Flexible augmented reality architecture applied to environmental management

Nuno Manuel Rob Correia; Teresa Romao; Carlos Santos; Adelaide Trabuco; Rossana Santos; Luis Romero; Jose Danado; Eduardo Dias; Antonio Camara; Edmundo Nobre

doi:10.1117/12.477347

30 May 2003 Flexible augmented reality architecture applied to environmental management

Nuno Manuel Rob Correia, Teresa Romao, Carlos Santos, Adelaide Trabuco, Rossana Santos, Luis Romero, Jose Danado, Eduardo Dias, Antonio Camara, Edmundo Nobre

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Proceedings Volume 5006, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems X; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477347
Event: Electronic Imaging 2003, 2003, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

Environmental management often requires in loco observation of the area under analysis. Augmented Reality (AR) technologies allow real time superimposition of synthetic objects on real images, providing augmented knowledge about the surrounding world. Users of an AR system can visualize the real surrounding world together with additional data generated in real time in a contextual way. The work reported in this paper was done in the scope of ANTS (Augmented Environments) project. ANTS is an AR project that explores the development of an augmented reality technological infrastructure for environmental management. This paper presents the architecture and the most relevant modules of ANTS. The system’s architecture follows the client-server model and is based on several independent, but functionally interdependent modules. It has a flexible design, which allows the transfer of some modules to and from the client side, according to the available processing capacities of the client device and the application’s requirements. It combines several techniques to identify the user’s position and orientation allowing the system to adapt to the particular characteristics of each environment. The determination of the data associated to a certain location involves the use of both a 3D Model of the location and the multimedia geo-referenced database.

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Nuno Manuel Rob Correia, Teresa Romao, Carlos Santos, Adelaide Trabuco, Rossana Santos, Luis Romero, Jose Danado, Eduardo Dias, Antonio Camara, and Edmundo Nobre "Flexible augmented reality architecture applied to environmental management", Proc. SPIE 5006, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems X, (30 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477347

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3D modeling

Data modeling

Autoregressive models

Augmented reality

Databases

Environmental management

Head-mounted displays

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