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Object Tracking

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Comprehending and interpreting camera images (»Computer Vision«) is a core technology for virtual technologies because high-quality cameras are integrated in current computer and smart phone platforms and because the increasingly high performance facilitates elaborate image processing methods in real time.

In Augmented Reality, the real environment is captured by the camera and overlaid with digitally linked information. For this purpose, the pose (position and orientation) of the camera must be registered in real time and synchronized with the virtual camera. For industrial application scenarios, those model-based tracking procedures are particularly relevant, offering a high level of stability even with unstable lighting conditions.

The reference models used for computer vision-based tracking are directly derived from the objects’ CAD data.

Reference projects

  • Acoustic Eye: an innovative 3D imaging and surveying system using bionic principles
  • AR-System for lymph node extirpation
  • Dyn3D-Pro - Augmented Reality-System zur dynamischen 3D-Änderungskonstruktion
  • KonKav - optical measuring of cavitation effects
  • Robust tracking of fish
  • Tangible Simulation

Contact

Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Bockholt

Virtual and Augmented Reality
Fraunhoferstr. 5
64283 Darmstadt
Phone +49 6151 155-277
Fax +49 6151 155-196
  • Ulrich [dot] Bockholt [at] igd [dot] fraunhofer [dot] de (send mail)

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