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ARToolKit for Desktop

ARToolKit for Desktop v5.x is the professional version of ARToolKit, the world’s most widely used tracking library for augmented reality. ARToolKit Pro provides reliable, low cost, adaptable, scalable object tracking for augmented and virtual reality applications.

ARToolKit Professional is a computer vision software development kit that runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. It has a C-based API that allows developers to start building their own applications in minutes. It has a number of advanced features not available in the GPL version of ARToolKit.

ARToolKit Pro has the following features:

• Tracking of fiducial markers in video streams
• Patented high-speed tracking of natural features of textured planar surfaces such as printed material
• Support for simultaneous loading of multiple texture targets
• Advanced 2D-barcode support for high-speed multi-marker tracking
• Specialized pose-estimation techniques plus multi-marker tracking
• Robust multi-resolution tracking allows the user to view augmented materials at a variety of scales
• Utility suite for training the system to images of the tracked surfaces
• Compositing of computer-generated content to produce video-overlay or see-through AR objects
• Rendering of high-level graphical content and animations in a wide variety of formats via OpenSceneGraph and VRML
• Video stream acquisition from a large variety of cameras and video sources
• Support for a variety of lens models and optical calibration techniques
• Multiple video streams can be captured simultaneously and dynamically switched

The free, GPLv2, version of ARToolKit v2.x (but marker-based only) can be downloaded from:

sourceforge.net/projects/artoolkit