Augmented Reality

Description:

In the past few years, Virtual Environments (a.k.a. Virtual Reality) have attracted a great deal of attention. In Augmented Reality, the user can see the real world around him, with computer graphics superimposed or composited with the real world. The ultimate goal is to create a system such that the user can not tell the difference between the real world and the virtual augmentation of it. To the user of this ultimate system it would appear that he is looking at a single real scene. The present work involves augmenting destination environments with objects extracted from source environments handling occlusions etc.

Results:

We show some movies generated by extracting a moving object from a source movie and augmenting it into many different destination images/movies:



Source Movie (Mpeg 619 KB)
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Background Subtracted texture of source object(Mpeg640KB)
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We used very elementary technique without using any probabilistic model.
Destination Image
The Augmented Movie (Mpeg 628 KB)
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Destination Movie (Mpeg 647 KB)
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The Augmented Movie (Mpeg 1.6 MB)
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Destination Image
The Augmented Movie (Mpeg 622 KB)
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The view angle of the source object is not the same as in the source
movie, hence the results(using planar modelling) are not so good
as we don't have the complete 3-d information.

Reports:

  1. Augmented Reality(html).
    Augmented Reality(ps).
    Nipun Kwatra, Sumit Jain, Subhajit Sanyal, Subhashis Banerjee and Prem Kalra

People:

Nipun Kwatra, Sumit Jain, Subhajit Sanyal, Subhashis Banerjee, Prem Kalra