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A Collage
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Sushmita
| Sushmita Subramanian prepares a demo of "Logo Robot Virtual Reality." The yellow contraption in the lower left hand corner is the lego robot. (See her talk slides or her project report for more details.) |
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Sushmita
| Sushmita shows how a simulated robot follows a black spiral curve on screen in the virtual world. The same code drives the real world yellow lego robot in the lower right hand corner of the picture. |
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Sushmita
| Dr. Ben Shedd (left) watches the demo. |
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Sushmita
| Sushmita discusses with visitors. |
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Sushmita
| Sushmita explains to Sumeet Sobti why wheels are round. |
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Jing
| Jing Ge (right) shows Ruoming Pang (holding a tablet) his Chinese hand-writing recognition system. The system uses machine learning techniques. (See his talk slides or his report for more details.) |
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Jing
| Jing chats with Prof. Andrew Appel. |
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Jing
| Sumeet Sobti (right) pretends to understand Chinese writing as we scribble on Jing's tablet to make fun of him. |
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Kalid and Savraj
| Kalid Azad (left) and Savraj Singh Dhanjal prepare to demo their networked position-aware autonomous robot. (See their talk slides or their report for more details.) |
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The "RallyBot"
| A closeup of the robot. It's equipped with two infrared range sensors (front and back), two "brainstem" controllers, a wireless camera, a digital compass, an iPAQ, and an 802.11 card in the iPAQ sleeve. |
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Savraj
| Savraj with his robot and the laptop, which allows him to control the robot with high-level commands. |
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Kalid and Savraj
| Savraj and Kalid explain the details of the robot to intrigued onlookers. |
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Kalid
| Kalid hooks up an 802.11 directional antenna to the robot. The antenna is made of a soup can. It allows more accurate indoor positioning by triangulating 802.11 access point signal strength. |
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Savraj and Kalid
| Kalid picks up the robot to better show its wheels turning as the robot attempts to autonomously maintain the direction of its traveling. |
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Savraj and Kalid
| Savraj and Kalid explain the details of the robot to intrigued onlookers. |
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Ari
| Ari Lazier prepares to demo MoSievius, a system for interactively composing audio mosaics. (See his talk slides or his thesis for more details.) |
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Ari
| Ari demos MoSievius to visitors. |
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Ari
| Prof. Perry Cook (left) discusses with Prof. Kai Li (right) about Ari's work, while Gary Wang looks on. |
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Jacob
| Jacob Weiss prepares to demo his "Musical Juggling Interfaces." (See his talk slides or his report for more details.) |
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Jacob
| Jacob prepares to demo his "Musical Juggling Interfaces." |
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Jacob
| Prof. Kai Li watches (and listens) to Jacob's demo. As Jacob taps on a board, the sensors pick up the tapping and transmit to a computer, where a fuzzy matching algorithm recognizes the rhythm and generates synthetic beats. |
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Ajay
| Ajay Kapur prepares to demo his "ETabla," a digital Indian drum (which rests on the chair in the foreground). (See his talk slides or his thesis for more details.) |
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Ajay
| Ajay plays the ETabla as a part of the "E-Dholak:" a networked multiplayer performance system. |
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Gary
| Gary provides accompaniment with a wooden spoon. |
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Ajay
| Ajay shows off his versatility by taking over the spoon. |
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Jason
| Jason Yau demos his pen tracking system: a camera mounted on a tripod (whose legs are visible) "watches" a specially marked pen in Jason's right hand, and the system tracks the coordinates of the pen tip as it freely moves. This is a subcomponent of a larger system that attempts to capture hand-drawing. (See his talk slides or his report for more details.) |
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Jason
| Prof. Kai Li (left) listens as Prof. Adam Finkelstein dicusses Jason's work. |
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Wilkie
| Wilkie Kiefer (left) demos his "image registration and noise reduction" system. This is a second component of the larger hand drawing capture system that Jason Yau also works on. (See Wilkie's talk slides or his report for more details.) |
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Wilkie
| Wilkie explains the details of his project to visitors. |
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Mihai
| Mihai Parparita (right) explains to a visitor his Ptunes music web services. (See his talk slides or his report for more details.) |
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Mihai
| Mihai demos Ptunes. |
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Lujo
| Lujo Bauer (left) describes to a visitor a "proof-carrying authorization system." |
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Grant
| Grant Wallace (left) explains to visitors how "fast multi-projector alignment" works. |