Effective Visualisation Communication in Augmented Reality

Kurzbeschreibung

This talk focuses on visual communication techniques which support the comprehension of spatial relationships between virtual and real-world objects for Augmented Reality (AR) applications. To enhance the clarity of such relationships, specific interactive visualization techniques for AR have been developed. These can often be seen as variants of Focus+Context techniques, where either the focus is virtual and the context is real, or vice versa. Naturally, all these visualization techniques run at interactive rates using recent GPU techniques. Interactive visualization also requires suitable interaction techniques, which are discussed in the context of various application problems, ranging from stationary (e.g. surgery) to mobile (cellphone) applications.

Vita

Dieter Schmalstieg is full professor of Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics at Graz University of Technology, Austria, where he directs the "Studierstube" research project on augmented reality. His current research interests are augmented reality, virtual reality, distributed graphics, 3D user interfaces, and ubiquitous computing. He received Dipl.-Ing. (1993), Dr. techn. (1997) and Habilitation (2001) degrees from Vienna University of Technology. He is author and co-author of over 100 reviewed scientific publications, member of the editorial advisory board of computers & graphics, member of the steering committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, chair of the EUROGRAPHICS working group on Virtual Environments, advisor of the K-Plus Competence Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization in Vienna, deputy director of the doctoral college for confluence of graphics and vision, director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Handheld Augmented Reality and member of the Austrian Academy of Science. In 2002, he received the START career award presented by the Austrian Science Fund.

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