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Sensorium

The Sensorium project is an effort to develop a large network of video capturing devices of varying capabilities, from inexpensive, stationary webcams with low resolution to high-resolution cameras with pan, tilt, and zoom capabilities, which can be used for a variety of applications which are also under development. The project involves researchers from the areas of Computer Vision, Networking, Operating Systems, Databases, Security, and Systems.

OpenSesame

The OpenSesame project is an effort to develop a Human-Computer Interaction interface for severely disabled people which can run in a Sensorium-type environment.

Fast Face and Eye Tracking

The Fast Face and Eye Tracking project, developed by John Magee, is a Human-Computer Interaction interface which detects the direction of a user's gaze. The direction of gaze is determined by detecting the face and eyes, cropping images of the eyes out of the face, mirroring the image of the right eye to provide an image which can be compared to the left eye (assuming facial symmetry), and performing image differencing.

Finger Counter

The Finger Counter project, developed by Stephen Crampton, is a HUman-Computer Interaction interface which detects the number of fingers the user is holding up in front of a camera. The number of fingers is determined by establishing a background template, performing image differencing and edge detection on the background template and the current image to detect the hand, transforming the hand from cartesian to polar coordinates, and identifying local maxima which are above a threshold value.