June 2013

A new milestone for the robot photographer! Here’s a list of new things that the robot is capable of: It has been taught to detect and track humans in Kinect’s depth image! Depth and photographic cameras have been aligned (camera intrinsics and extrinsics have been calibrated). This effectively means that given a point on one image plane (e.g. in the depth image), a robot is able to tell where the corresponding point would be on the other image […]

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For a few weeks now I have been working on a new idea: an autonomous robot photographer. My ultimate goal is to build a fully autonomous robot which could take well-composed pictures in various social events: conferences, open days, weddings and so on. In the process I am also hoping to build a scalable system that could be extended to more complicated tasks and, potentially, used as a teaching tool at an undergraduate level. I am planning to […]

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