The research topic could be taken as either project or thesis topic.
This research topic is applying Augmented Reality (AR) to assist astronomical observation and learning. The long vision of this topic is to develop an assistant tools working with either Head Mount Display (HMD) or mobile devices for helping users identify constellations and learn astronomical knowledge easier. However, before the vision came true the first thing we need to do right now is to develop an astronomic chart mapping and searching tool and its mechanism. In general speaking, the process is (1) there is an image of sky at night, (2) filter the noise and construct an abstract astronomical chart, (3) map the abstract one to the astronomical chart, (4) identify the constellations and stars, (5) generate augmented reality effects include lines, figures, images and text to the original sky image, and (6) output everything to the devices, e.g. screen, HMD and mobile devices. |
