CompSci 705 Seminar Final Report - Augmented Reality
Wallace Yuen · 2012
Augmented Reality is a vigorously researched area due to its vast scale of applicability in different areas, enabled by continually improved computer hardware and technology. Augmented Reality was explored in many researches for different applications such as navigation systems, medical visualization systems, and computer games. Despite recent advances in computer hardware, Augmented Reality still remains a challenge with its performance due to the complexity of its algorithms involved, from disciplines such as Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Artificial Intelligence, which is a problem due to the limited resources available. Existing researches focused on improving the quality of virtual content registration geometrically and photometrically, while others focused on improving the performance for real-world applications such as mobile Augmented Reality. Interaction technique is also a highly popular area with many researches trying to investigate ways to interact and manipulate virtual contents to enhance the user experience and practicality of Augmented Reality applications. This paper analyzes the problems in Augmented Reality and discusses the current approaches and methodologies in overcoming these problems to bring Augmented Reality to practical use.