I don't draw painting. (I don't know how to, actually. ^_^;)
I just view and appreciate it through collection books, websites, and most favorably by visiting
galleries. I love to view fine art; it gives me both full relaxation and intensive awareness at the same time. It absorbs me, and I
often find it difficult to move on to the next painting at gallaries.
Viewing fine art has also led me to the curiosity about how we see and perceive and understand the world that we see. It has motivated
me to study human visual perception in Psychology.
The most interesting and yet mysterious thing to me is that fine art conveys something more than
just the view of the outer visible world. Maybe, the art and the aesthetic start at that point, I think.
I love to visit gallaries and to view exhibits as time allows.
My favorate galary is National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea.
My favorate museums and the ones that I want to visit some day include the following:
I daydream bold expeditions abroad, but had no experience nor chance. Well, it's okay; I am a naive trekker ^_^ and
satisfied with a week-long trekking through the mountains in a national park.
It looks like the terrain in Korean peninsula is characterized by its
old age in terms of geoscience. So, the pinnacles of mountains in Korea are smooth even if they are high.
Korea has distinct four seasons, and the forests of National Parks are rich with various trees and flowers.
My favorate mountains in Korea include the following.
I didn't have enough chance to trek National Parks in USA. I hope to get one sooner or later.
Anyway, my first impression of American National parks is their grand scales and relatively young
terrains characterized by sharp pinnacles
(maybe, mid-west areas only).
Basically, I'm interested in Rocky Mountains and Appalachian Trails.
The formation of 3-dimensional perception is the invention of the visual brain using a pair of 2-dimensional images. A
single image can even be used for stereo vision by embedding a specialized technique as shown below:
SRI Dual-Purkinje Eye-Tracker at UC
Berkeley
I have used an equivalent system for my MA thesis at the Univ. of Texas at Austin.
The monster is very powerful and accurate in tracking eye movements.
(Its spatial resoultion is 1 arc minute, and its temporal resolution is 1000-Hz sampling rate!)
I hve programmed a control software for the monster using LabView and C.
Omnidirectional vision page
Omnidirectional vision camera is a recent development in imaging-sensor technology.
The idea of 360-degree full view at a one shot is great. It resembles some biological vision systems of some species.
Real-time Stereo Vision
Point Grey Research Inc.
Real-time stereo vision reqiures specialized hardware implementation. The above company is devoted to
developing real-time stereo cameras. Their products are basically based on 'multi-baseline stereo algorithm'.
I have implemented a multi-basedline stereo system using 5 cameras and 2 framegrabbers for a research project, but it
was not a real-time
system.