Jonathan Mooser, CGIT Lab, University of Southern California, mooser@usc.edu
Suya You, CGIT Lab, University of Southern California, suya@graphics.usc.edu
Ulrich Neumann, CGIT Lab, University of Southern California, neumann@graphics.usc.edu
Visual markers, or fiducials, have become one of the most common methods of camera pose estimation in Augmented Reality (AR) media. Many present day fiducial-based AR systems use arbitrary patterns, such as simple line drawings or alpha-numeric characters, and require that an application be "trained" to recognize its pattern set. These techniques work well on a small scale, but as the number of fiducials grows, accuracy and performance degrade. We describe a new fiducial design called TriCodes that, like a barcode, provides a systematic way of printing and identifying a vast library of patterns. We compare TriCodes to the popular ARToolkit package, demonstrating its advantages in the presence of large numbers of fiducials.
Citation:
Jonathan Mooser, Suya You, Ulrich Neumann, "Tricodes: A Barcode-Like Fiducial Design for Augmented Reality Media," icme, pp.1301-1304, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2006