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Computer Science Colloquium
| Category | Lecture |
| Date | Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
| Time | 2:00 pm |
| Location | GS 906 |
| Details | Coffee will be served at 1:45 PM in the 9th floor atrium. |
| Speaker | Frank Dellaert |
| Affiliation | College of Computing, Georgia Tech |
4D Cities: Past, Present, and Future
The 4D Cities project at Georgia Tech aims at developing
techniques to do spatio-temporal reconstruction of urban environments,
with applications in virtual tourism, cultural heritage preservation,
urban planning and much more. In this project, we start from images
taken over a span of 100-150 years and build a 4D model (3D + time)
using structure from motion techniques. I will discuss the recent work
we presented at CVPR on recovering the ordering of the images from
this reconstruction automatically, as well as some work that bridges
robotics and vision to address the efficient mapping of environments
at the scale of entire cities. Finally, I will discuss some future
directions, including an exciting planned collaboration with Microsoft
research.
Biography
Frank Dellaert is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing
at Georgia Tech. He obtained his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in 2001,
and is an expert in 3D reconstruction and probabilistic estimation in
the areas of computer vision and robotics. He has published over 60
papers in journals and conferences, and is an associate editor for
IEEE PAMI, the most cited journal in computer science. He has taught
the graduate computer vision course for the past three years, as well
as an undergraduate course introducing the students to robotics and
perception. Finally, he will chair the conference on 3D Processing,
Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT) to be held at Georgia Tech in
2008.