Digitial Airbrushing with Spatial Augmented Reality

This is the video that accompanied my poster at ISMAR 2009. The system I developed allows a user to digitally airbrush onto physical objects, with the 'paint' being projected onto the objects. The user is given a stencil, which can mask areas of the paint. The stencil tool is a board, but the actual shape of the mask is virtualised, which means you can do things like allowing the user to draw their own stencil to accomplish a specific task.

The key point in this video is building the user interface from physical tools that are augmented with digital information. This idea has uses well beyond the scope of a painting application.

For more information:

http://www.20papercups.net or
http://wearables.unisa.edu.au

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• sar
• airbrushing
• digital airbrush
• projection
• interaction
• ismar

[MichaelMarner]

Hey mate

In this video I am actually using a Vicon motion capture system for tracking. You can see the marker sets on the box and car during the video. Essentially, the Vicon software does all the processing and gives me back position and orientation of the objects.

However, there is no reason the software couldn't be used with other trackers, such as a polhemus or something like AR Toolkit.

Thanks for the awesome feedback!

[msromyilano]

wow!

[MediaEventi]

Really impressive...

[dazzamazing09]

Very impressive video.....Just a question, how are you tracking the objects during this clip?

A well spoken presentation, and very informative! Thanks, it really opened my mind to the topic of spatial augmented reality!

Keep up the good work man :)