Augmented reality principles and practice

"Augmented Reality: Principles and Practice integrates all this knowledge into a single-source reference, presenting the most significant AR work with scrupulous accuracy. Dieter Schmalstieg, a pioneer of both AR foundation and application, is drawing from his two decades of AR experience to cl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schmalstieg, D., Höllerer, Tobias (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston Addison-Wesley 2016
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to augmented reality : Definition and scope ; A brief history of augmented reality ; Examples ; Related fields
  • Displays : Multimodal displays ; Visual perception ; Requirements and characteristics ; Spatial display model ; Visual displays
  • Tracking : Tracking, calibration, and registration ; Coordinate systems ; Characteristics of tracking technology ; Stationary tracking systems ; Mobile sensors ; Optical tracking ; Sensor fusion
  • Computer vision for augmented reality : Marker tracking ; Multiple-camera infrared tracking ; Natural feature tracking by detection ; Incremental tracking ; Simultaneous localization and mapping ; Outdoor tracking
  • Calibration and registration : Camera calibration ; Display calibration ; Registration
  • Visual coherence : Registration ; Occlusion ; Photometric registration ; Common illumination ; Diminished reality ; Camera simulation ; Stylized augmented reality
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Software architectures : AR application requirements ; Software engineering requirements ; Distributed object systems ; Dataflow ; Scene graphs ; Developer support
  • The future : What may drive business cases ; An AR developer's wish list ; Taking AR outdoors ; Interfacing with smart objects ; confluence of virtual reality and augmented reality ; Augmented humans ; AR as a dramatic medium ; AR as a social computing platform
  • Situated visualization : Challenges ; Visualization registration ; Annotations and labeling ; X-ray visualization ; Spatial manipulation ; Information filtering
  • Interaction : Output modalities ; Input modalities ; Tangible interfaces ; Virtual user interfaces ; Haptic interaction ; Multimodal interaction ; Conversational agents
  • Modeling and annotation : Specifying geometry ; Specifying appearance ; Semi-automatic reconstruction ; Free-form modeling ; Annotation
  • Authoring : Requirements of AR authoring ; Elements of authoring ; Stand-alone authoring solutions ; Plug-in approaches ; Web technology
  • Navigation : Foundations of human navigation ; Exploration and discovery ; Route visualization ; Viewpoint guidance ; Multiple perspectives
  • Collaboration : Properties of collaboration ; Co-located collaboration ; Remote collaboration