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Ozan (left) receives 2005 Award Certificate from David Williamson, Chairman Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship Committee, at San Diego, California, 3 August 2005. Ozan also received a copy of each of Michael Kidger's books, Fundamental Optical Design and Intermediate Optical Design.
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Ozan Cakmakci is a graduate research assistant at the College of Optics/CREOL, University of Central Florida. His Supervisor is Dr Jannick Rolland, Associate Professor of Optics, ECE & Computer Science, Optical Diagnostics and Applications Laboratory.
Ozan is interested in the optical design of mobile augmented reality displays that provide realistic overlays. To this end, Ozan is working on the design and development of a head-worn display that can support mutual occlusions. Mutual occlusion is an attribute of an
augmented reality display where real objects can occlude computer generated superimposed objects and computer generated superimposed objects can occlude real objects. In the current design, the system consists of an objective lens that images a scene onto a reflective
spatial light modulator. The scene is modulated and combined with computer generated images with an x-cube polarizing prism. The combined output is mapped back onto the scene with unit magnification and upright orientation with an eyepiece.
Deciding whether a virtual object is in front of or behind a real object requires depth information about the scene. Ozan and his advisor are exploring the use of 3D cameras
for real-time depth extraction.
Update - Nov 2006
To view more recent work by Ozan please view his
Homepage.
