CAPturAR: An Augmented Reality Tool for Authoring Human-Involved Context-Aware Applications

CAPturAR: An Augmented Reality Tool for Authoring Human-Involved Context-Aware Applications

by | Jul 3, 2020 | 2020, Fengming He, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Publications, Recent Publications, Tianyi Wang, Xun Qian, Yuanzhi Cao

Recognition of human behavior plays an important role in context-aware applications. However, it is still a challenge for end-users to build personalized applications that accurately recognize their own activities. Therefore, we present CAPturAR, an in-situ...
An Exploratory Study of Augmented Reality Presence for Tutoring Machine Tasks

An Exploratory Study of Augmented Reality Presence for Tutoring Machine Tasks

by | Mar 1, 2020 | 2020, Convergence Accelerator, Featured Publications, Future of Work, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Publications, Recent Publications, Tianyi Wang, Xun Qian, Yuanzhi Cao

Machine tasks in workshops or factories are often a compound sequence of local, spatial, and body-coordinated human-machine interactions. Prior works have shown the merits of video-based and augmented reality (AR) tutoring systems for local tasks. However, due to the...
GhostAR: A Time-space Editor for Embodied Authoring of Human-Robot Collaborative Task with Augmented Reality

GhostAR: A Time-space Editor for Embodied Authoring of Human-Robot Collaborative Task with Augmented Reality

by | Oct 14, 2019 | 2019, Featured Publications, Future of Work, Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, Information and Intelligent Systems, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Pawan Rao, Publications, Recent Publications, Tianyi Wang, Xun Qian, Yuanzhi Cao

We present GhostAR, a time-space editor for authoring and acting Human-Robot-Collaborative (HRC) tasks in-situ. Our system adopts an embodied authoring approach in Augmented Reality (AR), for spatially editing the actions and programming the robots through...
SynchronizAR: Instant Synchronization for Spontaneous and Spatial Collaborations in Augmented Reality

SynchronizAR: Instant Synchronization for Spontaneous and Spatial Collaborations in Augmented Reality

by | Oct 15, 2018 | 2018, Ana Villanueva, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Luis Paredes, Recent Publications, Tianyi Wang, Yuanzhi Cao

We present SynchronizAR, an approach to spatially register multiple SLAM devices together without sharing maps or involving external tracking infrastructures. SynchronizAR employs a distance based indirect registration which resolves the transformations between the...