Section: New Software and Platforms

PoLAR

PoLAR (Portable Library for Augmented Reality) is a software library that offers powerful and state of the art visualization solutions under an API that is adapted and easy to use for a computer vision scientist. An ADT, also named PoLAR, started in October, 1st 2014 to sustain its development: a software engineer, Pierre-Jean Petitprez, was hired for two years. His contract ended at the end of September, 2016.

This year, the library was ported on Android, and Qt 5.7. Various diffusion media were also built: demos, e.g. linked with OpenCV; web site http://polar.inria.fr; detailed documentation with tutorials; and a paper was published at ISMAR'2016 conference [23].

PoLAR was made available to the public in October 2015, and can be used under Linux, Windows, MacOS and Android.

• Contact: Erwan Kerrien, Pierre-Frédéric Villard.

• URL: http://polar.inria.fr