VIDEO PROJECTION ONTO AN ARBITRARY CURVED SURFACE
Saikat Bahdra, Eric Heinen, Matt Riley
EE 371R - Image and Video Processing Final Project (Spring 2005)
Projects a square image onto most curved surfaces without (much) distortion.

Projector and Laptop
Non-Uniform Projection Surface
1.) A test pattern like the one below is projected onto the surface. A still camera is used to capture the projected image, which is then analyzed by the software to measure the distortion introduced by the surface.
Structured Lighting Pattern
Structured Lighting Pattern Projected
2.) The image to be projected is shown below as a source image and as it appears when projected without our software.
Source Image
Source Image Projected (without software modification)
3.) The software uses the analysis from (1) to distort the source image in such a way that it will appear undistorted when projected on to the curved surface.
Software-Modified Source Image
Final Image Projection