TY - JOUR
T1 - ANTS - Augmented environments
AU - Romão, Teresa
AU - Correia, Nuno
AU - Dias, Eduardo
AU - Danado, José
AU - Trabuco, Adelaide
AU - Santos, Carlos
AU - Santos, Rossana
AU - Câmara, António
AU - Nobre, Edmundo
PY - 2004/10
Y1 - 2004/10
N2 - Interaction with natural or urban environments creates numerous situations where it is relevant to have access to further information that we cannot perceive by direct observation through our senses. Augmented Reality (AR) technologies allow real time superimposition of synthetic objects on real images, providing an augmented knowledge about the surrounding world. Users of an AR system can visualize the real surrounding world together with additional data generated in real time in a contextual way. This paper presents the ANTS project, which carries out the development of an AR technological infrastructure that can be used to explore physical and natural structures, namely for environmental management purposes. The system's architecture has a flexible design based on a client-server model, where several independent, but functionally interdependent modules are articulated. Therefore, modules can be moved from the server side to the client side or vice versa, according to the client processing capacity. Several applications have been developed and are also discussed in this paper.
AB - Interaction with natural or urban environments creates numerous situations where it is relevant to have access to further information that we cannot perceive by direct observation through our senses. Augmented Reality (AR) technologies allow real time superimposition of synthetic objects on real images, providing an augmented knowledge about the surrounding world. Users of an AR system can visualize the real surrounding world together with additional data generated in real time in a contextual way. This paper presents the ANTS project, which carries out the development of an AR technological infrastructure that can be used to explore physical and natural structures, namely for environmental management purposes. The system's architecture has a flexible design based on a client-server model, where several independent, but functionally interdependent modules are articulated. Therefore, modules can be moved from the server side to the client side or vice versa, according to the client processing capacity. Several applications have been developed and are also discussed in this paper.
KW - Applications
KW - Augmented and virtual realities
KW - Multimedia information systems
KW - Simulation and modelling
KW - Spatial databases and GIS
KW - Spatial information systems
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cag.2004.06.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cag.2004.06.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:4043150665
VL - 28
SP - 625
EP - 633
JO - Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)
JF - Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)
SN - 0097-8493
IS - 5
ER -