Qualcomm Research Vienna, part of Qualcomm Austria Research Center GmbH*, was established in March 2010 with a strong focus on augmented reality for mobile devices. The growing team of researchers and engineers features world class expertise in this very active field. Projects at our Qualcomm Research Vienna encompass basic research in AR and related areas as well as efforts to make these findings available in commercial products.
Expertise: computer vision, augmented reality, SW development and optimization
Qualcomm Research Vienna maintains close collaboration with Qualcomm Research San Diego and Qualcomm Research Korea. We also have strong relationships with some of the top institutes contributing in the field of computer vision and augmented reality, e.g. the Christian Doppler Lab for Handheld Augmented Reality in Graz.
Qualcomm Augmented Reality Lecture Series
The Qualcomm Augmented Reality Lecture Series aims to provide high level talks given by highly recognized speakers in the field of Augmented Reality. Speakers coming mainly from Academia, reporting either on recent results ore provide an overview on a specific topic. There will be 8-10 speakers per year. The program will be updated on a regular basis.
Taking Augmented Reality out of the Laboratory and into the Real World
This presentation introduces our efforts to create commercial applications with Augmented Reality (AR), a user interface technology that overlays computer graphics over the user's view of their surroundings. Together with our industry partners, we investigate two scenarios: first, to mobile information browsing on mobile phones (Nokia); second, to industrial product design (Canon).
During the last decade, mobile information browsing on mobile phones has become a widely-adopted practice. This was made possible by the increase of wireless networking infrastructure and the ever increasing amount of online data. By employing AR, we enable users to access digital data much more fluidly and therefore assist everyday tasks much more effectively than with previous user interfaces. An example is AR X-Ray vision, which enables users to look through buildings and other obstacles.
A common task in industrial product design is to create physical prototypes of new products. A common prototyping method is to use 3D printers to create physical models. However, 3D printers are slow and expensive and changes to the shape are costly and labour intensive. We are investigating completely virtual prototypes that can be seen through AR and touched through a haptic device. This enables users to interactively change the shape and appearance of a prototype. After having successfully demonstrated virtual prototypes using a pen-shaped haptic device, we are currently developing a system that enables users to touch the virtual prototypes with all their fingertips.
Videos of our prototypes can be viewed at: http://www.magicvisionlab.com
Dr. Christian Sandor, University of South Australia
| Date: | 11-12-12 |
| Time: | 15:15 -16:45 |
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TU Vienna (SR 186 – Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms) Favoritenstrasse 9-11, 1040 Vienna 5th floor |
Previous Lectures
Toward Room-sized 3D Telepresence Systems
Disney Research Zurich: Technology for Entertainment
User Interfaces for Spatial Augmented Reality
Natural Interfaces for Augmented Reality
Energy Aware Visual Recognition
High Speed Matching and Tracking
Interaction Techniques for Mobile Devices
Real-Time Monocular SLAM
Computer Vision for Augmented Reality
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Program Committee: |
Michael Gervautz - Qualcomm Austria Research Center Oliver Bimber – Johannes Kepler University Linz Eduard Gröller – Vienna University of Technology Hannes Kaufmann – Vienna University of Technology Walter Kropatsch – Vienna University of Technology Gerhard Reitmayr – Graz University of Technology Dieter Schmalstieg – Graz University of Technology Werner Purgathofer – Vienna University of Technology |
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* Qualcomm Austria Research Center GmbH with offices at Operngasse 17-21, 14th Floor, Vienna A-1040, Austria
