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Utilizing recently created OpenVIDIA as a base, our ongoing objective is to increase the realism of self-interacting 2D and 3D objects in realtime video without the use of any artificial markers. Instead through the use of natural occuring markers, mostly natural occuring planes in our everyday environment, our goal is to create a robust and simple toolkit that can be implemented on an eyetap. We have recently developed a filter that is able to detect difference in light in sequential frames from a camera using simple image processing techniques based on lightspace theory.
Click here to see the project page on the eyetap website.
Portable Lightspace Maps (PLMs) are truly a universal image format in that the image is independent of the camera and the displaying media. However, due to its preciseness (double values for each pixel), the image sizes of PLMs are quite large, 8 times as large as their imagespace counterparts Raw Portable Pixel Maps (PPMs). The JPEG Lightspace Map is designed to decrease image size and make lightspace images a viable option for everyday computer users. Current work is focused on optimizing current conversion programs in excistence.
I was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. I attended High School in Toronto at Dr. Norman Bethune C.I. I decided to pursue engineering at the University of Toronto.
This past summer I worked for Professor Mann on an NSERC scholarship. I am currently in my third year of Engineering Science, Nanoengineering option. I am not certain what I wish to pursue later in graduate school, but image processing is a definite possibility.
My summer project initially dealt with making eyetaps for low-vision people. However, after coming to the realization that the project would be too much to handle in one summer,
I have decided to take on smaller projects. I hope to further my research into the biomedical engineering sector in the future. "Steps towards 'undigital' intelligent image processing : Real-valued coding of photoquantimetric pictures into the JLM file format for the compression of Portable Lightspace Maps", ISPACS 2004 (Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems) an IEEE communications conference.
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"Photorealistic placement of mediated reality object on natural occuring plane", submitted to ICME 2005.
[PDF] I have somehow ended up being the person in charge of keeping notes in meetings, below are links to txt files to what I wrote down during the meetings My resume [PDF] Fark.com- bunch of weird news stories from the day This page was last updated on January 14, 2004 (I put up my new resume)
Research Interests
Publications
Meeting Notes
Resume
Links
Addictinggames.com- as the name suggests, a bunch of addicting online games
Engineering Science Website- the main webpage of my program
Utoronto.ca- University of Toronto's website
Mahmood's Website- lots of old exams/tests/quizzes (EngSci)
LinuxQuestions.org- plenty of answers to MANY linux related questions
OpenVidia- an ongoing project in the ePILab created by James Fung
Wearcam.org- personal webpage of Steve Mann