Daily CVPR - Wednesday

CVPR Daily: Muhammad, where do you study? Muhammad Asad: I study at City University London. I’m a PhD student in Visual Computing. CVPR Daily: Where are you from originally? Muhammad: I’m from Pakistan. CVPR Daily: I understand that you have a presentation on Friday. What is your work about? Muhammad: My work focuses on how we can extract hand orientation from two-dimensional images. This is relevant in augmented reality and virtual reality. I specifically focus on how you can build a model that can work out of the box and would enable people to interact and play with augmented objects as they do with real objects. CVPR Daily: What is the novelty in the work that you are doing? Muhammad: The novelty in my work comes from the multi- layered random forest structure which I came up with. It basically exploits the idea of having an ensemble of models, and how we can generate models which are expert at specific domains. However, combined, they still work to give an overall picture. CVPR Daily: What are the practical applications of this work? Muhammad: The application of my work includes augmented and virtual reality . I specifically look at how we can use hands to be able to interact with augmented and virtual reality worlds. It can also be used as a new type of interface to interact with different types of applications. It gives the user a natural way to interact with the digital world. 8 Presentations CVPR Daily: Wednesday Muhammad Asad