Thursday Feburary 18, 2010
Computer Vision Techniques for High-end Visual Effects
by Chris Bregler and Kiran Bhat

The speakers will discuss several ongoing efforts on computer vision based techniques applied to match-moving, camera-based motion capture of people and objects, stereo reconstruction, and other challenges in the VFX pipeline at ILM. This includes the description of a new system called MultiTrack and it's applications on various feature films in production at ILM.

Chris Bregler is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute and worked at ILM on the MultiTrack system. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1995 and 1998 and his Diplom from Karlsruhe University in 1993. Prior to NYU he was on the faculty at Stanford University and worked for several companies including Hewlett Packard, Interval, Disney Feature Animation, and LucasFilm's ILM.. He was named Stanford Joyce Faculty Fellow and Terman Fellow in 1999. He received the Olympus Prize for achievements in computer vision and AI in 2002, and was named a Sloan Research Fellow in 2003. He was the chair for the SIGGRAPH 2004 Electronic Theater and Computer Animation Festival. At CVPR 2008 he was awarded the IEEE Longuet-Higgins Prize for "Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision that have withstood the test of time".

Kiran Bhat is a research engineer at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the VFX branch of LucasFilm, San Francisco. He obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 and a B.Eng. from BITS, Pilani in 1998. His areas of interest are in graphics/vision algorithms, facial motion capture and animation, physical simulations and robotics.

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Times:
7:30pm, Doors open, drinks, snacks
8:00pm, Feature presentation - "Computer Vision Techniques for High-end Visual Effects "

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Nokia Research Center‎
955 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto,CA

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