• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.11-18
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• 2007

We propose a novel method to conceal fiducial markers observed in augmented scenes using patch-based texture synthesis. Despite the efficiency for simple object recognition and tracking, the markers deliver inherent obtrusiveness. They do not only reduce immersiveness, but also severely degrade usability of augmented reality. The proposed method constructs alternative images in real time to overlay markers present in the sequence of images. The global characteristics of background textures are retained and the results are more adaptive to illumination changes.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.17A no.4
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• pp.189-196
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• 2010

This paper presents an improved marker detection algorithm using hybrid features such as corner, line segment, region, and adaptive threshold values, etc. In usual augmented reality environments, there are often marker occlusion and poor illumination. However, existing ARToolkit fails to recognize the marker in these situations, especially, partial concealment of marker by user, large change of illumination and dim circumstances. In order to solve these problems, the adaptive threshold technique is adopted to extract a marker region and a corner extraction method based on line segments is presented against marker occlusions. In addition, a compensating method, corresponding the marker size and center between registered and extracted one, is proposed to increase the template matching efficiency, because the inside marker size of warped images is slightly distorted due to the movement of corner and warping. Therefore, experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm can robustly detect the marker in severe illumination change and occlusion environment and use similar markers because the matching efficiency was increased almost 30%.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.96-102
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 자연스러운 증강현실 환경을 위하여 패치 기반의 텍스쳐 합성을 통한 마커 은닉 방법을 제안한다. 증강현실에서 카메라의 자세를 구하기 위한 보편적인 방법은 음영 대비가 뚜렷한 정사각형의 마커를 사용하는 것이다. 이러한 인위적인 마커의 사용은 물체의 인식과 추적을 용이하게 하지만 증강된 장면의 실감성을 감소시켜 사용성 저하를 유발하기도 한다. 제안된 마커 은닉 방법은 실시간성을 보장하면서, 배경 텍스쳐의 전역적인 특성을 유지하고, 주변 환경의 변화에 유연하다.