Position-Correcting Router
Position-Correcting Router
Researchers at CSAIL have developed a handheld device that can adjust its position to precisely follow a digital plan when a user moves a router roughly around the shape to be cut.
Cell division and growth rate
Cell division and growth rate
MIT researchers answer a longstanding question in biology: How do cells know when to progress through the cell cycle?
Making Wrinkles
Making Wrinkles
A team of researchers at MIT has discovered a way to harness the wrinkling process in a controlled and orderly way.
MIT DARPA Urban Challenge July Test Run
MIT DARPA Urban Challenge July Test Run
A test run at Weymouth Naval Air Station of MIT's entry in the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge. Team MIT is a collaborative effort between MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, ...
IMARA: a CSAIL outreach project
IMARA: a CSAIL outreach project
IMARA is an effort that has begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) to find viable ways of providing equal access to people in underserved populations. The overall goal of IMARA is to find and implement long-term, ...
MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Proposal
MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Proposal
MIT's proposal to win Track A funding for the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge. Team MIT is a collaborative effort between MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with students ...
Real-time Edge-Aware Image Processing with a Bilateral Grid
Real-time Edge-Aware Image Processing with a Bilateral Grid
The bilateral grid is a new data structure that allows users to quickly and easily edit images and videos while respecting edges in the image. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007. More info: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/bilagrid/
Apparent Ridges for Line Drawing
Apparent Ridges for Line Drawing
Apparent ridges are a new way to represent 3D models as non-photorealistic line drawings. They produce results that are more accurate and visually pleasing than currently existing methods. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007. More info (PDF): http://people.csail.mit.edu/tjudd/apparentLines.pdf
Pinocchio: Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters
Pinocchio: Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters
The Pinocchio systems automatically places skeletal joints inside 3D characters. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007. More info (PDF): http://www.mit.edu/%7Eibaran/autorig/index.html
Real-time Enveloping with Rotational Regression
Real-time Enveloping with Rotational Regression
This is a new method for mapping skeletal controls to the skin of a 3D character. Our method accurately simulates deformations such as skin sliding and muscle bulging, yielding more realistic animations. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007 More info (PDF): ...
Practical Motion Capture in Everyday Surroundings
Practical Motion Capture in Everyday Surroundings
THIS IS NOT A COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE PRODUCT This self-contained motion capture suit uses ultrasound to allow the recording of motions in any setting, as opposed to traditional motion capture systems that are confined to a studio. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007. More info ...
Two-scale Tone Management for Photographic Look
Two-scale Tone Management for Photographic Look
With this new approach to image editing, the user can adjust features such as tonal balance and amount of detail. In addition to directly controlling the parameters, the user can transfer the look of a model photograph to the picture being edited. Published in SIGGRAPH ...
Wheel of Life Sand Mandala at MIT
Wheel of Life Sand Mandala at MIT
A time-lapse video of the creation of a Tibetan Buddhist Wheel of Life sand mandala. It was constructed at MIT by the Venerable Losang Samten and assisted by the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi. The sand painting took five days to create and, as is traditional, was dissolved soon after it was ...
Face Transfer with Multilinear Models
Face Transfer with Multilinear Models
This research extracts a 3D model of a person's face from a video. The person's facial expressions and mouth movements can then be transferred to the 3D face model of another person. In this video, the two input videos are shown in the top corners. The facial movements of the person on the ...
Shady: A Truss Climbing Window Shade
Shady: A Truss Climbing Window Shade
Shady is a robot that acts as a localized window shade by climbing the metal trusses of windows. Instead of blocking an entire window like a conventional window shade, Shady can block only the portion of the window where the sun is shining directly Shady is a project of the Distributed ...
Video-Based Change Detection
Video-Based Change Detection
This system compares two video streams recorded at different times and automatically detects features that changed during the interval. The systems flags these differences to allow a user to quickly see what changed, making it a good tool for security and reconnaissance applications. Developed ...
MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - Area B, Attempt 1
MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - Area B, Attempt 1
Area B is a residential area of rotaries and winding streets designed to test the vehicle's lane following, navigation, obstacle avoidance, parking, signaling, and turning. In this run Talos, MIT's vehicle, had some difficulties entering the course. It did not have ...
MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - El Toro Test
MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - El Toro Test
A pre-qualification test of MIT's DARPA Urban Challenge entry conducted at the El Toro Air Station. The vehicle is operating autonomously and no one is inside. The video is shot from a car following the vehicle. Recorded October 24, 2007. Team MIT is a collaborative ...
Reconfiguration by Self-Disassembly
Reconfiguration by Self-Disassembly
In this video, each cube is a robotic module that recognizes and connects to its neighbor. Using an computer interface, a user can sculpt the structure into any shape. The structure then disassembles itself into the desired shape by disconnecting and discarding the unneeded cubes. This is ...
MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - Area A, Attempt 1
MIT DARPA Urban Challenge Qualification - Area A, Attempt 1
Area A tested Talos' ability to merge into moving traffic. Talos ("the world's most expensive, sophisticated Land Rover in existence," as the DARPA announcer calls it) was a bit too hesitant about merging, requiring the team to make some changes to pass the event. Team ...