[CPL Seminar]
[Schedule]
[Jan 9]
[Jan 16]
[Jan 23]
[Jan 30]
[Feb 6]
[Feb 20]
[Feb 25]
[Mar 7 Shum]
[Mar 7 Szeliski]
[Mar 13]
[Mar 20]
[Mar 27]
[April 3]
[April 10]
[April 17]
[April 24]

Harry Shum
Microsoft Research Asia

(Beyond) Plenoptic Sampling

Image-based rendering has become an active research area in vision and graphics. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of research activities in image-based rendering. Then I will focus on three projects we have been working on in the last few years: concentric mosaics (1999), plenoptic sampling (2000) and manifold hopping (2001). I will argue at the end of my talk that image-based rendering can be unified with traditional geometry-based 3D graphics, but the key is how to represent and sample the environment.

Bio

Harry Shum received his Ph.D. in robotics from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. He worked as a researcher for three years in the vision technology group at Microsoft Research Redmond. In 1999, he moved to Microsoft Research Asia where he is currently a senior researcher and the assistant managing director. His research interests include computer vision, computer graphics, user interface, pattern recognition, statistical learning and robotics.