Mobile augmented reality for furniture visualization using Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to visualize furniture objects from a catalogue using a markerless augmented reality tracking. Augmented reality is applied to help customers to envision an augmented object for learning the product knowledge of the furniture chosen. The markerless tracking method used in this research is a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), where a targeted surface of the floor for an augmented object can be determined in certain areas in the real world without using a marker. Testing was performed with parameters such as with a minimum of lighting intensity from without lighting, low lighting and bright lighting, a minimum of distance from 50 cm, 100 cm, and 150 cm, a minimum of height from 60 cm,120 cm,160 cm, and a minimum of angle from 30,50 and 70 degree of detection from the surface of the floor. The result of this research is the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping method is confirmed to be adequate for visualizing the 3D furniture model on targeted the surface of the floor without markers.