Asynchronous distributed calibration for scalable and reconfigurable multi-projector displays

Centralized techniques have been used until now when automatically calibrating (both geometrically and photometrically) large high-resolution displays created by tiling multiple projectors in a 2D array. A centralized server managed all the projectors and also the camera(s) used to calibrate the dis...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 12(2006), 5 vom: 11. Sept., Seite 1101-8
1. Verfasser: Bhasker, Ezekiel S (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Sinha, Pinaki, Majumder, Aditi
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2006
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:Centralized techniques have been used until now when automatically calibrating (both geometrically and photometrically) large high-resolution displays created by tiling multiple projectors in a 2D array. A centralized server managed all the projectors and also the camera(s) used to calibrate the display. In this paper, we propose an asynchronous distributed calibration methodology via a display unit called the plug-and-play projector (PPP). The PPP consists of a projector, camera, computation and communication unit, thus creating a self-sufficient module that enables an asynchronous distributed architecture for multi-projector displays. We present a single-program-multiple-data (SPMD) calibration algorithm that runs on each PPP and achieves a truly scalable and reconfigurable display without any input from the user. It instruments novel capabilities like adding/removing PPPs from the display dynamically, detecting faults, and reshaping the display to a reasonable rectangular shape to react to the addition/removal/faults. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to realize a completely asynchronous and distributed calibration architecture and methodology for multi-projector displays
Beschreibung:Date Completed 12.01.2007
Date Revised 03.11.2006
published: Print
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0506