ucsd

computervisionlaboratory

• faculty
  • Serge Belongie


• graduate students
  • Carolina Galleguillos [object recognition]


• researchers
  • John Miller (Calit2, NFB) [accessibility engineering]
  • Javier Rodriguez-Molina (Calit2) [haptic system]


• external researchers
  • Stephan Steinbach [mobile platform]


• undergraduate students
  • TIES group
  • Liz Kain, Andy Kwong, Alex Pastel, Carlos Tong, Franco Guadarrama, Nicole Brazil, Phil Thai, Ryan Ferrell, Marvin Tu, Hannah Brock, Kaivalya Shah
  • MAE 156B Design Team
  • Landon Carlson, Daniel Fan, Satendra Singh, Matt Sturtevant


• project alumni
  • Tom Duerig (Google) [reading image text]
  • Michele Merler (University of Trento / Columbia U.) [object recognition]

• Computer Science & Engineering

• Calit2 TechBrief: Helping the Visually Impaired Shop [pdf]
• Presentation Slides: GroZi Overview at Pixel Cafe [ppt]
• GroZi Poster: Presented at WML Workshop [ppt]
• GroZi-120: A Grocery Products DataBase of Images [please email to cgallegu@.. for link]
• DIVX codecs for Windows and Mac (for playing avi files) [www]

• Marvin Tu, Phil Thai, Ryan Ferrell, Hannah Brock, Kaivalya Shah, Franco Guadarrama, Hourieh Fakourfar
  GroZi: Grocery Shopping Assistant - Haptic Feedback System [pdf]
  UCSD TIES Group Project Report, Winter 2008.


• Landon Carlson, Daniel Fan, Satendra Singh and Matthew Sturtevant
  GroZi Shopping Assistant [doc] [pdf]
  MAE 156B (Principles of Mechanical Design) Final Report, Spring 2007.


• Michele Merler, Carolina Galleguillos and Serge Belongie
  Recognizing Groceries in situ Using in vitro Training Data [pdf]
  SLAM 2007, Minneapolis, MN.


• Elisabeth Kain, Andy Kwong, Alex Pastel and Carlos Tong
  GroZi: Grocery Shopping Assistant - Blind Accessible Web Interface [pdf]
  UCSD TIES Group Project Report, Spring 2007.


• Elisabeth Kain, Andy Kwong and Carlos Tong
  GroZi: Grocery Shopping Assistant - Blind Accessible Web Interface [pdf] [doc]
  UCSD TIES Group Project Report, Winter 2007.

• JSOE Press release [www]
• GroZi at Gadgetfest [www]
• GroZi Concept Video [wmv file]

• Mobile Vision System (MoVS).

• LaneHawk from Evolution Robotics. Detects/recognizes groceries stowed under shopping cart.
• Veggie Vision from IBM.
• RoboCart: Robot-Assisted Navigation of Grocery Stores by the Visually Impaired. Uses RFID tags and laser range finding. (from USU CSATL)
• Shopper robot at U. Chicago. Finds grocery items in a virtual Grocery World.
• Textual Information Access for the Visually Impaired at Maryland: mentions text reading in grocery store aisles.
• RealityFlythrough ubiquitous computing project at UCSD. Includes some test sequences captured at grocery store (Ralph's).
• Mobot: cell phone camera based recognition of album covers, movie posters, beer labels, etc.
• Fujitsu U-Scan Shopper: 'intelligent' shopping trolley.
• Intel Research Seattle Human Activity Recognition: RFID-based assistive technology for the elderly.
• Kurzweil NFB Reader: portable OCR device.
• Semacode: 2D barcode reading on a cell phone.
• PicturePhoning: volunteer based RSG for sign reading.
• TriNetra system from CMU.
• OCR Grid: web based text reader from Tohoku University
• Seeing with Sound: Vision Technology for the Totally Blind