Re: trevor darrell

[Trevor Darrell <trevor@ai.mit.edu>]

Hi all,

I don't seem to have access to the web site below...("forbidden") what 
do I need to do?  (Besides merge into LCS :-)

Who's on the list?

One of my postdocs, Konrad Tollmar, and I have been mocking up an idea 
we've called Virtual Post-its, or audiovisual tags (depending on whether 
we want to infringe trademarks :-): the idea is to build vision tools to 
recognize characeristic square patches with ink on them (perhaps with 
OCR), and also allow users to refer to them using spoken commands.  They 
could also be used for action--a fanciful version of the idea included 
having a user scribble "Turn Off!" on a post it, show it to the system, 
then stick it on a lamp.  When the user pointed and gestured at the post 
it, the lamp would turn off.  Of course, you could also use these to tag 
documents in various ways.  In the limit you could probably do 
everything for documents without the physical tag (at a recent IPTO 
meetings I heard Victor expousing this concept), but to make something 
work in the near term I think using something easily identifiable will 
be important (yellow paper), and in the long term having a tangible tag 
will probably be a win.

We've made a few initial steps towards implementing this, but 
unfortunately the UROP who was going to build it flaked out last term. 
We want to get started again, but perhaps it would make sense to combine 
efforts with yours.  I'm curious to hear more about what you are 
doing/have done....

--trevor

p.s. please add konrad@ai to the list...

Seth Teller wrote:

> SFC folks,
> 
> i've added trevor darrell to the list; he's excited
> about SFC, has been thinking about something similar
> (computer vision for persistent virtual postits/doc-
> ument annotations), and would like to merge efforts!
> 
> seth.
> 
> ps.  reminder, past emails to SFC are archived at
> 
>   http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/sfc/threads.html
>   http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/sfc/maillist.html
> 
> the SFC mockup diagram is posted at
> 
>   http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/sfc/smartcabinet.pdf
> 
> 
>