Military Applications of Augmented Reality

Livingston, Mark; Rosenblum, Lawrence; Brown, Dennis; Schmidt, Greg S.; Julier, Simon; Baillot, Yohan; Swan, J. Edward; Ai, Zhuming; Maassel, Paul

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-0064-6_31

Cited by 82 publications

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“…Azuma in 1997 [1] defined AR as technologies that combine real-world objects with virtual 3D objects, thereby creating interactivity between them (real and virtual) in real time; the virtual objects, however, could not be perceived directly. AR has been used extensively in many systems such as military operations in urban terrain and air forces [2], architecture systems [3], and games [4]. Figure 1 shows an example of an AR application for tourism.…”

Section: Augmented Reality and Our Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pictorial AR Tag with Hidden Multi-Level Bar-Code and Its Potential Applications

Nguyen

Tran

Yeap

2017

MTI

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For decades, researchers have been trying to create intuitive virtual environments by blending reality and virtual reality, thus enabling general users to interact with the digital domain as easily as with the real world. The result is "augmented reality" (AR). AR seamlessly superimposes virtual objects on to a real environment in three dimensions (3D) and in real time. One of the most important parts that helps close the gap between virtuality and reality is the marker used in the AR system. While pictorial marker and bar-code marker are the two most commonly used marker types in the market, they have some disadvantages in visual and processing performance. In this paper, we present a novelty method that combines the bar-code with the original feature of a colour picture (e.g., photos, trading cards, advertisement's figure). Our method decorates on top of the original pictorial images additional features with a single stereogram image that optically conceals a multi-level (3D) bar-code. Thus, it has a larger capability of storing data compared to the general 1D barcode. This new type of marker has the potential of addressing the issues that the current types of marker are facing. It not only keeps the original information of the picture but also contains encoded numeric information. In our limited evaluation, this pictorial bar-code shows a relatively robust performance under various conditions and scaling; thus, it provides a promising AR approach to be used in many applications such as trading card games, educations, and advertisements.

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Section: Augmented Reality and Our Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pictorial AR Tag with Hidden Multi-Level Bar-Code and Its Potential Applications

Nguyen

Tran

Yeap

2017

MTI

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“…This type of interaction is already exploited in several areas, being used in industrial applications [21] (in the assembly, maintenance and repair of complex equipment), in medical procedures [10] (conducting tasks of high precision), in aviation [8] (presenting virtual markers that define the runway and improving image quality in low visibility situations, for example), as well as in the military [17], education [16], advertising [23] and tourism [9]. In addition to these areas, augmented reality is also used for entertainment purposes.…”

Section: A Augmented Realitymentioning

confidence: 99%

ARZombie: A Mobile Augmented Reality Game with Multimodal Interaction

Cordeiro

Correia

Jesus

2015

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment

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Abstract-Augmented reality games have the power to extend virtual gaming into real world scenarios with real people, while enhancing the senses of the user. This paper describes the ARZombie game developed with the aim of studying and developing mobile augmented reality applications, specifically for tablets, using face recognition interaction techniques. The goal of the ARZombie player is to kill zombies that are detected through the display of the device. Instead of using markers as a mean of tracking the zombies, this game incorporates a facial recognition system, which will enhance the user experience by improving the interaction of players with the real world. As the player moves around the environment, the game will display virtual zombies on the screen if the detected faces are recognized as belonging to the class of the zombies. ARZombie was tested with users to evaluate the interaction proposals and its components were evaluated regarding the performance in order to ensure a better gaming experience.

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“…Object positioning and drawing require computation resources, but control capacities are also necessary to handle data acquisition from sensors and communication protocols. The implementation of the first prototypes for such applications was based on backpacked laptops with 3D graphics cards [9,10]. Advanced mobile multiprocessor architectures are now available (e.g.…”

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Dedicated object processor for mobile augmented reality - sailor assistance case study

2015

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This paper addresses the design of embedded systems for outdoor augmented reality (AR) applications integrated to see-through glasses. The set of tasks includes object positioning, graphic computation, as well as wireless communications, and we consider constraints such as real-time, low power, and low footprint. We introduce an original sailor assistance application, as a typical, useful, and complex outdoor AR application, where context-dependent virtual objects must be placed in the user field of view according to head motions and ambient information. Our study demonstrates that it is worth working on power optimization, since the embedded system based on a standard general-purpose processor (GPP) + graphics processing unit (GPU) consumes more than high-luminosity see-through glasses. This work presents then three main contributions, the first one is the choice and combinations of position and attitude algorithms that fit with the application context. The second one is the architecture of the embedded system, where it is introduced as a fast and simple object processor (OP) optimized for the domain of mobile AR. Finally, the OP implements a new pixel rendering method (incremental pixel shader (IPS)), which is implemented in hardware and takes full advantage of OpenGL ES light model. A GP+OP(s) complete architecture is described and prototyped on field programmable gate-array (FPGA). It includes hardware/software partitioning based on the analysis of application requirements and ergonomics.

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Military Applications of Augmented Reality

Cited by 82 publications

References 15 publications

Pictorial AR Tag with Hidden Multi-Level Bar-Code and Its Potential Applications

Pictorial AR Tag with Hidden Multi-Level Bar-Code and Its Potential Applications

ARZombie: A Mobile Augmented Reality Game with Multimodal Interaction

Dedicated object processor for mobile augmented reality - sailor assistance case study

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