Available Student and Research Projects
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We always offer projects to motivated students (first degree, Masters of Science, ERASMUS student, ...). | We always offer projects to motivated students (first degree, Masters of Science, ERASMUS student, ...). | ||
If you are interested in doing a project in computer vision, let us know. Here is a description of ongoing research areas to give you an idea of possible projects. You can also suggest a research topic yourself. | If you are interested in doing a project in computer vision, let us know. Here is a description of ongoing research areas to give you an idea of possible projects. You can also suggest a research topic yourself. | ||
| − | If you work with us, you can learn a lot of skills which are relevant for a career as a software developer | + | If you work with us, you can learn a lot of skills which are relevant for a career as a software developer: |
| + | * Computer Vision, Signal processing, Robotics | ||
| + | * Linear Algebra, Analysis | ||
| + | * Software Engineering | ||
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| + | We are using state-of-the-art platform-independent software tools: | ||
* Source-code documentation with [[Image:Doxygen logo.png|80px|]] [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ doxygen] | * Source-code documentation with [[Image:Doxygen logo.png|80px|]] [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ doxygen] | ||
* Cross-platform user-interfaces with [[Image:Qt logo.png|30px|]] [http://www.trolltech.com/ Qt]. You can develop full-featured GUI-software which runs under [[Image:Tux.jpg|30px|]] GNU/Linux, [[Image:Ms-windows logo.png|40px|]] Microsoft Windows, and [[Image:Macos.gif|54px|]] MacOS! | * Cross-platform user-interfaces with [[Image:Qt logo.png|30px|]] [http://www.trolltech.com/ Qt]. You can develop full-featured GUI-software which runs under [[Image:Tux.jpg|30px|]] GNU/Linux, [[Image:Ms-windows logo.png|40px|]] Microsoft Windows, and [[Image:Macos.gif|54px|]] MacOS! | ||
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Student Projects
We always offer projects to motivated students (first degree, Masters of Science, ERASMUS student, ...). If you are interested in doing a project in computer vision, let us know. Here is a description of ongoing research areas to give you an idea of possible projects. You can also suggest a research topic yourself.
If you work with us, you can learn a lot of skills which are relevant for a career as a software developer:
- Computer Vision, Signal processing, Robotics
- Linear Algebra, Analysis
- Software Engineering
We are using state-of-the-art platform-independent software tools:
- Source-code documentation with
doxygen
- Cross-platform user-interfaces with
Qt. You can develop full-featured GUI-software which runs under 
GNU/Linux, 
Microsoft Windows, and 
MacOS!
- Platform-independent
Standard Template Library
- Platform-independent
Boost Library
Project areas
Automated photo stitching
File:Panorama1.jpg Picture of Canary Wharf, London |
File:Panorama2.jpg Another picture of Canary Wharf |
File:PanoramaRes.jpg Manually stitched pictures (badly aligned) |
Contact Jan Wedekind for a project in this area.
Premise
- A set of images taken with the same camera-settings (aperture, exposure time, focal length) and center of projection but different viewing directions (mainly yaw, pitch)
- Manually selected correspondences.
To Do
- Improve the correspondences using 2D cross-correlation (roll-angle will assumed to be low).
- Use these correspondences to optimize the parameters (rotations, common focal length, rotation of virtual camera).
- Transform and merge the images into the resulting panorama image.
External Links
Interactive projector-camera interface
Contact Jan Wedekind for a project in this area.
Premise
- A camera is given images of a projected image (or a TFT screen)
- The system already calibrates itself (two-dimensional homography) using projected patterns
To Do
- Recognition of hand/fingers
- Encapsulation of interactive controls as plugin for Qt-designer
- X11-driver for generating mouse-events with your finger
- 3D calibration, depth perception using projected patterns or shadows
See Also
External Links
- Multi-Touch Interaction Research
- Magic board project by IIHM
- IBM Research on interactive projector
- A Flexible New Technique for Camera Calibration: Zhengyou Zhang
Physics Engine
Contact Jan Wedekind for a project in this area.
Premise
A physics engines is useful for simulating robots and testing computer vision algorithms. The Open Dynamics Engine was used in two projects already.
To Do
The Open Dynamics Engine is not numerically stable. An investigation into numerical algorithms for simulating multiple rigid bodies is required. The rigid bodies can be connected by joints, which are limiting their degrees of freedom.
See Also
External Links
Nanorobotics
The Nanorobotics project is ongoing research on computer vision applied to Transmission Electron Microscope images.
I-Swarm
The I-Swarm project is ongoing research on cooperating microrobots.
See Also
- Have a look at Mimas/Software engineering to get a general impression of our working environment.
- Nanorobotics
- I-Swarm
