Steve's Research

So my focus is on MAR applications using location-finding features.

Prototype for "CyPhone"

KEY POINT OF INTEREST: Prototype next-gen mobile phone that uses a head-mounted display to display information from phone. Uses GPS to annotate landmarks, buildings, etc. Will also display GPS information through the HMD, overlayed on the HMD.

T. Pyssysalo, T. Repo, T. Turunen, T. Lankila, and J. Röning, "CyPhone—bringing augmented reality to next generation mobile phones," in Proceedings of DARE 2000 on Designing augmented reality environments, DARE, 12-14 April 2000, Elsinore, Denmark. Available: ACM, http://dl.acm.org. [Accessed Nov. 10, 2010].

Award-winning GPS HUD: Virtual Cable technology

Displays POI information, "waypoints"/pathing, GPS information, odometer/spedometer information on windshield of vehicle for easier viewing and more in-depth information. More information on it.

Basically, this consists of a laser being projected from under the dashboard, through a filter, and up through a mesh on top of the dashboard onto the windshield, creating a 3D image on the windshield that displays all sorts of relevant information.

IEEE Citation: “Virtual Cable(tm) - Technology,” Virtual Cable(TM) Car Technology. Apr. 20, 2011. [Online]. Available: http://www.mvs.net/technology.html. [Accessed: Nov. 10, 2011].

GPS-aided Recognition-based AR System

Uses GPS to get a rough idea of the subject of a photo, and then uses image recognition to find more precise location data as well as information about subject. Since that didn't make any sense, what it does is it takes a photograph, gets the basic GPS location, then uses recognition software to pinpoint the exact location (ie. GPS info tells it that the photo is part of the SAIT campus, but then it "recognizes" that you are looking at the front door of the Heart building, specifically) and to provide a further AR experience, puts labels on the image as to the main landmark and any other ones that are visible.

W. Guan, S. You, U. Neumann. "GPS-aided recognition-based user tracking system with augmented reality in extreme large-scale areas," in Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Multimedia systems, MMSys '11, 23-35 February 2011, San Jose, California. Available: ACM, http://dl.acm.org. [Accessed Nov. 17, 2011].

Mobile "mirror-world" navigation based on Augmented Reality with Image Space

This has a couple uses. First, as an image sharer - it records the position the device was at when the photo was taken and puts a frame-outline on the digital space at that positions, so other users can see the photos. It can also use GPS information to record where the user is and has been, creating a GPS "path", which can then be shared with friends, "visualizing not only where friends are, but where they have recently been." When a user finds a "path", the device alerts them and allows them to "follow" the path and see any images/media that was shared along it. So it can be used as an informational tool, to get information and media about the viewed area, and as a social tool to share media with and physically locate friends.

Motorola dual-core phone