2nd Joint Advanced Student School (JASS 2004)

Course 3 - Ubiquitous Tracking for Augmented Reality

Prof. Dr. V.N. Vasiliev, Prof. Dr. Shalyto , Technical University St. Petersburg
Prof. G. Klinker, Ph.D. , Dipl.-Inf. Martin Wagner , Technische Universität München

This course's topic

Augmented Reality (AR) applications are highly dependent upon accurate and precise tracking data. Since current tracking technologies do not always provide such information everywhere in real-time application developers must combine several trackers to minimize negative properties of one tracker by another. The result are sensor networks. They can be used to inform applications about the current position and orientation of objects they are concerned about. Furthermore, such pose data can be evaluated with respect to several criteria of quality.

Currently most AR applications use their own customized solution to this problem. Typically, these solutions are hardly reusable in other systems. This inhibits the development of large-scale sensor networks because there are no standard interfaces between these technologies. In this course, we will look at the necessities to form ubiquitous tracking environments consisting of several sensor networks.

Course organization

The course was held as seminar, every participant gave a presentation of approximately 60 minutes. An active participiation in discussions related to the course's topic was the main part of the course's learning experience. Every participant wrote a 10-page paper on his topic, a collection of these papers was published as technical report.

Individual Topics of Participants from Munich

A brief descriptions of all topics and a list of relevant papers can be found here.

A Technical Report containing all papers is available.

Nr	Presenter	Topic
1	Markus Geipel	Augmented Reality: Overview and Current Systems
2	Simon Bichler	Ubiquitous and Context Aware Computing: Overview and Systems
3	Christoph Krautz	Overview and Mathematics of Tracking
4	Björn Griesbach	Sensor Fusion Systems: Overview and Mathematics
5	Christian Wachinger Benjamin Fingerle	The Mathematics of (Auto-)Calibrating AR Systems
6	Christian Wachinger Benjamin Fingerle	Foundations of Ubiquitous Tracking

Individual Topics of Participants from St. Petersburg

The selection of topics was based on Prof. Shalyto's SWITCH technology for automata-based programming and documentation. See this paper for more information.

Nr	Presenter	Topic
	A.A. Shalyto	Foundation of Open Project Documentation
1	Georgy Korneev	Finite State Automata Oriented Development of Algorithm Visualizers
2	Maxim Mazin	Development of Tools for Object-Oriented Programs with Explicit State Emphasis Engineering
3	Andrew Breslav	Object Models Building by Textual Descriptions
4	Boris Yartsev	Review of programming projects for Open Project Documentation at the IFMO
5	Vera Dron	Methods of Teaching Programming at High Schools and Universities
6	Kim Bondarenko	Crystal Mobile: multimedia framework for mobile platforms
7	Lev Naumov	Cellular Automata Modeling Environment and Library
8	Svetlana Kolesnikova	Computer signal transmission in optical coherence tomography on the basis of Wigner transformation

Other Resources

• Main 2nd JASS site
• Old course 3 organizational site

-- MartinWagner - 12 Oct 2004