BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dr Aljosa Smolic: Examples of Visual Computing Research at Disney Research Zurich DTSTART:20131218T161500 DTEND:20131218T173000 DTSTAMP:20260510T105812Z UID:33d6ec069ee8382c7cfc4f5e6982958d24824aec3f98a43d2e25d185 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Dr Aljoša Smolić\nBio: My research activities are currently focused on problems with strong interface deformation. These activities ar e conducted within the new d'Alembert Institute in the very heart of Paris . During my postdoc\, I was working on atomization related problems in the Fragmentation & Mixing Team at IRPHÉ\, Marseille. More specifically\, I investigated the key physical mechanisms responsible for liquid fragmentat ion\, which is at the heart of several fundamental geophysical (e.g. forma tion of sprays at the crest of waves driving the ocean-atmosphere exchange s) or industrial (e.g. pulverization in combustion chambers) processes. Th is work was funded by a 2-years postdoc grant of the Fondation d'entrepris e EADS. A long time ago\, I've completed a PhD thesis on Vortex Dynamics e ntitled "Short-term Dynamics of an Isolated Vortex". This thesis deals wit h the identification of some physical mechanisms active in swirling flows\ , which are believed to play a role in their behaviours. For example\, the se mechanisms could be of fundamental importance in the vortex meandering phenomenon (erratic displacements) exhibited by airplane trailing vortices \, and also encoutered in cyclonic paths (cycloidal track). Moreover these mechanisms can\, even in the absence of linear instability\, profoundly a ffect the structure of the vortex\, in supporting the development of nonli near waves\, riding on the vortex core.\nDisney Research Zurich is a resea ch lab of The Walt Disney Company closely associated with the Computer Gra phics Lab of ETH Zurich. It performs applied research on highest scientifi c level. Visual computing is one of the key research areas in this context \, which will be highlighted in this talk by example projects from the pas t 5 years. Stereoscopic 3D and beyond was traditionally a strong focus fro m capture to display\, including projects on computational stereo camera s ystems\, disparity mapping\, 2D-to-3D conversion\, image domain warping\, warp coding\, and stereo-to-multiview conversion. Then approaches for vide o volume processing for optical flow\, disparity estimation\, video colori zation\, or in general\, spatio-temporal data diffusion in video will be p resented. And extension of these concepts will be spatio-temporal video co mpositing on video volumes. Finally\, an approach for automated image aest hetics will close the talk.\nDr. Aljoša Smolić joined Disney Research Zu rich\, Switzerland in 2009\, as Senior Research Scientist and Head of the “Advanced Video Technology” group. Before he was Scientific Project Ma nager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications\, Heinrich-Hertz- Institut (HHI)\, Berlin\, also heading a research group. He has been invol ved in several national and international research projects\, where he con ducted research in various fields of video processing and visual computing \, and published more than 100 referred papers in these fields. He receive d the Dipl.-Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical Unive rsity of Berlin\, Germany in 1996\, and the Dr.-Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Aachen University of Technolog y (RWTH)\, Germany\, in 2001. Dr. Smolic received the “Rudolf-Urtlel-Awa rd” of the German Society for Technology in TV and Cinema (FKTG) for his dissertation in 2002. He is Area Editor for Signal Processing: Image Comm unication and served as Guest Editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE\, IEE E Transactions on CSVT\, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine\, and other scien tific journals. He chaired the MPEG ad hoc group on 3DAV pioneering standa rds for 3D video. In this context he also served as one of the Editors of the Multi-view Video Coding (MVC) standard. Since many years he is teachin g full lecture courses on Multimedia Communications and other topics\, now at ETH Zurich. LOCATION:CM1100 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=en&room=cm1100 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR