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![Augmented Reality Definition
• Defining Characteristics [Azuma 97]
• Combines Real andVirtual Images
• Both can be seen at the same time
• Interactive in real-time
• The virtual content can be interacted with
• Registered in 3D
• Virtual objects appear fixed in space
Azuma, R. T. (1997). A survey of augmented reality. Presence, 6(4), 355-385.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/lecture10-artrackingnovideo2-161017124119/85/COMP-4010-Lecture10-AR-Tracking-2-320.jpg){kind=tracking}
![Edge Based Tracking
• Example: RAPiD [Drummond et al. 02]
• Initialization, Control Points, Pose Prediction (Global Method)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/lecture10-artrackingnovideo2-161017124119/85/COMP-4010-Lecture10-AR-Tracking-49-320.jpg){kind=tracking}
![Line Based Tracking
• Visual Servoing [Comport et al. 2004]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/lecture10-artrackingnovideo2-161017124119/85/COMP-4010-Lecture10-AR-Tracking-51-320.jpg){kind=tracking}
![Augmented Reality Definition
• Defining Characteristics [Azuma 97]
• Combines Real andVirtual Images
• Both can be seen at the same time
• Interactive in real-time
• The virtual content can be interacted with
• Registered in 3D
• Virtual objects appear fixed in space
Azuma, R. T. (1997). A survey of augmented reality. Presence, 6(4), 355-385.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/lecture10-artrackingnovideo2-161017124119/75/COMP-4010-Lecture10-AR-Tracking-2-2048.jpg){kind=tracking}
![Edge Based Tracking
• Example: RAPiD [Drummond et al. 02]
• Initialization, Control Points, Pose Prediction (Global Method)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/lecture10-artrackingnovideo2-161017124119/75/COMP-4010-Lecture10-AR-Tracking-49-2048.jpg){kind=tracking}
![Line Based Tracking
• Visual Servoing [Comport et al. 2004]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/lecture10-artrackingnovideo2-161017124119/75/COMP-4010-Lecture10-AR-Tracking-51-2048.jpg){kind=tracking}
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COMP 4010 Lecture10: AR Tracking
The document discusses augmented reality (AR) technology, emphasizing its definition, characteristics, and various tracking methods essential for integrating virtual content with real-world environments. It covers different types of tracking technologies including mechanical, magnetic, inertial, optical, and hybrid systems, detailing how they function and their respective advantages and disadvantages. Additionally, the document highlights challenges in tracking, such as ensuring accurate registration and handling dynamic errors during AR experiences.
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Overview of lecture contents and presenters focusing on Augmented Reality technology.
Augmented Reality (AR) combines real and virtual images, interactive in real-time, must be registered in 3D.
AR technology includes combining real and virtual images, requires display and input technologies.
Tracking is essential for AR, ensuring virtual objects remain fixed in the real world, and tracking user viewpoint.
Tracking requirements include body, head, and world stabilization to maintain AR information display.
Different AR tracking technologies: active, passive, and hybrid, including various tracking types like magnetic, optical.
Mechanical trackers provide high accuracy with haptic feedback but are cumbersome and expensive.
Magnetic tracking uses coils in a magnetic field for location detection; offers robustness but has limitations.
Inertial trackers measure orientation rates and are compact and cheap, but can drift over time.
Ultrasonic tracking relies on sound waves for positioning but is affected by environmental conditions.
GPS satellites provide location data but have accuracy limitations depending on visibility and environmental factors.
Mobile sensors include inertial compasses and accelerometers for measuring orientation and motion.
Optical tracking in AR provides precise alignment between video and virtual objects, leveraging computer vision.
Different optical tracking methods: marker tracking, markerless tracking, and unprepared tracking.
Standard and open-source solutions for marker tracking, including techniques for pose estimation.
Finding camera pose using marker coordinates; involves various calibration steps and coordinate transformations.
Detailed steps in marker detection, including fiducial detection, rectangle fitting, and pose estimation.
Challenges include false positives, image noise, and limitations of using markers extensively in AR.
Markerless tracking eliminates the need for visual markers, using natural features like edges and textures.
Texture tracking involves detecting and matching keypoints with their descriptors for accurate motion estimation.
Keypoints are critical for tracking; FAST corner detection is recommended for high performance.
Processes of describing keypoints involves creating databases of known features for effective matching.
Real-time tracking requires efficient searching and matching of descriptors with techniques for outlier removal.
Explores edge-based and model-based tracking methods, including demos of various tracking systems.
