CS Colloquium on December 11, 2003 at 2pm

Title: Finding Structure in Pedestrian Flow

Speaker: Dr. Christopher R. Wren
         Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratories
         Cambridge, MA
         http://www.merl.com/people/wren/

Date: December 11, 2003 (Thursday)
Time: 2pm
Place: MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Abstract:

The occupants of a building generate patterns as they move from place to
place, stand at a corner talking, or loiter by the coffee machine.  These
patterns leave their mark on every object in a building.  Even the lowly
carpet will eventually be able to tell you quite a lot about these patterns
by how it wears.  A network of cheap sensors should be able to perceive
these patterns and provide that context to relevant building systems,
however, these sensor systems will only be practical if they are cheap to
manufacture, install and operate.  This talk will detail our experiences
with ultra-cheap, building-scale perceptual systems.  Specifically we will
present results on auto-calibration, event recognition and event
predication from motion detector data.

Bio of the Speaker: (TBA)

Host: Stan Sclaroff (http://www.cs.bu.edu/~sclaroff)