Middlebury College
Department of Computer Science Seminar
Wednesday, March 15th at 12:20 PM:
Video-Based Rendering
Richard Szeliski
Interactive Visual Media Group
Microsoft Research
Image-based rendering has been one of the hottest areas in computer graphics in recent years. Instead of using CAD and painting tools to construct graphics models by hand, IBR uses real-world imagery to rapidly create extremely photorealistic shape and appearance models. However, IBR results to date have mostly been restricted to static objects and scenes.
Video-based rendering brings the same kind of realism to computer animation, using video instead of still images as the source material. Examples of VBR include facial animation from sample video, repetitive video textures that can be used to animate still scenes and photos, 3D environment walkthroughs built from panoramic video, and 3D video constructed from multiple synchronized cameras. In this talk, I survey a number of such systems developed by our group and by others, and suggest how this kind of approach has the potential to fundamentally transform the production (and consumption) of interactive visual media.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
12:20 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 538
Lunch will be provided at 12:05 p.m.
All are welcome to attend!
This event is supported by the Computer Science Enrichment Fund