Smartphone Augmented Reality: Towards Mass-Market Augmented Reality Technology, Dieter Schmalstieg

Description

The Christian Doppler Laboratory of Handheld Augmented Reality established at Graz University of Technology focuses on research aimed at establishing Augmented Reality (AR) technology on smartphones. AR is a key technology in user interfaces for personalized, situated information delivery, navigation, on-demand instructions and games. The widespread availability and rapid evolution of smartphones enables software-only solutions for AR, where it was previously necessary to assemble custom hardware solutions. However, ergonomic and technical limitations of smartphones as a platform make this a challenging endeveour. In particular, it is necessary to design novel efficient time-critical algorithms for computer graphics and computer vision tasks, and create new lightweight forms of interaction with the environment through small form-factor devices. This talk will present selected technical achievements in this field and highlight some examples of successful application prototypes.

Period	07 Dec 2011
Event type	Guest talk
Location	AustriaShow on map