ECE1766
Personal Cybernetics and Intelligent Imaging Systems
S. Mann
First class is Thursday, 2003, Jan 9th, 2pm - 5pm, BA2135 (Bahen Bldg.)
No class Thursday 2003 March 13th
Personal Cybernetics ECE1766
is aimed at first year graduate students and 4th year undergraduates
as a fourth year elective.
This year, the classes are comprised of one lecture a week
(thursday afternoons), starting Thursday January 10th, 2002.
check this website http://wearcam.org/ece1766.htm for more info.
Lecture schedule of previous year
- Thursday, January 10th, 2002
- Thursday, January 17
- press screening of CYBERMAN
- Thursday, January 17, 2 p.m.
- Royal Cinema, 608 College St.
- Results of "assignment0" competition:
- first place: Meier Robert James and Brandon:
PC104 implementation
- second place: lng
- third place: Andrej Marjan
- Thursday, January 24
- WearComp signouts
- Personal Cybernetics
- key aspects of the growing personal cybernetics industry
- demonstration of real world applications of Personal Cybernetics
- exercises 2.3.2, 3.5.1, and 3.5.2 will be assigned.
(due next week at beginning of lecture)
- Thursday, January 31
- clearNET wireless dataphone (44kbps) signouts
- The EyeTap principle
- Demonstration of large size EyeTap computer on optical table
- Fundamental scientific principles
- Research prototypes of EyeTap
- Wearable embodiments of EyeTap: real world examples
- Industrial relevance of EyeTap technology
- Commercial products currently being manufactured;
EyeTap in industry
- exercises 3.5.3 to 3.5.6 will be assigned.
(due next week at beginning of lecture)
- Thursday, February 7
- Blurry information displays
- The infinite sharpness and clarity of the blurry display
- Infinite depth of field
- Laser EyeTap
- Contact lens displays
- exercises 4.7.1 to 4.7.5 will be assigned
(due next week at beginning of lecture)
- Thursday, February 14
- Quantitative analysis
- exercises 5.6.1 and 5.6.2
(due next week at beginning of lecture)
- Thursday, February 21
- Comparametrics
- exercises 5.6.3 to 5.6.5
(due next week at beginning of lecture)
- Thursday, February 28
- Lightspace
- exercises 6.9.1 to 6.9.3
(due next week at beginning of lecture)
- Thursday, March 7
- Mediated Reality in lightspace
- living in lightspace
- Example "toy" problems:
Flashgun Quake, LightPaintBall
- exercises 6.9.4 to 6.9.6
(due next week at beginning of lecture)
- DUSTING "LAB"
- Thursday, March 14
- Thursday, March 21
- Reality Window Manager (RWM)
- All the world's a web
- Cyberspace and the real world become one in the same
- Thursday, March 28
- Thursday, April 4
to see a previous year's course
outline visit http://wearcam.org/ece1766_1998.html
additional information needed for the course will appear below
vf.c directory (with calls to libjpeg)