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Research Areas For Projects Sum2014

1. The document lists potential project ideas for ECE6550, with higher priority given to projects outlined in slides 1 through 6. 2. Proposals for projects are due on Tuesday, May 20th, 2014. 3. Potential project ideas include smart cars, traffic monitoring, optical character recognition, object recognition, artificial vision, medical imaging, biometrics, face detection, face recognition, vision-based biometrics, target recognition, object recognition in mobile phones, sports motion estimation, vision-based interaction and games, robotics, safety, health, security, and applications in finance/business documents.

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Research Areas For Projects Sum2014

1. The document lists potential project ideas for ECE6550, with higher priority given to projects outlined in slides 1 through 6. 2. Proposals for projects are due on Tuesday, May 20th, 2014. 3. Potential project ideas include smart cars, traffic monitoring, optical character recognition, object recognition, artificial vision, medical imaging, biometrics, face detection, face recognition, vision-based biometrics, target recognition, object recognition in mobile phones, sports motion estimation, vision-based interaction and games, robotics, safety, health, security, and applications in finance/business documents.

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ECE6550 Project Ideas

Notes:
1. For this year, projects with higher
priorities are such ones in slides from 1
to 6.

2. Your proposals are due to Tuesday


5/20/2014

Enjoy

Smart cars

Slide content courtesy of Amnon Shashua

Mobileye
Vision systems currently in high-end BMW, GM, Volvo models
By 2010: 70% of car manufacturers.

Autonomous Vehicles
Land, Underwater, Space

Traffic Monitoring

Traffic monitoring and estimation of delays

Optical character recognition (OCR)


Technology to convert scanned docs to text
Text recognition

License plate readers

Object recognition
Also not just for
supermarkets

Artificial Vision- for the robots or blind

Terminator 2

Medical Imaging

3D imaging
MRI, CT

Mammography
and early
cancer
detection

Image guided surgery


Grimson et al., MIT

Biometrics-Login without a password

Fingerprint scanners on
many new laptops,
other devices

Face recognition systems now


beginning to appear more widely
http://www.sensiblevision.com/

Face detection

You can come up with application for face detection


and not just for fun or fb

Face recognition

Who is she?

Vision-based biometrics

How the Afghan Girl was Identified by Her Iris Patterns Read the story

Target Recognition
Department of Defense (Army, Airforce, Navy)

Object recognition (in mobile phones)

This is becoming real (already happened)

Microsoft Research
Point & Find, Nokia

Sports- and motion estimation

Sportvision first down line


Nice explanation on www.howstuffworks.com

Vision-based interaction (and games)

Digimask: put your face on a 3D avatar.

Nintendo Wii has camera-based IR


tracking built in. See Lees work at
CMU on clever tricks on using it to
create a multi-touch display!

Game turns moviegoers into Human Joysticks, CNET


Camera tracking a crowd, based on this work.

Robotics

NASAs Mars Spirit Rover


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_rover

http://www.robocup.org/

More and more..

Safety

Health

Security

Comfort

Fun

Finance/business
documents

Recent news

Recent news

Recent news

Current state of the art


You just saw examples of current systems.
Many of these are less than 5 years old

This is a very active research area, and rapidly


changing

Many new apps in the next 5 years


To learn more about vision applications and companies
Check
David Lowe maintains an excellent overview of vision companies
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/lowe/vision.html

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