Lens Model Selection for a Markerless AR Tracking System

  • Authors:
  • B. Streckel;J.-F. Evers-Senne;R. Koch

  • Affiliations:
  • Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel;Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel;Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel

  • Venue:
  • ISMAR '05 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper describes a visual markerless real-time tracking system for Augmented Reality applications. The system uses a firewire camera with a fisheye lens mounted at 10 fps. Visual tracking of 3D scene points is performed simultaneously with 3D camera pose estimation without any prior scene knowledge. All visual-geometric data is acquired using a structure-from-motion approach. The lens selection was driven by research results that show the superiority of a fisheye lens to a standard perspective lens for this approach. 2D features in the hemispherical image are tracked using a 2D point tracker. Based on the feature tracks, 3D camera ego-motion and 3D features are estimated.