US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Development of Three-Dimensional Human-Computer Interface System using Holography

0001566 AlexopoulosDescription：该奖项是为了支持由加州大学欧文分校电气和计算机工程教授兼工程学院院长Nicolaos Alexopoulos博士和埃及开罗电子研究所教授Esmat Abdel Fattah Abdallah博士共同开展的一个项目。科学家们已经为开发3D交互设备(3D鼠标)的原型做了工作，并取得了重大成果。这个想法依赖于两种技术，第一，从发射天线产生点源全息图，该天线将连接到操作员的手以检测其运动。接收微带阵列天线充当鼠标的垫来记录这一点。其次，利用计算机全息系统对该点进行构建和显示。该项目寻求通过微带天线阵列和电子扫描来增强三维图像时间记录过程，通过降低工作波长来提高图像精度，并通过使用高性能计算系统来提高图像检索的速度，以达到真实甚至合理的数据采集时间。范围：美国的PI和埃及的合作者在这一研究领域拥有丰富的经验，即使用全息照相术和微带天线创造3D鼠标。目前的研究是他们过去工作的合乎逻辑的延伸。这项工作可能会在虚拟现实(VR)和人机接口方面取得进展。这两个队互为补充。加州大学欧文分校的一名美国研究生将参与这次合作。这一建议符合INT支持在共同感兴趣的领域进行合作研究的目标。该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金计划的支持，该计划为两国的科学家和工程师提供资助，以开展这些合作活动。

0001566AlexopoulosDescription: This award is to support a collaborative project by Dr. Nicolaos Alexopoulos, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dean of the School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California, and Dr. Esmat Abdel Fattah Abdallah, Professor, the Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt. The scientists have done work to develop a prototype for 3D interactive device (3D mouse) with significant results. The idea depends on two techniques, first, generate a point source hologram from a transmitting antenna that will be attached to the operator's hand to detect its movements. A receiving microstrip array antenna acts as the mouse's pad to record this point. Secondly constructing and displaying this point is done by computer holography system. This project is seeking to enhance the 3D image time recording process by using array of microstrip antennas and applying electronic scanning, to increase the image accuracy by decreasing the operating wavelength, and to enhance the speed of image retrieval by using high performance computing system to reach real or even reasonable data acquisition time. Scope: The US PI and the Egyptian collaborator have extensive experience in this area of research, that is towards the creation of 3D mouse using holography and microstrip antennae. The present research is a logical extension of their past work. This work is likely to make advances in virtual reality (VR) and machine-human interface. The two teams complement each other. One US graduate student at UC Irvine will participate in this collaboration. This proposal meets the INT objective of supporting collaborative research in areas of mutual interest. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.