We have developed a software system for evaluating the merits of several virtual environments for archaeological tasks. The ARCHAVE system, developed at the SHAPE lab at Brown University, presents archaeological excavation data and site information via a virtual reality interface. These data come from the Brown University Great Temple excavations in Petra, Jordan [1]. As Bowman proposes [2], we...

M ost of us associate turbulence with a bumpy ride on a plane. Yet turbulent flow is practically everywhere, even if we aren’t aware of it. The air we exhale, the blood pumped through our bodies’ ascending aorta, and the steam rising from a hot cup of coffee are all in turbulent motion. Even if we could see these flows, it would be difficult to discern any order in the whirling currents that th...

Promising great impact in the way we employ/consider robots today, the development of Computer Vision techniques for Robotics has been a hot research topic for some time now, lately attracting the interest from top players in industry, such as Google and Amazon. This talk will describe the journey of the evolution of Vision for Robotics as I have experienced it, all the way from the very first ...