AR4 Commercializes New Computer Vision Technologies
Austrian startup, AR4 GmbH, has announced that its computer vision-based 3D tracking technology targeting industrial use cases, Vizar.Track, is now commercially available. The new markerless tracking technology is SLAM-based and optimized for existing mobile platforms.
The Vizar team, led by TU Graz senior research scientist, Clemens Arth, is also working on a mobile camera calibration tool, VIZARIO.Cam. VIZARIO.Cam created sets of calibration records for multiple resolutions and multiple focal settings, which in turn can be used to improve tracking and recognition results. Finally, the company has released preliminary information about a mobile visual search library, VIZARIO.Find.
AR4 is a spin-off of the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision of the Graz University of Technology in Austria. Led by Dieter Schmalstieg, who is currently an advisor to AR4, this institute is the research powerhouse which developed technology for the patents acquired by Qualcomm from Imagination Computer Services GmbH in 2010 (and that became Vuforia).