Steve Mann


Steve Mann's WWW page is now at University of Toronto, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering


Awarded PhD in Media Arts and Sciences, September 17, 1997

Now a faculty member at University of Toronto, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A4; mann@eecg.toronto.edu

Steve Mann's Personal Web Page has moved to http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann

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Personal hobbies, research interests, and the like:

If you have a really fast Internet connection, you might want to look at a more highly graphical version of this page.

I am part of "VisMod", also known as the "vision and modeling group", in the Media Lab at MIT.

I live in Edgerton House which has a view of Boston, across the Charles river, a pleasant atmosphere, even in the basement (e.g. a long brightly lit corridor with a renaissance sense of perspective), and a laundry room with nice new machines, though the controversial Card Key system has recently been installed at Edgerton House, as well as other dorms across campus.


Events or places of interest in cyberspace:


Events or places of interest in physical space:


I also have an "official" home page, describing my work at the Media Lab and listing some of my publications.

Send comments to webcam-owner@media.mit.edu.

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Research interests
``Lightspace'', Video understanding, scene change detection, and resolution enhancement (high-resolution images from low resolution video).

Advisor: Rosalind Picard

Education
Currently a faculty member at University of Toronto, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4

Graduate degrees prior to PhD: Master in electrical engineering (2 year program)
McMaster University Communications Research Lab (CRL)
Advisor: Dr. Simon Haykin

Undergraduate degrees: Obtained undergrad degree in physics. Obtained also undergrad degree in electrical engineering (extra year).


Research Description

1. Automatically finding when there is a scene change in a video sequence, and more generally introducing the notion of "video orbit", and "distance" from the "orbit"

2. Enhancing the intra-scene frames (e.g. from the same "video orbit" of a video sequence

Publications

Wavelets and Chirplets: Time--Frequency Perspectives
Steve Mann
in "Advances in Machine Vision, Strategies and Applications", Archibald, Petriu (editor); ISBN 981-02-0976-2, 1992.

Time-Frequency Perspectives: The Chirplet Transform
Steve Mann and Simon Haykin
ICASSP-92

"Compositing Multiple Pictures of the Same Scene: Generalized Large-Displacement 8-Parameter Motion",
Steve Mann
Proceedings of the 46th Annual IS&T Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 9-14, 1993

The Chirplet Transform
Mann, Steve and Haykin, Simon
To appear, IEEE SP

Chirplets and Warblets: Novel Time--Frequency Representations
Mann, Steve and Haykin, Simon
Electronics Letters, January 1992, Vol 28, No. 2, Institute of Electrical Engineers

Virtual Bellows: constructing high-quality images from video
Mann, Steve and Picard, Rosalind
Proceedings of the IEEE first international conference on image processing, Austin, Texas, November 1994

The Chirplet Transform --- a Generalization of Gabor's Logon Transform,
Mann, Steve and Haykin, Simon
Vision Interface '91, Calgary, Alberta, June 3-7, 1991

The Adaptive Chirplet: An Adaptive Wavelet Like Transform,
Mann, Steve and Haykin, Simon
SPIE, 36th Annual International Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, San Diego, California, 21-26 July, 1991

Publications that contain no equations

The Appearing Point,
Mann, Steve
15RUNE, Spring 1994

Doppler Den,
Steve Mann
Leonardo, Vol. 24, No. 4 (1991)

Doppler Danse,
Steve Mann
Leonardo, Vol. 25, No. 1 (1992)

Gallery exhibitions

Lightspaces,
Night Gallery, 185 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ontario
June/July, 1985

Mystical lightspaces,
Gallery Catriel, Hamilton, Ontario
1986

Lightspaces from the Hamilton area,
Hamilton Artists Inc.
1987

Lightspaces at MIT (microseconds and years),
Wiesner Student Gallery
Stratton Student Center, MIT, 1994 October 15 - November 26

Surveillance in Society (exhibition of various embodiments of WearCam)
List Visual Arts Center (LVAC)
1997 October 9 - December 28


Interests
Photography, ``lightspace'', radio (simplex UHF, ATV); I also like to play a little volleyball or go for a short run now and again.


Personal Web Page


Vismod Home Page