by Subramanian Chidambaram | Jun 29, 2021 | 2021, Ana Villanueva, Featured Publications, Fengming He, Hank Huang, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications, Subramanian Chidambaram, Xun Qian
Augmented reality (AR) is an efficient form of delivering spatial information and has great potential for training workers. However, AR is still not widely used for such scenarios due to the technical skills and expertise required to create interactive AR content. We...
by Ana Villanueva | Jun 7, 2021 | 2021, Ana Villanueva, Featured Publications, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications, Zhengzhe Zhu
Distance learning is facing a critical moment finding a balance between high quality education for remote students and engaging them in hands-on learning. This is particularly relevant for project-based classrooms and makerspaces, which typically require extensive...
by Xun Qian | Jun 6, 2021 | 2021, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications, Tianyi Wang, Xun Qian, Yuanzhi Cao
Modern manufacturing processes are in a state of flux, as they adapt to increasing demand for flexible and self-configuring production. This poses challenges for training workers to rapidly master new machine operations and processes, i.e. machine tasks. Conventional...
by Ananya Ipsita | Jun 5, 2021 | 2021, Ananya Ipsita, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Min Liu, Publications, Recent Publications, Subramanian Chidambaram, Yuanzhi Cao
There is an increasing trend of Virtual-Reality (VR) applications found in education, entertainment, and industry. Many of them utilize real world tools, environments, and interactions as bases for creation. However, creating such applications is tedious, fragmented,...
by Sangpil Kim | Aug 28, 2020 | 2020, Future of Work, Hyunggun Chi, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications, Sangpil Kim
Abstract: We propose a conditional generative model, named Part Geometry Network (PG-Net), which synthesizes realistic objects and can be used as a robust feature descriptor for object reconstruction and classification. Surface and volumetric representations of...
by Sangpil Kim | Aug 7, 2020 | 2020, Convergence Accelerator, Future of Work, Hyunggun Chi, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications, Sangpil Kim
Abstract: First-person-view videos of hands interacting with tools are widely used in the computer vision industry. However, creating a dataset with pixel-wise segmentation of hands is challenging since most videos are captured with fingertips occluded by the hand...
