Exploring Cultural Heritage Using Augmented Reality Through Google’s Project Tango and ARCore

Voinea, Gheorghe-Daniel; Gîrbacia, Florin; Postelnicu, Cristian; Marto, Anabela

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05819-7_8

Cited by 33 publications

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“…In these cases, the user points the mobile device towards a marker placed in a physical scene and an associated image or painting is displayed on the smartphone's screen. Another study [37] considered indoors use based on location. In this case, a 3D model of a fortified church was virtually displayed on the screen after the physical place was scanned by the sensors first.…”

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Usability Testing of Mobile Augmented Applications for Cultural Heritage – A Systematic Literature Review

Tiriteu¹,

Vert

2020

RoCHI - International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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This paper presents an overview of the existing literature to date regarding the usability testing of Mobile Augmented Reality applications developed for cultural heritage. A Systematic Literature Review was conducted with this purpose. Four databases were interrogated with specific keywords. Our of the 88 found research papers, only 31 met the eligibility criteria to be included in this survey. Four major usability testing methods were identified: questionnaires, focus groups, user testing and interviews. The questionnaire method was used in almost all of the studies, and only a few of them combined more usability testing methods. Nearly all papers targeted the outdoors use centered on location-based augmented reality. The perceived ease of use, usefulness and enjoyment were confirmed by a majority of the papers. The ease of use was also correlated to the ease of learning, as well as with the interest of using the application. Cultural heritage is one of the domains that can benefit greatly from the latest improvements in mobile augmented reality technologies.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Usability Testing of Mobile Augmented Applications for Cultural Heritage – A Systematic Literature Review

Tiriteu¹,

Vert

2020

RoCHI - International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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“…The proliferation of new smartphones, whose RGB camera integrates two or more lenses, enables to reconstruct 3D model of the user environment. In fact, recent studies use ARCore library to explore cultural heritage [48], to develop a navigation system for visually impaired people [49] and other computer vision applications [50]. In this study, we used portable devices as smartphones due to the high accessibility and their capabilities to capture real-world data and render virtual models using MR.…”

Section: Real-world Scanningmentioning

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GEUINF: Real-Time Visualization of Indoor Facilities Using Mixed Reality

Jurado

Ortega

et al. 2021

Sensors

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Mixed reality (MR) enables a novel way to visualize virtual objects on real scenarios considering physical constraints. This technology arises with other significant advances in the field of sensors fusion for human-centric 3D capturing. Recent advances for scanning the user environment, real-time visualization and 3D vision using ubiquitous systems like smartphones allow us to capture 3D data from the real world. In this paper, a disruptive application for assessing the status of indoor infrastructures is proposed. The installation and maintenance of hidden facilities such as water pipes, electrical lines and air conditioning tubes, which are usually occluded behind the wall, supposes tedious and inefficient tasks. Most of these infrastructures are digitized but they cannot be visualized onsite. In this research, we focused on the development of a new application (GEUINF) to be launched on smartphones that are capable of capturing 3D data of the real world by depth sensing. This information is relevant to determine the user position and orientation. Although previous approaches used fixed markers for this purpose, our application enables the estimation of both parameters with a centimeter accuracy without them. This novelty is possible since our method is based on a matching process between reconstructed walls of the real world and 3D planes of the replicated world in a virtual environment. Our markerless approach is based on scanning planar surfaces of the user environment and then, these are geometrically aligned with their corresponding virtual 3D entities. In a preprocessing phase, the 2D CAD geometry available from an architectural project is used to generate 3D models of an indoor building structure. In real time, these virtual elements are tracked with the real ones modeled by using ARCore library. Once the alignment between virtual and real worlds is done, the application enables the visualization, navigation and interaction with the virtual facility networks in real-time. Thus, our method may be used by private companies and public institutions responsible of the indoor facilities management and also may be integrated with other applications focused on indoor navigation.

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“…Guimarães et al applied AR technology as a form of digital media art to the Caloust Gulbenkian Foundation Garden in Lisbon, Portugal [5]. Voinea et al developed an AR application to visualize and explore a 3D model of a digital replica of a recognized UNESCO monument [6]. Olesky and Wnuk developed an AR application to display historical photos in the former Jewish district in Warsaw, Poland [7].…”

Section: Augmented Reality For Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…They considered AR as an effectively promising technology that can preserve CH and enhance visitors' satisfaction while strengthening visitors' learning experience [1]. There are many examples of employing AR in CH sites [2][3] [4][5] [6] [7]. However, even if AR contents are used, visitors are often offered with limited explanation on-site using pre-defined static information on various assets.…”

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Enriching Natural Monument with User-Generated Mobile Augmented Reality Mashup

Shin¹,

Hong²,

Yoon³

2020

J Multimed Inf Syst

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This paper proposes a mobile augmented reality mashup for cultural heritage sites such as natural monuments. Several benefits of mobile augmented reality solutions are ideal for preserving and protecting cultural heritage sites. By presenting mobile augmented reality mashup scenarios and mobile mashup framework, we introduce how user-generated multimedia contents can be added. We present two scenarios of Mashup Viewer and Mashup Maker. In Mashup Viewer mode, visitors can create new AR contents using mashup tools for memo, Twitter, images and statistical graphs. In Mashup Maker mode, other visitors also can view the user-generated multimedia AR contents using QR codes as access points. To show feasibility of our approach in mobile platforms, we compare several detection algorithms on PC and mobile platform and report on deployment of our approach in a natural monument museum. With our proposed mashup tools, visitors to the cultural heritage sites can enjoy default AR contents provided by the site administrators and also participate as active content producers and consumers.

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Exploring Cultural Heritage Using Augmented Reality Through Google’s Project Tango and ARCore

Cited by 33 publications

References 29 publications

Usability Testing of Mobile Augmented Applications for Cultural Heritage – A Systematic Literature Review

Usability Testing of Mobile Augmented Applications for Cultural Heritage – A Systematic Literature Review

GEUINF: Real-Time Visualization of Indoor Facilities Using Mixed Reality

Enriching Natural Monument with User-Generated Mobile Augmented Reality Mashup

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