Improved Directional Guidance with Transparent AR Displays

Felix Strobel, Voicu Popescu

2023

Abstract

In a popular form of augmented reality (AR), the scene is captured with the back-facing camera of a handheld phone or tablet, and annotations are overlaid onto the live video stream. However, the annotations are not integrated into the user’s field of view, and the user is left with the challenging task of translating the annotations from the display to the real world. This challenge can be alleviated by modifying the video frame to approximate what the user would see in the absence of the display, making the display seem transparent. This paper demonstrates a robust transparent display implementation using only the back-facing camera of a tablet, which was tested extensively over a variety of complex real world scenes. A user study shows that the transparent AR display lets users locate annotations in the real world significantly more accurately than when using a conventional AR display.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Strobel F. and Popescu V. (2023). Improved Directional Guidance with Transparent AR Displays. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2023) - Volume 1: GRAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-634-7, SciTePress, pages 27-38. DOI: 10.5220/0011613200003417

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp23,
author={Felix Strobel and Voicu Popescu},
title={Improved Directional Guidance with Transparent AR Displays},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2023) - Volume 1: GRAPP},
year={2023},
pages={27-38},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011613200003417},
isbn={978-989-758-634-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2023) - Volume 1: GRAPP
TI - Improved Directional Guidance with Transparent AR Displays
SN - 978-989-758-634-7
AU - Strobel F.
AU - Popescu V.
PY - 2023
SP - 27
EP - 38
DO - 10.5220/0011613200003417
PB - SciTePress