Breaking the Barriers to True Augmented Reality

In 1950, Alan Turing introduced the Turing Test, an essential c oncept in the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He proposed an “imitation game” to te st the sophistication of an AI software. Similar tests have been suggested for fields including Computer Graphics and Visual Computing. In this talk, we will propose an Augmented Reality Turing Test (ARTT). Augmented Reality (AR) embeds spatially-re gistered computer graphics in the user’s view in realtime. This capability can be used for a lot of purposes; for example, AR hands can demonstrate manual repair steps to a mechanic. To pass the ARTT, we must create AR objects that are indistinguishable from real objects. Ray Kurzweil bet USD 20,000 that the Turing Test will be passed by 2029. We thin k that the ARTT can be passed significantly earlier. We will discuss the grand challenges for passing the ARTT, including: calibration, localization & tracking, modeling, rendering, display technology, and multimodal AR. We will also show examples from our previous and current work at Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Bio: Dr. Christian Sandor is an Associate Professor at one of J apan's most prestigious research universities, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), where he is co-dir ecting the Interactive Media Design Lab together with Professor Hirokazu Kato. Since the year 2000, his foremost research interest is Augmented Reality, as he believes that it will have a profound im pact on the future of mankind. In 2005, he obtained a doctorate in Computer Science from the Munich University of Technology, Germany under the supervision of Prof. Gudrun Klinker and Prof. Steven Feiner. He decided to explore the research world in the spirit of Alexander von Humboldt and has lived outside of Germany ever since to work with leading research groups at institutions including: Columbia University (New York, USA), Canon’s Leading-Edge Technology Research Headquarters (Tokyo, Japan), Graz University of Technolog y (Austria), University of Stuttgart (Germany), and Tohoku University (Japan). Before joining NAIST, he directed the Magic Vision Lab ( www.magicvisionlab.com ). Together with his students, he won awards at the premier Augm ented Reality conference, IEEE Inte rnational Sympos ium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR): best demo (2011) and best poster honourable mention ( 2012, 2013). He presented several keynotes and acquired funding close to 1.5 million dollars; in 2012, Magic Vision Lab was the first, and still only, Australian lab to be awarded in Samsung's Global Re search Outreach Program. In 2014, he received a Google Faculty Award for creating an Augmented Reality X-Ray system for Google Glass.

Information

Sprecher

Herr Associate Professor Dr. Christian Sandor
Nara Institute of Science and Technologiy (NAIST)
Graduate School of Information Science, Interative Media Design Lab
University of Nara, Japan

Datum

Montag, 13. Juni 2016, 16 Uhr c.t.

Ort

Universität Ulm, O28, Raum 1002 (Videoübertragung zur Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Raum G26.1-010)