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Augmented reality lets drivers see through road obstacles

Obstructing walls, blind corners, or any dangerous junctions are often the culprits of road accidents. Unless drivers could see through all these blocking walls or obstacles on the roads, accidents would then be able to reduce a lot.

Now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have made it possible for drivers to see through road obstacles by having built an augmented reality system that brings the see-through capabilities to car drivers. How does the AR system do that? Basically, the system consists of two cameras, one captures the driver’s view and a second captures the scene behind a view-blocking wall. The feeds from the second camera is then picked up a computer which layers it on top of the images captured by the first camera, to make walls and other obstacles appear transparent.

The system can be extended to combine any roadside cameras, which will be made capable of transmitting feeds wirelessly and displayed on the car’s windshield instead of a monitor to make the drivers’ life much easier. The system also makes use of advanced software to minimize distortion of moving objects in the captured images.

via gizmowatch

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