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Vision for Virtual Environments
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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

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

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
• [Home] Katsushi Ikeuchi - Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) <ki@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Takeo Kanade - U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS <tk@cs.cmu.edu>
• Makoto Kimura - Visiting Scholar
• [Home] Iain Matthews - Senior Systems Scientist <iainm@cs.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)>
• Daniel D. Morris - PhD Student, RI
• Teck Khim Ng - PhD Student, ECE
• [Home] Peter Rander - Senior Commercialization Specialist <rander@cs.cmu.edu>
• Hideo Saito - Visiting Scientist
• Sundar Vedula - PhD Student, RI

• 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 Reality^TM - 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.

• 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]
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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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