No more markers
Hi everybody,
back after some busy days out! Let’s jump into the new week with a short demo video on some of the latest tracking technology!
tracking by the 3D object itself
Currently when talking about vision-based tracking it’s all about 3D feature maps (using algorithms like SLAM or PTAM, etc.), that do resort to stable color details in the environment to work.
This has some restrictions, when considering changing lighting conditions during operation or reflective surfaces. Both will result in an unstable environment, making it hard for the tracking to work well (or at all).
Different companies work on solutions to overcome these limitations by having edge-based initializations or by doing the entire tracking based on edges rather than color features.
I was able to see such a solution in an early stage at ISMAR 2011 in Basel from a research team at CEA from France. Now those results have found their way into a fresh company offering AR solutions with their tracking technology:
Diotasoft will use CAD data from the to-get-tracked real model to initialize, align and track the object. This could free us all from an annoying initialization process to start off directly – with a known piece of furniture, etc. being the reference and target object at the same time. This would be great and boost easy setup for AR by a big leap!!! Let’s take a look:
What I really like is the last piece of the video, where a 3D representation of the object is created on the fly. Overall quality looks pretty stable, though I haven’t seen it live yet. Let’s wait for some live demo to judge!
Hope to see it soon!
Coming up
Hope to see some cool mobile AR demos hitting the web from there!