An Augmented Reality Application Using Graphic Code Markers

Abstract

This paper lies on presenting applications of the Graphic Code exploiting its large-scale information coding capabilities applied to Augmented Reality. Machine Readable Codes (MRCs) are largely used for many reasons, such as, product tagging or to hold URLs. The recently introduced Graphic Code differs from classical MRCs because it is fully integrated with images for aesthetic control. Furthermore, it is able to code large amount of information and, for that reason, it can store different types of models for applications that are unusual for classical MRCs. The main advantage of using our approach as an Augmented Reality marker is the possibility of creating generic applications that can read and decode these Graphic Code markers which may contain 3D models and complex scenes encoded in it. Additionally, the resulting marker has strong aesthetic characteristics associated to it.