Welcome to my repo for learning AR using OpenCV and other open source tools. This is not a tutorial for learning computer vision or Augmented Reality software(you can easily Google out a lot of them), rather this repository is meant to be a collection of apps and other programs which you might find useful while learning AR.
Apart from having a PC/Laptop(with a webcam) or Android Mobile(with camera), you must be familiar with C++ and a few of its libraries:
- OpenCV - An open source computer vision library. Available in C++ and python
- OpenGL - An open source industry acclaimmed design libary. Available in C,C++ and Java
- ArUco - A contributing module for OpenCV, provides easy square marker detection and pose estimation. I've used it in most of the programs.
Android offers the ease of obtaining image from mobile Camera and recent devices also provide GPU and high resolution graphics integration. Couple that with Native Code(Android NDK), you have the same PC app ready in Android.
- Since Android supports OpenGL library, the object rendering part in the source code should be omitted
- As of now, processing speed is not an issue and the RAM + Memory that current devices support is considerate enough.
The collection is not comprehensive, since I'm also learning vision and other stuff myself. Any recommendations, glitches, or error as a pull request are welcomed.
- Since most of the examples are in C++, I'll be thankful if you can contribute a few of these programs in python.