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EPSRC Reference:	GR/S97774/01
Title:	Wearable Visual Computing
Principal Investigator:	Murray, Professor DW
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Department:	Engineering Science
Organisation:	University of Oxford
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	30 June 2005	Ends:	29 October 2008	Value (£):	336,670
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Image & Vision Computing Mobile Computing
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Communications Information Technologies
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Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 10 Feb 2004 People & Interactivity Panel (Tech) - Feb 04 Deferred
Summary on Grant Application Form
In recent work, the proposer and his coworkers have developed a miniature controllable camera worn on a collar at shoulder height. Although able to perform a range of simple visual tasks, it has little autonomy, and its assistive role is restricted to that of teleoperated device.In other very recent work in the laboratory, EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow Davison has demonstrated the feasibility of recovering in real time a sparse 3D reconstruction of the scene immediately around a single camera undergoing arbitrary and initially unknown motion.The proposed work will first combine these two advances, allowing the wearable to interact more purposefully with its environment. This autonomy will be increased by annoting the reconstruction with object identities allow a more natural communication between the wearable visual system and the wearer.A fundamental issue in such simultaneous localization and mapping is how to stitch local maps together while avoiding being thwarted by computational complexity. Our approach is to explore how the local maps might be embedded in, and exchange information with, a coarser-scale but wider-area quasi-static 3D reconstruction obtained earlier from multiple views.By also annotating the wider-area map with object identities, we aim to demonstrate the wearable camera assisting the wearer in moving between places of local detailed interest.
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