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Virtual Tactical Map : Military Briefing Tools for Virtual Training based on Augmented Reality  

Jung Kyung-Boo (한양대학교 전자통신컴퓨터공학과)
Lee Sang-Won (한양대학교 전자통신컴퓨터공학과)
Choi Byung-Uk (한양대학교 정보통신대학 정보통신학부)
Jeong Seung-Do (한양대학교 전자통신컴퓨터공학과)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.31, no.4C, 2006 , pp. 341-350 More about this Journal
Abstract
The sand table training is one of the most effective training method in military operations which can accomplish missions such as simulation and rehearsal without limitations related to time, space, money and so on. Previous sand table training has many problems like that the sand table cannot represent real field condition because of its physical properties. So, it is hard to be preserved and impossible to include much of information into them. In this paper, we make an approach based on Augmented Reality(AR) to solve these problems and propose an efficient military training briefing tool with virtual sand table environment described as actual battle field Virtual Tactical Map(VTM) can realize a virtual military training with simple action like moving marker or tangible interface by hand. Real-time state information of VTM gives us more organic intelligence for entire situation. Tangible AR interface provides users with a contents authoring tool that is natural, intuitive and easy to deal with as interaction between user in real world and system that augmented real world with virtual object. VTM is a newly designed military training briefing tools. A military training content can be reproduced and it is possible that user uses this content later. Thus, it shows us potential possibilities of AR applications on military leaning field.
Keywords
Virtual Military Training; Augmented Reality; Tangible Interface; Sand Table; Label Placement;
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