Ubiquitous Tracking (Ubitrack) In academic collaboration with: TU Graz Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Scientific Director: Gudrun Klinker Contact Person(s): Daniel Pustka In industrial collaboration with: BMW EADS

Keywords: Ubiquitous Tracking

Abstract

Augmented Reality (AR) applications are highly dependent from accurate and precise tracking data. Since current tracking technologies do not always provide such information everywhere in real-time application developer must combine certain trackers together to minimize the disadvantage of one tracker by another. These sensor networks can then be used to deliver positional relation information of objects to the application which then can be evaluated. Currently most AR application bring along their own customized solution of this problem. However 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. By introducing the Ubitrack framework it is possible to form ubiquitous tracking environments which may consist of several sensor networks.

Publications

2015
	U. Eck, F. Pankratz, C. Sandor, G. Klinker, H. Laga Precise Haptic Device Co-Location for Visuo-Haptic Augmented Reality IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Visualization, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 1427-1441, Dec 2015 (bib)
	G. Klinker Augmented Reality and Industry (original title: Ubiquitous Augmented Reality) Keynote speech. The 14th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2015), Fukuoka, Japan, Sep. 29, 2015. (bib)
2014
	M. Huber, M. Schlegel, G. Klinker Application of Time-Delay Estimation to Mixed Reality Multisensor Tracking Journal on Virtual Reality and Broadcasting (JVRB), Volume 11, 2014, online (22 pages), http://www.jvrb.org/past-issues/11.2014/3877 (bib)
	C. Resch, P. Keitler, G. Klinker Sticky Projections - A New Approach to Interactive Shader Lamp Tracking The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2014), Munich, Germany, Sep. 10 - 12, 2014, pp. 151-156. (bib)
	U. Eck, F. Pankratz, C. Sandor, G. Klinker, H. Laga Comprehensive Workspace Calibration for Visuo-Haptic Augmented Reality The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2014), Munich, Germany, Sep. 10 - 12, 2014, pp. 123-128. (bib)
2013
	C. Waechter, D. Pustka, G. Klinker Real-Time Monocular People Tracking by Sequential Monte-Carlo Filtering 6th International ACM Conference on Computer Vision / Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques and Applications (MIRAGE), Berlin, Germany, i4, June 2013 (bib)
2012
	J.-M. Normand, M. Sanchez-Vives, C. Waechter, E. Giannopoulos, B. Grosswindhager, B. Spanlang, C. Guger, G. Klinker, M. Srinivasan, M. Slater Beaming into the Rat World: Enabling Real-Time Interaction between Rat and Human Each at Their Own Scale PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, Oct. 2012, Volume 7, Issue 10, e48331 (bib)
	M. Huber, M. Schlegel, G. Klinker Temporal Calibration in Multisensor Tracking Setups 9. Workshop der GI-Fachgruppe Virtuelle und Erweiterte Realität (VR-AR 2012), Düsseldorf, Germany, Sept. 2012, pp. 201-212. (bib)
2011
	M. Schlegel Zeitkalibrierung für Augmented Reality Anwendungen Dissertation (PhD thesis), Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, December 2011 (online version) (bib)
	M. Huber Parasitic Tracking for Ubiquitous Augmented Reality Dissertation (PhD thesis), Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, November 2011 (online version) (bib)
	D. Pustka, M. Huber, C. Waechter, F. Echtler, P. Keitler, J. Newman, D. Schmalstieg, G. Klinker Automatic Configuration of Pervasive Sensor Networks for Augmented Reality IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 10, Number 3, July-Sept. 2011, pp. 68-79. (bib)
	P. Keitler Management of Tracking and Tracking Accuracy in Industrial Augmented Reality Environments Dissertation (PhD thesis), Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, April 2011 (online version) (bib)
2010
	C. Waechter, E. Artinger, M. Duschl, G. Klinker Creating Passion for Augmented Reality Applications - a Teaching Concept for a Lab Course 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Nov. 29th - Dec. 01st, 2010, pp. 429-438. (bib)
	P. Keitler, D. Pustka, M. Huber, F. Echtler, G. Klinker Management of Tracking for Mixed and Augmented Reality Systems The Engineering of Mixed Reality Systems, E. Dubois, P. Gray, L. Nigay (eds.), Human-Computer Interaction Series, Springer Verlag, 2010. (bib)
