[4eyes] Discussion today

[Pradeep Sen]

Hi everyone,

If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to meet with you and
talk more about either of the two ideas I presented today at
the joint MIRAGE Lab - Four Eyes group meeting:

1. Related to Tobias's idea for extracting info from the
    recordings of soccer matches, I would be interested in
    syncing the videos with something like Twitter and using
    metrics (e.g., volume of relevant tweets) to determine
    important events in the match.  This would enable us to do,
    e.g., semantically meaningful, automatic summarization of
    the soccer games: say you only had 20 minutes to watch the
    whole match and wanted to see the best parts of the game in
    20 minutes in some seamless way.

    We might also use this additional semantic information
    to recognize players, formations, etc.  This could lead to
    some cool research, probably a mix of vis and social networks.

2. Most of the session I talked about VR and immersive gaming
    using head-mounted systems like the Oculus Rift. In particular,
    I am interested in "retargeting" game levels to match physical
    environments so that the user can move around the physical
    space but feel like they are moving around the virtual world.
    As I briefly discussed, there are lot of interesting questions,
    such as the right language constructs for specifying the game
    level in such a framework, what modalities could be used to
    fool the user to believing that they are in a different space,
    etc.

    There's a lot we can do here, and if you are interested I
    have a list of ideas I've brainstormed over time.

If anyone wants to discuss these further I'd be happy to meet. In
my opinion with these kind of things the sooner we get going, the
better, since some of these ideas are low hanging fruit.  If we
don't do them first, someone else will.

Best,

-Pradeep


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Pradeep Sen
Associate Professor
UCSB MIRAGE Lab
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560