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Virtual and Augmented Reality

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Head of Competence Center: 
Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Bockholt [2]
Deputy Head of the Competence Center: 
Dr.-Ing. Harald Wuest [3]
Secratary's Office of the Competence Center: 
Marion Christ [4]
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Outline

Since more than 15 years our team is developing technology in the field of “Virtual Reality” (VR) and “Augmented Reality” (AR). We create core technologies for Mixed-Reality systems such as the instanReality [5] framework and develop advanced Computer Vision tracking technologies.
Our prototyping architecture instantVision has become a powerful tool for Augmented Reality and vision-based research. It is a flexible and scalable tool that runs on desktop and mobile systems alike.

Our services cover implementation, creation and consultancy throughout software and hardware solutions, the integration of innovative technologies and the development of prototypes and products. Our research and development work includes:

  • Advanced Computer Vision
  • Multimodal Interaction & Installations
  • Smartphone and mobile Augmented Reality
  • Efficient and scalable realtime Rendering

 

Get a better overview: check our Research Areas

Have a look on our recent Projects [6]

Research Areas

Our visual computing technology covers research areas such as Computer Vision and systems for mixed and augmented reality. Please find an overview of our developments.

Instant Vision

instantVision is a modular computer vision system with focus on Augmented Reality. It features various tracking techniques inside one framework, where several tracking methods can be combined. This way instantVision benefits from several tracking methods to overcome problematic situations where a single method solely would fail.

Read on: Working with instantVision [7], Scientific Paper [8]

MobileAR for Smartphones & Tablets

MobileAR is a powerful app that runs on both iOS and Android tablets & smartphones. Its a full qualified framework based on instantVision that empowers augmented reality applications on mobile devices. Mobile AR uses web-technologies for its application development to ease and simplify the authoring of both, tracking and applications alike.

Applied CV tracking

instantVision includes several well-known, state-of-art and latest research findings in one framework.

  • Image and 2D Feature Tracking & Detection
    Corner Detectors (Canny, Harris, FAST), Feature Descriptors (SIFT, SURF, BRISK) and matching algorithms.
  • Point Feature Tracking (optical flow, template matching)
  • 3D Feature and Arbitraty Traget Tracking, Reconstruction
  • Sensor Fusion
    using inertial sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope) data and image based tracking, key advantage to handle fast movements
  • Model-based Contour Tracking
  • Depth-Cams
    realtime measuring and reconstruction of 3D objects.
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Source URL: http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de/en/Institut/Abteilungen/Virtuelle-und-Erweiterte-Realit%C3%A4t
Datum: 21.05.2012, 05:06 Uhr

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[1] http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de/sites/default/files/a4mainbanner_0.png
[2] http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de/en/Institut/Abteilungen/Virtuelle-und-Erweiterte-Realit%C3%A4t-A4/Mitarbeiter/Dr-Ing-Ulrich-Bockholt
[3] http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de/en/Institut/Abteilungen/Virtuelle-und-Erweiterte-Realit%C3%A4t-A4/Mitarbeiter/Dr-Ing-Harald-Wuest
[4] http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de/en/Institut/Abteilungen/Virtuelle-und-Erweiterte-Realit%C3%A4t-A4/Mitarbeiter/Marion-Christ
[5] http://www.instantreality.org
[6] http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de/en/Institut/Abteilungen/Virtuelle-und-Erweiterte-Realit%C3%A4t/Projekte/
[7] http://doc.instantreality.org/tutorial/introduction-to-instantvision/
[8] http://www.searis.net/images/5/5e/Searis_2009_p26.pdf