The authors designed a self-adaptive projection system which is composed of color camera,projector and PC.In detail,digital micro-mirror device (DMD) as a spatial light modulator for the projector was introduced in the optical path to modulate the illuminant spectrum based on red,green and blue light emitting diodes (LED).However,the color visibility of active markers is affected by the screen which has unknown reflective spectrum as well.Here active markers are projected spot array.And chromaticity feature of markers is sometimes submerged in similar spectral screen.In order to enhance the color visibility of active markers relative to screen,a method for selecting self-adaptive chromaticity of the projected markers in 3D scanning metrology is described.Color camera with 3 channels limits the accuracy of device characterization.For achieving interconversion of device-independent color space and device-dependent color space,high-dimensional linear model of reflective spectrum was built.Prior training samples provide additional constraints to yield high-dimensional linear model with more than three degrees of freedom.Meanwhile,spectral power distribution of ambient light was estimated.Subsequently,markers’ chromaticity in CIE color spaces was selected via maximization principle of Euclidean distance.The setting values of RGB were easily estimated via inverse transform.Finally,we implemented a typical experiment to show the performance of the proposed approach.An 24 Munsell Color Checker was used as projective screen.Color difference in the chromaticity coordinates between the active marker and the color patch was utilized to evaluate the color visibility of active markers relative to the screen.The result comparison between self-adaptive projection system and traditional diode-laser light projector was listed and discussed to highlight advantage of our proposed method.