VASC Seminar Announcement
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Date: Monday, 11/05/01
Time: 3:30-4:40
Place: NSH 1507

Speaker: Illah Nourbakhsh
Title: CMUcam: A low-overhead, low-cost small vision system for your use

As part of the Personal Rover Project, we have been developing a small,
standalone vision system capable of providing basic visual services 
such as color tracking and blob detection at 17 frames per second.  The 
resulting system, CMUcam, is low-cost and low-power, using 
only a Ubicom 75Mhz processor connected to a CMOS camera.  You can
communicate with this sensor over a standard serial port, requesting 
services such as color statistics on the most recent frame and blob 
tracking.  The sensor can also directly drive a hobby servo to physically 
track a moving object.

In this talk, I will describe the sensor hardware and capabilities and will
demonstrate several robots that make use of the sensor.  We are also making 
the sensor generally available to the CMU community (and beyond).  The CMUcam 
system was developed by Anthony Rowe and Chuck Rosenberg as part of the Personal 
Rover project, which I will briefly describe as well.

For more information about CMUcam as well as a short paper, visit
www.cs.cmu.edu/~cmucam