Augmented reality for art, design and cultural heritage: system design and evaluation

  • Authors:

  • Jurjen Caarls;Pieter Jonker;Yolande Kolstee;Joachim Rotteveel;Wim van Eck

  • Affiliations:

  • Dynamics and Control, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Dynamics and Control, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands and Bio-Robotics Lab, Faculty 3ME, Delft University of Technology, Delft, ...;AR+RFID Lab, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Haag, The Netherlands;Bio-Robotics Lab, Faculty 3ME, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;AR+RFID Lab, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Haag, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Journal on Image and Video Processing - Special issue on image and video processing for cultural heritage
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper describes the design of an optical see-through head-mounted display (HMD) system for Augmented Reality (AR). Our goals were to make virtual objects "perfectly" indistinguishable from real objects, wherever the user roams, and to find out to which extent imperfections are hindering applications in art and design. For AR, fast and accurate measuring of head motions is crucial. We made a head-pose tracker for the HMD that uses error-state Kalman filters to fuse data from an inertia tracker with data from a camera that tracks visual markers. This makes on-line head-pose based rendering of dynamic virtual content possible.We measured our system, and found that with an A4-sized marker viewed from 20° at 5 m distance with an SXGA camera (FOV 108°), the RMS error in the tracker angle was