Kültürel Miras Alanları İçin Uzaktan Artırılmış Gerçeklik Sistemi

Abstract

The concept of Augmented Reality can be described as the combination of real-world imagery with sound, text, images, or 3D models produced on a computer. This concept, which emerged in the 1990s, while addressing only the academic field in those years, appealed to all segments of the society after the spread of mobile devices. Studies of Augmented Reality for cultural heritage is important issue to enhance interest in historical sites. It's a troublesome and costly task to reconstruct historical buildings that have traces of ancient civilization, ruined by the destructive effect of time, and few survived. With Augmented Reality, It's possible to virtually overlay the historical buildings in situ, without requiring physical reconstruction. In this thesis an mobile location based augmented reality application prototype was developed and a distant augmented reality system was presented for Roman Baths in Ankara. Within the scope of this project, all the work was done in Ankara University Gölbaşı Campus because the required permissions could not obtained to work in the area of Ankara Roman Baths. Firstly, location operations were performed on mobile devices and location data was tested. It's decided to filter the location data with sliding window model. Secondly, 3D model was obtained and restorations were made on the model. Later augmented reality software development kits were tested for marker based applications. Applications were developed with software development kits which supports location based systems but it's decided to design the project with only using Unity 3D game engine. After the location based application developed with Unity, the distant augmented reality system was introduced. Finally, an Android application was developed for taking the drones video stream. With the help of the application, the video from drone's camera is taken and recorded. The recorded video was transferred to Unity and the 3D model of bath was overlaid on top of the video.