A Survey on Augmented Reality Challenges and Tracking

This survey paper presents classification of different challenges and tracking techniques in the field of Augmented Reality. The challenges in augmented reality are categorized in performance challenges, alignment challenges, interaction challenges, mobility/portability challenges and visualization challenges. Augmented reality tracking techniques are mainly divided into sensor based tracking, vision based tracking and hybrid tracking. The sensor based tracking are further divided into optical tracking, magnetic tracking, acoustic tracking, inertial tracking or any combination of these to form hybrid sensors tracking. Similarly, the vision based tracking is divided into marker based tracking and markerless tracking. Each tracking technique has its advantages and limitations. Hybrid tracking provides a robust and accurate tracking but it is costly and computationally difficulties involve.