Augmented Reality (AR) technology visualizes virtual objects in the real environment, offering users an immersive experience that enhances their spatial perception of virtual objects. This makes AR an important tool for visualization in engineering, education, and gaming. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ (UAVs’) low-altitude public air route (Skyroad) is a forward-looking virtual transportation infrastructure flying over complex terrain, presenting challenges for user perception due to its invisibility. In order to achieve a 3D and intuitive visualization of Skyroad, this paper proposes an AR visualization framework based on a physical sandbox. The framework consists of four processes: reconstructing and 3D-printing a sandbox model, producing virtual scenes for UAVs Skyroad, implementing a markerless registration and tracking method, and displaying Skyroad scenes on the sandbox with GPU-based occlusion handling. With the support of the framework, a mobile application called SkyroadAR was developed. System performance tests and user questionnaires were conducted on SkyroadAR; the results showed that our approachs to tracking and occlusion provided an efficient and stable AR effect for Skyroad. This intuitive visualization is recognized by both professional and non-professional users.


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    Title :

    SkyroadAR: An Augmented Reality System for UAVs Low-Altitude Public Air Route Visualization


    Contributors:
    Junming Tan (author) / Huping Ye (author) / Chenchen Xu (author) / Hongbo He (author) / Xiaohan Liao (author)


    Publication date :

    2023




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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