Laser Pointer Tracking in Projector-Augmented Architectural Environments

We present a system that applies a custom-built pan-tilt-zoom camera for laser-pointer tracking in arbitrary real environments. Once placed in a building environment, it carries out a fully automatic self-registration, registrations of projectors, and sampling of surface parameters, such as geometry and reflectivity. After these steps, it can be used for tracking a laser spot on the surface as well as an LED marker in 3D space, using inter-playing fisheye context and controllable detail cameras. The captured surface information can be used for masking out areas that are critical to laser-pointer tracking, and for guiding geometric and radiometric image correction techniques that enable a projector-based augmentation on arbitrary surfaces. We describe a distributed software framework that couples laser-pointer tracking for interaction, projector-based AR as well as video see-through AR for visualizations with the domain specific functionality of existing desktop tools for architectural planning, simulation and building surveying.

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Author:Daniel Kurz, Ferry Häntsch, Max Große, Alexander Schiewe, Oliver Bimber
URN:urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-8183
Document Type:Report
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):04.06.2007
Year of first Publication:2007
Institutes:Juniorprofessur Augmented Reality
Tag:Erweiterte Realität ; Interaktion ; Laserpointer Tracking ; Projektion ; Verteilte Systeme
Augmented Reality ; Distributed Systems; Interaction ; Laser Pointer Tracking ; Projection
SWD-Keyword:Architektur <Informatik> ; Association for Computing Machinery / Special Interest Group on Graphics ; CGI <Computergraphik> ; Maschinelles Sehen
Dewey Decimal Classification:770 Fotografie, Fotografien, Computerkunst
BKL-Classification:54.73 Computergraphik