Tuesday, February 24, 2009

[work] working with Canon 5D

I have an old Dell workstation.

I connected the 5D to the PC using USB.

I tried the slots on the back.

An error incured.
"No camera detected"
"not compatible"

I tried one slot in the front.
Failed again.
I reinstalled all the softwares.
Failed again.

I switched to another USB slot in the front.
There are totally two slots.

The error information changed.

I switched to using the EOS utility.

I succeeded!

Thursday, February 19, 2009

[Language] love Wikipedia or Encyclopedia

I become very interested in reading the explanations in Wikipedia.
They are so concise and clear.
They are good examples for learning tell stories in English with clarity.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

[Work] How to model asperity scattering

J. Koenderink and S. Pont. The secret of velvety skin. Mach. Vision Apppl. 2003

[IDEA] random modulation

In the paper Modulated Phase-Shifting, we have problem with really high frequency pattern to be projected. I means the Morrie-like pattern.

How about using random modulation?
Modulate the pattern with random pattern and its complementary.

The idea is from dithering.


spatial and temporal dithering for direct/global component separation and 3D scanning of translucent objects

frequency analysis (projected onto a diffuse white/gray screen)

dithering calibration

High speed camera

DLP projector

How to conquer these two problems?
- finite resolution of the camera and projector
- narrow depth of field of the projector

A future avenue of research is to design 2D spatial intensity patterns that create temporal dithering codes that are optimal for the task at hand.

TODO:
find a collaborator

References:

S.G. Narasimhan, S. J. Koppal, and S. Yamazaki. Temporal Dithering of Illumination for Fast Active Vision. ECCV 2008

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

[work] high speed light

applications of high speed light


***NOTE***
The projector is fast.
The human eyes are slow.

2. Fast range scanning

3. Real-time geometrically corrected projection on deforming surfaces

4. Encoded light for the tracking, tagging and control of a robotic swarm

5. Multiple coincident personal views with camouflage layer

Twenty-four images were displayed at a 60 Hz rate to provide multiple, seemingly simultaneous
views on a single display surface. Viewers used time-encoded shutter glasses to see person-specific views. This was first tested with multiple stereoscopic views. It was then tested with negative
and camouflage images that allowed a view visible without shutter glasses, along with multiple seemingly invisible views. This could be used to create a secure information display.


*** NOTE***
A fast light cinema, where multiple films are displayed parallel on the same screen
and the audiences wear different glasses to watch their own favorites.


6. Very high resolution display

A shuttered array of lenses may be used to optically produce multiple copies of an image.
Each lens in the array can then be shuttered to be synchronized with a sequential series of images projected from the Mule. In this way, a very high resolution image can be produced with a correspondingly reduced bit depth.