DR-Marker: A Novel Diminishing-Reality-Based AR Registration

This paper proposes a novel diminishing-reality-based AR registration, called DR-marker. It is used in our proposed filmmaking system ARFMS. Although it is based on marker-based registration method, the user will not see the special marker in the real environment via diminishing reality technology. Users can apply the DR-marker just like real scene element, because it takes the advantages of marker-based and marker less-based registration approaches. After marker detection, projecting model is built to replace the marker. Then the projecting model can be tracked like a CG object. The marker may be occluded by scene elements. The virtual-to-real occlusion ensures that the DR-marker looks like the real scene elements without wrong spatial relationship. And DR-marker approach is based on a simple setup. This paper implements DR-marker in real-time. It demonstrates DR-marker is a stable and low-computation AR registration method. DR-marker can be effective used in the ARFMS. The user can perform with the CG character and stage property just like real ones.