CoMedi: using computer vision to support awareness and privacy in mediaspaces

ABSTRACT

CoMedi is a mediaspace prototype that uses computer vision to provide new solutions to the problems of visual discontinuity and privacy. CoMedi includes a robust face tracker based on cooperation of multiple vision techniques, a tele-exploration tool based on a multi-resolution fovea, and new privacy filter using eigen-space coding.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
awareness, computer mediated communication, computer vision, eigen-space, fovea, mediaspace, privacy