TrackingExpert: A Versatile Tracking Toolbox for Augmented Reality

This paper presents a toolbox for rigid object tracking with a focus on augmented reality applications. Augmented reality relies on tracking to superimpose virtual objects on physical objects. Object tracking is usually based on registration and pose estimation techniques. Many different approaches have already been introduced. Our research focuses on tracking for application areas such as assembly assistance and the most promising candidate is rigid object tracking based on point cloud registration. Our work advances the robustness of point cloud-based tracking as well as the performance. One product of our research is our tracking tool TrackingExpert, which integrates all our research outcomes into one versatile software package. This paper introduces TrackingExpert covering functional areas such as the registration, visualizations, and experiment support. We also highlight several aspects which facilitate data analysis and ease our research.