3/12/19

AR Based Indoor Navigation


Left: The fused output of the navigation system visualized in a VR fashion and simulating the user trajectory in the building digital twin.
Right: The actual video feed when this trajectory was recorded.
Trajectory length: 70+ meters including the stairs.
Note: The shown markers in this video are not used for localization! they are used as anchor points only for evaluating the navigation system.

My master's thesis project was the result of a cooperation between the NavVis Navigation Team and TUM. The research is investigating the viability and practicality of using visual techniques incorporated with 3D building structure knowledge for indoor navigation. The proposed system is a hybrid of absolute visual positioning and relative visual tracking. The positioning is done using image based poses estimation approach relying on dense feature matching (using deep neural network) and the building's 3D structure. While the tracking is done with the help of Goolgle ARCore. This video shows the result of the strategic fusion between the absolute and relative data.
All the indoor scans were acquired using the NavVis M6 Trolley, one of the state of the art mobile scanning devices in the industry.

3 comments:

  1. Hi,
    Your master thesis is an amazing work. I am curious, what information does the NavVis M6 Trolley can record? Is it its specs https://www.navvis.com/hubfs/Download/NavVis_IMMS_M6-1_Specs.pdf? Thanks :)

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    1. Thank you so much !
      Please refer to the webpage: https://www.navvis.com/m6
      There is a section that specify what you can get from the trolley: M6 Data Output
      I guess from it you can infer what it records exactly.
      I would also suggest to contact the NavVis official channels of support as I am not authorized to provide any information.

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  2. I need to know which service is the best from the ones listed on the site?
    Indoor Navigation Solution

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