AR interior designer: Automatic furniture arrangement using spatial and functional relationships

Abstract

In big cities the population is increasing that leads to smaller flats. It is hard to pick a furniture that perfectly suits to the available space at home. Therefore it requires people to measure the available space by hands, which is inefficient. In this paper, we propose an Augmented Reality (AR) interior design tool. The furniture reseller can make virtual 3D furniture available, and then via AR the virtual furniture are rendered in the real scene of our home space. A depth camera is used to measure the size of available space (in terms of supporting surfaces) for new furniture, such as the floor and desk/table surfaces. By the meantime, the obstacles are detected and marked unavailable for furniture placement. In a glance, the user can quickly determine whether that furniture is suitable or fit enough to the available space. Sometimes, the user may buy two or more furniture. Our another contribution is recommending an optimum arrangement of the furniture by determining the spatial and functional relationship between different pieces of furniture. Some challenging cases of furniture placement are shown.