Title: RemoteEyes: A Remote LowCost Position Sensing Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing
1RemoteEyes A Remote Low-Cost Position Sensing
Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing
Changsong Shen, Baosheng Wang, Florian Vogt,
Steve Oldridge and Sidney Fels csshen, baosheng,
fvogt, steveo, ssfels_at_ece.ubc.ca
Processing Pipeline
- Features
- Remote
- Ethernet
- Low-cost/latency
- FPGA
- XScale
- Medium-fidelity
- High resolution camera
- Motivation
- Tracking people to know context necessary for
many ubiquitous computing environments - Various limitations of previous works
1. Blinking Pattern Encoding
2. Raw Image Capturing
3. Bright Spot Detection
4. Bright Spot Grouping
5. Invalid Bright Spot Removal
6. Blinking Pattern Decoding
7. Tracking Results Displaying
- Future Work
- Refinement and more evaluation
- Distributed Embedded Video
- Processing System
- Social Interaction based Musical Environment
(SIME)
- Applications
- Object tracking
- 3-D reconstruction
Reference C. Shen, B. Wang, F. Vogt, S. Oldridge
and S. Fels, "RemoteEyes A Remote Low-Cost
Position Sensing Infrastructure for Ubiquitous
Computing", Proceedings of 1st International
Workshop on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS
2004), Japan, June 22 - 23, 2004 Acknowledgements
to Zion Kwok, Kara Poon, Ernie Lin and Justin
Lam. This research is supported by IRIS and ATR
Japan.
Human Communication Technologies
Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering