Events

Lecture

By Tobias Langlotz

Title: Seeing a different world: From computational glasses to nomadic telepresence

Date: 10th October 2022, 15.00

Abstract: In my talk, I will cover two of my research group's activities. Firstly, I will introduce our work on computational glasses that apply techniques from Augmented Reality and Visual Computing to build assistive devices supporting the visually impaired or even enhancing the capabilities of unimpaired wearers. More specifically, I will talk about our work on supporting people affected by color vision deficiency, complex refractive errors, and recent results to manage visual attention via computational glasses. Secondly, I will talk about our work on nomadic telepresence and virtual tourism that enable the real-time capture and sharing of remote environments only utilizing mobile and wearable technology to create the feeling of actually “being there”. Common to both topics is that we change how the user perceives the world, either by visually modulating the actual environment or by teleporting the user into a different environment.

Bio: Tobias Langlotz is an Associate Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Originally from Germany, he studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar (Germany) and received his PhD from the Graz University of Technology (Austria). At the University of Otago, he is co-directing the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, following his research interests in Augmented Reality, Computer Graphics, and Human-Computer Interaction. His current projects are on computational glasses to enhance human perception but also include nomadic telepresence solutions allowing people to share their environment with remote users with applications in virtual tourism. His work has been highlighted at ACM CHI, IEEE Virtual Reality, IEEE ISMAR, and ACM UIST. For his achievements, Tobias won an "Early Career Award for Distinction in Research" from the University of Otago. He is also an active member of the international research community, most notably he is one of the current general chairs for IEEE VR 2022 and IEEE VR 2023.