Soar: Sensor oriented mobile augmented reality for urban landscape assessment

Abstract

This research presents the development of a sensor oriented mobile AR system which realises geometric consistency using GPS, a gyroscope and a video camera which are mounted in a smartphone for urban landscape assessment. A low cost AR system with high flexibility is realised. Consistency of the viewing angle of a video camera and a CG virtual camera, and geometric consistency between a video image and 3DCG are verified. In conclusion, the proposed system was evaluated as feasible and effective. © 2012, Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Hong Kong.