料搜尋，以便在家完成網路虛擬旅遊並可達互動效果。本虛擬旅遊系統具備特點：一、基於Google全景實景影像進行串流影片，可全視角觀看世界各處旅遊行程，以全方位實際體驗旅遊路徑與景點；二、使用者可於地圖上點選起始點與最終目的，以自動規劃旅遊路徑，進行路線全景實景蒐集並將其串流成影片以供後續瀏覽；三、可針對使用者需求，依照不同行動速度模擬旅遊行程，並隨時在地圖上顯示其所在位置；四、透過多種演算法可直覺式點選全景實景影像中任一物件，並透過系統演算與網路資料搜尋，顯示指定物件資料；五、提供不限時間、地點、人數且免費的環遊世界旅行，並留下個人旅遊合成相簿，讓弱勢及行動不便的病患在家完成環遊世界的心願，可達到教育、旅遊導覽、娛樂、室內運動、醫療復健…等相關延伸應用。
並列摘要
Travel and tourism has rapidly grown for last years and will continue the growth in the future. Nowadays, people spend more time and expense than before in the events of travel and tourism. For the financial and safety reason, this research designed a virtual tourism system allowing users to identify the start and destination on a map to generate an optimal planning route whose panoramic street views will be captured and streamed into a video for virtual tourism on the internet. Through panoramic street view images, worldwide travel is made possible at home with high security, in limited time, and at no cost by just a few clicks.Features and leading technology includes: 1. streaming a video by capturing Google's street view images for virtual tourism around the world; 2. allowing users to identify the start and destination on a map to automatically generate an optimal planning route for virtual tourism; 3. showing simultaneously the current position in the route of virtual tourism on a map with an adjustable displaying speed; 4. revealing the information of interested objects, which can be positioned by fore resection method and identified through internet search, through pointing them on the street view images during the virtual tourism; 5. offering a secure virtual travel around the world with high efficiency, in a limited time, and at no cost without requirement of physical condition, which is beneficial to education, tourism, entertainment, indoor sports, medical rehabilitation, etc.