CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
Fridays 11:30am-12:30pm PT · Gates B3 · Open to the public
Gaile Gordon||John Woodfill Tyzx Inc.||Tyzx Inc. Networks of Smart 3D sensors
March 4, 2005
Of all our human senses, we rely most on our sense of sight to interact with the world. As we incorporate embedded processors into everyday products to make them more intelligent, we can imbue them as well with this powerful capability. To date, however, machine vision has only achieved success in manufacturing facilities where lighting and scene variation are strictly controlled. Seeing in the real world is harder. The challenge to seeing is to view the world in real-time in three dimensions and color. Technology developed by Tyzx performs the task on a single IC, the DeepSea, at rates that outstrip the fastest CPUs. Embedding the DeepSea with commodity CMOS imagers and a general-purpose processor
creates a smart 3D sensor. Smart 3D sensors enable new applications from automotive
obstacle avoidance and occupant sensing to new interactive video games. Networks
of smart 3D sensors create a distributed, self-configuring, scalable sensor
capable of observing and integrating events over a large area. Such networks
can be used to track people in large, crowded, dynamic environments such as
airports.
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