[BIC-announce] Kyros Kutulakos - 2 talks this Friday March 28th

[Kaleem Siddiqi]

Folks,
Kyros Kutulakos is visiting this Friday and he will be giving two talks.
Anyone interested in 3D reconstruction from images is encouraged to  
come!
Best,
Kaleem
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~siddiqi

Talk 1: (an informal talk in the area of 3d photography)
10:30 am, MC 437 (Zames seminar room)

Talk 2: (SOCS colloquium)
15:30 pm:, MC 13
  	 	   		
Reasoning about Light
Kyros Kutulakos, University of Toronto

Abstract:

While research on 3D photography has enjoyed tremendous success in  
recent years, many everyday objects are still difficult or impossible  
to scan in 3D. One fundamental stumbling block is that typical  
algorithms do not consider the effects of light transport---the  
sequence of bounces, refractions and scattering events that may occur  
when light interacts with an object. These events are ubiquitous, and  
dominate the appearance of objects with transparent materials or  
shiny surfaces.
In this talk, I will present a series of 3D photography algorithms  
that explicitly reason about how light flows through (or around) real  
objects. These algorithms rely exclusively on 2D photos and seek to  
infer the specific optical events that occur from light leaving a  
source to reaching a specific pixel. I will show that despite the  
apparent intractability of this endeavor, it has proved quite  
successful in capturing detailed "3D photos" of many common objects  
with complex optical properties.

Biography of Speaker:

Kyros Kutulakos is an Associate Professor at the University of  
Toronto where he has been on the faculty since 2001. His research  
interests are mainly in the area of computer vision, with an emphasis  
on geometric reconstruction problems. He is the recipient of a Sloan  
Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, a PREA award from the government of  
Ontario, and four best paper prizes (David Marr Prize in 1999, David  
Marr Prize Honorable Mention in 2005, Honorable Mention at ECCV 2006,  
and Best Student Paper Award at CVPR 1994). He also served as the  
Program Co-Chair of the 2003 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition  
Conference.


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