MoiréTag: Angular Measurement and Tracking with a Passive Marker

Abstract

Stable, low-cost, and precise visual measurement of directional information has many applications in domains such as virtual and augmented reality, visual odometry, or industrial computer vision. Conventional approaches like checkerboard patterns require careful pre-calibration, and can therefore not be operated in snapshot mode. Other optical methods like autocollimators offer very high precision but require controlled environments and are hard to take outside the lab. Non-optical methods like IMUs are low cost and widely available, but suffer from high drift errors.

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