An Augmented Reality Environment for Interactive Crowd Simulation

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Project Description

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People:

• Faculty
  • Uğur Güdükbay (Principal investigator)
• Graduate Students
  • Ateş Akaydın (Ph.D. Student)
  • Kurtuluş Küllü (Ph.D. Student)
  • Aytek Aman (M.S. Student)

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Duration:

October 2012 - October 2015

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Sponsor:

TUBITAK - Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (Grant no: 112E110)

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Budget:

194,790 YTL (~US$108,821)

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Project Activities

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1. Period Activities

• Augmented Reality System Architectural Design
• Augmented Reality Client Component Development
• Artificial Intelligence, Personality and Communication Model Development

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Publications

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Journal Publications

• Ateş Akaydın, Uğur Güdükbay, "Adaptive Grids: An Image-based Approach to Generate Navigation Meshes", Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, No. 2, Article No. 027002, 12 pages, February 2013. (pdf).

Conference Publications

• Ateş Akaydın, Aytek Aman, and Uğur Güdükbay, "Interactive Crowd Simulation for Augmented Reality Environments" in Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CAS A'2013), Short Papers, İstanbul, Turkey, 16-18 May 2013. (pdf), (Video).

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