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Robust Outdoors Marker-Based Augmented Reality Applications: Mitigating the Effect of Lighting Sensitivity

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Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics (AVR 2018)

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Marker-based AR is widely used in outdoors applications enabling the augmentation of physical objects with virtual elements. However, the diversification of lighting conditions may severely affect the accuracy of marker tracking in outdoors environments. In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of geolocative raycasting, a technique which enables the real-time estimation of the user’s field of view in outdoors mobile applications, as a complementary method for enhancing the robustness of marker-based AR applications, thus mitigating the effect of lighting sensitivity.

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    A video demonstration of Order Elimination can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiY5aTasKPg .

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    https://www.vuforia.com/.

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    A video demonstrating geolocative raycasting, used to support outdoors Marker-Based AR applications, can be found at https://youtu.be/pYIIEQEtgTc.

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  1. Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece

    Vlasios Kasapakis

  2. Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, Hermoupolis, Greece

    Damianos Gavalas & Dzardanova Elena

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Kasapakis, V., Gavalas, D., Elena, D. (2018). Robust Outdoors Marker-Based Augmented Reality Applications: Mitigating the Effect of Lighting Sensitivity. In: De Paolis, L., Bourdot, P. (eds) Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics. AVR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10850. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95270-3_36

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