MIRAGE: Enabling Real-Time Automotive Mediated Reality
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| author | Jansen, Pascal Britten, Julian Colley, Mark Sasalovici, Markus Rukzio, Enrico |
| author_facet | Jansen, Pascal Britten, Julian Colley, Mark Sasalovici, Markus Rukzio, Enrico |
| contents | Traffic is inherently dangerous, with around 1.19 million fatalities annually. Automotive Mediated Reality (AMR) can enhance driving safety by overlaying critical information (e.g., outlines, icons, text) on key objects to improve awareness, altering objects' appearance to simplify traffic situations, and diminishing their appearance to minimize distractions. However, real-world AMR evaluation remains limited due to technical challenges. To fill this sim-to-real gap, we present MIRAGE, an open-source tool that enables real-time AMR in real vehicles. MIRAGE implements 15 effects across the AMR spectrum of augmented, diminished, and modified reality using state-of-the-art computational models for object detection and segmentation, depth estimation, and inpainting. In an on-road expert user study (N=9) of MIRAGE, participants enjoyed the AMR experience while pointing out technical limitations and identifying use cases for AMR. We discuss these results in relation to prior work and outline implications for AMR ethics and interaction design. |
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| spellingShingle | MIRAGE: Enabling Real-Time Automotive Mediated Reality Jansen, Pascal Britten, Julian Colley, Mark Sasalovici, Markus Rukzio, Enrico Human-Computer Interaction Traffic is inherently dangerous, with around 1.19 million fatalities annually. Automotive Mediated Reality (AMR) can enhance driving safety by overlaying critical information (e.g., outlines, icons, text) on key objects to improve awareness, altering objects' appearance to simplify traffic situations, and diminishing their appearance to minimize distractions. However, real-world AMR evaluation remains limited due to technical challenges. To fill this sim-to-real gap, we present MIRAGE, an open-source tool that enables real-time AMR in real vehicles. MIRAGE implements 15 effects across the AMR spectrum of augmented, diminished, and modified reality using state-of-the-art computational models for object detection and segmentation, depth estimation, and inpainting. In an on-road expert user study (N=9) of MIRAGE, participants enjoyed the AMR experience while pointing out technical limitations and identifying use cases for AMR. We discuss these results in relation to prior work and outline implications for AMR ethics and interaction design. |
| title | MIRAGE: Enabling Real-Time Automotive Mediated Reality |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19385 |