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AIBO® Obstacle Avoidance Maze
Fall
2004, Carnegie Mellon University
The
goal of this project is to test our
cumulative knowledge of the Sony AIBO® Robots
and the CMRoboBits source code by having
to program a pair of AIBO's to cooperatively
make their way through a maze. The
maze contains an obstable that the
dog will have to climb over and another
obstacle to crawl under. At the end
of the room, there will be a colored
ball pit where the robots will have
to cooperatively empty. There are 2
mazes, whose walls are identical but
with different features. Two robots
will be started in the beginning of
each maze, and they will simultaneously
navigate through the mazes to reach
the ball pits. Each maze set will contain
unique landmarks that only one dog
will be able to see. Therefore to be
able to allow the other dog to navigate
in a similar way, the 'observer' will
have to communicate with the other
dog wirelessly to convey the correct
information at the right time for synchronized
navigation.
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Augmented Reality
Fall
2004, Carnegie Mellon University
Augmented
Reality has become more and more popular since
computing powers are offering almost unlimited
possibilities. Augmented Reality is a special
form of Virtual Reality which is mainly the
overlay of computer generated images onto the
physical environment. Take movies nowadays,
which make great use of 'special effects' to
inject virtual objects in the video sequences
to render movies more appealing. This can be
easily done by using special markers while shooting
the movie, and the video stream can be either
manually or automatically edited to inject the
virtual objects into the movie. For my project,
the challenge was to create Augmented Reality
in an uncallibrated video sequence. This is
a totally different story when the video stream
does not contain any special markers that can
be edited.
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Template Motion Tracking in a Video Stream
Fall
2004, Carnegie Mellon University
Motion
Tracking has been one of the hot topics of research
in the field of Computer Vision for a while.
This is due to the wide varieties of applications
that could result from such research in the
areas of surveillance, military, guidance systems
and many more. In this project, I will be using
a specific technique of motion tracking namely,
template tracking. For this particular system,
a region of the video feed is manually selected,
unless a distinct template is preloaded to the
system. This selected region is then used a
template to be tracked throughout all the subsequent
frames of the video feed.
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