Generally, for a multi-projector 3D display system, a precise multi-projector calibration is very important in terms of the necessity of accurately projecting images projected from each projector on a screen in order to obtain a high-quality 3D displa...
Generally, for a multi-projector 3D display system, a precise multi-projector calibration is very important in terms of the necessity of accurately projecting images projected from each projector on a screen in order to obtain a high-quality 3D display image. However, for a multi-projector 3D display system, a keystone effect, which is a geometric distortion, occurs due to the arrangement of a multi-projector having different positions and directions with respect to a screen.
In order to correct the keystone effect and to obtain images that match the projected images of the projectors on the screen, it is necessary to use the pin-hole camera model for the calibration process and the projector calibration method based on homography estimation has been used. However, such a method can not consider a lens model for nonlinear distortion because it uses an ideal pin-hole camera model that does not consider lens distortion with nonlinear characteristics. In addition, in the case of multi-projector calibration based on homography estimation, the calibration accuracy for the camera required for mapping between the coordinates on the screen located in the 3D coordinate system and the coordinates of the 2D image plane of the projector is determined by the projector calibration accuracy. Therefore, the calibration accuracy obtained by this method is not sufficient for providing a high-quality 3D image.
Radial basis function interpolation (RBFI) is directly mapped to the projector space coordinates without approximation such as homography estimation. Since RBFI is a nonlinear interpolation method, the distortion of the projected image of the projector is also taken into consideration, so that the accuracy can be higher than that of the homography estimation method. However, in this thesis, in the 3D object reconstruction of the multi-projector 3D display system used in this experiment, as the depth value of the 3D object to be projected becomes larger, the multi-projector 3D display system can not provide a high quality three-dimensional image to the observer. As a result of analyzing the above causes, it is confirmed that the accuracy of multi-projector position estimation for 3D object reconstruction is insufficient.
In this thesis, we propose a method to estimate the position of a projector using mapping data extracted from dual screens to improve the accuracy of multi–projector position estimation. As a result, it was confirmed that the projector position estimation accuracy obtained from the multi-projector calibration based on dual screen mapping is higher than the one based on RBFI. In addition a multi-projector 3D display system with a dual screen mapping projector calibration method shows the result of reconstructing a object in which less error is found even if the depth value increases.