Browsing by Author "Liao, Shou-Chun"

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A flexible display by integrating a wall-size display and steerable projectors
(2006)
Chan, Li-Wei
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Ye, Wei-Shian
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Liao, Shou-Chun
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Tsai, Yu-Pao
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Hsu, Jane
Many wall-size display systems are built to provide large-scale visualization. These systems may be quite successful for some limited applications, but are very inflexible, since these systems only have fixed display regions. This paper integrates steerable projectors whose beam can be moved under computer control onto a wall-size display system to strengthen its display ability. With the steerable projectors, the integrated display system, named Flexible Display, provide an extendable display region. This consists of a large-scale display region and several movable display regions, such that the integrated display system has great potential in the area of human-computer interaction and information visualization. This paper applies the Flexible Display to a virtual museum application to give the users fluent navigation experience. For the application, the Flexible Display provides the following functions: 1) intensity and resolution enhancement of sub-region of display wall, 2) information augmentation, and 3) "stepping user interfaces" for its viewers interacting with display wall.
Automatic geometric and photometric calibration for tiling multiple projectors with a pan-tilt-zoom camera
(2006)
Tsai, Yu-Pao
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Wu, Yen-Nien
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Liao, Shou-Chun
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Shih, Zen-Chung
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Hung, Yi-Ping
Research on creating a large, high-resolution, low-cost display system has become increasingly important due to the growing desire in many fields for bigger and better displays. The goal of this research is to build a seamless large-scale display system by tiling multiple projectors with the help of a pan-tilt-zoom camera. In order to achieve this goal, we took two tasks into consideration: geometric calibration and photometric calibration. Compared to the previous work, our method for geometric calibration is more accurate, thanks to the much higher resolution images acquired by combining several zoom-in images and doing lens correction for the camera at first. For photometric calibration, we achieve color uniformity among projectors by utilizing the same PTZ camera, which is calibrated once with a colorimeter in a factory. Furthermore, we adopted the technique of producing a high dynamic range image from several images of different exposures to increase the measurement accuracy of the camera. In our experiments, the average error of photometric measurement achieved by our method is less than the mean perceptibility tolerance. Our method has great potential for many applications that require large and high-resolution displays.