Project Title:
Advanced Augmented Reality Technologies
Project Reference:
ART/161CP
Project Period:
20130801 - 20150331
Funds Approved (HK$’000):
4229
Project Coordinator:
Mr Felix Chow
Deputy Project Coordinator:
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Deliverable:
Optical flow enhancement to planar tracking - Hybrid marker-less tracking algorithm implemented in MacOS, IOS, Android application softwares - Deformable surface tracking algorithm implemented in MacOS, IOS, Android application softwares - Location based information mapping on IOS, Android - Object recognition algorithms implemented in C/C++ on windows - Object recognition hardware design on FPGA/DSP - Demo platform development - Identify new AR applications
Research Group:
Mr Keh Chung Wang
Miss Shanshan Zheng
Mr Joni LAITINEN
Mr Ng Chiu Wah
Dr Stella Zhu
Mr Hongzhi Guo
Mr Sam Yip Chun Ho
Sponsor:
KFC (HK)
Sengital Limited
Description:
Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology combining virtual objects or information with real life images through sensors (e.g. camera, GPS) and display units (e.g. LCD, goggle, smartphone etc) in order to enhance users perception of the reality. AR has been widely utilized in the commercial sector for product design, advertising, gaming and education. This is a follow-on project to the AR Seed Project that has been completed. The objectives of the full project include : - Develop advanced AR technology (e.g. marker-less tracking/deformable surface tracking, object recognition and GPS mapping.) - Enhance and add hardware acceleration to the object recognition algorithms to be implemented on FPGA - Identify new AR applications to address the needs of local industry and secure industry contribution Our technologies should provide benefits to the commercial sectors such as product design, advertising, gaming and education etc.
