Tele-Graffiti NEWS

• On July 11 2001, we gave the first public demo at the demo session in ICCV 2001, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. You can take a look at the demo session here ("See movies?" section.)
• An article on Tele-Graffiti appeared on a magazine "New Scientist"! (To see this archive online, you have to be a subscriber or subscribe to 7-day trial. Follow the "ARCHIVES" menu.)
• An article on Tele-Graffiti also appeared on "Technology Research News".

What's Tele-Graffiti ?

Tele-Graffiti is a system allowing two or more users to communicate remotely via hand-drawn sketches. What one person writes at one site is captured using a video camera, transmitted to the other site(s), and displayed there using an LCD projector. Such a system has a variety of applications in teleconferencing and remote education (See example). It also has a potential applications in human-computer interaction, using the paper as a combined display and input device (See example). The advantage of our system over other intelligent desktops ("Interacting with paper on the DigitalDesk" by P. Wellner, 1993) and white-boards ("MagicBoard: A Contribution to an Intelligent Office Environment" by D.Hall et al., 1999) is that the users are free to move the pieces of paper on which they are writing. In Tele-Graffiti, paper detection and tracking is based on real-time paper boundary detection. Naoya Takao, Simon Baker, Jianbo Shi, Iain Matthews, and Bart Nabbe are working together for this project.

See movies ?

• A demo movie introducing "Session Summarization and Replay" application featuring Tele-Graffiti's Hand-based User Interface (MPEG/16MB/No Audio)

  

• Pre-prepared demo movie (MPEG/9MB/No Audio)

  

• Movie shot at the ICCV 2001 demo session (MPEG/12.5MB.) Real Video version is also available(3.3MB.)
  

Read the paper ?