Projector View Synthesis and Virtual Texturing

We propose a technique to project a synthesized texture onto 3D textureless real objects without contact, which can be applied for example, in medical or archaeological applications. Our system uses two cameras and one projector. By projecting a suitable set of light patterns onto the surface of a 3D real object and by capturing images with one or several cameras, a large number of correspondences can be determined and the 3D geometry can be estimated. Since we deal with textureless objects, traditional corner detection algorithms can not be applied, but our approach successfully determines both 3D geometry and the appropriate texture to be projected onto the 3D model.