Persona-Based Image Customization for AR Privacy Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current augmented reality systems lack the ability for users to control how their images are viewed by others, offering limited customization options for personalization and privacy in interactive environments.
Innovation Solution
The system utilizes a persona-based image management system that allows users to associate a persona with their identity, which can be a virtual character or accessory, and modifies their digital image in real-time, enabling customization and control over how they are represented in augmented reality environments through wearable devices and network communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If current augmented reality systems are used, then real world objects and environments can be digitally modified or replaced with virtual imagery, but users lack control over how their images are viewed by others
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the user's identity representation into multiple personas, allowing different aspects of identity to be separated and controlled independently. Each persona can be selectively applied to different images or contexts, giving users granular control over their digital representation without exposing their true identity when desired.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates copy representations (personas) of the user's identity that can be used instead of the actual user image. These persona copies can be selectively applied to images, allowing users to control whether their real image is shown or replaced with a persona copy, thereby maintaining privacy while enabling customization.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users associate a persona with their identity, then they can customize their digital representation with virtual characters or accessories, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The persona system is designed as a universal layer that can be applied across multiple images and contexts without requiring separate customization systems for each. The persona association mechanism works consistently across different image types and AR applications, reducing overall system complexity despite the added personalization capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The persona acts as an intermediary between the user's true identity and the digital image representation. This intermediary layer simplifies the system architecture by providing a standardized interface for identity customization, rather than requiring direct manipulation of user images through complex image processing pipelines.
3Productivity
If a persona modifies the user image in real-time, then interactive experience in AR environments is enhanced, but processing requirements and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
Personas are pre-defined and stored in the system before being applied to user images. This preliminary preparation allows the system to avoid complex real-time image generation, instead only requiring the application of pre-rendered persona overlays to user images, significantly reducing processing requirements and energy consumption during actual AR interactions.
Data Source
AI summary
An image management system includes a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory storing an image customization software code, and a database of personas assumable by a user, the database communicatively coupled to the image customization software code. The hardware processor executes the image customization software code to receive a wireless signal associating a persona stored in the database with the user, receive a digital image including an image of the user, and detect the image of the user in the digital image. The hardware processor further executes the image customization software code to obtain the persona from the database, and output a customized image to be rendered on a display, where the persona modifies the image of the user in the customized image.