Oliver Bimber is an Assistant Professor for Augmented Reality at the Bauhaus University Welmar, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Ramesh Raskar earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he developed a framework for projector based displays. He has won numerous awards, most recently the Mitsubishi Electric Valuable invention Award 2004. His papers have appeared in SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, IEEE Visualization, CVPR and many other graphics and vision conference proceedings.

• Preface, 1 A Brief Introduction to Augmented Reality, 2 Fundamentals: From Photons to Pixels, 3 Augmented Reality Displays, 4 Geometric Projection Concepts, 5 Creating Images with Spatial Projection Displays, 6 Generating Optical Overlays, 7 Projector-Based Illumination and Augmentation, 8 Examples of Spatial AR Displays, 9 The Future, A Calibration of a Projector (or a Camera), B OpenGL’s Transformation Pipeline Partially Re-Implemented, Bibliography

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