Tideland Animal AR: Superimposing 3D Animal Models to User Defined Targets for Augmented Reality Game

Abstract

With the development of computer vision, mobile platform, and information technologies, there have been many mobile augmented reality applications, contents, and services. The technology of augmented reality has been developed to many application areas such as books, games, advertisements, and tour guide systems. However, most vision-based augmented reality applications have to train some physical objects patterns or paper markers before using it. If the physical objects for the applications are destroyed or damaged, users have to buy new objects or print them out again. To reduce the inconvenience, there has been developed technology that users take pictures of 2D makers what users want and superimpose content on it in real-time. In this paper, we present an application that superimposes 3D animal models living in tideland sequentially whenever users make image targets in real time. We implemented 3D models of 10 animals in tideland, and a mobile application to display the animals on smart phone.