	C. Waechter, M. Huber, P. Keitler, M. Schlegel, D. Pustka, G. Klinker A Multi-Sensor Platform for Wide-area Tracking 9th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Seoul, Korea, Oct. 13-16, 2010, pp. 275-276. (bib)
	L. Gruber, S. Gauglitz, J. Ventura, S. Zollmann, M. Huber, M. Schlegel, G. Klinker, D. Schmalstieg, T. Höllerer The City of Sights: Design, Construction and Measurement of an Augmented Reality Stage Set The Ninth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 13 - 16, 2010, pp. 157-163. (bib)
	D. Pustka, J. Willneff, O. Wenisch, P. Lükewille, K. Achatz, P. Keitler, G. Klinker Determining the Point of Minimum Error for 3DOF Pose Uncertainty Representation The Ninth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 13 - 16, 2010, pp. 37-45. (bib)
	P. Keitler, B. Becker, G. Klinker Management of Tracking for Industrial AR Setups The Ninth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 13 - 16, 2010, pp. 73-82. (bib)
	M. Huber, B. Becker, G. Klinker Location aware computing using RFID infrastructure Int. J. Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2010, pp. 23 - 38 (bib)
2009
	R. Morales-Garcia, P. Keitler, P. Maier, G. Klinker An Underwater Augmented Reality System for Commercial Diving Operations OCEANS 2009 MTS/IEEE, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA, November 2009. (bib)
	P. Keitler, F. Pankratz, B. Schwerdtfeger, D. Pustka, , G. Klinker, C. Rauch, A. Chathoth, J. Collomosse , Y. Song Mobile Augmented Reality based 3D Snapshots Sechster Workshop Virtuelle und Erweiterte Realität der GI-Fachgruppe VR/AR, Braunschweig, 18./19. November 2009 (bib)
	C. Waechter, D. Pustka, G. Klinker Vision based People Tracking for Ubiquitous Augmented Reality Applications 8th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Orlando, FL, USA, Oct. 19-22, 2009, pp. 221-222. (bib)
	P. Keitler, F. Pankratz, B. Schwerdtfeger, D. Pustka, , G. Klinker, C. Rauch, A. Chathoth, J. Collomosse , Y. Song Mobile Augmented Reality based 3D Snapshots The 8th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Orlando, Florida, Oct. 19-22, 2009, pp. 199-200. (bib)
	M. Huber, M. Schlegel, G. Klinker Temporal Calibration in Multisensor Tracking Setups 8th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2009), Orlando, USA, October 2009, pp. 177-178 (bib)
2008
	P. Keitler, M. Schlegel, G. Klinker Indirect Tracking to Reduce Occlusion Problems 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 2008, pp. 224-235. (bib)
	D. Pustka, G. Klinker Dynamic Gyroscope Fusion in Ubiquitous Tracking Environments The Seventh IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Cambridge, UK, Sep. 15 - 18, 2008, pp. 13-20. (bib)
	B. Becker, M. Huber, G. Klinker Utilizing RFIDs for Location Aware Computing 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC 2008, Oslo, Norway, June 23-25, 2008, pp. 216-228. (bib)
	D. Pustka, M. Huber, G. Klinker Integrating Gyroscopes into Ubiquitous Tracking Environments IEEE Virtual Reality, Reno, Nevada, Mar. 8-12, 2008, pp. 283-284. (bib)
	F. Echtler, M. Huber, D. Pustka, P. Keitler, G. Klinker Splitting the Scene Graph - Using Spatial Relationship Graphs Instead of Scene Graphs in Augmented Reality 3rd International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP '08), Funchal, Portugal, Jan. 22 - 25, 2008, pp.456-459. (bib)
2007
	M. Huber, D. Pustka, P. Keitler, F. Echtler, G. Klinker A System Architecture for Ubiquitous Tracking Environments The Sixth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Nara, Japan, Nov. 13 - 16, 2007, pp. 211-214. (bib)
	D. Pustka, P. Keitler, M. Huber, F. Echtler, G. Klinker Ubiquitous Tracking for Quickly Solving Multi-Sensor Calibration and Tracking Problems Demonstration at the Fourth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Nara, Japan, Nov. 14 - 16, 2007 (bib)
	D. Pustka, M. Huber, F. Echtler, P. Keitler UTQL: The Ubiquitous Tracking Query Language v1.0 Technical Report TUM-I0718, Oct. 11, 2007. (bib)
	M. Bauer Tracking Errors in Augmented Reality Dissertation (PhD thesis), Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, September 2007 (online version) (bib)
	J. Newman, A. Bornik, D. Pustka, F. Echtler, M. Huber, D. Schmalstieg, G. Klinker Tracking for Distributed Mixed Reality Environments IEEE VR 2007 Workshop on 'Trends and Issues in Tracking for Virtual Environments', Charlotte, NC, USA, Mar 11, 2007 (bib)
2006
	H. Najafi Fast 3D Object Detection and Pose Estimation for Augmented Reality Systems Dissertation (PhD thesis), Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, December 2006 (online version) (bib)
