Introduction to Augmented Reality: What Is Augmented Reality – Defining augmented reality, history of augmented reality, Examples, Displays-Multimodal Displays, Visual Perception, Requirements and Characteristics, Spatial Display Model.

Tracking: Tracking, Calibration, and Registration, Characteristics of Tracking Technology, Stationary Tracking Systems, Mobile Sensors, Optical Tracking, Sensor Fusion.

Computer Vision for Augmented Reality: Marker Tracking, Multiple-Camera Infrared Tracking, Natural Feature Tracking by Detection, Incremental Tracking, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, Outdoor Tracking Calibration and Registration-Camera Calibration, Display Calibration, Registration.

Visual Coherence: Registration, Photometric Registration, Common Illumination, Diminished Reality, Camera Simulation, Stylized Augmented Reality.

Situated Visualization: Challenges, Visualization Registration, Annotations and Labeling, X-Ray Visualization, Spatial Manipulation, Information Filtering Interaction-Output Modalities, Input Modalities, Tangible Interfaces.