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Title: Pervasive Pixels


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Pervasive Pixels
  • Henning Schulzrinne (PI)
  • Steven K. Feiner
  • Gail Kaiser
  • John Kender
  • Kathleen McKeown
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Columbia University

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Proposed Research
  • Goal seamless mobile multimedia collaboration
    across distance
  • Integrate advances across fields
  • Collaborative work
  • Graphical and visual interfaces
  • Spoken language understanding and generation
  • Vision sensing and understanding
  • Networking and security

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Contributions
  • Contextual information management
  • use workflow to determine display content
  • multimedia summaries of past and present sessions
  • Harmonizing physical and virtual environments
  • map changing virtual information onto physical
    displays
  • map layout of physical environment onto virtual
    space
  • Network services
  • clear, flexible interface to common services
  • authentication and privacy support
  • operating system infrastructure for large displays

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Features of Research Infrastructure
  • Large, instrumented multi-display workspaces
  • Networked mobile devices of various capabilities
  • Transparent and automatic adaptability to changes
    of place, platform or group
  • Support for a wide range of hardware and
    software, from commercial to novel

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Pervasive Pixels Teams
Contextualized Information Management
Workflow Kaiser
Summarization Kender, McKeown
Database Ross
Harmonizing Physical and Virtual Environments
Project Leader Schulzrinne
Environment Management Feiner
Capture and Display Nayar, Kender
3D Modeling Allen
Network Services
Enabling communications Schulzrinne
Virtual Display Nieh
Access and Privacy Keromytis
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Pervasive Pixels Teams
Contextualized Information Management
Workflow Kaiser
Summarization Kender, McKeown
Database Ross
Harmonizing Physical and Virtual Environments
Project Leader Schulzrinne
Environment Management Feiner
Capture and Display Nayar, Kender
3D Modeling Allen
Network Services
Enabling communications Schulzrinne
Virtual Display Nieh
Access and Privacy Keromytis
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Pervasive Pixels Teams
Contextualized Information Management
Workflow Kaiser
Summarization Kender, McKeown
Database Ross
Harmonizing Physical and Virtual Environments
Project Leader Schulzrinne
Environment Management Feiner
Capture and Display Nayar, Kender
3D Modeling Allen
Network Services
Enabling communications Schulzrinne
Virtual Display Nieh
Access and Privacy Keromytis
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Pervasive Pixels Teams
Contextualized Information Management
Workflow Kaiser
Summarization Kender, McKeown
Database Ross
Harmonizing Physical and Virtual Environments
Project Leader Schulzrinne
Environment Management Feiner
Capture and Display Nayar, Kender
3D Modeling Allen
Network Services
Enabling communications Schulzrinne
Virtual Display Nieh
Access and Privacy Keromytis
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Pervasive Pixels Teams
Contextualized Information Management
Workflow Kaiser
Summarization Kender, McKeown
Database Ross
Harmonizing Physical and Virtual Environments
Project Leader Schulzrinne
Environment Management Feiner
Capture and Display Nayar, Kender
3D Modeling Allen
Network Services
Enabling communications Schulzrinne
Virtual Display Nieh
Access and Privacy Keromytis
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The Department of Computer Science
  • A growing faculty
  • 5 new assistant professors (pictures and areas
    here)
  • 1 new full professor Peter Belhumeur
  • 1 new full professor 9/02 Julia Hirschberg
  • A large student population
  • 80 PhDs
  • 155 MS
  • 380 undergraduate majors
  • Internal, fluid collaboration
  • Interdisciplinary connections

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Building Critical Mass
  • Networking
  • Schulzrinne, Misra, Yemini
  • links to EE
  • Vision
  • Allen, Belhumeur, Kender, Nayar
  • links to computer graphics
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • graphical and visual user interfaces Feiner,
    Kender
  • spoken and written language Hirschberg, McKeown
  • links to speech and multimedia in EE

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Areas of Growth
  • Security and systems
  • Computer engineering
  • Computer graphics
  • Theory
  • Sofware systems (e.g., programming languages)

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Administrative Support
  • Institutional cost share on this proposal 1
    million in total
  • 100,000/year for 5 years (Provost)
  • 100,000/year for 5 years (Dean)
  • Support for growth slots, space
  • Financial support
  • return in revenue (e.g., Columbia Video Network)
  • Technical transfer support
  • dedication of Columbia Innovative Enterprise
    services

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Current Departmental Facilities
  • Shared infrastructure of over 20 Sun and Pentium
    servers
  • Two teaching laboratories
  • 40 seat student lab (CLIC) of Intel Pentium PCs,
    dual projection capability, wireless microphone,
    video mixer and multiple cameras
  • 30 seat Microsoft Research Lab
  • Nortel Meridian telephone switch
  • Research infrastructure of gt 500 nodes plus
    servers
  • Staffed by 4 professional system administrators

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Research Infrastructure
  • User-based personalization user location
  • magnetic card readers
  • active badge system
  • triangulation on mobile devices
  • visual tracking
  • Stationary setups
  • Seminar room
  • 3 meeting rooms
  • 12 faculty offices
  • 5 public areas
  • portable units

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Seminar room
  • High-resolution DV video camera, 2 pan-tilt
    speaker cameras, Omnicam omnidrectional audience
    camera, video switcher, 16 ceiling mounted
    microphones, electronic whiteboard, 3 XGA
    high-brightness video projectors

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Meeting Room
  • 2 remote-controlled pan-tilt video cameras,
    Omnicam, conference table PZM boundary
    microphones, automatic audio mixer, ceiling
    speakers, 3 high-lumen XGA video projectors

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Faculty Office
  • Mimio electronic whiteboard, XGA video projector,
    Ethernet speaker phone, wal-mounted pan-tilt
    video camera, PocketPCs

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Public areas
  • Walk-by stations and laboratories
  • XGA video projector, steerable ceiling-mounted
    dome video camera, embedded ceiling mounted
    netowrked Pentium computer, celing speaker,
    Andrea DA-400 array microphone, Microtouch IBID
    600 whiteboard.
  • Picture here

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Design for walk-by collaboration
  • Figure 1 here

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Functionalities
  • Conferencing
  • Internet conferencing server to mis IP and PSTN
    audio streams
  • Interconnection with analog phone
  • Digital hybrid connects digital or analog sound
    to existing telephone system in classroom
  • Netowrk voice-over-IP interface attached to
    Nortel Meridian PBX for 20 simultaneous
    conversations
  • Multi-processor servers and IA64 compute and
    database server, plus others
  • File storage
  • Face, speaker and fingerprint recognition
  • 2 printers and tape library system in year 4 for
    backup

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Remaining Agenda
  • Research Overview
  • Contextualized Information Management (Kaiser)
  • Harmonizing Physical and Virtual (Feiner)
  • Network Services (Schulzrinne)
  • Genomics testbed (Noble)
  • Responding to reviews (Kender)
  • Telephony demo (Schulzrinne)
  • Lunch
  • Demos
  • Visit with administrators
  • Demos
  • Small group meetings
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