• Real-Time, 3-D Scene Capture and Reconstruction
  We demonstrate a novel method for real-time 3D scene capture and reconstruction. Using several live color images, we build a high resolution voxelization of the visible surfaces. The key to our approach is an efficient sparse voxel representation ideally suited to Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) acceleration. We store only those voxels that contain the visible surfaces, leading to a compact representation for the 3D model.
• Facing Interaction
  How can we communicate one's biometric info, in non-verbal ways, to others, ourselves, places and across time? Under the assumptions that one's face is a sound window to somebody’s emotion, we constructed different art pieces and interactive prototypes that comprise different communication channels ( aural, visual, haptics), and aim to help reflecting on communication itself, its poetry, and ourselves. This project starts with the internship work from Tomas Laurenzo http://laurenz.net.
• BodyAvatar: Creating 3-D Avatars with Your Body and Imagination
  Xiang Cao, Xin Tong, Yang Liu, Takaaki Shiratori, Yupeng Zhang, Zhimin Ren, Teng Han, Nobuyuki Umetani
• VidWiki: Crowd-Enhanced Online Learning
  VidWiki is a project out of MSR India that leverages the crowd to improve the quality and content of online video lectures like those produced by Khan Academy, Coursera, EdX, and Udacity. Through the online platform, users annotate videos by overlaying content on top of the video. Annotations can be typed text, LaTeX equations, shapes, images, or custom pen-drawn notes directly on the canvas.

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