Research and Publications

The EcoTracker
ECOTRACKER SCREENSHOT
ECOTRACKER SCREENSHOT

The white blips are bats, recorded by an infrared video camera. The colored trails are generated by my algorithm.

S. Crampton, M. Betke, T. Kunz, and J. Horn, "A Prototype Computer-Vision System for Tracking Bats," Presented at the Bat Project at NCEAS, Santa Barbara, CA, January 2003.

D. E. Hirsh, M. Betke, S. Crampton, J. Horn, and T. H. Kunz, "Censusing Brazilian Free-tailed Bats Using Infrared Thermal Imaging and Computer Vision Methods," 33rd Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research, NASBR, Lincoln, Nebraska, October, 2003.

M. Betke, D. E. Hirsh, N. C. Makris, G. F. McCracken, M. Procopio, N. I. Hristov, S. Tang, A. Bagchi, J. Reichard, J. Horn, S. Crampton, C. J. Cleveland, and T. H. Kunz. "Thermal Imaging Reveals Significantly Smaller Brazilian Free-tailed Bat Colonies than Previously Estimated." Journal of Mammalogy, 89(1), February 2008.

The Finger Counter
PICTURE OF A FINGER COUNTER USER
PICTURE OF A FINGER COUNTER USER

A Finger Counter user holds his hand above a video camera on the table.

S. Crampton, "Counting Fingers in Real Time Using Computer-Vision Techniques," Masters thesis, May 2004, Boston University.

S. Crampton and M. Betke, "Counting Fingers in Real Time: A Webcam-Based Human-Computer Interface with Game Applications," Proceedings of the Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, affiliated with HCI International 2003, pp. 1357–1361, Crete, Greece, June 2003.

S. Crampton and M. Betke, "Finger Counter: A Human-Computer Interface." 7th ERCIM Workshop "User Interfaces for All," UI4ALL 2002, pp. 195–196, Paris, France, October 2002.