Andrea Colaco | Media Lab

ANDREA COLAÇO

20 Ames St, E-15 353

MIT Media Lab

acolaco (at) mit (dot) edu

617-253-7120

ABOUT

Andrea is currently interested in 3D sensing technology for portable devices and its applications. She is currently a PhD student in the Speech+Mobility group at the MIT Media Lab. She received a SM in Media Technology from MIT in 2010 and an undergrad in EE from BITS, Pilani India in 2007. She was a LG Electronics fellow (2009) for her work in connected experiences for television viewing and a Qualcomm innovation fellowship winner for 2011-12. Prior to starting graduate studies, she worked at HP Labs on low cost information access devices and validation of paper documents using cell phones. She has also worked on location-based service applications, and audio interfaces for dealing with a deluge of information updates.

PUBLICATIONS

Compressive Depth Map Acquisition Using a Single Photon-Counting Detector: Parametric Signal Processing Meets Sparsity
A. Colaço, A. Kirmani, G. Howland, J. Howell, and V. K. Goyal, submitted 2011.

Exploiting Sparsity in Time-of-Flight Range Acquisition Using a Single Time-Resolved Sensor
A. Kirmani, A. Colaço, F. N. C. Wong, and V. K. Goyal, Optics Express, vol. 19, no. 22, pp. 21485-21507, October 2011.
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021485

CoDAC: Compressive Depth Acquisition Camera Framework
A. Kirmani, A. Colaço, F. N. C. Wong, and V. K. Goyal, to appear in ICASSP, 2012.

Back Talk: Engagement Sensing for Enhancing Video Viewing
Andrea Colaço, Ig-Jae Kim, Chris Schmandt, International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Jan 2011, extended abstract.

Back Talk: An Auditory Environment for Social Television Viewing
Andrea Colaço, Ig-Jae Kim, Chris Schmandt, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Jan 2011, Las Vegas.

My Second Bike: A TV-enabled social and interactive riding experience
Jaewoo Chung, Kuang Xu, Andrea Colaço, Chris Schmandt, In the Proc. of 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2010 - SocialTV Workshop, Las Vegas (Jan 2010)

SketchMagic: A Paper Based Animation System
Andrea Colaço, In the Proc. of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) , Spain (Jan 2008)

US and Indian patent titled “Information Access Device and Network”, submitted at HP Labs (Aug 2007)

PROJECTS

CoDAC: Compressive Depth Acquisition Camera

CoDAC is a new time-of-flight based range acquisition system for acquiring depth maps of piecewise-planar scenes with high spatial resolution using a single, omnidirectional, time-resolved photodetector and no scanning components. In contrast with 2D laser scanning used in LIDAR systems and low-resolution 2D sensor arrays used in TOF cameras, CoDAC demonstrates that it is possible to build a non-scanning range acquisition system with high spatial resolution using only a standard, commercially-available, low-cost photodetector and spatial light modulator.

3D Camera for Cellphones (MIT News)

Augmented Reality: MIT Compressive Depth Acquisition Camera (Wired)

BackTalk: Engagement Sensing for Enhancing Video Viewing

Video content is being consumed in a host of new ways-viewers are no longer restricted to same-time or same-place viewing. However, the experience of watching with a group is inherently social and often desirable despite the physical distribution of group members. Back Talk, is a system designed to create a sociable television watching experience. We enhance TV viewing with an auditory environment around a listener. We have explored and leveraged the richness of audio to convey presence of remote viewers. We have developed a framework for capturing and translating engagement of an individual into a set of audio cues that are played spatially around a listener. Such auditory enhancements can augment video content consumption in the future.

updates from older projects coming soon...

ANDREA COLAÇO
	20 Ames St, E-15 353 MIT Media Lab acolaco (at) mit (dot) edu 617-253-7120

ABOUT
	Andrea is currently interested in 3D sensing technology for portable devices and its applications. She is currently a PhD student in the Speech+Mobility group at the MIT Media Lab. She received a SM in Media Technology from MIT in 2010 and an undergrad in EE from BITS, Pilani India in 2007. She was a LG Electronics fellow (2009) for her work in connected experiences for television viewing and a Qualcomm innovation fellowship winner for 2011-12. Prior to starting graduate studies, she worked at HP Labs on low cost information access devices and validation of paper documents using cell phones. She has also worked on location-based service applications, and audio interfaces for dealing with a deluge of information updates.

PUBLICATIONS
	Compressive Depth Map Acquisition Using a Single Photon-Counting Detector: Parametric Signal Processing Meets Sparsity A. Colaço, A. Kirmani, G. Howland, J. Howell, and V. K. Goyal, submitted 2011. Exploiting Sparsity in Time-of-Flight Range Acquisition Using a Single Time-Resolved Sensor A. Kirmani, A. Colaço, F. N. C. Wong, and V. K. Goyal, Optics Express, vol. 19, no. 22, pp. 21485-21507, October 2011. DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021485 CoDAC: Compressive Depth Acquisition Camera Framework A. Kirmani, A. Colaço, F. N. C. Wong, and V. K. Goyal, to appear in ICASSP, 2012. Back Talk: Engagement Sensing for Enhancing Video Viewing Andrea Colaço, Ig-Jae Kim, Chris Schmandt, International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Jan 2011, extended abstract. Back Talk: An Auditory Environment for Social Television Viewing Andrea Colaço, Ig-Jae Kim, Chris Schmandt, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Jan 2011, Las Vegas. My Second Bike: A TV-enabled social and interactive riding experience Jaewoo Chung, Kuang Xu, Andrea Colaço, Chris Schmandt, In the Proc. of 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2010 - SocialTV Workshop, Las Vegas (Jan 2010) SketchMagic: A Paper Based Animation System Andrea Colaço, In the Proc. of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) , Spain (Jan 2008) US and Indian patent titled “Information Access Device and Network”, submitted at HP Labs (Aug 2007)

PROJECTS
	CoDAC: Compressive Depth Acquisition Camera CoDAC is a new time-of-flight based range acquisition system for acquiring depth maps of piecewise-planar scenes with high spatial resolution using a single, omnidirectional, time-resolved photodetector and no scanning components. In contrast with 2D laser scanning used in LIDAR systems and low-resolution 2D sensor arrays used in TOF cameras, CoDAC demonstrates that it is possible to build a non-scanning range acquisition system with high spatial resolution using only a standard, commercially-available, low-cost photodetector and spatial light modulator. 3D Camera for Cellphones (MIT News) Augmented Reality: MIT Compressive Depth Acquisition Camera (Wired)

	BackTalk: Engagement Sensing for Enhancing Video Viewing Video content is being consumed in a host of new ways-viewers are no longer restricted to same-time or same-place viewing. However, the experience of watching with a group is inherently social and often desirable despite the physical distribution of group members. Back Talk, is a system designed to create a sociable television watching experience. We enhance TV viewing with an auditory environment around a listener. We have explored and leveraged the richness of audio to convey presence of remote viewers. We have developed a framework for capturing and translating engagement of an individual into a set of audio cues that are played spatially around a listener. Such auditory enhancements can augment video content consumption in the future.

	updates from older projects coming soon...