Title
GPU Based Real-time Correction for Optical Distortions in Head-Mounted Displays
Abstract
This paper presents a GPU-based real-time method to correct optical distortions in head-mounted displays (HMDs). The HMD to be corrected is a lightweight and wide field-of-view HMD system with free-form-surface (FFS) prism, in which the image distortion is not rectilinear and centrosymmetric. A special predistortion model is constructed to correct the distortion of the HMD. Although the distortion correction can be performed with an extensional optics system, the system will be too expensive and additional weight will be imposed to the HMD. With the method presented in this paper, each pixel in the original image is remapped to a new position with GPU and forms a predistortion image. The remapping process is based on a prior formatted distortion map, which is similar to the normal map used in the bump mapping process. The distortion map is an RGBA image that corresponds to the X and Y coordinates of a pixel offset from the original image. The remapping process accomplished by GPU is very fast. The performance of the proposed method is analyzed and validated via a demonstration system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICIG.2009.161
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2009
Keywords
Field
DocType
rgba image,distortion correction,helmet mounted displays,prior formatted distortion map,computer graphic equipment,image processing,gpu,free-form-surface prism,optical distortions,remapping process,original image,image distortion,optical distortion,head-mounted displays,predistortion image,demonstration system,real-time correction,distortion map,image analysis,real time systems,head mounted display,pixel,field of view,real time,nonlinear distortion
Computer vision,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Normal mapping,Image processing,Bump mapping,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Nonlinear distortion,Distortion,Offset (computer science),Predistortion
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
null
null
null
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-5237-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dongdong Weng12919.16
Yongtian Wang245673.00
Yue Liu310023.05