Markerless Laser Tracking

Thanks to the link that Pink Ninja (thank you!) left on the Interactive Architecture post below, I was able to track the technology to the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory , A. Cassinelli, S. Perrin and M. Ishikawa developed this Smart Laser-Scanner for 3D Human-Machine Interface.

This was presented at SIGGRAPH 2004 in Los Angeles, but their first paper was presented in 2003 in New Zealand, so I imagine that this technology has evolved sufficiently to be integrated as a wearable computer interface to soon become ubiquitous.

Notice in the credits below the use of MAX/MSP and Super Collider. MAX/MSP is the commercial version of PD, which you have used in class. And SuperCollider is a sound synthesis OS program that we will explore shortly as well.

Markerless tracking is of course something of great interest to us, since that is the nature of our motion-capture system that some of you have utilized already.

This video is quite fun as well, specially towards the end.

It reminds me of the Oasis project done in Processing by Yunsil Heo and Hyunwoo Bang from the Everyware Creative Computing Group. Take time to see their work. It is fascinating.

Credit details:

Alvaro Cassinelli: concept (smart laser scanner, sticky light and scoreLight) / custom hardware and software (C++, early MAX/MSP demo)

Kuribara Yusaku: latest software developement - contour tracking & improved dynamics (C++) / interface (C#)

Daito Manabe: sound concept and sound programming (MAX/MSP,Super Collider) - in progress.

Additional credits:

Stephane Perrin: participated in early development of the smart laser scanner technology used for tracking.

Technology developed at the Ishikawa-Komuro Laboratory, under direction of Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa.

New contribution: Alexis Zerroug (electronics).