VASC Seminar Announcement
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Date: Tuesday, 11/07/00
Time: 3:30-4:40
Place: NSH 3002

Speaker: Rakesh (Teddy) Kumar, Head, Media Vision Group, Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey
Title: 3D exploitation and manipulation of motion imagery

In this talk, we will present an overview of computer vision research
and development activities at Sarnoff. The talk will focus on a suite of
new algorithms being developed for 3D exploitation of monocular and
stereo motion imagery and also various exciting applications being
pursued. These algorithms are being developed for applications ranging
from tele-presence, scene modeling, geo-registration and targeting,
video manipulation and enhanced visualization of video. 

The first set of techniques will be for camera pose recovery for 2
different cases: registration of video to site models/ reference imagery
and model independent pose recovery over extended sequences. We will
discuss applications of pose estimation to enhanced visualization of
video and insertion of synthetic objects into video streams. We will
then present techniques for local model estimation: view-based recovery
of dense depth maps and continuous rendering of dynamic scene based on
depth maps.  Applications of these techniques for tele-presence and
image-based rendering will be presented. Finally, we will discuss
techniques for scene modeling, refinement and recovery of global models.