Augmented Reality Applications for Cultural Heritage

This paper presents an up-to-date review of the literature on the two interesting topics from the field of computer graphics. while the recent research on the broad research areas of augmented reality and tracking are examined, applications related to cultural heritage were emphasized due to the reasons mentioned in the paper. several methods and example applications were presented in a superficial but clear manner to facilitate the foundation of a new research area in our country which has a vast amount of resources for the mentioned type of application. common problems with these methods are presented along with possible solutions. after the presentation of related research in our country, a protoype application named “desktop history” was presented in order to consolidate the text and provide a concrete example.