| Author: | Erin McGarrity |
| Advisor: | C. B. Owen |
| Email: | mcgarrit@cse.msu.edu; http://www.cse.msu.edu/~mcgarrit |
The primary goal of ARIS is to develop a system which can aid a human in inspection and repair tasks by placing graphical and textural information, such as technical drawings and instructions, over their workspace. This goal can be achieved by integrating sensors such as video cameras and magnetic trackers with a see-through head-worn display. The sensors relay spatial information about the workspace and the user to a computer which calculates the proper display parameters, applies them to the information to be displayed, which is, in turn, rendered to the head-worn display. In an ideal situation, we would like the graphics to appear to be part of the workspace, that is, they must be properly aligned and this alignment must follow the user's interaction with the workspace. An important part of an augmented reality system is tracking the motion of the camera and objects in the workspace. We have developed a video-based tracking system which performs such tracking in real-time. This system tracks a jig through the workspace and displays graphics which are aligned with the camera's image stream. Herein, we summarize this system and describe its capabilities.
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