White Papers

These white papers give an overview of various InterSense technology.

IS-900 briefs

The following briefs discuss the IS-900 tracking product family and options.

IS-900 Product Technology Brief

PCTracker Product Technology Brief

Motion Tracking Technology Comparisons

If you are interested in learning more about InterSense's core technologies compared to other tracking technologies, please review these publications:

Comparison of InterSense IS-900 System and Optical Systems

An Independent Study of InterSense IS-900 vs. Electromagnetic Systems

Publications

If you are interested in learning more about InterSense's core technologies, please review our publications:

Advanced Inertial-Optical Tracking System for Wide Area Mixed and Augmented Reality Systems
Authors: Dean Wormell, Eric Foxlin and Patricia Katzman, InterSense, Inc.
Presented: 10th International Immersive Projection Technologies Workshop(IPT)/13th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments (EGVE) , July 15 - 18, 2007, Weimar, Germany

Improved 3D Interactive Devices for Passive and Active Stereo Virtual Environments
Authors: Dean Wormell, Eric Foxlin and Patricia Katzman, InterSense, Inc.
Presented: 10th International Immersive Projection Technologies Workshop(IPT)/13th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments (EGVE) , July 15 - 18, 2007, Weimar, Germany

Pedestrian Tracking with Shoe-Mounted Inertial Sensors
Author: Eric Foxlin, InterSense, Inc.
Published: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, November/December 2005

Encoded LED System for Optical Trackers
Author: Leonid Naimark and Eric Foxlin, InterSense, Inc.
Presented: The Fourth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2005), October 5-8, 2005, Vienna, Austria

FlightTracker: A Novel Optical/Inertial Tracker for Cockpit Enhanced Vision
Authors: Eric Foxlin, Yury Altshuler, Leonid Naimark and Mike Harrington, InterSense, Inc.
Presented: IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2004), November 2-5, 2004, Washington, D.C.
(Run Video Demonstration- 22.5 Mbyte Windows Media File (.wmv))
(Download Video Demonstration- 22 Mbyte Compressed File (.zip))

Miniaturization, Calibration & Accuracy Evaluation of a Hybrid Self-Tracker
Authors: Eric Foxlin and Leonid Naimark, InterSense, Inc.
Presented: IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2003), October 7-10, 2003, Tokyo

Advancements in 3D Interactive Devices for Virtual Environments
Authors: Dean Wormell and Eric Foxlin, InterSense, Inc.
Presented: Joint International Immersive Projection Technologies (IPT)/Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments (EGVE) 2003 Workshop, May 22-23, 2003, Zurich, Switzerland

VIS-Tracker: A Wearable Vision-Inertial Self-Tracker
Authors: Eric Foxlin and Leonid Naimark, InterSense, Inc.
Presented: IEEE Virtual Reality 2003 (VR2003), March 22-26, 2003, Los Angeles, CA

Generalized Architecture for Simultaneous Localization, Auto-Calibration, and Map-building
Author: Eric Foxlin, InterSense, Inc.
Presented: IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2002), October 2-4, 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland

Circular Data Matrix Fiducial System and Robust Image Processing for a Wearable Vision-Inertial Self-Tracker  
Authors: Leonid Naimark and Eric Foxlin, InterSense, Inc.
Presented: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2002), September 30-October 2, 2002, Darmstadt, Germany
(Run Video Demonstration- 10.6 MByte Movie Clip (.mpg))
(Download Video Demonstration - 10 MByte Compressed File (.zip))

Motion Tracking Requirements and Technologies
Author: Eric Foxlin, InterSense, Inc.
Published: Extended draft version of Chapter 8 in Handbook of Virtual Environment Technology, Kay Stanney, Editor, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002
Note: The Handbook of Virtual Environment Technology is an excellent resource, with 56 contributed chapters by leading practitioners in all specializations of virtual environment science. To view the contents or order the book, please visit www.erlbaum.com.  

WearTrack: A Self-Referenced Head and Hand Tracker for Wearable Computers and Portable VR
Authors: Eric Foxlin and Michael Harrington, InterSense, Inc.
Presented: International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2000), October 16-18, 2000, Atlanta, GA

Head-tracking Relative to a Moving Vehicle or Simulator Platform Using Differential Inertial Sensors
Author: Eric Foxlin, InterSense, Inc.
Presented: Helmet and Head-Mounted Displays V, SPIE Vol. 4021, AeroSense Symposium, Orlando, FL, April 24-25, 2000

Unified Camera, Content and Talent Tracking in Digital Television and Movie Production
Authors: Dean Wormell, InterSense, Inc. & Mark Read, Hypercube Media Concepts, Inc.
Presented: NAB 2000, Las Vegas, NV, April 8-13, 2000

Miniature 6-DOF Inertial System for Tracking HMDs
Authors: Eric Foxlin, Michael Harrington, and Yury Altshuler
Presented: Aerosense 98, Orlando, FL, April 13 – 14, 1998

Constellation™: A Wide-Range Wireless Motion-Tracking System for Augmented Reality and Virtual Set Applications
Authors: Eric Foxlin, Michael Harrington, and George Pfeiffer
Presented: Siggraph 98, Orlando, FL, July 19 – 24, 1998

Inertial Head-Tracker Sensor Fusion by a Complementary Separate-Bias Kalman Filter
Authors: Eric Foxlin
Presented: VRAIS 96, Santa Clara, CA, March 30 - April 3, 1996

An Inertial Head-Orientation Tracker With Automatic Drift Compensation For Use With HMDs
Authors: Eric Foxlin, Nathaniel Durlach
Presented: VRST 94, Singapore, August 23 - 26, 1994