Determining field of view in outdoors augmented reality applications

Abstract

The use of augmented reality (AR) becomes increasingly common in location based application development. A situation often encountered in AR applications is the -partial or full- occlusion of virtual objects by physical artifacts; if not appropriately handled, the visualization of occluded objects often misleads users’ perception. This paper presents a Geolocative Raycasting technique aiming at assisting developers of outdoors augmented reality applications into generating a realistic field of view for the users by integrating real time building recognition, so as to address the occlusion problem.