Enabling technologies.

Roberto Manduchi Computer Engineering

An aging population

1. You cannot drive your car

2. You cannot read the paper

3. You may get lost in a new environment

4. You may trip over an obstacle

5. You may miss a sign far away

6. You may not find what you are looking for at the supermarket

7. You may not be able to cross a street safely

8. You may not receive a proper education

9. You may have problems finding a job

10. You may find it difficult to surf the web

11. You may not be able to use an iPod

12. You may not recognize friends from a distance

13. You may lose objects in your home

14. You may not be able to read this line

1. You cannot drive your car

2. You cannot read the paper

3. You may get lost in a new environment

4. You may trip over an obstacle

5. You may miss a sign far away

6. You may not find what you are looking for at the supermarket

7. You may not be able to cross a street safely

8. You may not receive a proper education

9. You may have problems finding a job

10. You may find it difficult to surf the web

11. You may not be able to use an iPod

12. You may not recognize friends from a distance

13. You may lose objects in your home

14. You may not be able to read this line

If you cannot see well…

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Dead reckoning

NONE QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Cell ID, GPS, AGPS

Image analysis

REQUIREDAcoustic/tactile

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

WiFi localization

RFIDQuickTime™ and a

TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressorare needed to see this picture.

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Beaconing

Infrastructure for wayfinding

A laser cane for the blind.

Range sensing via triangulation

Finding a step

InclinationRange

Finding a drop-off

InclinationRange

“It is easy to imagine cell phones that will see for those who cannot

see, read for those who cannot read, listen for those who cannot

hear, translate for those who cannot understand, find those who are lost and remember for those

who cannot remember.”

Jim Fruchterman, 2007 MacArthur award recipient

An urban Bluetooth beacon.

Instrumeting a traffic intersection

Protocol flow

NavCon PCBASC/3 Traffic Controller

Bluetooth PCB

PedNav running on phone

(SNMP to PedNav Protocol)

NTCIP using SNMP over

Ethernet

Bluetooth transmissionat 2.4 GHz

RS-422trans-

mission

Demo day

QuickTime™ and aH.264 decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Marking the environment.

Color Markers

Easily detectable by

cell phone

Marks the location of text or bar codes

Relatively invariant to camera orientation

Robust with respect to lighting conditions

€

c12 − c2

2 >T1,22

€

c13 − c2

3 >T1,23

€

c22 − c3

2 >T2,32

€

c31 − c1

1 >T3,11Y Y Y Y

N N N N

€

c11 ,c1

2,c13

( )

€

c21 ,c2

2 ,c23

( )

€

c31 ,c3

2 ,c33

( )

M

€

Max range =D

IFOV ⋅ M + 4( )

D

ωv

€

v <Range M 2 +1⎣ ⎦⋅IFOV

Aperture time

Performance bounds

Cascade detector design

Scanning strategies

Environment A new concept?watermarkingImage

Thank you.

Roberto Manduchi Computer Engineering