MARCH: mobile augmented reality for cultural heritage

Authors:
Omar Choudary;Vincent Charvillat;Romulus Grigoras;Pierre Gurdjos
Affiliations:
IRIT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France;IRIT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France;IRIT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France;IRIT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Venue:
MM '09 Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We present MARCH, a complete solution for enhanced cultural heritage discovery using the mobile phone. Simply point the camera of a mobile device at prehistoric cave engravings. Then MARCH augments the captured images with the expert's drawings, highlighting in real time the animal engravings, which are almost impossible to observe with the naked eye. We have created a mobile augmented reality application which runs at 14 FPS for 320x240 frames on a Nokia N95 smartphone. We describe the optimizations and the requirements needed to obtain these results on mobile devices.