	D. Pustka, M. Huber, M. Bauer, G. Klinker Spatial Relationship Patterns: Elements of Reusable Tracking and Calibration Systems The Fifth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Oct. 22 - 25, 2006, pp. 88-97. (bib)
	M. Bauer, M. Schlegel, D. Pustka, N. Navab, G. Klinker Interactive Visualization of the Predicted Accuracy of Marker-Based Optical Tracking Systems Demonstration at the Fifth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Oct. 22 - 25, 2006. (bib)
	M. Bauer, M. Schlegel, D. Pustka, N. Navab, G. Klinker Predicting and Estimating the Accuracy of n-occular Optical Tracking Systems The Fifth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Oct. 22 - 25, 2006, pp. 43-51. (bib)
	D. Pustka Construction of Data Flow Networks for Tracking in Augmented Reality Applications Dritter Workshop Virtuelle und Erweiterte Realität der GI-Fachgruppe VR/AR, Koblenz, 25.-26. September 2006 (bib)
2005
	M. Wagner Tracking With Multiple Sensors Dissertation (PhD thesis), Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Apr. 2005 (online version) (bib)
2004
	M. Wagner, S. Hennauer, G. Klinker Easing the Transition Between Multiple Trackers International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2004, Arlington, VA, USA, Nov 2-4, 2004 (bib)
	J. Newman, M. Wagner, M. Bauer, A. MacWilliams, T. Pintaric, D. Beyer, D. Pustka, F. Strasser, D. Schmalstieg, G. Klinker Ubiquitous Tracking for Augmented Reality International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2004, Arlington, VA, USA, Nov 2-4, 2004, pp. 192-201. (bib)
	M. Wagner Distributed Tracking with Multiple Sensors for Augmented Reality 1. Workshop "Virtuelle und Erweiterte Realität", TU Chemnitz, 27. - 28. September 2004 (bib)
	D. Pustka Handling Error in Ubiquitous Tracking Setups Master Thesis - Technische Universitaet Muenchen (bib)
	G. Klinker, M. Wagner 2nd Joint Advanced Summer School 2004, Course 3: Ubiquitous Tracking for Augmented Reality Technischer Bericht der TU München, TUM-I0417, June 2004 (bib)
	M. Wagner, A. MacWilliams, M. Bauer, G. Klinker, J. Newman, T. Pintaric, D. Schmalstieg Fundamentals of Ubiquitous Tracking Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Hot Spots section, Vienna, Austria, Apr. 18--23 2004 (bib)
2003
	J. Newman, M. Wagner, T. Pintaric, A. MacWilliams, M. Bauer, G. Klinker, D. Schmalstieg Fundamentals of Ubiquitous Tracking for Augmented Reality Technical Report TUM-I0323, Technische Universität München; Technical Report TR-188-2-2003-34, Vienna University of Technology (bib)
	M. Wagner, G. Klinker An Architecture for Distributed Spatial Configuration of Context Aware Applications 2nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Norrköping, Sweden, Dec. 11-12 2003 (bib)
2001
	M. Wagner DWARF - Design, Prototypical Implementation and Testing of a Real-Time Optical Feature Tracker Diplomarbeit (bib)
2000
	G. Klinker, T. Reicher, B. Bruegge Distributed User Tracking Concepts for Augmented Reality Applications International Symposium on Aumgented Reality (ISAR 2000), Munich, Germany, 2000, pp. 37-44. (bib)
1999
	G. Klinker Augmented Reality: A problem in need of many computer vision-based solutions NATO Advanced Research Workshop at the 8. International Conference on the Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP-99), org. by A. Leonardis and R. Bajcsy. Ljubljana Slowenia, Aug. 29-31, 1999. (bib)
1998
	G. Klinker, D. Stricker, D. Reiners The Use of Reality Models in Augmented Reality Applications Proc. European Workshop on 3D Structure from Multiple Images of Large-scale Environments (SMILE), in combination with ECCV'98, 1998; pp. 275-289. (bib)
1997
	G. Klinker, K. Ahlers, D. Breen, P.-Y. Chevalier, C. Crampton, D. Greer, A. Kramer, E. Rose, M. Tuceryan, R. Whitaker Confluence of Computer Vision and Interactive Graphics for Augmented Reality PRESENCE - Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Special Issue on Augmented Reality 6(4), 1997, pp. 433-451. (bib)

Team

Contact Person(s)

Dipl.-Inf. Univ. Daniel Pustka

Working Group

Dipl.-Inf. Univ. Benjamin Becker

Dipl.-Inf. Univ. Daniel Pustka

Prof. Dr. Florian Echtler

Prof. Dr. Gudrun Klinker

Dr. Manuel Huber

Dr. Michael Schlegel

Dr. Peter Keitler

Alumni

Dr. Asa MacWilliams

Dr. Martin Bauer

Dr. Martin Wagner

Location

Technische Universität München Institut für Informatik / I16 Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching bei München Tel.: +49 89 289-17058 Fax: +49 89 289-17059

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