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Posted on Jul 23, 2009, tagged Microsoft WeSYP, [permalink]

Steve Ballmer and Steven Sinofsky announced Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 RTM and signed the gold DVDs today at the MGX in Atlanta. Meanwhile, Windows component teams were having their own RTM parties back here in Redmond. Some two hundred people crowded in the break room right outside of my office to celeberate the [...]

Posted on Jul 22, 2009, tagged Microsoft Steve Ballmer Steven Sinofsky Windows 7, [permalink]

Just started this week at Microsoft as a summer intern. My position is Software Development Engineer in the Core Networking Team of Core OS Division (COSD). Our team owns Windows Core Networking APIs and technologies such as Winsock, TCP/IP stack, WFP, IPsec, IPv6, WSK, WinINet, Http.sys, WinHttp, QoS, and System.Net. And my job for the [...]

Posted on Jun 05, 2009, tagged Microsoft, 4 comments, [permalink]

Introduction This project is an attempt to implement a 3D visualization of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) based on raw sensor data provided by the Player robotics framework. This project is useful for both research and application purposes. Visualization of SLAM in research can help robotists better debug their robots. It can also provide much [...]

Posted on May 18, 2009, tagged RIT RITCG2 RITCG2SLAM, 9 comments, [permalink]

This is the course project for Mobile Robot Programming with Professor Zack Butler. The goal of this project is to create a program that controls a Pioneer robot to navigate on a floor and reach a list of waypoints in their given order. The robot will start at one of given 8 locations and has [...]

Posted on May 10, 2009, tagged Player RIT Robotics, 3 comments, [permalink]

Tone Reproduction This is the final checkpoint for the raytracer project. The goal is simply to map produced images into real life luminance and compress them using different operations to produce film like effects. Original picture: Using Ward’s operator: Lmax = 1 Lmax = 1000 Lmax = 10000 Using Reinhard’s operator Lmax = 1 Lmax [...]

Posted on May 06, 2009, tagged RIT RITCG2, one comment, [permalink]

Professor Bailey and I exhibited the head tracking display in the field house during Imagine RIT 2009. I first started the head tracking display project as a course project for my computer graphics I class. It used to be simply a OpenCV head tracking sample code + some OpenGL. After a few weeks’ work, in [...]

Posted on May 05, 2009, tagged 3D C/C++ Head Tracking OpenCV OpenGL, [permalink]

Transmission At the intersection point, in addition to the reflection ray and the shadow ray, you must follow the transmission ray (through the intersected object) to determine its color contribution to the intersection point. Use an index of refraction of 1.0 for the air around your objects. The transmission ray moves into the object from [...]

Posted on Apr 28, 2009, tagged RIT RITCG2, [permalink]