ISAR '01

The Second
IEEE and ACM International Symposium on 
Augmented Reality

October 29–30, 2001
Columbia University, New York, NY

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/isar2001

http://www.augmented-reality.org/isar2001

Symposium Program

 

MONDAY October 29, 2001

Davis Auditorium,

Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research, Columbia University

530 W. 120th Street, New York, NY 10027

 

7:15 – 8:30: Registration

 

8:30 – 8:50: Opening Remarks

8:50 – 9:50: Invited Talk

David Hawkes, Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London School of Medicine.

Microscope Assisted Guided Interventions (MAGI) – An Application of Augmented Reality in Image Guided Surgery

 Session chair: Nassir Navab, Siemens Corporate Research

 

9:50 – 10:20: Coffee Break

 

10:20 – 12:00: Medical Augmented Reality

Session chair: Henry Fuchs, UNC Chapel Hill

 

Dynamic Superimposition of Synthetic Objects on Rigid and Simple-deformable Real Objects

Yann Argotti, Larry Davis, Valerie Outters and Jannick Rolland

University of Central Florida

 

Real Time Tomographic Reflection: Phantoms for Calibration and Biopsy

George Stetten, Vikram Chib, Daniel Hildebrand and Jeannette Bursee

University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute

 

Current status of the Varioscope AR, a head-mounted operating microscope for computer-aided surgery

M. Figl, W. Birkfellner, J. Hummel, R. Hanel, P. Homolka, F. Watzinger, F. Wanschitz, R. Ewers, H. Bergmann, University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital

 

Augmented Reality Visualization of Ultrasound Images: System Description, Calibration, and Features

Frank Sauer, Ali Khamene, Benedicte Bascle, Lars Schimmang, Fabian Wenzel and Sebastian Vogt, Siemens Corporate Research

 

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break

 

1:30 – 2:30: Invited Talk

Ulrich Neumann, University of Southern California.

AR Out of the Box

Session chair: Ronald Azuma, HRL Laboratories

 

2:30 – 3:20: Components and Gestures

Session chair: Reinhold Behringer, Rockwell Scientific

Design of a Component-Based Augmented Reality Framework

Martin Bauer, Bernd Brügge, Gudrun Klinker, Asa MacWilliams, Thomas Reicher, Stefan Riß, Christian Sandor, and Martin Wagner

Munich University of Technology (TU München)

 

Finger tracking for interaction in augmented environments

Klaus Dorfmüller-Ulhaas and Dieter Schmalstieg

Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)

 

3:20 – 3:50: Coffee Break

 

3:50 – 5:30: Indoor and Outdoor Tracking

Session chair: Stefan Müller, Fraunhofer IGD

 

A Hybrid Registration Method for Outdoor Augmented Reality

Kiyohide Satoh, Mahoro Anabuki, Hiroyuki Yamamoto and Hideyuki Tamura

Canon Inc., and Mixed Reality Systems Laboratory

 

Augmented Reality in a Wide Area Sentient Environment

Joseph Newman, David Ingram and Andy Hopper

AT&T Laboratories Cambridge

 

Markerless Augmented Reality with a Real-time Affine Region Tracker

Vittorio Ferrari, Tinne Tuytelaars and Luc Van Gool

ETH Zurich and University of Leuven

 

Extendible Tracking by Line Auto-Calibration

Bolan Jiang and Ulrich Neumann

University of Southern California

 

7:00 – 11:00: Evening Banquet at the Teatro of the Italian Academy at Columbia University

Invited talk:

Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

                        Immersion and Tele-immersion in the Office of the Future

Video presentation:

Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Mixed Reality Systems Laboratory, Inc.