Contrasts marker tracking with natural feature tracking, highlighting their advantages and limitations.
SLAM techniques are vital for tracking unknown environments, focusing on robot localization and mapping.
Development of SLAM systems and their applications in AR, including navigation and 3D reconstruction.
Hybrid tracking combines different tracking modalities, enhancing accuracy and robustness in AR applications.
Registration errors in AR must be minimized for effective experience, addressing both static and dynamic errors.
Dynamic errors in AR systems have a significant impact; strategies include reducing system lag and predictive tracking.
Emphasizes the importance of tracking and registration challenges in AR, including multiple technologies and future research.
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- 1. LECTURE 10: AR TECHNOLOGY:TRACKING COMP 4010 – Virtual Reality Semester 5 – 2016 Bruce Thomas, Mark Billinghurst University of South Australia October 18th 2016
- 2. Augmented Reality Definition • Defining Characteristics [Azuma 97] • Combines Real andVirtual Images • Both can be seen at the same time • Interactive in real-time • The virtual content can be interacted with • Registered in 3D • Virtual objects appear fixed in space Azuma, R. T. (1997). A survey of augmented reality. Presence, 6(4), 355-385.
- 3. Augmented RealityTechnology • CombiningReal and Virtual Images • Display technologies • Interactive in Real-Time • Input and interactive technologies • Registered in 3D • Viewpoint tracking technologies Display Processing Input Tracking
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- 5. AR RequiresTracking andRegistration • Registration • Positioning virtual object wrt real world • Fixing virtual object on real object when view is fixed • Tracking • Continually locating the users viewpoint when view moving • Position (x,y,z), Orientation (r,p,y)
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- 7. Tracking Requirements • Augmented RealityInformation Display • World Stabilized • Body Stabilized • Head Stabilized Increasing Tracking Requirements Head Stabilized Body Stabilized World Stabilized
- 8. Tracking Technologies ! Active • Mechanical, Magnetic, Ultrasonic • GPS, Wifi, cell location ! Passive • Inertial sensors (compass, accelerometer, gyro) • Computer Vision • Marker based, Natural feature tracking ! Hybrid Tracking • Combined sensors (eg Vision + Inertial)
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- 10. MechanicalTracker • Idea: mechanical armswith joint sensors • ++: high accuracy, haptic feedback • -- : cumbersome, expensive Microscribe
- 11. MagneticTracker • Idea: coil generatescurrent when moved in magnetic field. Measuring current gives position and orientation relative to magnetic source. • ++: 6DOF, robust • -- : wired, sensible to metal, noisy, expensive Flock of Birds (Ascension)
- 12. InertialTracker • Idea: measuring linearand angular orientation rates (accelerometer/gyroscope) • ++: no transmitter, cheap, small, high frequency, wireless • -- : drifts over time, hysteresis effect, only 3DOF IS300 (Intersense) Wii Remote
- 13. UltrasonicTracker • Idea: time ofFlight or phase-Coherence Sound Waves • ++: Small, Cheap • -- : 3DOF, Line of Sight, Low resolution, Affected by environmental conditons (pressure, temperature) Ultrasonic Logitech IS600
- 14. Global Positioning System(GPS) • Created by US in 1978 • Currently 29 satellites • Satellites send position + time • GPS Receiver positioning • 4 satellites need to be visible • Differential time of arrival • Triangulation • Accuracy • 5-30m+, blocked by weather, buildings etc.
- 15. Mobile Sensors • Inertial compass • Earth’smagnetic field • Measures absolute orientation • Accelerometers • Measures acceleration about axis • Used for tilt, relative rotation • Can drift over time
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- 17. Why Optical Trackingfor AR? • Many AR devices have cameras • Mobile phone/tablet, Video see-through display • Provides precise alignment between video and AR overlay • Using features in video to generate pixel perfect alignment • Real world has many visual features that can be tracked from • Computer Vision well established discipline • Over 40 years of research to draw on • Old non real time algorithms can be run in real time on todays devices
- 18. Common AR OpticalTracking Types • Marker Tracking • Tracking known artificial markers/images • e.g. ARToolKit square markers • Markerless Tracking • Tracking from known features in real world • e.g. Vuforia image tracking • Unprepared Tracking • Tracking in unknown environment • e.g. SLAM tracking
- 19. Marker tracking • Availablefor more than 10 years • Several open source solutions exist • ARToolKit,ARTag,ATK+, etc • Fairly simple to implement • Standard computer vision methods • A rectangle provides 4 corner points • Enough for pose estimation!
