Touch in Virtual Environments: Haptics and the Design of Interactive Systems

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Emerging Topics in Computer Vision

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Text to Speech Synthesis: New Paradigms and Advances

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Quality of Service for Intenet Multimedia

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By Jitae Shin, Daniel C. Lee, C.C. Jay Kuo

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iTV Handbook: Technologies and Standards

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Dennis McLeod Professor, Computer Science (213) 740-4504 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Shri Narayanan Professor, Electrical Engineering Systems (213) 740-6432 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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External Collaborators

Jongwook Woo Associate Professor California State University at Los Angeles (323) 343-2916 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Roger Zimmermann Associate Professor National University of Singapore 011-909-598-7809 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Technology Transfer and Licensing Success Stories

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IMSC also actively pursues the dissemination of advanced immersive technology into commercial applications. These activities include technology transfer and licensing, startup and spin-off company creation; raising industry awareness of the Center's research, internship and educational programs, and development of the Center's business strategies of selected technologies.

To date, IMSC has had:

106 invention disclosures across the multimedia and Internet technologies spectrum
56 patents filed (6 Awarded)
105 total commercial licenses and technology transfers
9 spin-off companies formed

Example technology transfer and spin-off company success stories currently in the marketplace:

Geometrix, a company based in San Jose, CA, licensed IMSC's 3D face modeling technology and used it to create a high speed 3Dface capture solution, FaceVision^TM, and a virtual try-on solution for the retail optical market. Geometrix worked with Visionix of Israel to introduce 3D iView, the first commercial 3D virtual try-on system for eyewear. Hoya Corporation of Japan, the world's second largest manufacturer of eyeglass lenses, adopted the 3D iView Virtual Try-On System, deployed in Japan as "3D Best."

Rhythm & Hues Studios in Los Angeles licensed IMSC's augmented reality software, and created a computer-generated special effects system called "Fastrack". The software is being used routinely in the making of feature films, including such hits as "X-Men II", "Daredevil" and "Cat in the Hat". The tracking method developed by IMSC researchers adaptively selects the "best" features to track in natural scenes, reducing the time for scene rendering from minutes to seconds, and reducing the need for hand correction.

Our most recent spin-off company, Audyssey Laboratories, was founded in 2002 by Prof. Chris Kyriakakis and two IMSC ERC graduates. Audyssey develops innovative technologies for enhancing the quality of sound in home theaters, automobiles, movie theaters, cell phones, and portable music players. These technologies were developed from research at the IMSC Immersive Audio Laboratory. Audyssey's first licensed product appeared in October 2004 from a major consumer electronics manufacturer. Several more product releases will appear in 2005. The company, headquartered in downtown Los Angeles, completed its first round of financing in December 2004 and currently employs 8 people. Other spin-off companies, such as Fetch Technologies, and New Media University Academy, continue to grow.

International Collaborations

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IMSC has been actively involved in international collaboration.

We are open to various opportunities for:

Research and Strategic Planning Collaborations

Educational Collaboration

Industry Membership

International Scholar and Student Exchange

Present Collaboration

Namseoul University, Korea

International Education and Research Alliance (IERA) Program: This program is to enable international academic institutes to partner with IMSC in their research and educational activities through diverse mechanisms such as research collaboration, training program, technology transfer and licensing, information exchange.

Media Management Research Lab at National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Geovid: Georeferenced user-generated video management project.

Civil and Environmental Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.

Vision based traffic flow data extraction project.

Complex Engineered System Lab at Tsinghua University, China.

Participatory sensing in MASON (Metropolitan Area Sensing and Operation Network)

NIE Social Media Lab at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong.

Touch Center at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

Past Collaboration Program

Institute for Information Industries, Taipei, Taiwan, the Republic of China

IMSC enjoyed a long-running relationship with III. This collaboration included four major initiatives:

(1) Strategic Planning - "Making Taiwan an Advanced Technology Research and Product Design and Development Island"
(2) Technology Development Processes
(3) Networking
(4) Research

Computer and Communications Research Labs of the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan, the Republic of China

In this collaboration led by Prof. C.C. (Jay) Kuo, IMSC and CCL/ITRI investigators examined selected topics in cable modems:

(1) Carrier synchronization of multicarrier, code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) over HFC environment, and
(2) Backward compatible physical layer system within the standard DOCSIS 2.0

NTT DoCoMo, Multimedia Laboratories, Yokosuka Research Park, Kanagawa, Japan

NTT DoCoMo's main interest was in IMSC's research on UltraWideBand (UWB) Wireless Radio being carried out at the UltRa Lab directed by Prof. Robert Scholtz.

SERVICES

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IMSC provides data and information in support of research and education for USC community.

Researchers at USC's ISI are using IMSC's 3D campus model to develop a realistic game which allows them to evaluate and compare human behavior in the virtual world versus that in the real world.

Researchers at USC's School of Architecture used IMSC's 3D campus model as the basis to develop a new design for Coliseum.

STUDENT INTERNSHIP

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Fall 2012

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Alexander Gil

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Jeong-min Lee

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Touch in Virtual Environments: Haptics and the Design of Interactive Systems

Emerging Topics in Computer Vision

Text to Speech Synthesis: New Paradigms and Advances

Quality of Service for Intenet Multimedia

iTV Handbook: Technologies and Standards

Book Series: A Partnership of IMSC and Prentice Hall PTR

External Collaborators

Technology Transfer and Licensing Success Stories

International Collaborations

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