NEW LIFE, NEW CHALLENGES

In Tsukuba University's CVLAB are researching about the application of Mutual Subspace Methods and its derivates to solving several Computer Vision problems. For many of the methods, information coming from multiple points of view (multiple cameras or a camera in different positions) of an object is used.

For example, in this work: "Face recognition using multi-viewpoint patterns for robot vision" a face recognition system using multi-viewpoint images is developed. A still camera is used in this work, so in order to acquire multi-viewpoint images of the user's face the user should move around the camera and change the pose of his face.

The challenge for me is to develop a robot capable of moving a camera in order to get multi-viewpoint images of a target, it doesn't matter if it is a face, an apple or whatever. But, in the case of face recognition, the user doesn't need to move his face around the camera, the robot moves the camera around the user's face. So the user can go on with his life undisturbed :p)

To undertake this challenge first I must build a simulation of the robot and later when the simulations give good results build the actual robot. So I am going to start building the simulation using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio

This is so exciting! I will keep posting as the project goes on.