State of the Art and Future Trends in Mobile Phone-based Augmented Reality

The talk will outline the history of the Handheld Augmented Reality (AR) project at Graz University of Technology to point out how mobile-phone AR evolved and which further developments are to be expected. We then go into details on our two core technologies: our mobile phone computer vision library (StbTracker) and our AR framework for mobile phones (StbES). We present latest, unpublished results, such as the first real-time 6DOF map tracker for mobile phones.
The second part of the talk sums up commercial experiences with mobile-phone AR. Presenting real projects deployed in the last 12 months, we give details on what works in practice and what failed; what customers want and what turned out to be of no use for them. This evaluation includes technical, as well as deployment and usability issues.
The talk finishes with an outlook on future research topics.

Speaker Bios

Istvan Barakonyi is a software developer at Imagination Gmbh in Austria developing handheld augmented reality applications. He obtained his PhD from the Vienna University of Technology and worked as a researcher at the Graz University of Technology on augmented reality user interfaces. He obtained a Masters Degree in computer science at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary. His research interests include stationary and mobile augmented reality applications, embodied autonomous agents, affective computing and man-machine interfaces.

Daniel Wagner is a PhD researcher. He received his MSc from Vienna University of Technology and his PhD from Graz University of Technology. In 2006 he was an intern at HITLab New Zealand. Daniel currently has a job as a researcher at Graz University of Technology, working on truly mobile Augmented Reality. His current research interests are real-time graphics and massively multi-user augmented reality on mobile devices. He is the head of the Studierstube Handheld AR project and developed the well-known «InvisibleTrain» and «Virtuoso» projects. In October 2007 Daniel finished his PhD thesis on Handheld Augmented Reality.

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Haut-parleurs:
Istvan Barakonyi and Daniel Wagner
Affiliation:
Imagination Ltd, Austria & Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz, University of Technology, Austria