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IAP 2012 Activities by Sponsor

Lincoln Laboratory

3D Manipulation of 2D Images
Dr. Peter L. Cho, Alexandru N. Vasile
Tue Jan 10, Fri Jan 13, Tue Jan 17, Fri Jan 20, 12-01:30pm, 56-154

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 06-Jan-2012
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: MATLAB and/or linux experience helpful. See description.

Billions of digital images are being collected each year. But current hardware abilities for gathering electronic pictures far exceed conventional software capacities for organizing and searching these data. In this course, we survey recent advances in computer vision which utilize 3D geometry to manipulate 2D imagery. As we'll see, geometry-based approaches to image processing coupled with internet-scale computing imply many neat, new applications.

Each class will begin with a theoretical overview and end with a computer lab. The primary topics for the 4 sessions are multi-view geometry, automatic feature matching, panorama formation and 3D reconstruction. During the computer labs, students will work with open-source and commercial software in order to calibrate cameras, extract SIFT features, form mosaics and generate 3D point clouds from multiple photos.

This work is sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract #FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.
Contact: Dr. Peter L. Cho, LIN-S3-300, (781) 981-2802, cho@ll.mit.edu
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Build a Holographic Recording and Reconstruction System\\\\\\\\\\\*
Dr. Robert A. Freking, Dr. Christy F. Cull, Dr. Evan C. Cull, Dr. Matthew R. Fetterman
Mon Jan 30 thru Thu Feb 2, 01-03:00pm, 56-154

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 20-Jan-2012
Limited to 24 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Bring laptop with MATLAB installed. Have MATLAB experience

Most spatial information perceived by living creatures and machines is conveyed by wave propagation, which intrinsically carries a phase component. Even so, machine sensing typically relies exclusively on intensity while entirely ignoring phase relationships. Holography constitutes a method of preserving phase relationships by recording a snapshot of the intensity profile of controlled interference patterns. By so doing, an additional third dimension—depth—is recovered from two-dimensional sampling. This course will demystify holographic interference patterns by showing how to gather and interpret them and recover depth information. Course topics will step through principles enabling you to conceptually appreciate holographic phenomena and understand constraints faced by recording system designers. Then, using sound waves instead of laser light, participants will have an opportunity to compete in teams to develop a real-world measurement system and computationally recover a scene. Measurement devices and MATLAB starter code will be provided. \\\*Work sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Contract #FA8721-05-C-0002. Content may not be endorsed by the U.S. Government.
Contact: Dr. Robert A. Freking, LIN-A-281, (781) 981-5894, rfreking@ll.mit.edu
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Build a Small Phased Array Radar System Capable of Imaging Moving Targets
Dr. Bradley Perry, Dr. Jonathan Paul Kitchens, Dr. Patrick Bell, Dr. Jeffrey Herd
Tue Jan 17, Fri Jan 20, Mon Jan 23, Tue Jan 24, 01-03:00pm, 4-153
Fri Jan 27, 01-03:00pm, 4-149

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2012
Limited to 24 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Participants supply their own laptops with MATLAB installed

Are you interested in building and testing your own phased array radar system? MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a unique course in the design, fabrication, and test of a laptop-based phased array radar sensor capable of imaging moving targets in real-time, like a ‘radar video camera’. This course will appeal to anyone interested in the following: electronics, amateur radio, physics, electromagnetics, or phased array systems. Teams of three will make a phased array radar system and attend five sessions spanning topics from fundamentals of radar to digital beamforming. You will bring your radar into the field and perform imaging of moving targets around campus. Imaging unusual targets is encouraged; a final radar video competition will determine the most creative radar imagery.
\\*This work is sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract #FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.
Contact: Dr. Bradley Perry, (781) 981-0861, radar.course@ll.mit.edu
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Build a Small Radar System Capable of Sensing Range, Doppler, and Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
Dr. Bradley Perry, Dr. Melissa Meyer, Dr. Stephen M. Kogon, Dr. Alan Fenn
Tue Jan 17, Fri Jan 20, Mon Jan 23, Tue Jan 24, 10am-12:00pm, 4-153
Fri Jan 27, 10am-12:00pm, 4-149

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2012
Limited to 24 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Participants supply their own laptop with MATLAB installed

Are you interested in building and testing your own imaging radar system? MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a course in design, fabrication, and test of a laptop-based radar capable of forming Doppler, range, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. This course will appeal to anyone interested in the following: electronics, amateur radio, physics, or electromagnetics. Teams of three will receive a radar kit and will attend five sessions spanning topics from fundamentals of radar to SAR imaging. Experiments will be performed as the radar kit is implemented. You will bring your radar into the field and perform experiments such as measuring the speed of passing cars or plotting the range of moving targets. A final SAR imaging contest will test your ability to form a detailed and creative SAR image of a target scene of your choice. The best image wins.
\\*This work is sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract #FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.
Contact: Dr. Bradley Perry, (781) 981-0861, radar.course@ll.mit.edu
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Open Robotics Laboratory
Michael Boulet, Aaron Enes, Keith Ruenheck, Nicholas Armstrong-Crews
Tue, Fri, Jan 10, 13, 17, 20, 24, 27, 31, 3, 09:30-11:00am, 8-205

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 23-Dec-2011
Limited to 14 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)

A hands-on introduction to applied robotics sponsored by MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Thanks to open source robotics libraries and inexpensive robot platforms, creating advanced robot capabilities has never been easier. Learn how to use the popular ROS robotics libraries and a small ground robot equipped with a Kinect sensor to demonstrate behaviors like person following, patrolling, exploration, and map-making. The course will focus on selecting, integrating, and tuning existing software packages with some high-level discussion of the underlying robotics technologies. No robotics experience is necessary, but some familiarity with the Linux and an interest in programming robots in C++ or Python operating system will be useful. Teams of two or three will share access to an off-the-shelf robot system throughout IAP. Participants will be challenged to demonstrate a creative or novel robot application in a YouTube-like video. \\*This work is sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract #FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.
Contact: Michael Boulet, MITLL, (781) 981-4751, boulet@ll.mit.edu
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


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