[From nobody Wed Jun 30 20:59:44 2010 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on stamps.cs.ucsb.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none shortcircuit=no autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from lists.cs.ucsb.edu (lists.cs.ucsb.edu [128.111.41.136]) by letters.cs.ucsb.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5PIIZcl010885 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:18:36 -0700 Received: from lists.cs.ucsb.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.cs.ucsb.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5PIIYDa012940; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:18:34 -0700 Received: from letters.cs.ucsb.edu (letters.cs.ucsb.edu [128.111.41.13]) by lists.cs.ucsb.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5PIIV4S012922 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for <faculty@lists.cs.ucsb.edu>; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:18:31 -0700 Received: from stamps.cs.ucsb.edu (stamps.cs.ucsb.edu [128.111.41.14]) by letters.cs.ucsb.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5PIITdg010866 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:18:29 -0700 Received: from papaya.office.cs.ucsb.edu (armadillo.cs.ucsb.edu [128.111.41.107]) by stamps.cs.ucsb.edu (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o5PIISFm028879 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:18:28 -0700 Message-ID: <4C24F2F4.7000501@cs.ucsb.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:18:28 -0700 From: Amanda Hoagland <hoagland@cs.ucsb.edu> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grads@cs.ucsb.edu, faculty <faculty@cs.ucsb.edu> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0a6 (letters.cs.ucsb.edu [128.111.41.13]); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:18:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded STARTTLS authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0a6 (letters.cs.ucsb.edu [128.111.41.13]); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:18:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0a6 (stamps.cs.ucsb.edu [128.111.41.14]); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:18:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.1 at lists X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: [Faculty] PhD Proposal - Chris Coffin - 7/1 (Thurs) X-BeenThere: faculty@lists.cs.ucsb.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Faculty Mailing List <faculty.lists.cs.ucsb.edu> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.cs.ucsb.edu/mailman/options/faculty>, <mailto:faculty-request@lists.cs.ucsb.edu?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://lists.cs.ucsb.edu/mailman/private/faculty/> List-Post: <mailto:faculty@lists.cs.ucsb.edu> List-Help: <mailto:faculty-request@lists.cs.ucsb.edu?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.cs.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/faculty>, <mailto:faculty-request@lists.cs.ucsb.edu?subject=subscribe> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: faculty-bounces@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Errors-To: faculty-bounces@lists.cs.ucsb.edu PhD Proposal Christopher Coffin Thursday, July 1st, 2010 1:00 - 3250 Elings Hall Committee: Tobias Hollerer (chair), Ben Zhao, Matthew Turk, Keith Clarke Title: Making Use of Massively User Contributed Content in Anywhere Augmentation Abstract: User contributed content has proven its usefulness for a range of application areas demonstrated by the success of platforms such as wikipedia, second-life, and facebook. Social augmented reality aims to improve the augmented reality experience of users through a similar open content format. This goal matches well with the design philosophy of Anywhere Augmentation, which aims to provide an augmented reality experience to users with low cost ubiquitous hardware. The combination of social AR and anywhere augmentation provides the possibility of reusing the information which has been aggregated and redistributing it to users in order to improve their AR experiences. We demonstrate that while using solutions designed around the philosophy of Anywhere Augmentation, user contributed content which has been gained either passively or actively, is able to improve the anywhere augmentation experience of users. This improvement extends to both the tracking of local users and the immersiveness and utility of remote locations for telecollaboration. We make several contributions in order to enable an enhanced AR experience from user contributed content. First we provide a framework for the distribution of augmented reality exploration. We then contribute to the construction of environment maps for their use as user contributed content. We improve the robustness of tracking to enable environment maps to be created by casual users, and provide a method for extending environment maps to automatically obtain some depth information with the use of a laser range finder. Finally, we demonstrate that when given a distribution framework and a set of user contributed content, we are able to improve the AR experience of future users. Specifically, we demonstrate techniques improving outdoor tracking localization and recovery. Future work will explore the use of real-time updates of user contributed content to enhance the experience of remote explorers. We will also further examine improvements to tracking to allow for more robust 6DoF relocalization. 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