Hauptseminar: Augmented Reality for Driving Assistance in Cars
Content
With recent advances of Head-up Display (HUD) technology in cars, Augmented Reality becomes interesting in this field of research. This Hauptseminar is intended to give an overview about existing and researched AR-systems to support the driving task.
The task of driving can be classified to three areas of relevance for driving. First, the primary driving task focusses on the local guidance of the car, not to get off the lane whether to hit other obstacles. The secondary driving task focusses on indirect relevant information, as oil temperature and blinkers, as the third deals with comfort and communication functions, as air conditioning, navi systems and telephoning. These task can almost be divided in areas of interests in the drivers cockpit. There, the windshield is where te primary driving task is fulfilled.
Each talk gives an overview about a certain topic of research in this area, reveals the problems arising by the introduced concept, discusses the practicability and compares them to other existing systems.
Organisational
Area: Informatik Hauptstudium, Informatik Master
SWS: 2+0 (WP INF, WP MS-INF)
ECTS: 4 Credits
Prerequisites:
- Einfuehrung in die Augmented Reality
- Projective und Planar Geometry
Registration: By mail to .
How to get the Schein:
- The outline of the talk should be sent to the supervisor one month before the presentation
- The presentation slides and handout should be finalized and discussed with the supervisor one week before the presentation (here is a template)
- Give a qualified talk of an hour and handle follow up discussion
- Write a report of approximately 15 pages (in LaTex and english, here is a template)
- Be present at all talks (two times absence allowed, otherwise we'll request a doctoral certificate)
Literature & Helpful Information
There will be a lot of research to do on the internet and on various publications. This list may help you finding a good point to start.
Often you must be at University to get access to papers. Then you'll have to specify a special proxy:
If you do not want to come to Garching, you can use a SSH-tunnel:
> ssh -N -L 8080:proxy.biblio.tu-muenchen.de:8080 -l $USER <Uni-Host> and then configure your computer's web-proxy to
localhost:8080
Schedule of Weekly Talks
As the term runs from 17.10.05 to 11.02.06, the talks will be in the following calendar weeks (= KW = Kalenderwoche).
The Hauptseminar will take place on
Tuesday between 14.00h and 16.00h in room 02.09.023.
Taxonomy of Assistance Systems, Current State
This will be an introductory talk to introduce into the topic of assistance systems in cars. It will contain a taxonomy of man machine interaction in cars, their frames of reference and reveal some issues, that become challenges for the upcoming talks.
In advance, this talk is intended to give an overview about the current state of the art. Assistance Systems that are available from car manufaturers are introduced and their interoperability with the car is explained.
Technology and Hardware I (Displays)
This talk ficusses on display technology. Issues for displays are stated, challenges for contrast and brightness issues are shown and their solutions are given.
Technology and Hardware II (Mechanical Alignment)
For placing a Virtual HUD Image Plane in front of the car, additional problems arise. A lot of mirrors must be adjusted to extend the distance of the image plane and te display(s) must be adjusted to render in the correct alignment. This talk gives an overview of setups and introduces first mathematics.
Calibration I (Vertical Image Plane)
In order to render graphical information correctly aligned in the HUD, the HUD must be calibrated. This talk gives an overview about calibration concepts, methods and their mathematical backgound.
Calibration II (Horizontal Image Plane)
A HUD with an Image Plane tilted to teh floor requires alternative calibration methods. This talk gives an overview about techniques that can be used to calibrate a so called contactanalog HUD and explains te mathematical theory.
Calibration III (Depth fixed alignment)
A HUD with a depth fixed alignment allows to render multiple graphical objects, each with a defined depth perception. This talk is intended to develop and introduce concepts for the calibration of such displays.
Physical Aspectes (Reflection Modelling)
For the construction of HUDs that provide a large (wide and high) Image Plane, the knowledge about reflection and lenses ist important to increase the size of the Image Plane. But in the end, the shape of the cars windshield becomes the matter of fact. This talk introduces the problem, evaluates available software for reflection modelling and defines issues in developping a suitable tool for the construction of windshields.
Information Systems (Global, Local Guidance)
Informing a driver about a certain, but unimportant factallows the use of various techniques. This talk gives an overview about these concepts and tries to define a taxonomy on locating such informations: Where must no objects be displayed, where and how long can objects be displayed, in order to support local guidance, say environmental orientation.
Warning Systems (Layouting, Usability)
Warnings must be visible to the driver, so, this talk gives ideas on how an where to warn a driver.
Alert Systems (Attention Guidance)
The Problem of an alert is, that the driver must react on it and must be guided to the location of the alert. This talk gives strategies in the problem domain of attention guidance.
Analysis (Required Data, Hierarchy)
This talk focusses on base input data. Which data can be accessed where, which must be precalculated, ...
Therefore this talk develops and introduces data-flow networks.
Usability (Peripheral Detection, Attentional Capture)
This talk gives and discusses usability testing strategies like te peripheral detection task and others that can be used to measure te drivers attentiaonal capture during a trest-drive without disturbing him by the usability testing itself.
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MarcusToennis - 19 Jun 2005