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- 21. Marker Based Tracking:ARToolKit http://www.artoolkit.org
- 22. Goal:Find Camera Pose • Goal is to find the camera pose in maker coordinate frame • Knowing: • Position of key points in on-screen video image • Camera properties (focal length, image distortion)
- 23. Coordinates for MarkerTracking
- 24. Coordinates for MarkerTracking Marker Camera • Final Goal • Rotation & Translation 1: Camera Ideal Screen • Perspective model • Obtained from Camera Calibration 2: Ideal Screen Observed Screen • Nonlinear function (barrel shape) • Obtained from Camera Calibration 3: Marker Observed Screen • Correspondence of 4 vertices • Real time image processing
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- 26. MarkerTracking – FiducialDetection • Threshold the whole image to black and white • Search scanline by scanline for edges (white to black) • Follow edge until either • Back to starting pixel • Image border • Check for size • Reject fiducials early that are too small (or too large)
- 27. MarkerTracking – RectangleFitting • Start with an arbitrary point “x” on the contour • The point with maximum distance must be a corner c0 • Create a diagonal through the center • Find points c1 & c2 with maximum distance left and right of diag. • New diagonal from c1 to c2 • Find point c3 right of diagonal with maximum distance
- 28. MarkerTracking – Patternchecking • Calculate homography using the 4 corner points • “Direct Linear Transform” algorithm • Maps normalized coordinates to marker coordinates (simple perspective projection, no camera model) • Extract pattern by sampling and check • Id (implicit encoding) • Template (normalized cross correlation)
- 29. MarkerTracking – Cornerrefinement • Refine corner coordinates • Critical for high quality tracking • Remember: 4 points is the bare minimum! • So these 4 points should better be accurate… • Detect sub-pixel coordinates • E.g. Harris corner detector • Specialized methods can be faster and more accurate • Strongly reduces jitter! • Undistort corner coordinates • Remove radial distortion from lens
- 30. Marker tracking –Pose estimation • Calculates marker pose relative to the camera • Initial estimation directly from homography • Very fast, but coarse with error • Jitters a lot… • Iterative Refinement using Gauss-Newton method • 6 parameters (3 for position, 3 for rotation) to refine • At each iteration we optimize on the error • Iterat
- 31. From MarkerTo Camera • Rotation & Translation TCM : 4x4 transformation matrix from marker coord. to camera coord.
- 32. Tracking challenges inARToolKit Falsepositives and inter-marker confusion (image by M. Fiala) Image noise (e.g. poor lens, block coding / compression, neon tube) Unfocused camera, motion blur Dark/unevenly lit scene, vignetting Jittering (Photoshop illustration) Occlusion (image by M. Fiala)
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- 34. But - Youcan’t cover world with ARToolKit Markers!
- 35. Markerless Tracking Magnetic TrackerInertial Tracker Ultrasonic Tracker Optical Tracker Marker-Based Tracking Markerless Tracking Specialized Tracking Edge-Based Tracking Template-Based Tracking Interest Point Tracking • No more Markers! "Markerless Tracking Mechanical Tracker
- 36. Natural Feature Tracking • UseNatural Cues of Real Elements • Edges • Surface Texture • Interest Points • Model or Model-Free • No visual pollution Contours Features Points Surfaces
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- 38. Tracking by KeypointDetection • This is what most trackers do… • Targets are detected every frame • Popular because tracking and detection are solved simultaneously Keypoint detection Descriptor creation and matching Outlier Removal Pose estimation and refinement Camera Image Pose Recognition
- 39. What is aKeypoint? • It depends on the detector you use! • For high performance use the FAST corner detector • Apply FAST to all pixels of your image • Obtain a set of keypoints for your image • Describe the keypoints Rosten, E., & Drummond, T. (2006, May). Machine learning for high-speed corner detection. In European conference on computer vision (pp. 430-443). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
- 40. FAST Corner KeypointDetection
