Evaluation of Geometric Registration Methods for Using Spatial Augmented Reality in the Automotive Industry

Abstract

Spatial augmented reality is especially interesting for the automotive industry, because in the production process of a car a lot of virtual content and also real objects are used. Therefore, the virtual content can be directly projected onto the real object to combine the advantages of the real and virtual world. One important issue for the usage of spatial augmented reality in automotive processes and applications is that the virtual content has to be projected with a very high accuracy onto the real object, because decisions are made on the basis of the projection. Therefore, we present in this article a new method for the evaluation of geometric registration techniques which align a projector to a real object. Additionally, we use this proposed method to evaluate existing geometric registration techniques. Furthermore, we present a new application where a projector is used to support the design process of a new car.