Enhanced Legibility of Out-of-Focus Virtual Latin and East Asian Characters with a Commercial See-through Augmented Reality Display
Junhwan Kim, J. Edward Swan II, Carlos Montalto, and Mohammed Safayet Arefin. Enhanced Legibility of Out-of-Focus Virtual Latin and East Asian Characters with a Commercial See-through Augmented Reality Display. In IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), IEEE Computer Society, October 2026. in press
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Abstract
Out-of-focus effects degrade text legibility in optical see-through (OST) augmented reality (AR). Previous research using SharpView fonts has shown that precorrection techniques can improve out-of-focus text legibility. However, the text was limited to Latin characters, and the evaluation environment was limited to a laboratory OST AR device. This research extends the SharpView approach in two ways: (1) it extends the evaluation to East Asian characters (Korean, Japanese, and Chinese) and (2) it conducts synthetic simulation and camera-based optical evaluations using a Microsoft HoloLens 2. With both evaluations, the SharpView precorrected font shows quantitatively improved sharpness and text legibility. These results suggest that the SharpView font method can generalize to multilingual environments and commercial AR devices.
BibTeX
@InProceedings{ISMAR26-elc,
author = {Junhwan Kim and J. Edward {Swan~II} and Carlos Montalto and
Mohammed Safayet Arefin},
title = {Enhanced Legibility of Out-of-Focus Virtual Latin and East Asian
Characters with a Commercial See-through Augmented Reality Display},
booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)},
year = 2026,
location = {Bari, Italy},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
date = {October 5--9},
month = {October},
note = {in press},
abstract = {
Out-of-focus effects degrade text legibility in optical see-through (OST)
augmented reality (AR). Previous research using SharpView fonts has shown that
precorrection techniques can improve out-of-focus text legibility. However, the
text was limited to Latin characters, and the evaluation environment was limited
to a laboratory OST AR device. This research extends the SharpView approach in
two ways: (1) it extends the evaluation to East Asian characters (Korean,
Japanese, and Chinese) and (2) it conducts synthetic simulation and camera-based
optical evaluations using a Microsoft HoloLens 2. With both evaluations, the
SharpView precorrected font shows quantitatively improved sharpness and text
legibility. These results suggest that the SharpView font method can generalize
to multilingual environments and commercial AR devices.
},
}