Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783031271663
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

10.6 The “FURNITURE” AR-AI Application

10.6.1 The Concept of the Application

During the research work concerning the fusion of AR and AI technologies, an intelligent mobile application was designed having two complementary functionalities: (a) showing if an image of a piece of furniture corresponds to a pre-defined style, i.e. is authentic, by using an ML trained model; (b) augmenting the piece of the furniture shown in a real context with a history of that furniture style and a 3D model representative for that furniture style, once the authenticity of the furniture piece was validated.

The validation is expressed as a percentage, i.e., a score of similarity. Values between 70 and 100% are considered as satisfactory for validation. In other words, a similarity is recognized based on the essential characteristics or traits of the shape of the furniture, with the non-essential characteristics (e.g., colour) being ignored. The history details can be extended with some commercial information.

In the previous research works (Gheorghiu and Ştefan 2019; Gheorghiu et al. 2020, 2021), objects or images identical to the reference images were scanned and augmented. Also, a limited number of images were used, which was appropriate for the purpose declared in the authors’ previous research. This approach is considered “typical” for AR applications that use computer vision.

For the current research, the AR augmentations were designed to be triggered for objects or images similar and not identical to the reference ones, and also conditioned by the result of the ML process. The application was designed to offer a mode of operation familiar to users of mobile applications. Thus, the usage and usefulness of the application could be extended to a diverse audience, made up of several categories of users, such as students, professionals, and the public.

For objects that need to be validated by the ML model as authentic, users can obtain the images from various sources (e.g., magazines, internet), or they can produce themselves by using the camera of the mobile device.

The following processes of an application named “FURNITURE” were designed to achieve the purpose of the current research:(1)

The AI/ML process

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