Objectives, Lectures and Project Topics

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Introduction
CSC 59866CD Fall 2004

• Lecture 1
• Objectives, Lectures and Project Topics

Zhigang Zhu, NAC 8/203A http//www-cs.engr.ccny.cu
ny.edu/zhu/ Capstone2004/Capstone_Sequence2004.ht
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Lecture Outline

• Capstone Objectives and Plans
• Project Topics (for Spring 2005)
• Lectures (Fall 2004)
• Tools (C or Java with OpenGL)
• Teams (2?)

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Objectives and Plans

• Objectives
• Put what you learn in class into projects of real
  applications
• Course Plan Fall 2004
• M W 1215 pm 145 pm
• 1.5 hours lecture each on Vision, Video and
  Virtual Reality
• Mon 300 400 pm
• 30 minutes each week meeting with individual
  student teams (half an hour per team)
• After Class
• Reading, Discussions, Exercises, OpenGL/Java 3D
  Tutorials (self)
• Form teams
• And update project requirements and design
• Course Plan Spring 2005
• Project Design and Development (2 hours per week)
• Meeting and Reporting (1 hour per team per week)
• Final Report and Papers

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Project Topics

• Real-World Applications of Video Computing
• Entertainment, Education and HCI
• Computer Vision and Video in ITS and Security
• Augmented New York City
• CCNY\Working\NYC_VC\AugmentedNYC\AugmentedNYC.exe
• C and OpenGL
• Computer Vision in Education
• Virtualized Classroom
• Desktop\VCPlayer\VCPlayer_New_V1.jar
• Java Sun One Studio

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Enable Technologies

• Sensor Technologies
• EO/IR Cameras, Magnetic Loops
• Microphone arrays, digital whiteboard systems,
• Multimedia (Video) Communications
• Audio/Video steaming, compression and
  transmission
• Wireless Communication
• Data Mining and Information Retrieval
• Traffic analysis, prediction and anomaly
  detection
• Learning material indexing and searching
• Computer Vision and Virtualization
• Human and vehicle detection, extraction and
  tracking (Video Computing)
• Information Visualization (Image-Based Rendering
  - IBR)
• Virtual Real Integration (Augmented Reality-
  AR)

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Lectures (28)

• Introduction Vision, Video and Virtual Reality
  (3)
• Intro (1), Augmented -NYC(1), Virtualized
  Classroom (1)
• Visual Sensors, Image and Video Formation (3)
• Sensors (1), omnidirectional (1), image formation
  (1)
• 2D Vision Image Enhancement, Edges and Contours
  (3)
• Enhancement (1), edge (1), segmentation (1)
• Camera Models and 3D Graphics From 3D to 2D (4)
• 3D OpenGL (2), camera model (1), calibration (1)
• 3D Vision (Stereo and Motion) From 3D to 2D (4)
• Stereo (2), motion (2)
• Visual Representation Mosaics Layers (3)
• Mosaics (1), OmniStereo (1), Layers (1)
• Image-Based Rendering and Augmented Reality ( 4)
• IBMR (2), AR(2) NYC project and VC project
• Content-Based Video Computing (4)
• Tracking (1), NYC project (1) VC project (1),
  summary (1)

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Tools

• Technical Preparation (this course)
• 3D Computer Vision
• 2D image processing
• 3D Computer Graphics (OpenGL)
• Programming Environments (mainly on your own)
• C and OpenGL (for Augmented NYC and Virtualized
  Classroom)
• NeHe OpenGL Tutorials (with C code samples)
• http//nehe.gamedev.net/
• Java and/or Java 3D / OpenGL ( for Virtualized
  Classroom)
• Sun ONE Studio 4 CE
• Java 3D has a high level implementation of OpenGL
• http//java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/
• Audio/Video Streaming

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Tentative Teams

• Team 1 Augmented New York City (C)
• Team 2 Virtualized Classroom (Java)
• Current Students
• Hill, Robert
• Molina , Edgardo
• Velasco, Emmanuel
• Giang, Peter (?)
• Ram, Krishnan (?)
• Fares, Hussein (?)

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Next

• Project Topic 1

Augmented NYC

• Checking out the following site for OpenGL
  tutorials
• NeHe OpenGL Tutorials (with C code samples)
  http//nehe.gamedev.net/
• Java 3D has a high level implementation of OpenGL
• http//java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/