Project Title:

Virtual Camera

Julie A. Adams  

Brief Description of Project:

The long term objective of the Virtual Camera is to abstract the information from multiple individual unmanned vehicle (UVs) cameras and allow the human operator to simply specify a preferred target for viewing and the individual UVs move to a location in order to survey a target. This particular summer project will focus on reviewing, designing and developing algorithms for combining the individual images into a combined single image.  The images will come from a combination of ground and aerial vehicles, possibly from cameras with differing focal lengths and fields of view.
 

Nature of Supervision:

Work with Dr. Adams and her research group (graduate students).

A Brief Research Plan (period is for 10 weeks):

An undergraduate student working on this project will be involved with understanding existing image processing algorithms; work with Dr. Adams and a graduate student to design, implement, and test the image combination algorithm; and if time permits, develop a means of interacting with the resulting image. The student involved with this project will gain experience with a number of software tools and design and implementation of algorithms. The student will also gain knowledge of working with images from ground and aerial-based robots. The student will be provided opportunities to demonstrate the resulting system and will contribute to the writing of a conference paper.

Number of Open Slots:

1

Contact Information:

Dr. Julie A. Adams
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
615-343-8481
julie.a.adams@vanderbilt.edu