Matching buildings: pose estimation in an urban environment

Author

Coors, Volker ; Huch, Tassilo ; Kretschmer, Ursula

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Comput. Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

89

Lastpage

92

Abstract

By use of a wearable geographical information system (wearable GIS) individual guided walks for tourists can be generated. Fraunhofer-IGD aims to develop a system accompanying a tourist while he visits a city. Whenever he desires information the system is supposed to offer information about the environment. This requires the determination of the location. Appropriate results are delivered by the global positioning system (GPS). However, they do not offer information about the line of sight of the tourist. Therefore, a video stream is used. It enables comparison with an underlying GIS. Association of the images with spatial data is necessary as the system is established in an urban environment which cannot be changed for example by markers. As soon as the content of the image coincides with the information of the GIS the exact location of the tourist and the line of sight are determined. The paper describes an approach matching information of a real image with generated images of a city model

Keywords

Global Positioning System; augmented reality; geographic information systems; mobile computing; travel industry; user interfaces; GPS; augmented reality; global positioning system; guided tourist walks; pose estimation; spatial data; urban environment; video stream; wearable GIS; wearable geographical information system; Cameras; Cities and towns; Computer graphics; Displays; Geographic Information Systems; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Image generation; Information systems; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Augmented Reality, 2000. (ISAR 2000). Proceedings. IEEE and ACM International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0846-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAR.2000.880928

Filename

880928