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Research Areas

pinlight displays
Pinlight Displays: wearable augmented reality displays

Virtual and Augmented Reality

Display Technology

  • Low-latency displays technology
  • Novel displays for see-through head-mounted displays
  • Multi-view auto-stereoscopic displays
  • Wide field-of-view AR displays

Tracking

  • Low-latency tracking
  • Large-area tracking
HiBall tracker
Hi-Ball tracker

Interactive Graphical Rendering

  • Interactive ray tracing
  • Low-latency rendering
  • Real-time texture compression for large image datasets

Sound Rendering

  • Physics-based modal sound synthesis
  • Extracting acoustic material properties from audio samples
  • Spatialized audio
  • Environment sound effects
haptic painting with dAb
haptic painting with dAb

Haptic Rendering

  • Force feedback display for rigid & deformable objects
  • Touch-enabled interfaces

Geometric and Physics-Based Modeling

  • Geometric and physics-based models for rigid & deformable bodies
  • Simulation of fluid, cloth & finite-element models
  • Crowd and traffic simulation

Computer Vision

clothing parsing
clothing parsing: the computer recognizes and identifies various pieces of clothing in the photo

Visual Recognition

  • Recognizing actions, attributes, objects, & scenes
  • Large-scale object detection
  • Machine learning for recognition

Geometric Computer Vision

  • Large-scale structure from motion and real-time SLAM/tracking
  • Real-time large-scale image based localization
  • Real-time & large-scale dense reconstruction
  • 3D Scanning (e.g. “Deltasphere”)

Natural Language Processing, Security, & Vision

  • Computer vision for data privacy & security
  • Connecting visual recognition & natural language processing
3D virtual reality telepresence
a headmounted display places a remote user into the local environment

Applications

E-Commerce

Education & Entertainment

Medical Simulation & Training

Robotics, Design & Automation

Telepresence

Urban Computing