Authors : Aruneswaran Selvam, Timothy Tzen-Vun Yap, Hu Ng, Hau-Lee Tong and Chiung-Ching Ho
Abstract: This research aims to develop an information retrieval application based on Augmented Reality (AR) technologies to enhance visitors’ experience in a museum exhibition. The purpose of developing this application is to give visitors of museums a customized interactive experience through a handheld smartphone. The application recognizes objects of interest and retrieve information of such objects for display through feeds from a smartphone’s camera in real time and overlays the information over the object. This is achieved with vision-based AR, utilizing 3D object tracking, thus eliminating the use of markers which could prove unreliable due to obfuscation or damage.
Aruneswaran Selvam, Timothy Tzen-Vun Yap, Hu Ng, Hau-Lee Tong and Chiung-Ching Ho, 2016. Augmented Reality for Information Retrieval Aimed at Museum Exhibitions using Smartphones. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 11: 635-639.