Head Pose Tracking
Demonstration of real-time head-pose tracking system.

Interfaces to the digital world are exploding in terms of access points and bandwidth, yet the ease of interaction by human users is hardly advancing. We would like to make computers more natural and easy to use by allowing them to use the same visual interface modalities that humans take for granted. Simple things, like presence, posture, and gaze, are extremely important cues in communication between people, and they should be with computers as well.

Bandwidth symmetry is also a priority; users should have the same bandwidth into an interface as they experience from the interface.They can be inundated with sound and graphics so why can't they shout and gesture back? We're exploiting machine perception techniques and the rapidly increasing computational power of common workstations to build vision-based perceptual user interfaces, and integrate them with speech interfaces and user-interface technologies. Making computers interact with people using natual human interface modalities is the ultimate goal of the Vision Interfaces Project.
Room Tracking System
Room tracking system