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26 OCTOBER 2011

 09:00 - 18:00

WORKSHOP 01

ENABLING LARGE-SCALE OUTDOOR MIXED REALITY AND
AUGMENTED REALITY

 SINGAPORE

Steven Feiner (Columbia University)
Thommen Korah (Nokia Research Center - Media Technologies Lab)
David Murphy (Nokia Research Center - Media Technologies Lab)
Vasu Parameswaran (Nokia Research Center - Palo Alto)
Matei Stroila (NAVTEQ Research)
Sean White (Nokia Research Center - Media Technologies Lab)

While there is significant recent progress in technologies supporting augmented reality for small indoor environments, there is still much work to be done for large outdoor environments. This workshop focuses primarily on research that enables high-quality outdoor Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) applications.

These research topics include, but are not restricted to:

  • 3D geo-referenced data (images, point clouds, and models)
  • Algorithms for object recognition from large databases of geo-referenced data Algorithms for object tracking in outdoor environment
  • Multi-cue fusion to achieve improved performance of object detection and tracking
  • Novel representation schemes to facilitate large-scale content distribution
  • 3D reasoning to support intelligent augmentation
  • Novel and improved mobile capabilities for data capture (device sensors), processing, and display
  • Applications, experiences, and user interface techniques.

The workshop will also showcase existing prototypes of applications enabled by these technologies: mirror worlds, high-fidelity virtual environments, applica-tions of panoramic imagery, and user studies relating to these media types. This workshop aims to bring together academic and industrial researchers and to foster discussion amongst participants on the current state of the art and future directions for technologies that enable large-scale outdoor MR and AR applications. The workshop will start with a session in which position statements and overviews of the state of the art are presented. In the afternoon, we will follow up with discussion sessions and a short closing session.

WEB: www.navteq.com/outdoor_mar2011

 

 

WORKSHOP 02

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AR/MR REGISTRATION, TRACKING
AND BENCHMARKING (TrakMark2011)

 Swissotel
Le Plaza, HELVETIA 7

Hirokazu Kato (NAIST, Japan)
Tobias Höllerer (UCSB, USA)
Selim Benhimane (Metaio, Germany)
Winyu Chinthammit (University of Tasmania, Australia)

In the research fields of Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR), tracking and registration methods are still one of the most important topics. The tracking research field is highly active, and numerous methods appear on
a regular basis. The TrakMark working group (WG) was established in 2009 to create a benchmark test that permits objective and accurate evaluation of the tracking methods. This year, the workshop will cover a wide range of topics
concerning AR/MR registration, tracking and benchmarking. Key areas include, but are not limited to:
  • Vision-based registration, camera localization
  • Visual SLAM, structure from motion, camera calibration, sensor fusion
  • Natural feature tracking, object tracking, feature detection, feature description
  • Comparison of methods, evaluation of methods, suggestion of new benchmarking scheme
  • Survey of tracking papers

WEB: trakmark.net/workshop11

 

 

WORKSHOP 03 

VISUALIZATION IN MIXED REALITY ENVIRONMENTS

combined with
WORKSHOP 05 AUTHORING SOLUTIONS FOR AUGMENTED REALITY		 Swissotel 
Le Plaza, WETTSTEIN

Sean White (Nokia Research Center, USA)
Denis Kalkofen (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Christian Sandor (University of South Australia)

Mixed and Augmented Reality displays extend the user’s perception of computer generated information. This information is typically registered in threedimensional space, and related to objects and places in the physical world. While individual annotation of objects has historically been a topic of MR research, visualization incorporating multiple related data points or models provides a variety of new research challenges in systems and techniques.
For example, photorealistic augmented reality visualization presents data by adapting additionally presented imagery to real world conditions while illustrative visualization techniques aim at enhancing the understanding of augmented scenarios by carefully combining and mediating real and virtual data. Situated visualization techniques present virtual representations of data in relevant locations in the physical scene. A challenge in many of these techniques is the need to correctly communicate the relationships between physical imagery and virtual data.

WEB: studierstube.icg.tugraz.at/ISMARVizWorkshop/

 

 

WORKSHOP 05

AUTHORING SOLUTIONS FOR AUGMENTED REALITY

combined with
WORKSHOP 03 VISUALIZATION IN MIXED REALITY ENVIRONMENTS		 Swissotel 
Le Plaza, WETTSTEIN

Mark Billinghurst (The HIT Lab NZ University of Canterbury)
Tobias Langlotz (Graz University of Technology)
Blair MacIntyre (Georgia Tech)
Hartmut Seichter (Graz University of Technology)

The motivation of this workshop is to discuss future directions of content authoring in the field of Augmented Reality, as well as to discuss the current state
of art on content creation and asset assembly. The workshop will comprise of a paper session where papers, late-breaking results and overviews over state-of-the-art in content authoring for AR are presented. In the afternoon, we will follow up with a discussion on different topics ranging from AR asset creation to content distribution and a closing session. Our goal is to collect ideas and thoughts of research about desired approaches for authoring content for AR, as well as review current and future needs to achieve a high quality content and at the same time scalable approaches for AR.

WEB: studierstube.icg.tugraz.at/ISMARAuthoringWorkshop

 

 

Workshops Withdrawn:

 

WORKSHOP 04

Indoor Positioning and Navigation for Mobile AR

WEB: www.perey.com/ISMAR2011-IPN4MobileAR/

 

WORKSHOP 06

Devices that Alter Perception

WEB: devices-alter.me/11