Furniture layout AR application using floor plans based on planar object tracking

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new approach of Augmented Reality (AR) system for the furniture layout based on a planar object tracking. The planar object tracking methods using natural features are effective methods to estimate the object's pose and position in the AR applications because we are able to use the natural images. However, most of the feature descriptors have a lot of matching procedure. Therefore, by using an efficient feature point descriptor which is very fast both to build and to match, we track the planar objects. Especially, we use floor plans as the planar objects, and then furniture CG models are overlaid on the floor plans. This is because the floor plans are presented in the selection of rooms for rent or buy. Therefore, this system helps borrowers and buyers to select some mansion or apartment rooms. In this system, we propose to use human whistle sounds and color rectangles recognition to operate the furniture layout. In order to show the effectiveness of our proposed system, we perform some planar object tracking experiments when we applied the proposed system to some floor plans.

Shopping App using Augmented Reality

“…Which is a significant disadvantage of the application. 4) Augmented Reality: Virtual fitting room using Kinect [3]: E -commerce personalized A final year research project done by Lan Ziquan from the National University of Singapore, which the purpose is to enhance users' shopping experiences by using the above system. So that the users need to spend less time on queues for fitting rooms.…”

Using Augmented Reality Technology to Construct a Wood Furniture Sampling Platform for Designers and Sample Makers to Narrow the Gap between Judgment and Prototype

“…The application of the AR technology to product development can provide designers with styling and structural judgments by combining different virtual shapes with existing product models [23]. In the past, relevant research applied AR technology to the spatial layout of furniture [24,25]. The AR technology can correctly represent the quantitative information and material performance on the shape of furniture [18].…”

Preliminary evaluation of input devices for furniture layout systems employing augmented reality

“…Figure 1 shows the schematic system configuration using a control board. The system employs a PC, web cameras, a mixed reality display, a control board for markers representing three dimensional computer graphics (3D‐CG) furniture, a reference marker sheet, as well as the open‐source AR software, NyARtoolkit, QPtoolkit, and ARtoolkit 1–4 for image processing. One web camera is used for shooting the front real space, while the other is used for capturing card markers of the furniture on the control board.…”

“…Generally, two types of devices for inputting virtual items can help the user control the position of a virtual item merged to the real world. One is a table‐top controller, such as a table‐top control board for a paper card marker of furniture 2,3 and a tablet PC 4, and the other is a paper marker laid on a real floor 5. Although the table‐top control board and the tablet PC do not need to use furniture markers on a real space floor except for a reference marker, these devices need control software as well as AR software.…”