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

Title: Tele-Graffiti: A Remote Sketching System

Speaker: Naoya Takao

Abstract:
Many ideas are best communicated by drawing simple sketches. If the two
people are located remotely from each other, a "remote sketching system"
can help them communicate better. The first such camera-projector based
remote sketching system was Paul Wellner's Xerox DoubleDigitalDesk. We
recently developed Tele-Graffiti, a remote sketching system which
provides solutions for the problems none of which was provided by the
previous works. Its advantages include: (1) real-time paper tracking to
allow users to move the paper, (2) hand-based user interface, and (3)
feedback control to maximize the quality of shared images based on
analysis of camera-projector systems. In this talk, I will describe the
design and implementation of Tele-Graffiti, including paper tracking,
hand-based user interface and feedback analysis.

Related links:
Unofficial home page including movies
http://metal.ius.cs.cmu.edu/tg/ 
Official project home page
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/projects/project_423.html