2015 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality

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Augmented Reality (AR) in microscopic surgery has been subject of several studies in the past two decades. Nevertheless, AR has not found its way into everyday microsurgical workflows. The introduction of new surgical microscopes equipped with Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) enables the surgeons to perform multimodal (optical and OCT) imaging in the operating room. Taking full advantage of such... View full abstract»

Image-guided medical interventions more frequently rely on Augmented Reality (AR) visualization to enable surgical navigation. Current systems use 2-D monitors to present the view from external cameras, which does not provide an ideal perception of the 3-D position of the region of interest. Despite this problem, most research targets the direct overlay of diagnostic imaging data, and only few stu... View full abstract»

This paper presents the first design of a mirror based RGBD X-ray imaging system and includes an evaluation study of the depth errors induced by the mirror when used in combination with an infrared pattern-emission RGBD camera. Our evaluation consisted of three experiments. The first demonstrated almost no difference in depth measurements of the camera with and without the use of the mirror. The f... View full abstract»

We propose a novel formulation for determining the absolute pose of a single or multi-camera system given a known vertical direction. The vertical direction may be easily obtained by detecting the vertical vanishing points with computer vision techniques, or with the aid of IMU sensor measurements from a smartphone. Our solver is general and able to compute absolute camera pose from two 2D-3D corr... View full abstract»

In this paper we present a dual, wide area, collaborative augmented reality (AR) system that consists of standard live view augmentation, e.g., from helmet, and zoomed-in view augmentation, e.g., from binoculars. The proposed advanced scouting capability allows long range high precision augmentation of live unaided and zoomed-in imagery with aerial and terrain based synthetic objects, vehicles, pe... View full abstract»