AR and its Role in Marking Space

It is perhaps surprising to realize that only two things in this world have troubled man’s ingenuity for centuries, i.e. space and time. These two are absolute benchmarks, often used when making a reference to a physcial object in space or when describing a past incident, though it is hard to understand why do we...

PTAM Revealed

PTAM (Parallel Tracking & Mapping) is a robust visual SLAM approach developed by Dr. George Klein at Oxford University. It tracks the 3D pose of the camera quite rapidly at frame rate which in turn becomes an ideal platform for implementing marker-less augmented reality. Through this post I’m going to reveal my own insights about...