Researchers: Avital Steinitz, Ram Vasudevan

Many variants of object recognition consist of optimizing an objective that maps features to some desired output. For example, face recognition may be accomplished by a mapping from eigen-faces to identities. In our work, we wish to establish a generic framework for describing such objectives and for obtaining their (locally) optimal value. We believe that such clean and generic formalization would be applicable in various domains, ranging from object recognition to optimal control.

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• Automotive Safety
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Duration: 2009-2012
Collaborators: Prof. Francesco Borrelli, Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Funding: NSF - Cyber-Physical Systems and Active Safety

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Duration: 2009-2012
Collaborators: Simon Gould, EADS Innovation Works, Newport UK; dr. Mark Fraser, EADS North America
Funding: The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. (EADS)

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Duration: 2010-now
Collaborators: dr. Jay Han, University of California Davis Medical Center (UCDMC)
Funding: CITRIS Seed Grant 2011

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Duration: 2010-now
Collaborators: Prof. Maurizio Forte, University of California, Merced
Funding: CITRIS Seed Grant 2010

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Teleimmersion technology allows geographically distributed users to communicate and interact in real-time through a shared virtual environment. Users are captured by a set of stereo (depth) cameras which digitize the user into a cloud of points or a 3D mesh which can be compressed and shared with remote locations. Through the true 3D capture, the geometry of the real scene is preserved and mapped into the virtual environment. The research in teleimmersion thus combines 3D computer vision, collaborative virtual reality and networking.

ACM Multimedia 2011 Conference (Dec 1, 2011)
Best Student Paper Award
The paper "Color-plus-Depth Level-of-Details in 3D Teleimmersive Video-A Psychophysical Approach", W. Wu (UIUC), A. Ahsan (UIUC), G. Kurillo (UCB), P. Agarwal (UIUC), K. Nahrstedt (UIUC), R. Bajcsy (UCB), has won the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM Multimedia 2011 conference. Click here for the paper.

CENIC Conference (Jan 25, 2011)
Innovations in Networking Award