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From: | Adrian David Cheok <adriancheok@n .........> | Received: | Dec 12, 2002 |
To | ARToolkit Mailing list <artoolkit@h ..................> | ||
Subject: | Tutorials and Software from MXR-NUS | ||
Dear All ARtoolkit'ers We are pleased to announce that we have some tutorials and fully working artoolkit application software packages available for download from our web page of the Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore: http://mixedreality.nus.edu.sg/software.htm These might be useful for the community. Your feedback and comments are most welcome. The site includes: Matlab AR Tool Kit Introduction: The accompanying Matlab routines were written to help students understand the workings of AR Toolkit, and to allow development of new AR concepts in non-real time without time-consuming C/C++ programming. It is not a complete implementation of ARToolkit, nor is it implemented identically, although in most cases, it is extremely similar. Matlab is not well suited to implementing some of the functions, especially the connected components algorithm, and the code is accordingly quite slow - it currently takes about 10 seconds per frame on my machine. Nonetheless, if anyone was serious about doing some AR development based on this in Matlab, then it would be quite possible to implement some of the slower parts in C, and link this to Matlab. One possibility would be to link to Intel's OpenCV library, which contains Matlab wrappers for a number of it's image processing functions. more >> Hello Kitty Book download Introduction: The virtual Hello Kitty Garden program demonstrates the concept of tangible interaction in Augmented Reality. A catalogue of 3D graphics models is created by attaching a different fiducial marker to each page of a real book and overlaying the computer graphics on the markers using the ARToolkit. The user can pick up, move, or drop the virtual objects by using a virtual paddle, but not the conventional mouse or keyboard. That will give the user a feeling of he/she's really holding and playing with the virtual objects. That's also the reason why we named it "the tangible interactive augmented reality". Tutorials Download Tutorials of some softwares developed and related hardware setting : 1) Tutorial on Hello Kitty Book >> This tutorial here tells the system requirements for this program, and a step-by-step instructions of the installation and execution of this Hello Kitty Garden program after you downloading the HelloKitty.zip, and obtaining the password by email. After running the program, the tutorial also tells the users how to modify the files in the package to load a different 3D object in to the scene, so that they can make their own version of virtual garden. In this tutorial, users can also find the answers for the most common problems they may encounter, when they try to run the program. 2) Tutorial on Linux Firewire and ARToolkit_firewire >> This is a tutorial for installing firewire (ieee1394) support andARToolkit_firewire on Redhat>=7.1 linux PC. 3) Linux AR Toolkit HOW TO >> The ARTOOLKIT is written by Prof HIROKAZU KATO and Prof MARK BILLINGHURST (Hit Lab University Of Washington, Hiroshima City university Japan). We all thank them for this wonderful toolkit! |
From: | Adrian David Cheok <adriancheok@n .........> | Received: | Dec 13, 2002 |
To | ARToolkit Mailing list <artoolkit@h ..................> | ||
Subject: | Tutorials and Software from MXR-NUS | ||
Dear All ARtoolkit'ers We are pleased to announce that we have some tutorials and fully working artoolkit application software packages available for download from our web page of the Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore: http://mixedreality.nus.edu.sg/software.htm These might be useful for the community. Your feedback and comments are most welcome. The site includes: Matlab AR Tool Kit Introduction: The accompanying Matlab routines were written to help students understand the workings of AR Toolkit, and to allow development of new AR concepts in non-real time without time-consuming C/C++ programming. It is not a complete implementation of ARToolkit, nor is it implemented identically, although in most cases, it is extremely similar. Matlab is not well suited to implementing some of the functions, especially the connected components algorithm, and the code is accordingly quite slow - it currently takes about 10 seconds per frame on my machine. Nonetheless, if anyone was serious about doing some AR development based on this in Matlab, then it would be quite possible to implement some of the slower parts in C, and link this to Matlab. One possibility would be to link to Intel's OpenCV library, which contains Matlab wrappers for a number of it's image processing functions. more >> Hello Kitty Book download Introduction: The virtual Hello Kitty Garden program demonstrates the concept of tangible interaction in Augmented Reality. A catalogue of 3D graphics models is created by