CS 499-002 Home Page (Fall 2012)

We will study vitual reality technologies. This will be a nads on class that will include a significant project with Microsoft Kinect Sensor. I will provide the sensors.

• Syllabus
  
• Schedule: slides, assignments, code
  
• Textbook:
  • G. C. Burdea and P. Coiffet Virtual Reality Technology, 2nd Ed., Wiley, 2003. (required)
  
  
• Homeworks & Reading Assignments:
  • For Sep. 10 class read:
    • I.E. Sutherland. The Ultimate Display, 2003
    • P. Milgram and F. Kishino. A Taxonomy of Mixed Reality Displays, 1994
    Bring your copies of the papers to class.
  
  
• Projects & Equipment: The class will include a project with Microsoft Kinect that will be provided. I will also include some demos in the Laboratory for the Studey and Simulation of Human Movement.
  • KINECT for Windows
  • KINECT Galery
  • 3D Investigator Motion Capture System
  • MotionStar Wireless 2
  • Haptics
  • Myomonitor Surface EMG
  
  
• Links
  • SimTK - The Simulation Toolkit
  • Bio Motion Lab Walker
  • Computer Vision Homepage
  • UCI Machine Learning Data Repository
  
  
• General Resources
  • George Mason University Technology Resources
  • The Data Analysis BriefBook: A condensed handbook, or an extended glossary, written in encyclopedic format, covering subjects in statistics, computing, analysis, and related fields.

  
  
  

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  Zoran Duric: zduric at cs dot gmu dot edu 9/30/2012