Clemens Arth

Clemens Arth, Raphael Grasset, Lukas Gruber et al.

This document summarizes the major milestones in mobile Augmented Reality between 1968 and 2014. Major parts of the list were compiled by the member of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Handheld Augmented Reality in 2010 (author list in alphabetical order) for the ISMAR society. Later in 2013 it was updated, and more recent work was added during preparation of this report. Permission is granted to copy and modify.

Clemens Arth, Christian Pirchheim, Jonathan Ventura et al.

We propose a method for estimating the 3D pose for the camera of a mobile device in outdoor conditions, using only an untextured 2D model. Previous methods compute only a relative pose using a SLAM algorithm, or require many registered images, which are cumbersome to acquire. By contrast, our method returns an accurate, absolute camera pose in an absolute referential using simple 2D+height maps, which are broadly available, to refine a first estimate of the pose provided by the device's sensors. We show how to first estimate the camera absolute orientation from straight line segments, and then how to estimate the translation by aligning the 2D map with a semantic segmentation of the input image. We demonstrate the robustness and accuracy of our approach on a challenging dataset.