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Past projects, Takeo Kanade

• 2D->3D Face Model Construction - We develop a linear algorithm that uniquely recovers the 3D non-rigid shapes and poses of a human face from a 2D monocular video.
• 3D Optical Reconstruction of Cell Shape - Reconstruction of 3D cell shapes using optical microscope
• 3D Video Reconstruction of Skeletal Anatomy - This project aims to reconstruct from video sequences the 3D shape of skeleton of mouse fetuses (for pharmaceutical research) stored inside vials with glycerol.
• ALVINN-On-A-Chip - The ALVINN-on-a-chip project is developing an intelligent VLSI imaging sensor for road following
• Ambler - We are developing the Ambler, a six-legged walking robot that addresses the challenges of exploring rugged terrains, acquiring samples, and avoiding dangerous situations.
• Autonomous Land Vehicle In a Neural Network - Neural network navigation
• Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer - We are developing the Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer (CAMEO) - a sensory system designed to provide an electronic agent with physical awareness of the real world.
• Car Tracking - Algorithms for tracking cars and generating "bird's eye views" of the surrounding road scene.
• Cooperative Stereo Vision - Development of stereo vision algorithms and supporting software.
• DigitEyes - DigitEyes is a noninvasive, real-time tracking system for complex articulated figures like the human hand and body.
• Face and Facial Feature Tracking - Rigid Tracking of Faces and Non-Rigid Tracking of Facial Features
• Face Databases - Miscellaneous face databases collected at CMU.
• Face Model Building and Fitting - Techniques for building and fitting 2D and 3D models of human faces and heads.
• Face Recognition - Recognizing people from images and videos.
• Factorization Method - We have developed a factorization method to robustly decompose an image stream into object shape and camera motion.
• Fast VLSI Range-Image Sensor - We have built a high-performance VLSI sensor which uses a "cell-parallel" light-stripe algorithm to increase range-image frame rates by two orders of magnitude
• Gaze Estimation - Algorithms for estimating where someone is looking
• Hallucinating Faces - A super-resolution algorithm with a strong face-specifc prior.
• High Performance Computing for Robot-Assisted Surgery - High Performance Computing for Robot-Assisted Surgery
• Humanoid Vision - We are adding visual recognition and navigation to Honda's humanoid robots
• Image Enhancement for Faces - Video enhancement techniques, specifically tailored for human faces.
• Integrated Vision and Sensing for Human Sensory Augmentation - The project integrates vision algorithms with sensing technologies for low-power, low-latency, compact adaptive vision systems to provide augmentation of human sensory systems and enabling sensory driven information delivery
• Knowledge-Guided Deformable Registration - Matching corresponding anatomical structures across individuals, detecting possible pathologies.
• Light-fields - A variety of uses of light-fields in computer vision.
• Magic Eye - Computer vision based augmented reality systems
• Medical Image Registration - We use planar X-ray images to estimate the position and orientation of patient anatomy with respect to an external coordinate frame.
• Metaphor - Design for Software Evolution and Reuse
• Neural Network-Based Face Detection - A neural network-based face detection system
• Non-Invasive Optical Imaging in vivo for Early Detection and Advanced Diagnosis of Cancer
• Photometric Limits on Computer Vision - An investigation into the fundamental limits imposed on computer vision algorithms by imperfect or incomplete photometric information.
• Prediction & Planning - This project analyses the safety and interaction of moving objects in complex road scenes.
• Scene Flow - Methods of computing dense, non-rigid motion of 3D scenes.
• Self-Mobile Space Manipulator - A simple, independently mobile, modular, low mass, low cost robot for space station EVA.
• Setting Low-Level Vision Parameters - Techniques for feeding back information from high-level vision modules to low-level modules to improve the performance of the overall system.
• Spatio-Temporal View Interpolation - An image-based rendering algorithm for view interpolation across both space and time.
• Super-Resolution Optical Flow - A super-resolution algorithm for complex non-rigid scenes.
• Textureless Layers - Techniques for the 3D reconstruction of scenes consisting of constant intensity piecewise planar regions (layers).
• Ultrasonic Bone Imaging
• Video Surveillance and Monitoring - cooperative multi-sensor military surveillance system
• 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
• Visual-Haptic Interface to Virtual Environment - What You can See is What You Feel (WYSIWYF) virtual environment
• Z-Keying - A new image keying method which merges synthetic and real image in real time.