Talk by Prof. Dieter Schmalstieg

Speaker: Prof. Dieter Schmalstieg, TU Graz Date: Monday, 23 May 2011 Time: 14:30h Location: MI 02.13.010

Title: Truly Mobile Augmented Reality

Abstract: Recent developments give reason to believe that smartphones will enable the breakthrough of Augmented Reality (AR) as a new mass medium. Leveraging the sensory and computational capabilities of the latest generation of mobile devices allows to turn AR into a pure software solution with a very large potential customer base, rather than having to rely on custom hardware setups. As a result, social AR applications are slowly emerging. However, in order to run in real time on mobile phones, the underlying algorithmic solutions must be about one order of magnitude more efficient than previous solutions for PC workstations, which cannot be achieved by simple code optimization. This talk will summarize 9 years of research towards AR solutions that run on mobile phones, examining computer vision, computer graphics and user interface approaches that have turned out to work well on smartphones, and will also take a look ahead at likely future trends.

Bio:

Dieter Schmalstieg is full professor of Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics at Graz University of Technology (TUG), Austria, where he directs the "Studierstube" research project on augmented reality. His current research interests are augmented reality, virtual reality, real-time graphics, 3D user interfaces, and ubiquitous computing. He received Dipl.-Ing. (1993), Dr. techn. (1997) and Habilitation (2001) degrees from Vienna University of Technology. He is author and co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications, associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, member of the editorial advisory board of computers & graphics, member of the steering committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, chair of the EUROGRAPHICS working group on Virtual Environments (1999-2010), advisor of the K-Plus Competence Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization in Vienna, deputy director of the doctoral college for confluence of graphics and vision at TUG, director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Handheld Augmented Reality and member of the Austrian Academy of Science. In 2002, he received the START career award presented by the Austrian Science Fund.