REMAP is a key participant in a 2024 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how to better support innovation at the intersection of creativity, culture, and technology. The project aims to develop a five- to ten-year roadmap to inform potential funders in government, philanthropy, and industry. Led by REMAP Director Jeff Burke, this project will fund a series of regional workshops across the country on this topic. It will also organize an industry summit and national … [Read more...] about Innovation, Culture, and Creativity
Fundamental Technology
TouchDesigner+NDN Integration
REMAP is pursuing new approaches to networked video using Named Data Networking (NDN). It is using several of its own artistic productions as use cases. NDN suggests a powerful data-centric approach to video and future media formats, introduced in this paper. REMAP is researching how to use it for efficient multicasting, seamless streaming between live and stored video, and synchronization of video streams from multiple sources. Integrated with Derivative’s TouchDesigner, a visual … [Read more...] about TouchDesigner+NDN Integration
OpenPTrack
An open source software project led by UCLA REMAP and Open Perception (Point Cloud Library), OpenPTrack originated to create a scalable, multi-camera solution for group person tracking to support applications in education, art, and culture. And as of 2018, with V2 (Gnocchi), OpenPTrack now includes object tracking and pose recognition. With the advent of commercially available consumer depth sensors, and continued efforts in computer vision research to improve multi-modal image … [Read more...] about OpenPTrack
ICN-Enabled Secure Edge Networking with Augmented Reality
Today’s Internet operates with the address-based TCP/IP protocol architecture developed 40 years ago, which greatly limits the full promises of new Augmented Reality (AR) applications. AR implementations face challenges in performance, scalability, and availability upon disasters. ICN-Enabled Secure Edge Networking with Augmented Reality (ICE-AR) aims to develop a new wireless network architecture to address these limitations, and provide pervasive support for emerging AR applications. To … [Read more...] about ICN-Enabled Secure Edge Networking with Augmented Reality
Named Data Networking
REMAP researchers are contributing to the ongoing work of the Named Data Networking project (NDN). A multiple-institution collaboration supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the leadership of UCLA Computer Science and PARC, NDN is a new Internet architecture transitioning from the host-based addressing of IP to addressing based on data names. REMAP's Jeff Burke is Co-Principal Investigator and Application Team Lead for the project overall. Dr. Lixia Zhang (UCLA Computer … [Read more...] about Named Data Networking
Participatory Sensing
REMAP contributed to "Participatory Sensing" research through collaborations with UCLA's National Science Foundation-supported Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)---helping to coin the term in 2006. Participatory Sensing is an approach to data collection and interpretation in which individuals, acting alone or in groups, use their personal mobile devices and web services to explore interesting aspects of their worlds systematically---ranging from health to culture. The number … [Read more...] about Participatory Sensing
Ethics Education for Participatory Sensing
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Ethics Education for Participatory Sensing project explored challenges related to facilitating responsible, socially trusted, and participatory ethics for data collection and analysis with urban sensing systems. Through participant observation, it developed educational materials for ethics education in science and engineering. The mobile phone network is emerging as the largest sensor network on the planet. Mobile phone users, … [Read more...] about Ethics Education for Participatory Sensing
Kolo (and Nebesko)
Kolo was a Java-based middleware for interactive artworks, a framework for the collection of sensor data and the control of distributed media devices. And Nebesko was a scripting language for managing a Kolo network's state. The research/development team---led by Jeff Burke, Joe Kim, Eitan Mendelowitz, and Adam Pingel---explored how to provide straightforward, low-latency network connectivity and distributed state management among devices. It was used in Ecce Homology, The Iliad Project, … [Read more...] about Kolo (and Nebesko)
UCLA/Cisco Metropolitan WiFi Research Network
With the support of Cisco, and in collaboration with California State Parks, REMAP installed a 25-node wireless network covering the 32 acres of the Los Angeles State Historic Park and two outdoor areas of the UCLA campus. This infrastructure supported the Remapping LA project, as well as research on network architecture for participatory sensing. Los Angeles State Historic Park---2007-2013. Click images for larger views: … [Read more...] about UCLA/Cisco Metropolitan WiFi Research Network
Advanced Technology for Cinematography
Advanced Technology for Cinematography (ATC) was a multidisciplinary research effort by the UCLA Departments of Electrical Engineering and Film, Television and Digital Media. The project investigated and prototyped the use of wireless sensor networks to monitor and record the conditions of feature film production, to support the cinematographer and script supervisor. ATC was supported by the Intel Research Council. Project Team: Pablo Gutierrez, Jonathan Friedman, Vids Samanta, Heemin Park, … [Read more...] about Advanced Technology for Cinematography
Illuminator
The Illuminator was a sensor network-based intelligent light control system for entertainment and media production, created as a collaboration between UCLA's Networked and Embedded Systems Laboratory (NESL) and UCLA REMAP. Unlike most sensor network applications that focused on sensing alone, a distinctive aspect of Illuminator was that it closed the loop from light sensing to control of lights. To satisfy the high-performance light sensing requirements in entertainment and media production … [Read more...] about Illuminator