John Underkoffler points to the future of UI

Informe Lectura "As We May Think"

Nowadays, the knowledge is being managed on a fractal structure, wich is not concerned to individual goals. This is about a global aiming for a logic developement of information extracted from the world.

This is the reason why the knowledge is plenty full of systems and sub-systems.

But human mind doesn't work that way,  because brain, insted of creating systems and subsystems to arrange the information, works by association of ideas, wich are connected to other ideas in orage to built new concepts. So, this what we're looking for now, interfaces that allow human beings to acced to any point of information, just like brain works.

Thinking this way comes out in more efficient process and results, not only about science and technology, but in all the things prensent in life.

        "the world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability"

We are looking for an efficient connection between  physical and mental capabilities.

"Como podemos pensar"

Hoy día, el conocimiento esta siendo manejado en base a una estructura fractal, la cual no esta relacionada con el alcance de objetivos individuales. Se trata  de una busqueda global de un desarrollo lógico de la información que diariamente se extrae del mundo.

Esta es la razón por la cuál el conocimiento se encuentra completamente lleno de sistemas y de sub-sistemas.

Pero la mente humana no funciona de dicha forma, ya que el cerebro, no crea sistemas y sub-sistemas para organizar la información, en lugar de esto funciona por medio de la asociación de ideas, las cuales se conectan a otras ideas, dando como resultado la creación de nuevos conceptos. Esto es lo que se busca ahora, interfaces que le permitan a los seres humanos acceder a cualquier punto de la información de una forma asociativa, justo como lo hace el cerebro.
Pensar de esta manera conlleva a procesos y resultados más eficientes, no solo en lo que respecta a la ciencia y la tecnología, si no también en los demás aspectos del diario vivir.

    "El mundo ha llegado a una era de dispositivos complejos y baratos y de gran confiabilidad."

Estamos buscando una conexión eficiente entre las capacidades mentales y físicas del se humano.

Proyectos diseño digital

Live Dense Reconstruction with a Single Moving Camera

Richard A. Newcombe and Andrew J. Davison

In this work we present a method which enables rapid and dense reconstruction of scenes browsed by a single live camera. We take point-based real-time structure from motion (SFM) as our starting point, generating accurate 3D camera pose estimates and a sparse point cloud. Our main novel contribution is to use an approximate but smooth base mesh generated from the SFM to predict the view at a bundle of poses around automatically selected reference frames spanning the scene, and then warp the base mesh into highly accurate depth maps based on view-predictive optical flow and a constrained scene flow update. The quality of the resulting depth maps means that a convincing global scene model can be obtained simply by placing them side by side and removing overlapping regions. We show that a cluttered indoor environment can be reconstructed from a live hand-held camera in a few seconds, with all processing performed by current desktop hardware. Real-time monocular dense reconstruction opens up many application areas, and we demonstrate both real-time novel view synthesis and advanced augmented reality where augmentations interact physically with the 3D scene and are correctly clipped by 
occlusions. 


http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rnewcomb/CVPR2010/


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