Interval Research Corporation

About: Interval Research Corporation is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & Haptic technology. The organization has 180 authors who have published 245 publications receiving 19184 citations.

System for image manipulation and animation

Abstract: A constraint-based graphics system employs different examples of an image to define the constraints of the system. The examples are grouped into subsets which can be interpolated with one another, according to a user-specified input that determines the relative proportion of each example image. An animation can be created by defining a sequence of such interpolated images. Alternatively, a user can directly manipulate observable components of an image to define a particular state for the image. Automatic transformations are defined to provide registration of an image within an overall scene by shifting the frame of reference for an image so that unnatural movements do not occur as the animation proceeds through a sequence of states. The structure of the system permits an animation to be divided into distinct components that can be combined with complementary components of other animations, to provide new results. These components include a clip motion which defines a sequence of states, a clip character which applies the clip motion to a particular image configuration, and clip art.

Position detecting system and method

Abstract: A position detection system for locating an object including a magnetic field generator is disclosed. The position detection system also includes an array of parallel conductors responsive to a magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generator and a plurality of receivers each associated with a parallel conductor. The parallel conductors are spaced apart from one another by a substantially constant spacing. Each receiver has an associated gain, and the gains of the receivers are configured to simulate voltages induced in conductor loops of sinusoidally-varying pitch.

Measuring and modeling facial affect.

Abstract: In recent years, researchers in computer science and human-computer interaction have become increasingly interested in characterizing perception of facial affect. Ironically, this applied interest comes at a time when the classic findings on perception of human facial affect are being challenged in the psychological research literature, largely on methodological grounds. This paper first describes two experiments that empirically address Russell’s methodological criticisms of the classic work on measuring “basic emotions,” as well as his alternative approach toward modeling “facial affect space.” Finally, a user study on affect in a prototype model of a robot face is reported; these results are compared with the human findings from Experiment 1. This work provides new data on measuring facial affect, while also demonstrating how basic and more applied research can mutually inform one another.

Mass hallucination

Abstract: ing to the number of people watching it, their behaviors, and whether they've watched the device before. It is reflexive: the displayed image is a function of the people watching the display. It encourages crowds of people to collectively manipulate the display with their bodies or faces. Yet it is also personal, in that it can recognize the appearance of a user for short-to-medium periods of time and tailor the display accordingly. As in Magic Morphin' Mirror, a SIGGRAPH 97 Electric Garden project by the same group, this display captures video along the same optical axis as video is displayed , so images of observers can be directly manipulated, composited, or distorted on the display. In contrast to the previous work, which only considered a single user at a time and had no persistence after they left, this display is designed to visually track a crowd of people and provide a shared graphical experience. It also tracks users over time through multiple sessions. We show that continuity/consistency of experience across multiple simultaneous users, or a single user at a time, is possible.

Public information: documents, spectacles and the politics of public participation

Abstract: This proposed panel addresses the representation of the public in the information age. For the most part, new technologies delivered by corporate interests envision the ‘public’ as markets, separated into demographic age groups, income brackets and individual consumption behaviors. In the information age, public representation is synonymous with the market, voting and buying are contlated, and politics is a subbranch of marketing. This panel focuses on recent works that transcends categories of consumption and represents the public to itself outside of this arena. What are the possibilities for shared public experience rendered by new technologies? What interventions have been made in the political work of constructing public identity?