Augmented Reality

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology in which a user's view of the real world is enhanced or augmented with additional information generated from a computer model. Using AR technology, users can interact with a combination of real and virtual objects in a natural way. This paradigm constitutes the core of a very promising new technology for many applications. However, before it can be applied successfully, AR has to fulfill very strong requirements including precise calibration, registration and tracking of sensors and objects in the scene, as well as a detailed overall understanding of the scene.

• This work was done at ECRC's User Interaction and Visualization Group before the center's research activities were shut down in 1996.
• The continuation of the augmented reality research at ECRC was done in Frauenhofer Institute in Darmstadt.
• A number of papers and technical reports were published on this subject by our group at ECRC. These and more recent papers can be found in the publications page.
• Here is a link to a tutorial I gave at the ICPR 98 conference on augmented reality.