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Title: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: Admin on February 26, 2009, 08:13:09 AM
Basically a 3D image is added in real-time to a video. It does simple computer vision to find that black square platform, then overlays the image with a neat 3D character.

I can think of hundreds of applications for this!

You can find all the software/documentation here:
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/

If anyone tries to do it, please report back! I really want to simulate a 3D CAD image of one of my robots with this, but too busy to try and figure it out ;D

[youtube]oIqgrsYNKs8[/youtube]

(http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/images/nakaohome.jpg)
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: ed1380 on February 26, 2009, 07:43:50 PM
wow thats neat  :o
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: paulstreats on February 26, 2009, 08:11:55 PM
As an opposite example, apple leopard operating system has a web cam feature built in that superimposes your real  time person onto an artificial background for web chats and stuff...

I know that looking at this system is a lot more complex, you can see because it even casts shadows
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: robot01 on February 26, 2009, 09:04:06 PM
wow!.. :oIt's cooooooool..
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: Trumpkin on February 27, 2009, 10:00:56 AM
Almost like a hologram, except you have to wear funny glasses.   :D
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: dannytemmerman on February 27, 2009, 12:38:16 PM
Very very very nice !!
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: airman00 on February 27, 2009, 02:23:48 PM
Almost like a hologram, except you have to wear funny glasses.   :D
The funny glasses are just a video screen , right?

Also can you load a Sketchup 3D model or an Autocad 3D model for that matter
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: BANE on February 27, 2009, 05:06:34 PM
Nice, i can think of many ways this technology could be used in presentations and virtual manufacturing.  Is there any more videos on this?

Bane
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: Ryltar on February 27, 2009, 05:37:33 PM
That is some pretty shiny tech. I sent the link to my brother (who is into 3d graphic design) and he plans to play around with it during spring break.
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: ddemarco5 on February 28, 2009, 05:45:17 PM
That is sooooo cool, you can use it to watch tv on a virtual screen, lol.




I would try to configure it to make it look like I am holding fireballs.  ;)
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: SeagullOne on March 01, 2009, 01:30:46 AM
Mother of Science! What will they think of next!

You could bring so many things to life with that equipment!

The technology...it's beautiful....(sniff) I'm gonna cry...
 :D
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: arixrobotics on March 01, 2009, 02:49:39 AM
I've seen someting like this before a few years ago at an expo. But it was a bit different; they didn't use a marker (the one with black n white squares / marks). Instead, they can somehow anchor the virtual object to actual surrounding objects. So you can place anything anywhere without any special markers.

And to achieve that, the user must also be wearing a gps and some sort of accelerometer to track its head and body position.

They call it ARQuake; Augmented Reality Quake (yes, the game).

Here's the link:
http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/arquake/
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: arixrobotics on March 01, 2009, 02:53:39 AM
Ooppss sorry my bad... they do use a marker, but only to track the user's thumb.

Here's probably a better page to look at for the same system:
http://www.tinmith.net
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: Asellith on March 08, 2009, 10:00:56 PM
Ok this could make my dreams of a cad program like the one in Ironman a reality!!!!! Take a real time animation of a robot and move it around in real time.... Now if I just had a nice juicy research grant to play with :)
Title: Re: augmented reality: adding 3D animation to realtime video
Post by: Trumpkin on March 09, 2009, 02:01:29 PM
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Ok this could make my dreams of a cad program like the one in Ironman a reality!!!!!
That's exactly what I thought of when I first saw this!