A high performance AR system for medical applications

Author

Vogt, Sebastian ; Khamene, Ali ; Sauer, Frank ; Keil, Andreas ; Niemann, Heinrich

Author_Institution

Dept. of Imaging & Visualization, Siemens Corporate Res., Princeton, NJ, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

7-10 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

270

Lastpage

271

Abstract

We report on a new single PC based stereoscopic video-see-through AR system which we developed for medical applications. Recent advances in graphics hardware, memory bandwidth, and computing power of standard PCs made it possible that this system outperforms an earlier version which included 3 networked SGI workstations. We designed and implemented a new AR software platform. It is component based and - in conjunction with XML configuration files - provides efficiency, modularity, and extensibility for fast and robust prototyping of AR applications. The system has a compelling real-time performance with 30 frames/second, displaying stereoscopic augmented video views with XGA resolution.

Keywords

XML; augmented reality; medical computing; object-oriented programming; software architecture; video cameras; AR software platform; AR system; AR visualization; XGA resolution; XML configuration files; computing power; extensibility; graphics hardware; head mounted display; medical applications; memory bandwidth; modularity; networked SGI workstations; prototyping; real-time performance; stereoscopic augmented video views; stereoscopic video-see-through AR; Bandwidth; Biomedical equipment; Computer networks; Graphics; Hardware; Medical services; Personal communication networks; Robustness; Workstations; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2003. Proceedings. The Second IEEE and ACM International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2006-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISMAR.2003.1240715

Filename

1240715