COMBINING INDEPENDENT VISUALIZATION AND TRACKING SYSTEMS FOR AUGMENTED REALITY

The basic requirement for the successful deployment of a mobile augmented reality application is a reliable tracking system with high accuracy. Recently, a helmet-based inside-out tracking system which meets this demand has been proposed for self-localization in buildings. To realize an augmented reality application based on this tracking system, a display has to be added for visualization purposes. Therefore, the relative pose of this visualization platform with respect to the helmet has to be tracked. In the case of hand-held visualization platforms like smartphones or tablets, this can be achieved by means of image-based tracking methods like marker-based or model-based tracking. In this paper, we present two marker-based methods for tracking the relative pose between the helmet-based tracking system and a tablet-based visualization system. Both methods were implemented and comparatively evaluated in terms of tracking accuracy. Our results show that mobile inside-out tracking systems without integrated displays can easily be supplemented with a hand-held tablet as visualization device for augmented reality purposes.

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Calibration of Wi-Fi-Based Indoor Tracking Systems for Android-Based Smartphones

Remote Sensing ◽

10.3390/rs11091072 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 1072 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Miguel Martínez del Horno ◽

Ismael García-Varea ◽

Luis Orozco Barbosa

Keyword(s):

Indoor Localization ◽

Tracking System ◽

Signal Propagation ◽

Tracking Systems ◽

Tracking Accuracy ◽

Indoor Location ◽

Static Calibration ◽

Open Issue ◽

Indoor Tracking ◽

Indoor Location Systems

With the growing development of smartphones equipped with Wi-Fi technology and the need of inexpensive indoor location systems, many researchers are focusing their efforts on the development of Wi-Fi-based indoor localization methods. However, due to the difficulties in characterizing the Wi-Fi radio signal propagation in such environments, the development of universal indoor localization mechanisms is still an open issue. In this paper, we focus on the calibration of Wi-Fi-based indoor tracking systems to be used by smartphones. The primary goal is to build an accurate and robust Wi-Fi signal propagation representation in indoor scenarios.We analyze the suitability of our approach in a smartphone-based indoor tracking system by introducing a novel in-motion calibration methodology using three different signal propagation characterizations supplemented with a particle filter. We compare the results obtained with each one of the three characterization in-motion calibration methodologies and those obtained using a static calibration approach, in a real-world scenario. Based on our experimental results, we show that the use of an in-motion calibration mechanism considerably improves the tracking accuracy.

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A large-scale automated radio telemetry network for monitoring movements of terrestrial wildlife in Australia

Australian Zoologist ◽

10.7882/az.2019.026 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 40 (3) ◽

pp. 379-391 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andrea S. Griffin ◽

Culum Brown ◽

Bradley K. Woodworth ◽

Guy-Anthony Ballard ◽

Stuart Blanch ◽

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Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Large Scale ◽

Radio Telemetry ◽

Research Effort ◽

Tracking System ◽

Global Network ◽

Tracking Systems ◽

System A ◽

Wildlife Tracking ◽

Conservation Funding

Technologies for remotely observing animal movements have advanced rapidly in the past decade. In recent years, Australia has invested in an Integrated Marine Ocean Tracking (IMOS) system, a land ecosystem observatory (TERN), and an Australian Acoustic Observatory (A2O), but has not established movement tracking systems for individual terrestrial animals across land and along coastlines. Here, we make the case that the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, an open-source, rapidly expanding cooperative automated radio-tracking global network (Motus, https://motus.org ) provides an unprecedented opportunity to build an affordable and proven infrastructure that will boost wildlife biology research and connect Australian researchers domestically and with international wildlife research. We briefly describe the system conceptually and technologically, then present the unique strengths of Motus, how Motus can complement and expand existing and emerging animal tracking systems, and how the Motus framework provides a much-needed central repository and impetus for archiving and sharing animal telemetry data. We propose ways to overcome the unique challenges posed by Australia’s ecological attributes and the size of its scientific community. Open source, inherently cooperative and flexible, Motus provides a unique opportunity to leverage individual research effort into a larger collaborative achievement, thereby expanding the scale and scope of individual projects, while maximising the outcomes of scant research and conservation funding.

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A Review on Classifications of Tracking Systems in Augmented Reality

Journal of Physics Conference Series ◽

10.1088/1742-6596/2161/1/012077 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 2161 (1) ◽

pp. 012077

Author(s):

Suman Bhakar ◽

Devershi Pallavi Bhatt ◽

Vijaypal Singh Dhaka ◽

Yogender Kumar Sarma

Keyword(s):

Augmented Reality ◽

New World ◽

Development Process ◽

Tracking System ◽

Research Work ◽

Tracking Systems ◽

The Real ◽

The Core ◽

Unique Experience

Abstract Augmented Reality (AR) is now becoming an exceptional technology that offers a new world. Users to enable their senses to feel, listen and see the surroundings in different and better ways witness a unique experience. AR technology is used to superimpose the real view of the user with the virtual scenes. This research work illustrates the core details of AR, its definition, history, and development process. In addition, discusses ideas having various approaches during utilization of AR frameworks along with glyph tracking system. Current applications of AR technology completely depend on the proper utilization of AR frameworks.

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A Comparison of the Accuracy of an Electromagnetic and a Hybrid Ultrasound-Inertia Position Tracking System

Presence Teleoperators & Virtual Environments ◽

10.1162/105474601753272899 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 657-663 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Volodymyr Kindratenko

Keyword(s):

Tracking System ◽

Position Tracking ◽

Location Tracking ◽

Comparison Study ◽

Tracking Systems ◽

Tracking Accuracy ◽

Wide Range ◽

Cave Environment ◽

The Impact

Results of a comparison study of the tracking accuracy of two commercially available wide-range position tracking systems suitable for CAVEs are presented. An experiment was conducted with Flock of Birds and IS-900 tracking systems installed in the same CAVE environment to compare their accuracy. Another experiment was performed with a newly deployed IS-900 to investigate the impact of different ultrasound emitter configurations on the accuracy of the location tracking. The results show that the IS-900 has a much better accuracy over a larger range of operation than does the Flock of Birds; however, it is sensitive to the optimality of the ultrasound emitters configuration.

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GPS and GSM Based Tracking System for Objects Moving over Wide Geographical Areas

Al-Kitab Journal for Pure Sciences ◽

10.32441/kjps.v2i1.144 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Fatima Ameen ◽

Ziad Mohammed ◽

Abdulrahman Siddiq

Keyword(s):

Global Positioning System ◽

Mobile Communications ◽

Moving Objects ◽

Tracking System ◽

Geographical Area ◽

Tracking Systems ◽

Acceptable Result ◽

Internet Service ◽

Global Positioning ◽

Tracking Objects

Tracking systems of moving objects provide a useful means to better control, manage and secure them. Tracking systems are used in different scales of applications such as indoors, outdoors and even used to track vehicles, ships and air planes moving over the globe. This paper presents the design and implementation of a system for tracking objects moving over a wide geographical area. The system depends on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) technologies without requiring the Internet service. The implemented system uses the freely available GPS service to determine the position of the moving objects. The tests of the implemented system in different regions and conditions show that the maximum uncertainty in the obtained positions is a circle with radius of about 16 m, which is an acceptable result for tracking the movement of objects in wide and open environments.

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