Mixed Fantasy: Experience-Based Simulation and Entertainment

Music:   Eric Haltmeier Trio          

Session chair: Steve Feiner, Columbia University

 

 

TUESDAY October 30, 2001

Roone Arledge Auditorium

Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University

2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 

 

7:45 – 8:30:  Registration

 

8:30 – 9:45:  Mobile Augmented Reality

Session chair: Tobias Höllerer, Columbia University

 

Distributed Low-latency Rendering for Mobile AR

W. Pasman

Delft University of Technology

 

Mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality

Gerhard Reitmayr and Dieter Schmalstieg

Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)

 

Augmented maintenance of powerplants: A prototyping case study of a mobile AR system

Gudrun Klinker, Oliver Creighton, Allen Dutoit, Rafael Kobylinski, Christoph Vilsmeier and Bernd Brügge

Munich University of Technology (TU München)

 

9:45 – 10:15: Coffee Break 

 

10:15 – 11:30: Video and Optical See-through HMD

Session chair: Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Communications Research Laboratory

 

Dynamic Virtual Convergence for Video See-through Head-mounted Displays: Maintaining Maximum Stereo Overlap throughout a Close-range Work Space

Andrei State, Jeremy Ackerman, Gentaro Hirota, Joohi Lee, and Henry Fuchs.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Optical See-Through Calibration with Vision-Based Trackers: Propagation of Projection Matrices

Yakup Genc, Mihran Tuceryan, Ali Khamene and Nassir Navab

Siemens Corporate Research, and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

 

A New System for Online Quantitative Evaluation of Optical See-Through Augmentation

Erin McGarrity, Yakup Genc, Mihran Tuceryan, Charles Owen and Nassir Navab

Michigan State University, Siemens Corporate Research, and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

 

11:30 ­– 12:00: Posters & Demo Teasers

Session chair: Mihran Tuceryan, Indiana University – Purdue University

 

12:00 – 1:00: Lunch break

 

1:00 – 3:00: Poster & Demo Session

 

Posters

MR2 (MR Square): A Mixed-Reality Meeting Room

Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Makoto Niimi, Tsuyoshi Ebina, and Hiroyuki Ohno

Communications Research Laboratory, Yokogawa Electric Corporation

 

Testing Information Delivery Methods Using Augmented Reality

Paul Jackson, Joan Ealey-Sawyer, I-Li Lu, and Stephen Jones

Boeing, Morris Brown College

 

A Quick Method for Synthesizing Photorealistic Color Images under Various Illumination Conditions

Li Shen, Noboru Babaguchi, and Tadahiro Kitahasi

Osaka University

 

Real-Time 3D Object Recognition for Automatic Tracker Initialization

Gábor Blaskó and Pascal Fua

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPF Lausanne)

 

Tinmith-evo5: An Architecture for Supporting Mobile Augmented Reality Environments

Wayne Piekarski and Bruce Thomas

University of South Australia

 

Taking AR into Large Scale Industrial Environments:

Localization and Data Navigation with Mobile Computers

Xiang Zhang, Yakup Genc, and Nassir Navab

Siemens Corporate Research

 

Mobile AR4ALL

Christian Geiger, Bernd Kleinnjohann, Christian Reimann, and Dirk Stichling

University of Paderborn C-LAB

 

Linear Solutions for Visual Augmented Reality Registration

Adnan Ansar and Kostas Daniilidis

GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania

                                                

Augmented Reality (AR)for Assembly Processes – An Experimental Evaluation

Stefan Wiedenmaier, Olaf Oehme, Ludger Schmidt, and Holger Luczak

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

 

Illuminating the Mixed Reality Stage - Applying Complex Lighting Conditions to AR

Michael Wittkämper, Eckhard Meier, and Wolfgang Broll,

GMD-FIT

 

Outdoor Augmented Reality: From Scene Preparation to Markerless Vision-based Tracking On-Site

Didier Stricker, Thomas Kettenbach, Fraunhofer IGD/ZGDV

 

3D reconstruction of the operating field for image overlay in 3D-endoscopic surgery

Fabien Mourgues, Frédéric Devernay, Ève Coste-Manière

INRIA Sophia-Antipolis

 

Demos:

·        “Mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality,” by Gerhard Reitmayr and Dieter Schmalstieg, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

·        “Wireless inertial tracking system,” by H. Krüger, P. Fischer, Physikalisches Institut, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany and by P. Henne, GMD-FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany.

·        “Door Assembly Training,” by Arnold Stadtler, Matthias Baumann of Ford Forschungszentrum Aachen GmbH, by Stefan Wiedenmaier of Institute of Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics, Aachen University of Technology, and by Olaf Oehme of Institute of Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics, Aachen University of Technology.

