Interactive
Telecommunications Program, NYU 1999
Project Description:
This is a webcam that only send outlines of fast moving objects in its view.�
Only after an object has been still for a while does it get added as
an image to the background.� The viewers can move their mouse to express
interest in different areas of the image.� The
cursor coordinates are sent to the other users and show up as hi-lighted areas
of interest.�
I
created several versions of this application.�
One version automatically refreshed the image under the user�s mouse.�
This webcam was set up in the lobby at ITP with a display showing people
in the lobby able to see the areas of interest to web viewers.�
It also allowed web viewers to shout out to people in the lobby using
text to speech.
Technical Notes:
�The video digitizing software and the
server were written as a Java applications.