Project Number
- 316
Title
- Lewis the Robotic Photographer
Description
- Autonomous robot that interactively seeks out ideal group photographs in a crowded room of people.
Contact
- Cindy Grimm
Affiliation
- Washington University in St. Louis
Address
- Box 1045
- One Brookings Drive
- St. Louis, Missouri 63130
- One Brookings Drive
- cmg@cs.wustl.edu
WWW
Year
- 2002
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Lewis is a close to human-sized robot capable of moving through a crowded room taking pictures of people. His role is much like that of a photographer at a wedding - he wanders through the crowd looking for 'good pictures,' and taking them. The best of these pictures are accumulated into a photo album that guests can browse through at a nearby workstation. Guests can also select pictures that they like, and have them printed out."
- Lewis navigates freely within the constrained area of the exhibit. He can respond to dynamic challenges (people obstructions) while developing interesting angles for pictures. Picture composition is controlled by a low-level face finding and composition algorithms. Attendees can view and manipulate their images before printing them out on the design workstation.
Sight
- graphics workstation, color printer, Lewis mobile robot photographer
Sound
- speaker system for vocal requests
Touch
- color print output
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 108 - robotics
Secondary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Remarks
- Lewis is named after the explorer Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis and Clark fame
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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