This workshop, a joint effort of Camera Culture, Signal Kinetics, and Responsive Environments, explores the innovations and challenges in extreme sensing, which can detect information beyond human perception and conventional sensors. We will encourage participants to share the sensing challenges they face in their work, and collectively brainstorm potential solutions throughout the workshop. We will discuss how emerging cameras can capture additional light dimensions and reveal hidden information, such as seeing around corners and turning objects into cameras. We will also explore how flexible wireless antennas can find items inside closed boxes or behind occlusions, and how battery-free underwater sensors can monitor climate change. Finally, we will talk about deploying sensing devices in the wild to sense humans and animals across our planet and on rovers and spacecraft for explorations beyond planetary boundaries.
Faculty
Ramesh Raskar
Camera CultureAssociate Director and Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab
Fadel Adib
Signal KineticsAssociate Professor at MIT Media Lab and EECS
Joeseph A Paradiso
Responsive EnvironmentsProfessor at MIT Media Lab
Speakers
Akshat Dave
Camera CulturePostdoctoral Associate at MIT Media Lab
Ahmed Allam
Signal KineticsPostdoctoral Associate at MIT Media Lab
Patrick Chwalek
Responsive EnvironmentsPhD Candidate at MIT Media Lab
Siddharth Somasundaram
Camera CultureResearch Assistant at MIT Media Lab
Maisy Lam
Signal KineticsResearch Assistant at MIT Media Lab
Fangzheng Liu
Responsive EnvironmentsPhD Student at MIT Media Lab
Extreme Sensing: Seeing the unseen beyond walls, oceans and planets.
October 24, 2023 (4:15 PM - 5:45 PM), E15-359
Opener: Let's discuss your sensing problems
Seeing the Invisible with Next-Generation Cameras
Akshat Dave, Postdoctoral Associate, Camera Culture
Computer Vision at the Speed of Light for AR and AV
Siddharth Somasundaram, Research Assistant, Camera Culture
Extreme Sensing for AR & Robotics
Maisy Lam, Research Assistant, Signal Kinetics
Sensing Deep in the Ocean without Batteries
Ahmed Allam, Postdoctoral Associate, Signal Kinetics
Sensing in the Wild and for the Wild
Patrick Chwalek, PhD Candidate, Responsive Environments
Movable and Static Wireless Sensor Nodes for Planetary Explorations
Fangzheng Liu, PhD Student, Responsive Environments