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ENHANCING THE SYSTEM MODEL FOR HOME INTERIOR DESIGN USING
AUGMENTED REALITY

Dhananjay Kumar , Panchalingam Srinidhy , Ved P. Kafle 2
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1 Department of Information Technology, Anna University, MIT Campus, Chennai, India
2 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan

ABSTRACT In augmented reality, virtual objects need to be projected into
the real world in such a manner that they appear to be aligned
Home interior design is often a challenging and time- with real-world objects. Interior design with augmented
consuming task due to several mismatches between the reality implemented on smartphones has the potential to
selection of interiors in a shop and their composition in a provide new opportunities for designers, as well as end users.
target room. One of these mismatches is a lack of knowledge Therefore, designing and developing a system model for the
in relation to the target room and to other interiors when an creation of a home interior layout-based application brings
item is seen in a shop. In this paper, we propose to design the developer a step closer to a real-world experience. When
and develop a system model by which users can virtually try shopping for interior fittings, customers would be able to use
out various settings of home interiors by using marker-less an app to determine their best fit and size by virtually trying
Augmented Reality (AR). To minimize the latency of the the items before their purchase [2,3]. This can pave the way
system, we apply the hybrid approach of combining an AR for revolutionized shopping [4]. This would help eliminate
framework with a Simultaneous Localization And Mapping common errors in judgement, and also save time and money
(SLAM) algorithm, where the 3D feature points are updated for the store and the customers. AR can help customers make
dynamically, thereby avoiding occlusion when multiple informed decisions by purchasing products provided as the
interiors are placed on the real-world view. Dimension system supports the look and aesthetic of the product before
scanning is deployed to provide accurate live-size scaling to they actually buy it.
the real-world environment whereas transformations are
handled efficiently by means of a touch gesture recognition. The AR with 3D model for the interior design needs to
The proposed system model for home interior design can be consider the features to accomplish it on a target device with
easily implemented as a mobile application. The a vibrant 3D prototype. The convenience and efficiency of
performance evaluation through experiments shows that the AR-based solution needs to consider the cooperation
with the SLAM algorithm, the average response time of the between the designer and consumer [5]. A projection-based
proposed system improves by 43%. The proposed system is augmented reality [6] delivers digital information to users
intended to meet the requirements of virtual and augmented within a stationary context. Target objects and users can
reality services specified by ITU-T Study Group 16. move around in the environment, but the zone in which AR
experiences take place is limited to the fields of view of both
Keywords – Augmented reality, home interior, occlusion, the fixed projector and the supporting camera for tracking. A
marker-less AR, SLAM 3D map system uses projection-based AR [7] for interior
design and virtual installation of products, where the user can
1. INTRODUCTION interact with the projection since the device uses a spatial
user interface that can detect depth variations and can hence
According to a market research report [1], the market value use the application. Although projection-based AR can
of Augmented Reality (AR) applications in mobile devices produce a realistic view, it requires sophisticated hardware
is expected to grow from $7.6 billion in 2020 to $29.5 billion like a projector camera with mounted servomotors, which
by 2025. The increasing use of mobile augmented reality restricts its usability and accessibility to common users.
applications in e-commerce and retail has been fueled by the
interest of giant hardware/software companies in AR app Marker-less augmented reality does not require prior
development. However, to provide the real-time experience knowledge of the user’s environment to overlay virtual 3D
to users based on an augmented reality platform, there are content into a scene and hold it to a fixed point in space. It
still several design challenges due to the limitations of places virtual 3D objects in the physical environment
computational capacity and user interaction in mobile depending on the environment’s real features rather than
devices. identifying the markers. This differentiation eliminates the

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