Paper Info
Title
Distributed User Tracking Concepts For Augmented Reality Applications
Abstract
Augmented Reality (AR) constitutes a new user interface paradigm. Using light headsets and hand-held or worn computing equipment, users can roam their daily working environment while being continuously in contact with their computer systems. For AR to work properly in a large factory, new system architectures have to be designed with consideration to the special requirements imposed by AR. In particular, augmented reality requires real-time facilities to track the user's position and viewing direction. In the past, various carefully calibrated sensing devices have been used for this purpose including magnetic trackers and active LED-systems. Research is now focussing on computer vision based methods. It is our hypothesis that in the future, the most successful indoor approaches will combine local (user-worn) vision-based tracking methods with global user tracking schemes from fixed (wall-mounted) sensors, using mobile wireless networking technology to allow the user-worn system to communicate with the globally available sensing infrastructure in an intelligent building. We propose the concept of "AR-ready" intelligent buildings which provide built-in tracking services via different sensing modalities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/ISAR.2000.880921
IEEE AND ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AUGMENTED REALITY, PROCEEDING
Keywords
Field
DocType
intelligent sensors,user interface,real time,computer vision,intelligent building,user interfaces,wireless sensor networks,factory automation,building management systems,active vision,augmented reality,factory,mobile computing,system architecture,computer architecture,real time systems
Mobile computing,BitTorrent tracker,Active vision,Building management system,Computer science,Intelligent sensor,Real-time computing,Augmented reality,Building automation,User interface
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
1.82
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gudrun Klinker11581274.19
Thomas Reicher29210.97
Bernd Brügge323938.20