Neil's Research - RealityFlythrough

What is it?

Sun, 29 May 2005 20:48:44 -0700

RealityFlythrough is a telepresence/tele-reality system that works in the dynamic, uncalibrated environments typically associated with ubiquitous computing. By opportunistically harnessing networked mobile video cameras, it allows a user to remotely and immersively explore a physical space. Live 2d video feeds are situated in a 3d representation of the world. Rather than try to achieve photorealism at every point in space, we instead focus on providing the user with a sense of how the video streams relate to one another spatially. By providing cues in the form of dynamic transitions, we can approximate photorealistic telepresence while harnessing cameras “in the wild.”

RealityFlythrough gives a new look to first-person video

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:41:58 -0700

RealityFlythrough-style transitions produce a compelling visualization for low bitrate first-person video streams. So compelling, in fact, that some users in our study preferred this visualization over standard video because it minimizes the "Blaire Witch Project", nauseating feel of first-person video. More information can be found in our paper:

A Robust Abstraction for First-Person Video Streaming: Techniques, Applications, and Experiments

Example videos of our visualization can be found here.

Ubicomp '05 video ready for download

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:08:16 -0700

This is the video that will be shown at Ubicomp '05. The material is very similar to what was presented at Mobisys.

An Abstraction for Ubiquitous Video
wm9 (350MB) wm9 (50MB) mpg2(450MB)

Interview on the RobCast

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:23:17 -0700

Rob Shields interviews Neil on the RobCast. The RoBlog entry is here. The interview is here (~45 mins, ~21MB).

A new video based on the Mobisys talk is available for download

Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:31:35 -0700

A rough draft of a video that parallels my Mobisys talk is now available. It is only 8 minutes long so the material in the talk had to be compressed quite a bit.

An Abstraction for Ubiquitous Video
wm9 (50 MB)

Calit2 news release about Mobisys '05 talk

Tue, 07 Jun 2005 23:05:25 -0700

See the story here.

RealityFlythrough featured at May 12 San Diego MMST drill

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:33:23 -0700

See story on Calit2 website.

RealityFlythrough partners with WIISARD

Tue, 03 May 2005 11:48:56 -0700

WIISARD works closely with the San Diego Metropolitan Medical Stricke Team (MMST). The partnership give us access to real disaster drills for testing RealityFlythrough.

Papers

Sun, 01 May 2005 21:56:41 -0700

RealityFlythrough: A System for Ubiquitous Video
Dissertation
Neil J. McCurdy

A Robust Abstraction for First-Person Video Streaming: Techniques, Applications, and Experiments
Neil J. McCurdy, William G. Griswold, Leslie A. Lenert
ISM '06
Supporting Videos

A Robust Abstraction for First-Person Video Streaming: Techniques, Applications, and Experiments
Neil J. McCurdy, William G. Griswold, Leslie A. Lenert
Tech Report '06
Supporting Videos

Videos

Sat, 30 Apr 2005 23:41:37 -0700

An Abstraction for Ubiquitous Video
Ubicomp '05
wm9 (350MB) wm9 (50MB) mpg2(450MB)

Tele-Reality in the Wild
UbiComp '04
wm9 (110MB), real (99MB), mpg2 (209MB)

PowerPoint

Sat, 30 Apr 2005 22:41:06 -0700

A Robust Abstraction for First-Person Video Streaming: Techniques, Applications, and Experiments
ISM '06
w/o video segments
w/ video segments (122MB)

A Systems Architecture for Ubiquitous Video (draft)
Mobisys '05
w/o video segments
w/ video segments (200MB)

Tele-Reality in the Wild UbiComp '04 Location Awareness Workshop
w/o video segments