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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium : Reflections on Image-Based Rendering
DTSTART:20121018T161500
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DESCRIPTION:Richard Szeliski\, Microsoft Research\nAbstract\nImage-based r
 endering has been an active area in computer graphics since the mid-1990s.
   After seminal work in representations and algorithms based on Light Fie
 lds and Lumigraphs\, the field has seen steady improvements in many of the
  component technologies\, including image-based modeling of 3D proxies\, d
 ealing with irregularly sampled data\, the incorporation of video\, and an
  interesting interplay with non-photorealistic rendering.  It has also sp
 awned widely used consumer experiences such as panoramic "VR" photography\
 , street-level (and indoor) immersive tours\, and rich 3D navigation of In
 ternet photo collections.  In this talk\, I review the evolution of this 
 field\, tease out some of the common themes and techniques\, and speculate
  on the remaining difficulties and promises in this field\, including the 
 handling of reflections and transparent motion that commonly occur in such
  applications.\n\nBiography\nRichard Szeliski is a Distinguished Scientist
  at Microsoft Research\, where he leads the Interactive Visual Media Group
 .  He is also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington\, an
 d is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE.  Dr. Szeliski pioneered the field of B
 ayesian methods for computer vision\, as well as image-based modeling\, im
 age-based rendering\, and computational photography\, which lie at the int
 ersection of computer vision and computer graphics.  His research on Phot
 o Tourism and Photosynth is an exciting example of the promise of large-sc
 ale image-based rendering.\n\nDr. Szeliski received his Ph.D. degree in Co
 mputer Science from Carnegie Mellon University\, Pittsburgh\, in 1988 and 
 joined Microsoft Research in 1995.  Prior to Microsoft\, he worked at Bel
 l-Northern Research\, Schlumberger Palo Alto Research\, the Artificial Int
 elligence Center of SRI International\, and the Cambridge Research Lab of 
 Digital Equipment Corporation.  He has published over 150 research papers
  in computer vision\, computer graphics\, medical imaging\, neural nets\, 
 and numerical analysis\, as well as the books Computer Vision: Algorithms 
 and Applications and Bayesian Modeling of Uncertainty in Low-Level Vision.
   He is a Program Committee Chair for CVPR'2013\, served as an Associate 
 Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligen
 ce and on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computer Vis
 ion\, and is a Founding Editor of Foundations and Trends in Computer Graph
 ics and Vision.
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