Tomas Koubek

• Mendel University in Brno

Information panels are a common part of university or administrative buildings. We can see large panels with news or social media feeds as well as small displays on conference rooms with information about their occupancy. All these panels usually present general information without any relation to a present audience. Presentation of personalised in...

The Google service delivered a breakthrough customer experience. It has not been neces- sary to browse through a large catalogue of web pages to find a company solving a partic- ular problem. The user just simply wrote a plain question and received related sources. The service understood users’ requests. Later there came personal assistants like Si...

We can see arising trend in the automotive industry in last years - autonomous cars that are driven just by on-board computers. The traffic signs tracking system must deal with real conditions with data that are frequently obtained in poor light conditions, fog, heavy rain or are otherwise disturbed. Completely same problem is solved by mapping com...

We can see arising trend in the automotive industry in last years – autonomous cars that are driven just by on-board computers. During the driverless ride, computer must process a wide set of information gained by GPS locators and computer vision system, including GPS position, driving speed and descriptions of lanes and traffic signs. The traffic...

Present time is characterized by limited availability of resources. Not only organizations are limited by amounts of nonrenewable natural resources, but also by amounts of renewable resources like human, financial and time resources. Today issue with resources is raising demand for them. It is this rising demand that leads to optimization of handli...

We assume that one of the key reasons is in the difference between a standalone application and a web service. Both architectures have some advantages and disadvantages. The Standalone application (e.g. Nokia/OVI Maps) provides the required functionality. From the user point of view, main asset of this “offline” approach is network connectivity ind...

Gestures are a common way of interaction with mobile devices. They emerged especially with the iPhone production. Gestures in currently used devices are usually based on the original gestures presented by Apple in its iOS (iPhone Operating System). Therefore, there is a wide agreement on the mobile gesture design. In last years, it is possible to s...

One of the key features of virtually all object recognition systems is the ability do deal with occlusions of detected objects. This article is focused on identification of occluded artificial objects such as square markers. The article reviews frequently used methods for detection of partially occluded markers. Further, our implementation of two o...

Augmented reality is a scientific field well known for more than twenty years. Although there is a huge number of projects that present promising results, the real usage of augmented reality applications for fulfilling common tasks is almost negligible. We believe that one of the principal reasons is insufficient usability of these applications. Th...

Augmented reality is a visualization technique widely used in many applications including different design tools. These tools are frequently based on tracking artificial objects such as square markers. The markers allow users to add a 3D model into the scene and adjust its position and orientation. Nevertheless, there are significant problems with...

Augmented reality has became an useful tool in many areas from space exploration to military applications. Although used theoretical principles are well known for almost a decade, the augmented reality is almost exclusively used in high budget solutions with a special hardware. However, in last few years we could see rising popularity of many proje...

The first part of the article describes our approach for solution of this problem by means of Augmented Reality. The merging of the real world model and digital objects allows streamline the work with the model and speed up the whole production phase significantly. The main advantage of augmented reality is the possibility of direct manipulation wi...