Professional projects

SERVIVE

I am responsible for the development of a Virtual Try On as a web service as defined within the EU FP7 project SERVIVE. The Virtual Try On is an application that let’s you try on and customize (for style and fit) 3D physically simulated garments on a 3D representation of your own body. Within SERVIVE, MIRALab – University of Geneva provides this application as a web service that can be interacted with through a web application as developed by Digital Humans.

EPOCH Characterise

As part of the Epoch Characterise project I have been involved in releasing vhdPLUS as Open Source. The vhdPLUS Development Framework is a modern, fully component oriented simulation engine and software middleware solution created by and reflecting many years of the R&D experience of both the MIRALab, University of Geneva and VRlab, EPFL labs in the domain of VR/AR and virtual character simulation.

University projects

Rigid Body Dynamics:

A nice little rigid body dynamics engine that I developed together with Ebor Folkertsma when I was a student at the university of Twente. We did this as a so called “free project”, and I have to admit that, at the time, we bit off quite a bit more than we could chew. It was a nice project though and it taught us a lot. You can download some demos here.

3DWebcam:

3DWebcam was a project in which Ingo Wassink and I created a stereo vision application using two webcams. Ingo was responsible for the image filtering and most of the framework design, while I took care of camera callibration, determining the fundamental matrix through a RANSAC approach as described in the great Hartley and Zisserman book. A lot of work (especially since we wrote ALL from scratch in java), but it’s worth it all once you see yourself with a cross on and a line through your nose. (click on the image ) And yes, this was in my blue period.

Noffel:

Our dear Robot project. Ingo Wassink and I created a robot, using Lego and their RCX controller (for which we wrote our own control software) + servos, that could raise and lower the eyebrows, blink and move its mouth. Bouke Nijhuis and Dolf Trieschnigg took care of the emotional model that drove it, while we hooked up some speech generation and recognition. A photo made it onto the promotional brochures of HMI. Now how cool is that.

Trafic light tracking:

By far the coolest project in my “Imaging” minor. Based on captured images we tracked whether or not pedestrian traffic lights were either green or red. The system could determine whether or not a traffic light was indeed a pedestrian traffic light based on Fourrier Descriptors for shape recoginition, aided by a number of preprocessing filters. All written in Matlab, which at the time was still horrendously slow for anything involving loops. Yes, I’m that old.