hydraulophone installation at Ontario Science Centre

Christina with Steve Mann and his WearComp7 invention

Prof. Steve Mann

Director, EyeTap Personal Imaging (ePi) Lab

Director, FL_UI_D Laboratory

ECE1766 (Personal Imaging) course announcement

List of Steve's recent research papers

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering Research Group
University of Toronto
10 Kings College Road; office = Room 2001; Mailstop S.F. B540
if mailing, use the mailroom (S.F. B540) in the mailing address.
Toronto, CANADA - M5S 3G4

email to username "mann", at the domain of "eecg.toronto.edu"
harmonic telegraph, telephone, phone, or whatever you like to call it:
(416) 946-3387,
fax: (416) 971-2326



Some of Steve Mann's recent publications that are available on the WWW:

Comparametric Equations (the mathematical theory of computer mediated reality)

Wearable Intelligent Signal Processing: Lead article from Proceedings of the IEEE, Nov. 1998, Vol. 86, No. 11, cover+p2123-2151

http://computer.org/computer/backissu.htm (scroll down to the feature article of Feb.'97)
The complete article is also available from: http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/ieeecomputer

See also: http://www.wearcam.org/chi97 and http://www.wearcam.org/personaltechnologies and http://www.wearcam.org/historical/

For a light overview of the invention, see: http://www.wearcam.org/judith_gaines_und.gif or if you want more resolution: http://www.wearcam.org/judith_gaines.jpg

Mathematical theory (video orbits) behind his "image compositing" work, see Sep.'97 issue of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/tip.ps.gz

A small gallery of images is located at http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/orbits/gallery.html and a brief description at http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/orbits/

The chirplet transform

Take a look at some other embodiments of his "WearComp" (wearable computer) invention (e.g. WearComp1, WearComp3, etc.): http://www.wearcam.org/steve5.jpg

Other pictures of Mann's "WearComp" invention as it has evolved over more than 20 years.

OTHER LINKS:

University of Toronto has one of the most active FPGA research groups anywhere: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/FPGA.html

http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jayar/ (Jonathan Rose, one of the principal founders of the "transmogrifier" project,... an FPGA-based computational system) 

Prof. Steve Mann
University of Toronto
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, mailstop S.F. B540,
10 King's College Road; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; M5S 3G4
Tel. 416.946-3387
Fax. 416.971-2326