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

[Steffen Gauglitz]

If anybody wants to join remotely, here's the GoToMeeting link:
 https://www4.gotomeeting.com/join/699327767

(i.e., meeting ID 699-327-767)

-Steffen

On Mon, July 7, 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>
> 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
>>
>>
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