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Project “PRASER”Senior Design Project Final Project Review

Team Mosaic

Advisor: Professor Lixin GaoMembers: Allen Chew, Charles Essien, Brian Giang, Simon Ma

Evaluators: Professor Gong, Professor Vouvakis

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Agenda

Introduction• Refined project definition• Comparison

Project Specification• System block diagram• Subsystem components• Application• Accomplished• Demonstration

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Reintroduction - Motivation

Online presentations are boring• Difficult to view both presentation

and presenter at the same time• Low quality slides (streaming video)• Loss of focus on presenter

Viewing remote presentations• Bad visual quality• Loss of expression

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Comparison

For most presentations,• Difficult to capture both the

presenter and Power Point at the same time

• Requires a cameraman

However our prototype application• Capable of capture both the

presenter and Power Point• Addition functions/gestures

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Reintroduction - Goals

We want to:Improve presentation experience

• More interactive• More entertaining

Rethink approach to capturing presentations• Bring focus back to the presenter• Facilitate “emotion” for remote presentation

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Design Specification – Project Definition

Praser is …

“A redesigned platform capable of delivering an enhanced presentation experience, both for in

person and remote viewers.”

More interactive utility for presenters Better experience for viewers with avatars

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Design Specifications –Block Diagram

System Block Diagram

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Design Specifications – Kinect Subsystem

OpenNI & NITE• Generate “users”• Return interpreted motions and gestures

OpenGL• Real-time image manipulation

OpenNI NITE OpenGL

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Kinect Subsystem - Capabilities

Gesture Recognition• Hand gestures for control• User poses

Tracking• Mapping user position to screen• Location based “selections”

Compositing• Background removal• Image manipulation

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Kinect Subsystem – Avatar Application

Capture presenter in on screen avatar

Walk around and point modes• X, Y coordinates mapped with Kinect

Depth information• Presenter avatar points mapped to

actual points

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Kinect Subsystem – Avatar Application cont’dBenefits:More expression and emotionBetter interaction with slideshow slidesMore efficient remote viewing of presentation

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Accomplished

Hand TrackingHand GesturesVideo RecordingLayer Control – Presenter, Power Point Slides, AnnotationsSelecting specific Power Point SlidesDisplaying two slides at once – Splitting

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Kinect Demonstration

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The Future

Writing Recognition when annotating. Capturing the presenter in 3-D using two Kinects. Using the Kinect for other purposes (e.g. medical

diagnostics and therapy)

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Problems Addressed

Purchased safety goggles to prevent retinal damage

Blanking not currently implemented For safety reasons decided would be best not to

use the laser system in this project. Memory Leak in software

Video Recording Threading Tracking and Scaling

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Team Responsibility

Allen Chew (CSE) – Team Manager, Coordinated laser projection system, Software Development, Researched on how to build correctional amplifier, Researched and ordered parts for project in a timely manner

Charles Essien (CSE) – Software coordinator, Research graphics libraries, Isolated user pixels and overlay onto slides, Created Flow and Calibration, Split Screen

Brian Giang (EE) – Laser Projection Coordinator, Coordinated team

meetings and set deadlines, Assembled laser projection system and figured signal lines from DAC

Simon Ma (CSE) – Compiled OpenLase Binaries, Ported code over to Ubuntu, Coordinated hand tracking and gestures, Created Annotations

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The End

Thank you very much for your time. I hope you enjoyed the presentation.

Questions?