THESIS CONTRIBUTION
The contributions of this research are as follows:
• A detailed description of augmented reality technologies, systems, and
applications, notably mobile applications, and the future of augmented reality
technologies.• The design and implementation of a picture translator, dubbed iTranslatAR, using
the iOS platform, Tesseract OCR and Google Translate as a way of introducing
the iOS platform and integration of foreign libraries and APIs within the iOS
platform.
• The design of an augmented reality video frame translating application using the
iTranslatAR original design as a starting point. Although iTranslatAR augmented
reality design was not implemented, a detailed explanation of the design and steps
to implementing iOS AV Foundation framework used in the main focus of this
research is provided along with this work.
• The design of an augmented reality hearing application dubbed iHeAR using the
iOS platform, OpenEars open source as the means for speech recognition,
OpenCV as the means for image/frame processing, and Google Translate as the
means for language-to-language translation. A detailed explanation of the
OpenEars speech recognition system and the OpenCV face detection algorithm is
provided along with this work.
• The implementation of the augmented reality hearing application design on iPad2.