Cultural Heritage Sites Visualization System Based on Outdoor Augmented Reality

Recently, as importance of history is being emerged, IT-grafted cultural contents industry has been extensively grown. In particular, a study on development of cultural heritage sites, architectural cultural property and digital contents for historical remains restoration by using augmented reality technology has been performed. However, most of the existing restoration system of digital contents is being mainly performed indoors in reality. In this paper, 3D model visualization system of cultural heritage sites by using outdoor augmented reality, not indoor augmented reality, is intended to be presented. Presented visualized system augments 3D model of cultural heritage sites in video image inputted from outdoor by using object panorama, SURF and GPS. And the users may be provided with information for cultural heritage sites without difficulty through this visualized system. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.