Several media outlets recently featured innovative research based in computer vision by faculty and students in the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL), one of 16 centers and labs in UMIACS.
HandSight, a miniature camera system that can help people who are visually impaired to read, was highlighted in PC Magazine and was also covered in a story published in the New Scientist.
HandSight was initially funded by a $1 million grant from the Department of Defense.
Jon Froehlich, an assistant professor of computer science, is primary investigator of the grant, with Leah Findlater, an assistant professor in the >iSchool, and Rama Chellappa, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, serving as co-principal investigators. All three hold appointments in UMIACS.
The news coverage was spurred by publication of a paper in the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, with Lee Stearns, a fourth-year doctoral student in computer science, listed as the lead author.
HCIL is a partnership between the iSchool and UMIACS.