Carmen Au

Senior Researcher
Palo Alto

I graduated from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) with a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. My area of research was in computer vision and augmented reality.

Since March 2011, I have been at NRC Palo Alto in the Systems, Locations, Interfaces and Media team. We are working on building a social and mobile mixed reality platform.

Research Interests

- Augmented Reality for mobile devices

- Computer Vision applications

- Psychophysical experimentation

- Human Computer Interaction

Publications

Au, C.E. "Integrating multiple views for the purpose of scene understanding and spatial awareness," Ph.D. Thesis, McGill University, 2011.

Au, C.E.and Clark, J.J., “Integrating multiple views with virtual mirrors to facilitate scene understanding," ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, vol. 8(4), 2011.

Ziat, M., Au, C.E., Haji Abolhassani, A., and Clark, J.J., “Enhancing visuospatial map learning through action on cellphones," ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, in press, 2011.

Au, C.E., Ng, V. and Clark, J.J., "MirrorMap: Augmenting 2D Mobile Maps with Virtual Mirrors'', MobileHCI 2011, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011.

Au, C.E.and Clark, J.J., "A New Approach to Virtual Mirroring for View Integration'', Symposium on Brain, Body and Machine, Montreal, November 2010, Springer Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Vol 83, pp. 45-56

Au, C.E.and Clark, J.J., "Multiple View Integration and Display Using Virtual Mirrors", the 5th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Windsor, Ontario, May 2008.

Au, C.E., Skaff, S., and Clark, J.J., "Anomaly Detection for Video Surveillance Applications", Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Hong Kong, pp 888-891, August 2006

Au, C.E., Skaff, S., and Clark, J.J., "Anomaly Detection for Video Surveillance Applications", Best overall poster presentation at the 16th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems, Victoria, BC, Canada, May 31-June 2, 2006.

Skaff, S., Au, C.E., and Clark, J.J., "Anomaly Detection for Video Surveillance Applications", 3^rd place poster presentation at the 15th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems, Quebec City, QC, Canada, June 5-7, 2005.