Available Student and Research Projects

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Revision as of 08:27, 20 June 2006

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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.

Project areas

Automated photo stitching

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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 select 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.

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

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.

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.

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