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Vision for Virtual Environments This lab is no longer active. Head: Takeo Kanade Contact: Sundar Vedula Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Location: NSH B510 Associated center: VASC

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Lab Description

Using techniques from computer vision and robotics, we are developing novel sensing and display technologies to support practical, useful virtual environments.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Shigeyuki Baba	Visiting Scholar
	Simon Baker	Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)
	Robert Collins	Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)	rcollins@andrew.cmu.edu
	Mei Han	PhD Student, RI
	Katsushi Ikeuchi	Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)	ki@cs.cmu.edu
	Takeo Kanade	U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof.	tk@cs.cmu.edu
	Makoto Kimura	Visiting Scholar
	Iain Matthews	Senior Systems Scientist	iainm@cs.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)
	Daniel D. Morris	PhD Student, RI
	Teck Khim Ng	PhD Student, ECE
	Peter Rander	Senior Commercialization Specialist	rander@cs.cmu.edu
	Hideo Saito	Visiting Scientist
	Sundar Vedula	PhD Student, RI

Past projects

DigitEyes - DigitEyes is a noninvasive, real-time tracking system for complex articulated figures like the human hand and body.	Magic Eye - Computer vision based augmented reality systems
Modeling from Reality - Techniques for constructing solid models from observations of real objects	Reflectance Analysis for Computer Graphics Model Generation - New approach to obtain photometric information as well as geometric information of an object model automatically by observing a real object
Scene Flow - Methods of computing dense, non-rigid motion of 3D scenes.	Video-rate Stereo Machine - Multiple images obtained by multiple cameras to produce different baselines in lengths and in directions
Virtualized RealityTM - Construct views of real events from nearly any viewpoint	Z-Keying - A new image keying method which merges synthetic and real image in real time.

Recent publications [View all 30 publications]

• Virtualized Reality: Perspectives on 4D Digitization of Dynamic Events
  T. Kanade and P.J. Narayanan
  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, May, 2007, pp. 32 - 40. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [466 KB] copyrighted

• Historical Perspectives on 4D Virtualized Reality
  T. Kanade and P.J. Narayanan
  Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop, June, 2006, pp. 165 - 176. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [668 KB] copyrighted

• Image-Based Spatio-Temporal Modeling and View Interpolation of Dynamic Events
  S. Vedula, S. Baker, and T. Kanade
  ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 24, No. 2, April, 2005, pp. 240 - 261. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2053 KB] copyrighted

• Three-Dimensional Scene Flow
  S. Vedula, S. Baker, P. Rander, R. Collins, and T. Kanade
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 27, No. 3, March, 2005, pp. 475 - 480. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [576 KB] copyrighted

• Reconstruction of a Scene with Multiple Linearly Moving Objects
  M. Han and T. Kanade
  International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 59, No. 3, September, 2004, pp. 285 - 300.
  Download: pdf [1920 KB] copyrighted

• Appearance-Based Virtual View Generation From Multicamera Videos Captured in the 3-D Room
  H. Saito, S. Baba, and T. Kanade
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 5, No. 3, September, 2003, pp. 303 - 316.
  Download: pdf [2179 KB] copyrighted

• Stereo Matching between Three Images by Iterative Refinement in PVS
  M. Kimura, H. Saito, and T. Kanade
  The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers, Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E86-D, No. 1, January, 2003, pp. 89 - 100.
  Download: pdf [1502 KB] copyrighted

• A perspective factorization method for Euclidean reconstruction with uncalibrated cameras
  M. Han and T. Kanade
  Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, Vol. 13, No. 4, September, 2002, pp. 211 - 223.
  Download: pdf [1305 KB] copyrighted

• An active camera system for acquiring multi-view video
  R. Collins, O. Amidi, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '02), September, 2002, pp. 517 - 520.
  Download: pdf [352 KB] copyrighted

• Spatio-Temporal View Interpolation
  S. Vedula, S. Baker, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 13th ACM Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, June, 2002. [Abstract]
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