More on Infrared Marker Based AR

Previously I blogged about a short Youtube video, demoing a project at Beijing Institute of Technology. The project uses infrared markers for augmented reality in maintenance tasks. Few days ago I found this paper describing the project in more detail than provided in its Youtube page. Here again is the video clip:



Basically, they use an infrared projector in order to project (the surprise!) a number of infrared dots (usually 6 of them) on some object, serving as a marker. The hand held device is composed of two cameras, one scenic, and another infrared one. The IR camera is looking for the projected dots, and calculates the distances between them. The device calculates using those distances the alignment and position of the augmented object, and thus can annotate images taken by the scenic camera. Which is pretty cool.
The obvious downsides of this method is the use of two cameras (though, I don't think it's impossible to combine them both into one), and the limited number of markers. Unlike the visual makers we all learned to hate, with their many white and black bits, with the IR markers, one cannot simply rearrange the "dots" in order to get a new marker, since the dots' positions determine the direction of the object. Maybe adding few more dots to the jumble can relieve this problem. Another major problem with this technique is that a projector can only mark a limited number of objects, so if we wanted to implement this method in order to augment museum items, we would need numerous projectors.

Wang, Liu, Wang, Infrared Marker Based Augmented Reality System for Equipment Maintenance, International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008

1 comments:

ahmed said...

فكل ما عليك عميلنا العزيز هو الاتصال مع مؤسسة نقل أثاث بجازان الرائدة في نقل الأثاث والأثاث بأحدث الأجهزة والأوناش والسيارات الخاصة لنقل الأثاث والأثاث دون سقوط أي خسائر أو أضرار لعفش منزلك بالكامل، فطمأن عميلنا العزيز وتأكد أننا سوف نزيل عن عاتقك هم كل ذلك التفكير والمشاكل التي قد تواجهك في نقل أثاثك وجميع متعلقاتك من مقر إلى موضع أخر في اسرع وقت وبصورة مثالية.
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شركة تنظيف منازل بالطائف
شركة نقل عفش بالطائف
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