Augmented reality for underwater activities with the use of the DOLPHYN

Bellarbi, Abdelkader; Domingues, Christophe; Otmane, Samir; Benbelkacem, Samir; Dinis, Alain

doi:10.1109/icnsc.2013.6548773

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“…A similar wearable waterproof system, but limited to a swimming pool environment, was developed in the same year by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology [Blum et al 2009;Oppermann et al 2016]. Another marker-based AR underwater device, that can be adopted in swimming pools, for aquatic leisure activities is the Dolphyn system [Bellarbi et al 2013]. This system provides AR contents to the user through a tablet, housed in a waterproof case, that has been equipped with GPS and wireless systems.…”

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Underwater augmented reality for improving the diving experience in submerged archaeological sites

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The Mediterranean Sea has a vast maritime heritage which exploitation is made difficult because of the many limitations imposed by the submerged environment. Archaeological diving tours, in fact, suffer from the impossibility to provide underwater an exhaustive explanation of the submerged remains. Furthermore, low visibility conditions, due to water turbidity and biological colonization, sometimes make very confusing for tourists to find their way around in the underwater archaeological site. Keywords-Underwater Augmented Reality; underwater cultural heritage; markerless and markerbased tracking; underwater acoustic localization.

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Underwater augmented reality for improving the diving experience in submerged archaeological sites

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“…One of the first examples of using markers for underwater AR was presented in the work of Morales et al [42], who discussed the advantages of AR in providing visual cues like an artificial horizon or navigation arrows to help in underwater operations. In the clear water of swimming pools, developers of games for diving children can use AR to place visually-appealing virtual objects and rewards on markers, as was presented by Bellarbi et al [43], who used specialized hardware, or Oppermann et al [44], who used a tablet in a waterproof housing. In the bad visibility conditions of open sea, markers are used to detect and track the position of remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs) [45], which is extremely important when performing an automatic docking of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) [46,47].…”

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Detecting Square Markers in Underwater Environments

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Augmented reality can be deployed in various application domains, such as enhancing human vision, manufacturing, medicine, military, entertainment, and archeology. One of the least explored areas is the underwater environment. The main benefit of augmented reality in these environments is that it can help divers navigate to points of interest or present interesting information about archaeological and touristic sites (e.g., ruins of buildings, shipwrecks). However, the harsh sea environment affects computer vision algorithms and complicates the detection of objects, which is essential for augmented reality. This paper presents a new algorithm for the detection of fiducial markers that is tailored to underwater environments. It also proposes a method that generates synthetic images with such markers in these environments. This new detector is compared with existing solutions using synthetic images and images taken in the real world, showing that it performs better than other detectors: it finds more markers than faster algorithms and runs faster than robust algorithms that detect the same amount of markers.

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“…Onshore, VR has been used to render educational underwater scenes for the benefit of students and the general public, offering interactive access to underwater ocean ecosystems and dynamics via CAVEs and HMDs (Frohlich, 2000;Chen et al, 2012;Jung et al, 2013). Submersible AR and VR applications are a more recent development, and various projects have made use of waterproof hardware to create experiences which combine swimming with animation and actual underwater images (Bellarbi et al, 2013;Oppermann et al, 2016;Costa et al, 2017).…”

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Virtual Reality and Oceanography: Overview, Applications, and Perspective

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With the ongoing, exponential increase in ocean data from autonomous platforms, satellites, models, and in particular, the growing field of quantitative imaging, there arises a need for scalable and cost-efficient visualization tools to interpret these large volumes of data. With the recent proliferation of consumer grade head-mounted displays, the emerging field of virtual reality (VR) has demonstrated its benefit in numerous disciplines, ranging from medicine to archeology. However, these benefits have not received as much attention in the ocean sciences. Here, we summarize some of the ways that virtual reality has been applied to this field. We highlight a few examples in which we (the authors) demonstrate the utility of VR as a tool for ocean scientists. For oceanic datasets that are well-suited for three-dimensional visualization, virtual reality has the potential to enhance the practice of ocean science.

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Augmented reality for underwater activities with the use of the DOLPHYN

Cited by 26 publications

References 5 publications

Underwater augmented reality for improving the diving experience in submerged archaeological sites

Underwater augmented reality for improving the diving experience in submerged archaeological sites

Detecting Square Markers in Underwater Environments

Virtual Reality and Oceanography: Overview, Applications, and Perspective

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