Time Machine: A Mobile Augmented Reality System for Tourism Based on Coded-Aperture Camera

Author

Dan Feng ; Dandan Meng ; Yupeng Zhang ; Dongdong Weng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Optoelectron., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

18-21 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

502

Lastpage

506

Abstract

Time Machine is an Augmented Reality (AR) system for enhancing tourists´ traveling experience. Based on optimized panoramic images, we proposed a novel spatiotemporal interactive approach which imbues users the ability to interact with both the spatial world and its history. Time machine utilizes panorama of a specific place at different time for achieving interactions with temporal dimension. It also adopts interior panorama of landmark building which can be used by the user to interact with the physical world. Additionally, the panoramas optimized by aperture-coded camera can alleviate the noisy foreground information such as crowds and address defocus blurring to improve the quality of panorama.

Keywords

augmented reality; cameras; mobile computing; travel industry; coded-aperture camera; mobile augmented reality system; noisy foreground information; panorama quality; spatiotemporal interactive approach; time machine; tourist traveling experience; Apertures; Augmented reality; Cameras; Kernel; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Spatiotemporal phenomena; aperture-coded camera; mobile augmented reality; panorama; spatiotemporal interaction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on and 10th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC)

Conference_Location

Vietri sul Mere

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2481-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UIC-ATC.2013.26

Filename

6726250