LinkNotes: MITRE -- Head Tracking Visual Telepresence

2009-03-01

MITRE -- Head Tracking Visual Telepresence

Clipped from: YouTube - MITRE Immersive Vision System

MITRE Immersive Vision System

Demonstration of a highly responsive head tracked vision system used for visual telepresence.
http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/adva...

"With remote robot interaction we can use visual telepresence to trick users' brains into thinking their eyes have been transported onto the robot," says Kyle Fawcett. "This unlocks the brain's natural ability to build a mental model of the remote environment. The better our vision system mimics interaction with the remote environment, the more we tap into our brain's natural spatial mapping abilities."

Clipped from: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: MITRE immersive spherical vision system

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

MITRE immersive spherical vision system

MITRE scientists have worked out a solution to this latency problem replacing the limited field of view camera on the pan-tilt unit with a spherical vision camera which has no moving parts. The camera of choice is the Ladybug commercially sold by Point Grey Research in Canada. Stanford's Urban Challenge autonomous car also used the same camera for part of its perception system. This spherical vision system consists of 6 cameras which capture images simultaneously covering a large portion of the view sphere around it. Software stitches the images together into a single view in real-time. These spherical vision images are then available to the operator to view for any orientation of his head.

Clipped from: MITRE - News and Events - MITRE Publications - The MITRE Digest - Advanced Research - Immersive Vision Gives the Best Control to Military Robots

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