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Christopher R. Wren
MIT
E.E.C.S. Department
MIT
Media Laboratory
Vision and Modeling Group
Curriculum Vitæ
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Education
S.M., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
S.B., Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993
Western Reserve Academy , 1989
Experience
Research Assistant
MIT Media Laboratory Vision and Modeling Group
1994-present
Engineer and Dynamicist
Boston Dynamics Inc.
1993-4
Undergraduate Researcher
MIT Media Laboratory Advanced Human Interface Group
1989-93
Affiliations
Academic Interests
I work with Prof. Pentland
and his students. I am working on a project to aid human motion tracking
through the marriage of dynamic and behavioral models with machine
vision. Knowledge of the constraints on human motion should
increase the computer's ability to track and interpret people.
Hopefully the result will be better vision-based human/computer
interfaces. Eventually better interfaces could lead to many
less-invasive, natural, human uses for computers.
Here is a transcript of my 1997
TTT consortium meeting
statement.
Here is a more detailed statement.
Here are lists of Demonstrations, Publications, and Technical
Reports:
Live demonstrations of technology in settings where hundreds to
thousands of people actually get inside the tech and try it out, while
several thousand people see it in action. Big demos. Not
listed here are the uncountable multitude of demos to the individuals and
small groups of sponsors who
come to the Lab in search of
enlightenment.
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Netrek Collective
- Using wireless perceptual technologies to provide a
high-level, natural interface to a very complex system.
Work in progress.
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Wearable City of News
- A wearable, context-sensitive, information tool.
SIGGRAPH99 Millennium Motel.
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Shall We Dance
- Wireless 3D body tracking and on-line
animation and dance-oriented telepresence at
SIGGRAPH98 Enhanced Realities.
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Toco the Toucan
- Wireless 3D body tracking and on-line audio-visual
learning at the
SIGGRAPH97 Electric Garden.
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Smart Spaces
- Wireless 3D body tracking for animation,
information manipulation, and motion-understanding applications
at the
SIGGRAPH96 Digital Bayou
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Dreams and Illusions
- Wireless 2D body tracking for enhanced telepresence and art at
SIGGRAPH95.
Immersive telepresence between MIT and the conference floor in
Los Angeles.
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Trans-Atlantic SURVIVE
- Wireless 2D body tracking for immersive telepresence in the
context of multi-player Doom.
One installation at MIT, one at BT Laboratories, Martlesham
Heath, England, for the Schools Lecture series. Fall 1994.
Peer-reviewed publications, including those currently in press.
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Dynaman: Recursive Modeling of Human Motion
- Christopher R. Wren and Alex P. Pentland
To appear in: Image and Vision Computing
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Understanding Purposeful Human Motion
- Christopher R. Wren, Brian P. Clarkson, and Alex P. Pentland
Fourth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and
Gesture Recognition, Grenoble, France, March 26-30, 2000
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Combining Audio and Video in Perceptive Spaces
- Christopher R. Wren, Sumit Basu, Flavia Sparacino,
Alex P. Pentland
First International Workshop on Managing Interactions in Smart
Environments, Dublin, Ireland, December 13-14, 1999
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Real-time 3D Motion Capture
- Thanarat Horprasert, Ismail Haritaoglu, David Harwood, Larry
Davis, Christopher Wren, Alex Pentland
Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, San Francisco, Calif.,
November 4-6, 1998
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Dynamic Modeling of Human Motion
- Christopher R. Wren and Alex P. Pentland
Proceedings of the Third IEEE International
Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Nara,
Japan, April 14-16, 1998
- Perceptive Spaces for Performance and Entertainment (Revised)
- Christopher R. Wren, Flavia Sparacino, Ali J. Azarbayejani,
Trevor J. Darrell, James W. Davis, Thad E. Starner, Akira
Kotani, Chloe M. Chao, Michal Hlavac, Kenneth B. Russell, Aaron
Bobick, Alex P. Pentland
ATR Workshop on Virtual Communication Environments: Bridges over
Art/Kansei and VR Technologies, Kyoto, Japan, April 13, 1998
- Perceptive Spaces: Learning Dynamic Models of Human Behavior
- Christopher R. Wren, Sumit Basu, Alex P. Pentland
Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, Banff, Canada, October
19-21, 1997
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Perceptive Spaces for Performance and Entertainment:
Untethered Interaction using Computer Vision and Audition
- Christopher R. Wren, Flavia Sparacino, Ali J. Azarbayejani,
Trevor J. Darrell, Thad E. Starner, Akira Kotani, Chloe
M. Chao, Michal Hlavac, Kenneth B. Russell, Alex
P. Pentland
Applied Artificial Intelligence, June 1997, Vol. 11, No. 4,
pp. 267-284.
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Improvisational Theater Space
- Flavia Sparacino, Kristin Hall, Christopher Wren, Glorianna
Davenport, and Alex Pentland,
The Sixth Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology, Connecticut
College, New London, CT, February 27 - March 2, 1997.
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Real-time 3-D Tracking of the Human Body
- Ali Azarbayejani, Christopher Wren, Alex Pentland
Proceedings of IMAGE'COM 96, Bordeaux, France, May 1996
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Pfinder: Real-Time Tracking of the Human Body
- Christopher R. Wren, Ali Azarbayejani,
Trevor Darrell, and Alex Pentland
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
July 1997, vol 19, no 7, pp. 780-785.
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HyperPlex: a World of 3D Interactive Digital Movies
- Flavia Sparacino, Christopher Wren, Alex Pentland, and
Glorianna Davenport
Proc. of IJCAI'95 Workshop on Entertainment and
AI/Alife. Montreal, Quebec. pp. 77-81. August 1995.
Technical reports that have not (yet) appeared
in a peer-reviewed collection, as well as class projects and other
academic articles.
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Understanding Expressive Action
- Christopher R. Wren
E.E.C.S. Ph.D Thesis
- Calibrating a Sony EVI-D30
- Christopher R. Wren
- Perspective Transform Estimation:
an on-line companion to A Plane Measuring Device
by A. Criminisi, I. Reid, and A. Zisserman
- Christopher R. Wren
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RemoteCompute: Distributed Computing with Java
- Christopher R. Wren and Scott D. Schneider
Parallel
Scientific Computing Class Project.
When I'm not working or sleeping, I try to have a life.
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I don't get a chance to read for pleasure as much as I'd like to.
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Services
Banner Days
- Saturday, January 1st, 2000 the world didn't
end. Maybe now we can get on with life and everyone can get
off the backs of the computer scientists. Maybe people will
actually be so embarrassed for taking part in the
Luddite hysteria that they'll be more willing to explore how
technology can improve their lives.
- Thursday, November 11th, 1999 Blizzard announced that Diablo II won't
be out until early 2000. This would be a bad thing
if I weren't trying to graduate in December. As it is, this
works out nicely - thanks Blizzard!
Black Days
Can't think of any - I'm a good mood.
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