Research of quickly identifying markers on Augmented Reality

For complicated calculation caused by marker unwrapping in two main visual marker tracking platforms in Augmented Reality, ARToolKit and ARTag, a new kind of markers based on ARToolKit is designed and implemented, which are called diagonal connected components markers. Those markers can be recognized without unwrapping, which just rely on numbers of white connected components of two diagonals of those markers. Experiment results show that compared with ARToolKit markers, the speed of recognition of those new markers is greatly increased.