attaching a different fiducial marker to each page of a real book and overlaying the computer graphics on the markers using the ARToolkit. The user can pick up, move, or drop the virtual objects by using a virtual paddle, but not the conventional mouse or keyboard. That will give the user a feeling of he/she's really holding and playing with the virtual objects. That's also the reason why we named it "the tangible interactive augmented reality". Tutorials Download Tutorials of some softwares developed and related hardware setting : 1) Tutorial on Hello Kitty Book >> This tutorial here tells the system requirements for this program, and a step-by-step instructions of the installation and execution of this Hello Kitty Garden program after you downloading the HelloKitty.zip, and obtaining the password by email. After running the program, the tutorial also tells the users how to modify the files in the package to load a different 3D object in to the scene, so that they can make their own version of virtual garden. In this tutorial, users can also find the answers for the most common problems they may encounter, when they try to run the program. 2) Tutorial on Linux Firewire and ARToolkit_firewire >> This is a tutorial for installing firewire (ieee1394) support andARToolkit_firewire on Redhat>=7.1 linux PC. 3) Linux AR Toolkit HOW TO >> The ARTOOLKIT is written by Prof HIROKAZU KATO and Prof MARK BILLINGHURST (Hit Lab University Of Washington, Hiroshima City university Japan). We all thank them for this wonderful toolkit! |
From: | Adrian David Cheok <adriancheok@n .........> | Received: | Dec 13, 2002 |
To | ARToolkit Mailing list <artoolkit@h ..................> | ||
Subject: | Tutorials and Software from MXR-NUS | ||
Dear All: Sorry just one addition: one of the tutorial files is currently a .mht file, this is a microsoft explorer web archive type file. Please open in MS Explorer. I am putting up a more universal format soon :) Thanks Dear All ARtoolkit'ers We are pleased to announce that we have some tutorials and fully working artoolkit application software packages available for download from our web page of the Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore: http://mixedreality.nus.edu.sg/software.htm These might be useful for the community. Your feedback and comments are most welcome. The site includes: Matlab AR Tool Kit Introduction: The accompanying Matlab routines were written to help students understand the workings of AR Toolkit, and to allow development of new AR concepts in non-real time without time-consuming C/C++ programming. It is not a complete implementation of ARToolkit, nor is it implemented identically, although in most cases, it is extremely similar. Matlab is not well suited to implementing some of the functions, especially the connected components algorithm, and the code is accordingly quite slow - it currently takes about 10 seconds per frame on my machine. Nonetheless, if anyone was serious about doing some AR development based on this in Matlab, then it would be quite possible to implement some of the slower parts in C, and link this to Matlab. One possibility would be to link to Intel's OpenCV library, which contains Matlab wrappers for a number of it's image processing functions. more >> Hello Kitty Book download Introduction: The virtual Hello Kitty Garden program demonstrates the concept of tangible interaction in Augmented Reality. A catalogue of 3D graphics models is created by attaching a different fiducial marker to each page of a real book and overlaying the computer graphics on the markers using the ARToolkit. The user can pick up, move, or drop the virtual objects by using a virtual paddle, but not the conventional mouse or keyboard. That will give the user a feeling of he/she's really holding and playing with the virtual objects. That's also the reason why we named it "the tangible interactive augmented reality". Tutorials Download Tutorials of some softwares developed and related hardware setting : 1) Tutorial on Hello Kitty Book >> This tutorial here tells the system requirements for this program, and a step-by-step instructions of the installation and execution of this Hello Kitty Garden program after you downloading the HelloKitty.zip, and obtaining the password by email. After running the program, the tutorial also tells the users how to modify the files in the package to load a different 3D object in to the scene, so that they can make their own version of virtual garden. In this tutorial, users can also find the answers for the most common problems they may encounter, when they try to run the program. 2) Tutorial on Linux Firewire and ARToolkit_firewire >> This is a tutorial for installing firewire (ieee1394) support andARToolkit_firewire on Redhat>=7.1 linux PC. 3) Linux AR Toolkit HOW TO >> The ARTOOLKIT is written by Prof HIROKAZU KATO and Prof MARK BILLINGHURST (Hit Lab University Of Washington, Hiroshima City university Japan). We all thank them for this wonderful toolkit! |