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- 42. Descriptors • Describe theKeypoint features • Can use SIFT • Estimate the dominant keypoint orientation using gradients • Compensate for detected orientation • Describe the keypoints in terms of the gradients surrounding it Wagner D., Reitmayr G., Mulloni A., Drummond T., Schmals<eg D., Real-Time Detec<on and Tracking for Augmented Reality on Mobile Phones. IEEE Transac<ons on Visualiza<on and Computer Graphics, May/June, 2010
- 43. Database Creation • Offlinestep – create database of known features • Searching for corners in a static image • For robustness look at corners on multiple scales • Some corners are more descriptive at larger or smaller scales • We don’t know how far users will be from our image • Build a database file with all descriptors and their position on the original image
- 44. Real-time tracking • Searchfor known keypoints in the video image • Create the descriptors • Match the descriptors from the live video against those in the database • Brute force is not an option • Need the speed-up of special data structures • E.g., we use multiple spill trees Keypoint detection Descriptor creation and matching Outlier Removal Pose estimation and refinement Camera Image Pose Recognition
- 45. NFT – Outlierremoval • Removing outlining features • Cascade of removal techniques • Start with cheapest, finish with most expensive… • First simple geometric tests • E.g., line tests • Select 2 points to form a line • Check all other points being on correct side of line • Then, homography-based tests
- 46. NFT – Poserefinement • Pose from homography makes good starting point • Based on Gauss-Newton iteration • Try to minimize the re-projection error of the keypoints • Part of tracking pipeline that mostly benefits from floating point usage • Can still be implemented effectively in fixed point • Typically 2-4 iterations are enough…
- 47. NFT – Real-timetracking • Search for keypoints in the video image • Create the descriptors • Match the descriptors from the live video against those in the database • Remove the keypoints that are outliers • Use the remaining keypoints to calculate the pose of the camera Keypoint detection Descriptor creation and matching Outlier Removal Pose estimation and refinement Camera Image Pose Recognition
- 48. Demo: Vuforia TextureTracking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qf5Qew5zSU
- 49. Edge Based Tracking • Example: RAPiD [Drummond et al. 02] • Initialization, Control Points, Pose Prediction (Global Method)
- 50. Demo: Edge BasedTracking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJtpBxdDVDU
- 51. Line Based Tracking • Visual Servoing [Comport et al. 2004]
- 52. Model BasedTracking • Tracking from3D object shape • Example: OpenTL - www.opentl.org • General purpose library for model based visual tracking
- 53. Demo: OpenTL ModelTracking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laiykNbPkgg
- 54. Demo: OpenTL FaceTracking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIoGdhkfNVE
- 55. Marker vs.Natural FeatureTracking • Marker tracking • Usually requires no database to be stored • Markers can be an eye-catcher • Tracking is less demanding • The environment must be instrumented • Markers usually work only when fully in view • Natural feature tracking • A database of keypoints must be stored/downloaded • Natural feature targets might catch the attention less • Natural feature targets are potentially everywhere • Natural feature targets work also if partially in view
- 56. Tracking from anUnknown Environment • What to do when you don’t know any features? • Very important problem in mobile robotics - Where am I? • SLAM • Simultaneously Localize And Map the environment • Goal: to recover both camera pose and map structure while initially knowing neither. • Mapping: • Building a map of the environment which the robot is in • Localisation: • Navigating this environment using the map while keeping track of the robot’s relative position and orientation
- 57. Visual SLAM • EarlySLAM systems (1986 - ) • Computer visions and sensors (e.g. IMU, laser, etc.) • One of the most important algorithms in Robotics • Visual SLAM • Using cameras only, such as stereo view • MonoSLAM (single camera) developed in 2007 (Davidson)
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- 59. How SLAMWorks • Threemain steps 1. Tracking a set of points through successive camera frames 2. Using these tracks to triangulate their 3D position 3. Simultaneously use the estimated point locations to calculate the camera pose which could have observed them • By observing a sufficient number of points can solve for for both structure and motion (camera path and scene structure).