·        “AlterAquarium and AlterBeach,” by Alok b. Nandi, Xavier Marichal, David Ergo, Toshiuki Umeda, Xavier Wielemans, Damien Douxchamps, Laurence Beckers, Luc Letellier, Benoît Jadinon, and Jonathan Ooghe, Alterface, c/o Laboratoire de Télécommunications et Télédétection Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

·        “MagicCAD; an AR Scene Builder,” by Hirokazu Kato, Mark Billinghurst, Kenji Imamoto, Keihachiro Tachibana, Faculty of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, and  Human Interface Technology Laboratory, University of Washington.

·        “Markerless optical tracking for mobile Augmented Reality applications,” by Didier Stricker, Stefan Müller, Fraunhofer Institut for Computer Graphics IGD.

·        Augmented Groove+; A Tangible AR Instrument, by Mark Fauver, Mark Billinghurst, Human Interface Technology Laboratory, University of Washington.

·        “The AR Pad,” by Dmitryi Mogilev, Mark Billinghurst, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Jarrell Pair, Human Interface Technology Laboratory, University of Washington, and Charmed Technologies, Los Angeles.

·        “Real Time Tomographic Reflection - The Sonic Flashlight,” by George Stetten, M.D., Ph.D. and Vikram Chib, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, and The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.

·        “Head tracking using the Virtual Retinal Display,” by Winyu Chinthammit, Robert Burstein, Eric J. Seibel, Thomas A. Furness, The Human Interface Technology Lab, the University of Washington.

·        “Mobile Augmented Reality Systems,” by Steve Feiner, Blaine Bell, Sinem Guven, Drexel Hallaway, Tobias Höllerer, Simon Lok, Alex Olwal, John Tang, Navdeep Tinna, Ryuji Yamamoto, Columbia University.

·        “Dynamic Shader Lamps: Painting on Real Objects,” by Deepak Bandyopadhyay, Ramesh Raskar, Henry Fuchs, UNC Chapel Hill, and MERL.

·        “Collaborative Mobile Augmented Reality,” by Simon Julier, Yohan Baillot, Dennis Brown, Naval Research Laboratory / ITT.

·        “The ImageTclAR Augmented Reality Development Environment,” by Charles B. Owen, Michael Malinak, Jon Babbage, Kirit Patel, Media and Entertainment Technologies Laboratory, Michigan State University.

·        “Localization, Navigation and Data Access to Industrial Settings with Mobile Computers,” by X. Zhang, N. Navab, Y. Genc.

·        “An Optical See-Through Augmented Reality System: A Testbed to Demonstrate Ideas for Evaluation, Calibration, etc.” by Y. Genc, E. McGarrity, M. Tuceryan, N. Navab.

 

3:00 – 3:30: Coffee Break

 

During both conference days, industrial exhibitors will showcase their technologies:

 

Advanced Realtime Tracking GmbH,

http://www.ar-tracking.de

Advanced Realtime Tracking GmbH are located near Munich, Germany. They develop and manufacture high precision IR-optical tracking systems for VR/AR applications, industrial and medical measurement purposes and for body tracking in animation and ergonomics.

 

InterSense,

http://www.isense.com

InterSense are located in Burlington, MA. They develop and market motion-tracking products that enable users to interact with 3D computer-generated environments — literally bringing 3D to life.

 

 
3:30 – 4:30: Invited Talk

Jun Rekimoto,

Sony Computer Science Laboratories

Living in a Computer Augmented Environment

Session chair: Haruo Takemura, Nara Institute of Science &

                        Technology

 

4:30 – 5:45: Experiencing, Painting, Projecting

Session chair: Gudrun Klinker, Technische Universität München

 

Augmented Reality as a New Media Experience

Blair MacIntyre, Jay Bolter, Emmanuel Moreno and Brendan Hannigan

Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Dynamic Shader Lamps : Painting on Movable Objects

Deepak Bandyopadhyay, Ramesh Raskar and Henry Fuchs

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab

 

Using a Head-Mounted Projective Display in Interactive Augmented Environments

Hong Hua, Chunyu Gao, Leonard Brown, Narendra Ahuja and Jannick Rolland

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of Central Florida

 

5:45 – 6:00: Closing Remarks