Telestration in Mobile Telementoring

The paper analyses the domain of modern video conferencing-based mentoring systems applied in surgery. We aim to introduce mobility to telementoring, accompanied with telestration as an obligatory feature for telementoring systems. A detailed outlook to the domain resulted in encountering the camera movement problem, reported in the paper. As no direct solution was identified, a set of ideas towards the resolution of the problem is presented for further discussion and research. Keywords-telementoring, telestration, annotation, camera movement

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