AR-based Navigation Using Hybrid Map

The Augmented Reality (AR) navigation system can provide a new experience for pedestrians compared to the conventional navigation on 2D map. This paper presents an AR based indoor navigation system. The proposed system adopts Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) to build a point cloud map, and performs positioning and navigation in a novel hybrid map which integrates the 3D point cloud map and floor map of the indoor environment. The experimental results indicated that the proposed AR based navigation system can provide first-person view navigation with satisfactory performance.