Projector Placement Planning for High Quality Visualizations on Real-World Colored Objects

—Many visualization applications benefit from displaying content on real-world objects rather than on a traditional display (e.g., a monitor). This type of visualization display is achieved by projecting precisely controlled illumination from multiple projectors onto the real-world colored objects. For such a task, the placement of the projectors is critical in assuring that the desired visualization is possible. Using ad hoc projector placement may cause some appearances to suffer from color shifting due to insufficient projector light radiance being exposed onto the physical surface. This leads to an incorrect appearance and ultimately to a false and potentially misleading visualization. In this paper, we present a framework to discover the optimal position and orientation of the projectors for such projection-based visualization displays. An optimal projector placement should be able to achieve the desired visualization with minimal projector light radiance. When determining optim...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: TVCG
• Authors: Alvin J. Law, Daniel G. Aliaga, Aditi Majumder
• Keywords: Hoc Projector Placement, Optimal Projector Placement, Projector Placement, TVCG 2010