Augmented Reality: Fundamentals and Applications: Fundamentals and Applications

This book focuses on augmented reality (AR) technology, which uses the real environment to superimpose virtual elements. Therefore, the reader can create applications that simulate scenarios that can be dangerous or expensive to generate in the real world. AR has proven helpful in education, marketing, and industrial scenarios. AR technology improves the user experience of various disciplines, incorporating virtual information that maximizes the experience and adds knowledge. This book intends students, researchers, and developers to have the possibility of finding the foundations on which AR technology rests.

Our book intends that students, researchers, and developers: (i) learn the basics of AR; (ii) understand the technologies that support AR; (iii) know about AR applications that have been a watershed; (iv) gain an understanding of the critical elements needed to implement an AR application; (v) acquire skill in the step-by-step development of an AR application; (vi) learn how to use the instruments to evaluate an AR application; (vii) understand how to present the information about study cases; and (viii) gain knowledge about AR challenges and trends.

Osslan Osiris Vergara Villegas recieved his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Zacatepec, Mexico, in 2000; an MSc in Computer Science at the Center of Research and Technological Development (CENIDET) in 2003; and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from CENIDET in 2006. He currently serves as a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, where he is the head of the Computer Vision and Augmented Reality laboratory. Prof. Vergara is a level-one member of the Mexican National Research System. He serves several peer-reviewed international journals and conferences as an editorial board member and as a reviewer. He has coauthored over 100 book chapters, journals, and international conference papers. Dr. Vergara has directed over 50 B.S., MSc, and Ph.D. theses. Prof. Vergara holds four patents. He is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and a member of the Mexican Computing Academy. His areas of interest include pattern recognition, digital image processing, augmented reality, and mechatronics.

Vianey Guadalupe Cruz Sánchez earned her B.S. degree in computer engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Cerro Azul, México, in 2000; the M.Sc. degree in computer science at the Center of Research and Technological Development (CENIDET) in 2004; and her Ph.D. in computer science from CENIDET in 2010. She currently serves as a professor at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, México. She has coauthored over 100 book chapters, journals, and international conference papers. Prof. Cruz has directed over 40 B.S., MSc, and Ph.D. theses. She is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Mexican Computing Academy. She holds one patent. Her areas of interest include neuro symbolic hybrid systems, digital image processing, knowledge representation, artificial neural networks, and augmented reality.