We met with two professor's of Design and Technology (DT) and walked in on a demonstration. They have a program that is projected onto a floor pad about 12' x 12' ft2. The floor is equipped with infrared lighting and motion sensing cameras. The minicar senses darkness against the white pad and tracks it shape.
We would like to use a similar technology using Computer Vision/ Blob Detection to recognize shapes in the intersection to trigger the interactive crosswalk.
Hopefully we will be able to animate all this in After Effects...
The DT guys also said the fiber optics embedded with LEDs in asphalt is feasible so we will research how this would work.
Andreas, the only critique we had for the curb and arrows idea is that if a cars are parked next to the curb, it won't be seen. As usual, your presentation was very beautiful and you are very skilled with diagramming. We would like to further develop the idea of bathing the pedestrians aproaching the curb with light, perhaps tracking the pedestrians with a spot-light? or tracking them with intense light, like Jenny S's diagram?
Direction we are heading:
-Interactive crosswalks
-Lighting up the pedestrians
-LED's and fiber optics
-Computer Vision/Blob detection
For next week, lets refine these ideas. We have 4 weeks to go and we are surprisingly right on schedule.
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