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An automated calibration method for non-see-through head mounted displays

Gilson, S.J., Fitzgibbon, A.W. and Glennerster, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8674-2763 (2009) An automated calibration method for non-see-through head mounted displays. In: 2009 International Conference on Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality, Las Vegas Nevada, USA, pp. 145-150.

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Abstract/Summary

Accurate calibration of a head mounted display (HMD) is essential both for research on the visual system and for realistic interaction with virtual objects. Yet, existing calibration methods are time consuming and depend on human judgements, making them error prone. The methods are also limited to optical see-through HMDs. Building on our existing HMD calibration method [1], we show here how it is possible to calibrate a non-see-through HMD. A camera is placed inside an HMD displaying an image of a regular grid, which is captured by the camera. The HMD is then removed and the camera, which remains fixed in position, is used to capture images of a tracked calibration object in various positions. The locations of image features on the calibration object are then re-expressed in relation to the HMD grid. This allows established camera calibration techniques to be used to recover estimates of the display’s intrinsic parameters (width, height, focal length) and extrinsic parameters (optic centre and orientation of the principal ray). We calibrated a HMD in this manner in both see-through and in non-see-through modes and report the magnitude of the errors between real image features and reprojected features. Our calibration method produces low reprojection errors and involves no error-prone human measurements.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Divisions:Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences
ID Code:14215
Uncontrolled Keywords:head mounted display , non-see-through , calibration, photogrammetry
Publisher:CSREA Press

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