Real-Time Hybrid Tracking for Outdoor Augmented Reality (2014)

Type of Content
Theses / DissertationsThesis Discipline
Computer ScienceDegree Name
Master of SciencePublisher
University of Canterbury. Computer Science and Software EngineeringCollections
Abstract
Outdoor tracking and registration are important enabling technologies for mobile augmented reality. Sensor fusion and image processing can be used to improve global tracking and registration for low-cost mobile devices with limited computational power and sensor accuracy. Prior research has confirmed the benefits of this approach with high-end hardware, however the methods previously used are not ideal for current consumer mobile devices. We discuss the development of a hybrid tracking and registration algorithm that combines multiple sensors and image processing to improve on existing work in both performance and accuracy. As part of this, we developed the Transform Flow toolkit, which is one of the first open source systems for developing and quantifiably evaluating mobile AR tracking algorithms. We used this system to compare our proposed hybrid tracking algorithm with a purely sensor based approach, and to perform a user study to analyse the effects of improved precision on real world tracking tasks. Our results show that our implementation is an improvement over a purely sensor fusion based approach; accuracy is improved up to 25x in some cases with only 2-4ms additional processing per frame, in comparison with other algorithms which can take over 300ms.
Keywords
Mobile; Augmented Reality; Outdoor; Tracking; Registration; Computer VisionRights
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