New! 6D Hands: Markerless Hand-Tracking for Computer Aided Design

Hand-tracking proof of concept videos

For more information and videos, check out the project page.

6D Hands: Markerless Hand Tracking for Computer Aided Design

Robert Y. Wang, Sylvain Paris, and Jovan Popović to appear in ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2011 [paper] [main video] (mp4) [supplementary video] (mp4)

Practical Color-Based Motion Capture

Robert Y. Wang, Sylvain Paris, and Jovan Popović in ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2011 also CSAIL Technical Reports, MIT-CSAIL-TR-2010-044 [paper] [main video] [supplementary video]

Seafloor Image Compression with Large Tilesize Vector Quantization

Chris Murphy, Robert Y. Wang, Hanumant Singh in Proceedings of IEEE AUV Conference, 2010 [paper]

Real-Time Hand-Tracking with a Color Glove

Robert Y. Wang and Jovan Popović in ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2009), 28(3). [project] [paper] [video] [slides] [fast forward]

Real-Time Hand-Tracking as a User Input Device

Robert Y. Wang Doctoral Symposium, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2008. [paper]

Real-Time Enveloping with Rotational Regression

Robert Y. Wang, Kari Pulli, and Jovan Popović in ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2007), 26(3). [paper] [video 1] [video 2] [supplemental work] [slides]

Mesh Ensemble Motion Graphs: Data-driven Mesh Animation with Constraints

Doug L. James, Christopher D. Twigg, Andrew A. Cove, and Robert Y. Wang in ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(4), 2007. [paper] [project]

RentMonkey: http://rentmonkey.mit.edu (requires MIT certificates)

I wrote RentMonkey in my fourth year, while I was serving on the Graduate Student Council. At the time, there wasn't an efficient way to look for off-campus housing in Cambridge / Boston suitable for MIT students.

RentMonkey was designed to track listings exclusively provided by MIT students, for MIT students. The website authenticates each student visiting the site. The listings on the site are suitable to MIT students because they typically have been occupied by the students who posted them. Furthermore, students can indicate the rent they paid at a residence historically, so that future tenants can negotiate with the landlord with confidence.

Since its launch in Spring 2008, RentMonkey has been used by 4,700 unique MIT students, who have posted over 500 listings and information about 1,600 residences. RentMonkey has become a clearing house for rental listings in the MIT community. (December 2009)

EveryVector: http://www.everyvector.com/

In Spring 2009, I worked with Feng Zhang to create a high quality expression cloning tool for molecular biology. We optimized our site for both private collaboration and publishing. Because EveryVector is completely on the web, users do not need to install or upgrade software, or worry about data backups. This model helps biologists focus on biology rather than IT.

We launched EveryVector in September 2009. Today, over 400 users have created more than 6,000 vectors on our site. The site is gaining users steadily, and we hope that EveryVector will become a platform for molecular biology analysis. (December 2009)