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The technique of augmented reality (AR) is to augment 3D virtual objects into real images. Individual can interact with 3D virtual objects using tracking and registration methods. Visual tracking is the most popular tracking approach used in AR system, and markers are simply and generally used for identification and tracking. Moreover, natural feature or marker-less identification and tracking is getting more and more important and can be widely used in numerous applications. Therefore, many natural feature extraction and object tracking schemes are developed to efficiently identify and track natural objects. However, few of platforms are designed to verify different tracking algorithms for AR system. In this thesis, a novel tracking verification platform for AR environment, ARStudio, is proposed. ARStudio is on the basis of ARToolKit, and integrates the library of OpenCV and OpenGL. Furthermore, we modularize each component such as image capture, image transform, visual tracking, imag