Challenges and Applications of Urban Augmented Reality Summary

Summary form only given. Cities have started collecting tons of information about themselves using vast sensors arrays and stored in Geographical Information Systems. All this mass of information can already be enriched by citizens through user-generated content. Beyond collecting, abstracting and storing this information raises the problem of its representation. A reasonable assumption is that onsite presentation of the adequate information would provide a good solution. An analogy can be made with the GPS-based navigation systems that merely render a directed arrow depending on location and itinerary. Such a system can be seen as the basis of an augmented reality system. Many projects involving augmented reality in urban environments have emerged in the last 15 years. Yet there remains challenges both on the applications and technological points of views: Outdoor localization and mapping, Data presentation, Interaction and authoring, Application domains, Acceptability, Hardware issues. The goal of this workshop is to review the challenges of urban augmented reality and the available methods that aim at solving some of those challenges and to give the audience of the variety of the existing and yet to invent applications. The workshop will feature 2 full papers about geolocalization from maps and building facade rectification for image-based matching out of 6 submissions. Those papers will appear onto IEEExplore. It will also include a number of applications papers that will directly appear on the workshop website (https://sites.google.com/site/urbanarworkshop/home). It provides a place for discussing the remaining challenges and the solutions the community is trying to bring.