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ARToolKitPro

ARToolKit Pro (version 4.4) is the professional version of ARToolKit, the world’s most widely used marker-based tracking library for augmented reality. ARToolKit Pro provides reliable, low cost, adaptable, scalable object tracking for augmented and virtual reality applications.

ARToolKit Pro is a computer vision library that runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Irix operating systems. It has a simple C-based interface 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 (black and white marker squares with user-definable patterns) in video streams
• Advanced 2D-barcode support for high-speed tracking in applications with a large number of markers
• Specialized pose-estimation techniques which provide superb pose-estimation accuracy, plus multi-marker tracking
• Compositing of computer-generated content to produce video-overlay or see-through augmented reality objects
• Rendering of high-level graphical content and animations in Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) v2 and X3D formats
• Video stream acquisition from a large variety of cameras and video sources, including firewire cameras, USB web cameras, digital video etc
• Support for a variety of lens models and optical calibration techniques to allow accurate calculation of lens characteristics of the cameras in use
• Multiple video streams can be captured simultaneously, and dynamically switched, for stereo and/or multi-user/single-CPU AR applications.

The free, GPLv2, version of ARToolKit (version 2.72) can be downloaded from:

sourceforge.net/projects/artoolkit