A New API for Computer Vision Based Augmented Reality

Abstract: The paper describes research contribution towards Programming Augmented Reality API using open-source software tools such as Python and OpenCV. This API inputs an image scans and describes the same for unique features, match the features with user input image and then overlay the desired image over the existing image. All the work was created in Python programming language utilizing Pycharm IDE, OpenCV and Numpy Libraries.

Keywords: Computer Vision, Image Detection, Feature Matching, Augmented Reality, OpenCV, Numpy, ORB Algorithm, Homography Matrix and FLANN's Algorithm.