Design of Authoring Tool for Static and Dynamic Projection Mapping

This study introduces the design details of a tool to create interactive projection-mapping content in a convenient manner. For the proposed tool design, a homography-based camera–projector calibration method was applied with the use of red–green–blue-depth images from a Kinect V2 sensor that did not require accurate camera calibration prerequisites. In addition, the proposed tool simultaneously achieved static projection mapping that projected the image content onto a fixed object, and dynamic projection mapping that projected the image content onto a user’s body, by tracing the moving user. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed content-creation tool, users with no programming capabilities were employed to create contents that were projected onto various objects in fixed positions and a user’s body in various poses, thereby analyzing the tool’s completeness. Moreover, the projection accuracy was analyzed at different depth positions, and the projection-mapping accuracy was verified with the use of the proposed method.