Sponsored projects:

Chief Investigator(s): Subhashis Banerjee and Michael Werman, Institute of Computer Science, Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem.
Funding agency: Dept. of Science and Technology, India and Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel.
Funding: Rs. 23,00,000.
Duration: 1998-2000.
Description: The primary aim of the project is to develop preliminary algorithms for:
- Real-time video compression.
- Generation of video panoramas and efficient indexing.
- Automatic robot navigation and visualization of remote environments.

Chief Investigator: M. Hanmandlu (EE)
Other investigator(s): Subhashis Banerjee.
Funding agency: Dept. of Science and Technology.
Funding: Rs. 10,80,000.
Duration: 1998-2000.
Description: The primary aim of the project is to develop preliminary algorithms for:
- Projective and Euclidean structure from motion.
- Motion parameter estimation.
- Real-time object tracking.
Demos and reports for object tracking.

Chief Investigator: M. Balakrishnan.
Other investigator(s): Anshul Kumar, Shashi Kumar, Sharad Malik, Aarti Gupta, Sanjiv Kapoor , S. Arun-Kumar, Subhashis Banerjee
Funding agency: Naval Research Board.
Funding: Rs. 25,00,000.
Duration: 1998-2001.
Description: Embedded Systems project's home page.

Chief Investigator: Subhashis Banerjee.
Funding agency: Department of Atomic Energy, under the DAE Young Scientist Award 1994 Scheme.
Funding: Rs. 5,00,000.
Duration: 1995-1998.
Description: The primary aim of the project is to develop preliminary algorithms for the following real-time motion responses:
- redirection of attention to moving regions of interest
- panic reaction to imminent collision
- tracking of a moving target using motion alone
and to develop strategies for moving the camera(s) (gaze control), in real-time, so that the above functionalities can be realized. It is also proposed to develop tools for implementing the above on a transputer based multi-processor platform.
Demos and reports for collision detection and object tracking.

Chief Investigator: K. K. Biswas.
Co-investigators: Subhashis Banerjee, Santanu Chaudhuri, M. Hanmandlu.
Funding agency: All India Council of Technical Education.
Funding: Rs. 12,00,000.
Duration: 1996-1999.
Description: The primary objectives of the project are:
- Developing techniques for a graphical re-creation of a remote environment from multi-sensory data. The sensory data will primarily include video and sonar/range image sequences obtained through cameras mounted on robots. The multi-modal graphical recreation will be based on the high level descriptions of the shape, motion, spatial inter-relationships and identification of the various objects that constitute the remote scene. Such descriptions will be obtained through a detailed analysis of the multi-sensory data using techniques of Computer Vision and AI.
- Developing strategies for interactive exploration of a remote environment.
- Developing techniques to enable an operator to interactively control the tele-robot at the remote environment, both for acquisition of new data and for per forming a complex task at the remote site.

Subhashis Banerjee / Dept. Computer Science and Engineering / IIT Delhi / Hauz Khas/ New Delhi 110016 / suban@cse.iitd.ernet.in