Practical Multi-Projector Display Design

by Cameron Browne, Aditi Majumder, Michael S. Brown

Overview

Large-area high-resolution displays are essential for scientific visualization, entertainment, and defense applications. A popular way to realize such displays is to tile multiple projectors together to create one large display. As opposed to a 19” diagonal monitor with a resolution of 60 pixels per inch, tiled multi-projector displays are often 10’ x 8’ and have a resolution of 100-300 pixels per inch.

The research in this area spans several traditional areas in computer science, including computer vision, computer graphics, image processing, human-computer interaction, and visualization tools. This book shows how to make such displays inexpensive, flexible, and commonplace by making them both perceptually and functionally seamless. In addition, the use of multi-projector techniques in large-scale visualization, virtual reality, computer graphics, and vision applications is discussed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568813103
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/06/2007
Pages:	251
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Browne, Cameron; Majumder, Aditi; Brown, Michael S.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction, 2 Elements of Projection-Based Displays, 3 Geometric Alignment, 4 Color Seamlessness, 5 PC-Cluster Rendering for Large-Scale Displays, 6 Advanced Distributed Calibration, A Color and Measurement, B Perception, C Camera Lens-Distortion Correction

What People are Saying About This

Ramesh Raskar

"This is the most practical and thorough book on installing and operating flexible, seamless multi-projector systems."--(Ramesh Raskar, author of Spatial Augmented Reality)

Mark Hereld

"An excellent book covering all of the fundamental issues that the practitioner or student will need in order to understand multi-projector displays and their applications."--(Mark Hereld, Argonne National Laboratory)

From the Publisher

Majumder and Brown have written an excellent book covering all of the fundamental issues that the practitioner or student will need in order to understand multi-projector displays and their applications. The authors strike a good balance between theory and practice throughout the text and include many useful images and diagrams that make the book clear and readable. The final chapter, on advanced methods, presents several stimulating ideas, while the appendices contain a collection of important supplementary topics. In all, the book provides a useful introduction to the present state of affairs for students to absorb and enlarge upon in the course of their own research.
—Mark Hereld, Argonne National Laboratory

Camera-assisted techniques can drastically lower the cost of projector-based displays. This is the most practical and thorough book on installing and operating flexible, seamless multi-projector systems.
—Ramesh Raskar, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs

Foreword

A valuable book, one that can guide you into an exciting new area, a field that may, dare I say it, change the world.

-From the Foreword by Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Editorial Reviews

Majumder and Brown have written an excellent book covering all of the fundamental issues that the practitioner or student will need in order to understand multi-projector displays and their applications. The authors strike a good balance between theory and practice throughout the text and include many useful images and diagrams that make the book clear and readable. The final chapter, on advanced methods, presents several stimulating ideas, while the appendices contain a collection of important supplementary topics. In all, the book provides a useful introduction to the present state of affairs for students to absorb and enlarge upon in the course of their own research.
—Mark Hereld, Argonne National Laboratory

Camera-assisted techniques can drastically lower the cost of projector-based displays. This is the most practical and thorough book on installing and operating flexible, seamless multi-projector systems.
—Ramesh Raskar, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs

From the Publisher