[POSTER] INCAST: Interactive Camera Streams for Surveillance Cams AR

Abstract

Augmented reality does not make any sense for fixed cameras. Or does it? In this work, we are dealing with static cameras and their usability for interactive augmented reality applications. Knowing that the camera does not move makes camera pose estimation both less and more difficult - one does not have to deal with pose change in time, but on the other hand, obtaining some level of understanding of the scene from a single viewpoint is challenging. We propose several ways how to gain advantage from the camera being static and a pipeline of a system for broadcasting a video stream enriched by information needed for its interactive visual augmenting - Interactive Camera Streams, INCAST. We present a proof-of-concept system showing the usability of INCAST on several use-cases - non-interactive demos and simple AR games.