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Director
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Steve Mann completed his
PhD at the Massachusetts
Intstitute of Technology (MIT), where he founded the wearable computing
group as a part of the MIT Media Lab.
It was at MIT that Professor Mann further built upon his interest in personal imaging through
his work with photography pioneer Doctor Harold Edgerton ,
inventor of the electronic flash and stroboscope. Professor Mann is
considered by many to be the inventor of the WearComp (wearable computer) and
WearCam (EyeTap and reality mediator). He is currently the acting director of
the EyeTap Personal Imaging (ePI) Lab at the University of Toronto.
PhD Candidates
- James Fung is completing his
final year of his PhD. James completed his B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science (Electrical
Option), and Master's in Electrical Engineering, both at the University of
Toronto. James has been a core member of the ePi Lab for over 5 years, and
has made significant contributions to reality mediators and EEG brainwave signal processing. His most recent work includes the
development of the GPU-based Computer Vision and Mediated Reality library: OpenVIDIA
- Corey Manders is a PhD candidate at the ePi Lab. He
currently holds degrees in Computer Science (University of Toronto), Fine
Arts (York University) and holds a Master's Degree in Applied Science at
the University of Toronto. His research interests include camera response
recovery, and lightspace theory. Recently he has been quantifying noise in the camera sensor array
and writing a library to operate the Nikon D2H remotely (libD2H). He has contributed significantly to the development of an open source package for comparametric analysis of cameras and images, the Comparametric Toolkit.
- Raymond Lo is in the second year of his Ph.D program in Electical and Computer Engineering.
Link to the CyborGlogger project:
Glogger Community
Cyborglogger Thesis:
CyborGlogger: A Computational Framework for Real-time CyborGlogging
M.A.Sc and M.Sc. Candidates
- Chris Aimone is going into
his second year of his Master's of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering.
Chris completed his B.A.Sc. in Engineering
Science (Electrical Option) at the University of Toronto. Chris has a diverse "Da Vinci"
background as both an engineer and designer. He has made significant
contributions in developing EyeTap prototype designs, and has also pursued
research in mediated reality and computer vision.
- Rosco Hill is entering his
second year of his Master's of Computer Science. Rosco completed his B.A.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Prior to joining the ePi Lab, Rosco was a research intern at Sun Microsystems Research. Rosco's work has included the development of the Reality Window Manager (a mediated reality user interface).
- Raymond Lo is in the second year of his Ph.D program in Electical and Computer Engineering.
Link to the CyborGlogger project and thesis:
Glogger Community
CyborGlogger: A Computational Framework for Real-time CyborGlogging
Graduate Research Assistants
- Billal Belmellat recently completed
his Master's Degree at the University of Toronto in partnership with l'Ecole Superieur
d'Ingenieur en GEnie ELECtrique (ESIGELEC) in Rouen, France. His current
interests include mediated reality and lightspace theory. He has
submitted work involving the creation of an image standard which can carry
lightspace information independent of the particular camera or display device
being used.
- Anurag Sehgal is a visiting
researcher. He is currently completing his Master of Science in Interaction
Design at the
Interaction design institute of Italy. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts
degree from the National Institute of
Fashion Technology of India. His design interests include wearable
electronics and "intuitive" interface design
for hardware and software. This summer he has made significant
contributions towards a wearable keyer system for lightvector based art.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
- Michael Georgas is entering
his third year of Engineering Science at the University of Toronto. He is
working on development of an A-D converter for USB that enables the creation of
a keyer device.
- Ben Goldstein is entering
his third year of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is
working on development of an A-D converter for USB that enables the creation of
a keyer device.
- Fouzia Khan is entering
her third year of Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is
working on development of an A-D converter for USB that enables the creation of
a keyer device.
- Isaac Harris is entering
his second year of Chemical Engineering at University of Toronto. This summer
Isaac was co-Project Manager for the development of the Urban Renewable Energy Project at the Existential Technology
Research Center (ETRC). His networking and managing skills assisted the ETRC in
receiving over $50,000 in donated hardware and service. He also organized the
Switch Opening Ceremony, which was attended by government officials and leaders
in the field of renewable energy. Isaac's research interests include renewable
energy, biomedical engineering and strategic planning. He has recently finished
co-authoring a research paper to the Renewable Energy Journal on the development of urban renewable energy with
his twin brother Joshua Harris and Prof. Steve Mann.
- Joshua Harris
is currently entering his second year of chemical engineering at the University of
Toronto, after finishing at the top of his class. His summer work
consisted of acting as Project Co-Director for the design and construction of the solar and wind turbine energy systems of the
Urban Renewable Energy Project at the Existential Technology
Research Center (ETRC). While overseeing a team consisting of engineers
and architects (4th yr/graduate students), Joshua acted as a corporate liaison
with several companies securing over $50,000 of hardware to be donated to the
ETRC free of charge. He also participated in the actual design and construction
of the hybrid system. Joshua's research interests include renewable energy and
biomedical engineering. He is currently completing a research paper on his
summer work with his twin brother Isaac.
- Mark Post is
in his final
year of Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto.
As part of his design project he has made large steps in EEG Brain Signal Processing, specifically
creating a Brainwave lighting project that acts to lower the lighting in a room based on one's concentraion level.
Recently he has completed a flash sequencer for dusting and intends to research humanistic user interfaces, such as fluid interfaces for music and computers.
- Henry Zaccak
Research Associates
- Dr. Jason Nolan is a research associate
affiliated with the Knowledge Media
Design Institute (KMDI) at the University of Toronto's school of graduate
studies. He teaches at York University and Ryerson University. He received his
PhD in Critical Pedagogy from the University of Toronto in 2001. His interest
include virtual learning environments, critical thinking, technology and
children, and virtual identity. He is co-editor of the forth-coming
International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, and is founding
co-editor of the journal Learning Inquiry to be published by Springer
Ferlag starting in 2006.
Previous MASc Alumni
- Felix Tang completed his
Master's of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of
Toronto in 2002. His thesis was titled "EyeTap reality mediators, wearable computers
and wireless networks for interactive and shared mediated reality systems". He is currently working at ATI
Technologies playing a leading role in developing their line of personal imaging products, such as chips for camera phones.
Previous BaSc Alumni
- Mohit Kansal is entering his
third year of Engineering Science at the University of Toronto. He has been
awarded the student research award provided by the National Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). His research interests include
mediated reality and lightspace theory. He is currently contributing towards the OpenVIDIA effort.
Although he is a young researcher, he has completed leading edge research that has been submitted to a number of conferences and publications.
- Tae-Hyung Kwon is going into
his fourth year of Electrical Engineering at the University of
Toronto. He
joined the EyeTap Personal Imaging Lab in 2003. He has been actively
involved with efforts of commercializing the EyeTap, thus expanding his business, networking
and communication skills as corporate liaison.
Interested in incorporating lightspace
theory into mediated reality as well, he is contributing to the lab's
research and has submitted research publications to prestigious conferences.
Also as webmaster he has been involved with the web design.
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