David G. Cooper

Tools

OpenCV

The Open Computer Vision Library is a great tool for image processing and manipulation. Its Viola-Jones style face detector is used in the Emotional Robotics project.

OGRE

OGRE is an open source 3D graphics engine that is used in conjunction with OpenCV and MARSYAS in order to simulate the Danny the robot in the Emotional Robotics project.

MARSYAS

MARSYAS is an open source music analysis library that has good sound processing features. The framework in addition to a small modification of the pitch extraction code is used as the pitch detector for the Emotional Robotics project.

VisAD

VisAD is used in the Emotional Tutor project to visualize the incoming sensor data similar to an EKG display. 20 seconds of sensor values are shown at a time, with each sensor displaying a different color. This is currently working with a mouse with six or eight pressure sensors, a chair with 6 pressure sensors, and a skin conductance wrist sensor.

LaTeX

latexExample.pdf is a pdf with some examples of commands and packages that I commonly use. The bottom of the file is 'verbatim' of the tex file above. temp.jpg and temp.pdf are the files used for the image. If you would like to reproduce the top portion of the example, you can copy out the text below the line "Now here is the above file:", and paste it into a file called example.tex, and then you can run:

%pdflatex example.tex

and you should get a file example.pdf that looks exactly like the the top of the latexExample.pdf

Beamer

My presentations for UMAP 2009 and UMAP 2010 were done using Beamer, which is an extension to LaTeX. Here is an example that is a modification of the Powerpoint template for UMass Amherst presentations. Feel free to use it.