- 60. SLAM Optimization • SLAMis an optimisation problem • compute the best configuration of camera poses and point positions in order to minimise reprojection error • difference between a point's tracked location and where it is expected to be • Can be solved using bundle adjustment • a nonlinear least squares algorithm that finds minimum error • But – time taken grows as size of map increases • Multi-core machines can do localization and mapping on different threads • Relocalisation • Allows tracking to be restarted when it fails
- 61. Evolution of SLAMSystems • MonoSLAM (Davidson, 2007) • Real time SLAM from single camera • PTAM (Klein, 2009) • First SLAM implementation on mobile phone • FAB-MAP (Cummins, 2008) • Probabilistic Localization and Mapping • DTAM (Newcombe, 2011) • 3D surface reconstruction from every pixel in image • KinectFusion (Izadi, 2011) • Realtime dense surface mapping and tracking using RGB-D
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- 63. LSD-SLAM (Engel 2014) • A novel, direct monocular SLAM technique • Uses image intensities both for tracking and mapping. • The camera is tracked using direct image alignment, while • Geometry is estimated as semi-dense depth maps • Supports very large scale tracking • Runs in real time on CPU and smartphone
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- 65. Direct Method vs.FeatureBased • Direct uses all information in image, cf feature based approach that only use small patches around corners and edges
- 66. Applications of SLAMSystems • Many possible applications • Augmented Reality camera tracking • Mobile robot localisation • Real world navigation aid • 3D scene reconstruction • 3D Object reconstruction • Etc.. • Assumptions • Camera moves through an unchanging scene • So not suitable for person tracking, gesture recognition • Both involve non-rigidly deforming objects and a non-static map
- 67. Hybrid Tracking Combining severaltracking modalities together
- 68. SensorTracking • Used bymany “AR browsers” • GPS, compass, accelerometer, gyroscope • Not sufficient alone (drift, interference) Inertial Compass Drifting Over Time
- 69. Combining Sensors andVision • Sensors • Produces noisy output (= jittering augmentations) • Are not sufficiently accurate (= wrongly placed augmentations) • Gives us first information on where we are in the world, and what we are looking at • Vision • Is more accurate (= stable and correct augmentations) • Requires choosing the correct keypoint database to track from • Requires registering our local coordinate frame (online- generated model) to the global one (world)
- 70. Example: Outdoor HybridTracking • Combines • computer vision • inertial gyroscope sensors • Both correct for each other • Inertial gyro • provides frame to frame prediction of camera orientation, fast sensing • drifts over time • Computer vision • Natural feature tracking, corrects for gyro drift • Slower, less accurate
- 71. OutdoorARTracking System You, Neumann,Azumaoutdoor AR system (1999)
- 72. Robust OutdoorTracking • Hybrid Tracking • ComputerVision, GPS, inertial • Going Out • Reitmayr & Drummond (Univ. Cambridge) Reitmayr, G., & Drummond, T. W. (2006). Going out: robust model-based tracking for outdoor augmented reaity. In Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2006. ISMAR 2006. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on (pp. 109-118). IEEE.
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- 76. The Registration Problem • Virtualand Real content must stay properly aligned • If not: • Breaks the illusion that the two coexist • Prevents acceptance of many serious applications t = 0 seconds t = 1 second
- 77. Sources of RegistrationErrors • Static errors • Optical distortions (in HMD) • Mechanical misalignments • Tracker errors • Incorrect viewing parameters • Dynamic errors • System delays (largest source of error) • 1 ms delay = 1/3 mm registration error
- 78. Reducing Static Errors • Distortioncompensation • For lens or display distortions • Manual adjustments • Have user manually alighn AR andVR content • View-based or direct measurements • Have user measure eye position • Camera calibration (video AR) • Measuring camera properties
- 79. View Based Calibration(Azuma 94)
- 80. Dynamic errors • TotalDelay = 50 + 2 + 33 + 17 = 102 ms • 1 ms delay = 1/3 mm = 33mm error Tracking Calculate Viewpoint Simulation Render Scene Draw to Display x,y,z r,p,y Application Loop 20 Hz = 50ms 500 Hz = 2ms 30 Hz = 33ms 60 Hz = 17ms
- 81. Reducing dynamic errors(1) • Reduce system lag • Faster components/system modules • Reduce apparent lag • Image deflection • Image warping
- 82. Reducing System Lag TrackingCalculate Viewpoint Simulation Render Scene Draw to Display x,y,z r,p,y Application Loop Faster Tracker Faster CPU Faster GPU Faster Display
- 83. ReducingApparent Lag Tracking Update x,y,z r,p,y Virtual Display Physical Display (640x480) 1280x 960 Last known position Virtual Display Physical Display (640x480) 1280 x 960 Latest position Tracking Calculate Viewpoint Simulation Render Scene Draw to Display x,y,z r,p,y Application Loop
- 84. Reducing dynamic errors(2) • Match video + graphics input streams (video AR) • Delay video of real world to match system lag • User doesn’t notice • Predictive Tracking • Inertial sensors helpful Azuma / Bishop 1994
- 85. PredictiveTracking Time Position Past Future Can predictup to 80 ms in future (Holloway) Now
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- 87. Wrap-up • Tracking and Registrationare key problems • Registration error • Measures against static error • Measures against dynamic error • AR typically requires multiple tracking technologies • Computer vision most popular • Research Areas: • SLAM systems, Deformable models, Mobile outdoor tracking
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