Real-time and markerless vision-based tracking for outdoor augmented reality applications

Author

Stricker, Didier ; Kettenbach, Thomas

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Comput. Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

189

Lastpage

190

Abstract

A novel concept for markerless optical tracking called "tracking with reference images" is introduced. This concept provides a flexible and practicable framework and is especially relevant for outdoor augmented reality applications, for which no tracking solution currently exists. The implementation is achieved using an image matching technique, which compares the current live video image with one or more of the reference images. The complete system has been tested outdoors in the context of a mobile AR-application for archeology. The system runs on a laptop at around 10 Hz and provides views of virtual monuments superposed to their ruins

Keywords

archaeology; augmented reality; computer vision; image matching; laptop computers; mobile computing; optical tracking; real-time systems; 10 Hz; archeology; current live video image; image matching technique; laptop; markerless optical tracking; markerless vision-based tracking; mobile AR application; outdoor augmented reality applications; real-time vision-based tracking; reference images; ruins; tracking solution; tracking with reference images; virtual monuments; Application software; Augmented reality; Cameras; Computer graphics; Image matching; Image processing; Image registration; Optical filters; Portable computers; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Augmented Reality, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE and ACM International Symposium on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1375-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAR.2001.970536

Filename

970536