Fiducial markers (AR/visual markers) are still useful tools in many AR/MR
applications. But conventional markers have two fundamental problems in
orientation estimation. One is degradation of orientation accuracy in frontal
observation. The other is ``pose ambiguity" where the estimated orientation
repeats switching between two values. We previously developed a novel marker
``ArrayMark" which uses a microlens array and solved the former problem. This
time we propose a practical solution to the latter problem by improving the
ArrayMark. We attach an additional reference point to detect the occurrence
of invalid estimation, and modify the orientation of the marker by inverting
the zenith-angle of the visual-line. This marker enables stable pose
estimation from a one-shot image without using any filtering techniques. The
method is applicable to conventional markers, too. We demonstrated the
availability of this improvement to the pose-ambiguity problem.
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