Reconstructing the World from Photos on the Internet - Distinguished Lecture Series April 8
Dr. Steve Seitz's presented "Reconstructing the World from Photos on the Internet" on Thursday, April 8, 2010 on the University of Oregon campus.
Dr. Seitz's research combines topics from computer vision, computer graphics, and photography. His work on Photo Tourism (joint with Noah Snavely and Rick Szeliski) formed the basis of Microsoft's Photosynth technology, which analyzes collections of images for similarities, and then displays them in a constructed 3D space.
His current research focuses on capturing the structure, appearance, and behavior of the real world from digital imagery, using 3D modeling and visualization with large online photo collections.
Professor Seitz was twice awarded the David Marr Prize for the best paper at the International Conference of Computer Vision, and has received an NSF Career Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
"Reconstructing the World from Photos on the Internet" is the second lecture in the "Computing, Creativity, and the Digital Imagination" distinguished lecture series co-sponsored by the Department of Computer and Information Science, the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, and the College of Arts and Sciences, and will be of interest to students and faculty from all of these schools and departments, as well as the general public.
For additional information about the lecture see: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Activities/Public_Talks/20100408-Seitz.php.
For additional information about Photosynth see: http://photosynth.net/.