TUM Informatik-Kolloquium: Prof. Dr. Dieter Schmalstieg

Termin: Freitag, den 28.07.06, 12:00 Uhr

Ort: Raum 03.13.010 (MI-Gebäude, Campus Garching)

Interactive Context-Driven Visualization Tools for Augmented Reality

This talk presents an interaction tool, based on the Magic Lenses technique that allows a 3D scene to be affected dynamically given context information, for example, to support information filtering. We show how elements of a scene graph are grouped by context in addition to hierarchically, and, how this enables us to locally modify their rendering styles.

This research has two major contributions, the use of context sensitivity with 3D Magic Lenses in a scene graph and the implementation of multiple volumetric 3D Magic Lenses for Augmented Reality setups. We have developed our tool for the Studierstube framework which allows us doing rapid prototyping of Virtual and Augmented Reality applications. Application directions such as geo-visualization and surgery support systems have been explored.