Body Tracking

Advisors | VIP Course Section Number | Website | Goals

Issues Involved or Addressed | Subteams | Methods & Technologies 

Majors Looking for on this Team | Preferred Interests, Preparation, Skills 

Team Contact Information

Advisors (and respective Department)

Mili Shah (MA)

VIP Course Section Number

A

Website

http://faculty.cooper.edu/mili/miliLab/

Goals

The goal is to create interdisciplinary projects that combine mathematics with art, architecture, and engineering. These projects include designing, building, and evaluating different robotic and vision-based systems that include exoskeletons, robotic arms, motion tracking systems, and interactive art installations that are based on body tracking. 

Issues Involved or Addressed

Our goal is to build systems that are low-cost, accurate, and open-source.

Subteams

  • App Development 
  • Calibration and Registration Problems 
  • eTextiles 
  • Exoskeleton Evaluations 
  • Prosthetics 
  • Robotic hands and arms 

Methods & Technologies

BlazePose, C++, DeepLabCut, eTextiles, Microsoft Kinect Cameras and SDK, Python, ROS, Webcams 

Majors Looking for on this Team

All architecture, art, and engineering majors. 

Preferred Interests, Preparation, Skills

Background and/or interest in: 

  • App development 
  • Biomechanics 
  • Body tracking 
  • Camera hardware 
  • Computer vision 
  • Interactive art 

Team Contact information

Dr Mili Shah, mili.shah@cooper.edu.

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