[4eyes] [grads] PhD Defense - Steffen Gauglitz - 7/14/14

[Steffen Gauglitz]

Yes, I think we'll have that... stay tuned...

On 07/07/2014 10:14 AM, Chris Sweeney wrote:
> Steffen -- would it be possible to send out a video conference/go to
> meeting link for your defense so that people in the lab that are at
> internships can watch? I imagine Gerhard will already be using something
> like this anyways...
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Jillian Title
> <jillian.title at cs.ucsb.edu <mailto:jillian.title at cs.ucsb.edu>> wrote:
>
>     PhD Defense
>     *Steffen Gauglitz*
>     Monday, July 14th at 11:00am
>     ESB 2001
>     *
>     **Committee: *Tobias Hollerer (Chair), Matthew Turk, Pradeep Sen,
>     Susan Fussell (Cornell University), Gerhard Reitmayr (Qualcomm Research)
>     *
>     **Title: *Interactive Remote Collaboration Using Augmented Reality
>
>     *Abstract: *With the widespread deployment of fast data connections
>     and availability of a variety of sensors for different modalities,
>     the potential of remote collaboration has greatly increased. While
>     the now ubiquitous video conferencing applications take advantage of
>     some of these capabilities, the use of video between remote users is
>     limited to passively watching disjoint video feeds and provides no
>     means for interaction with the remote environment. However,
>     collaboration often involves sharing, exploring, referencing, or
>     even manipulating the physical world, and thus tools should provide
>     support for these interactions.
>
>     We suggest that augmented reality is an intuitive and user-friendly
>     paradigm to communicate information about the physical environment,
>     and that integration of computer vision and augmented reality
>     facilitates more immersive and more direct interaction with the
>     remote environment than what is possible with today's tools.
>
>     In this dissertation, we present contributions to realizing this
>     vision on several levels. First, we describe a conceptual framework
>     for unobtrusive mobile video-mediated communication in which the
>     remote user can explore the live scene independent of the local
>     user's current camera movement, and can communicate information by
>     creating spatial annotations that are immediately visible to the
>     local user in augmented reality. Second, we describe the design and
>     implementation of several, increasingly more flexible and immersive
>     user interfaces and system prototypes that implement this concept.
>     Our systems do not require any preparation or instrumentation of the
>     environment; instead, the physical scene is tracked and modeled
>     incrementally using monocular computer vision. The emerging model
>     then supports anchoring of annotations, virtual navigation, and
>     synthesis of novel views of the scene. Third, we describe the
>     design, execution and analysis of three  user studies comparing our
>     prototype implementations with more conventional interfaces and/or
>     evaluating specific design elements. Study participants
>     overwhelmingly preferred our technology, and their task performance
>     was significantly better compared with a video-only interface,
>     though no task performance difference was observed compared with a
>     ``static marker'' interface. Last, we address a particular technical
>     limitation of current monocular tracking and mapping systems which
>     was found to be impeding and present a conceptual solution; namely,
>     we describe a concept and proof-of-concept implementation for
>     automatic model selection which allows tracking and modeling to cope
>     with both parallax-inducing and rotation-only camera movements.
>
>     We suggest that our results demonstrate the maturity and usability
>     of our systems, and, more importantly, the potential of our approach
>     to improve video-mediated communication and broaden its applicability.
>
>     Everyone Welcome!
>
>     --
>     Jillian Title
>     Graduate Advisor
>     Department of Computer Science
>     University of California Santa Barbara
>     2104 Harold Frank Hall
>     Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110
>     (805) 893-4322  <tel:%28805%29%20893-4322>
>
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