SPEAKER: TAKEO KANADE

The U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor, and
Director, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University


The 3D Dome: Digitizing a 3D Time-Varying Event into a Computer

ABSTRACT:
Imagine a few player playing basketball. Can we digitize the scene into a computer - creation of its three-dimensional, time-varying, and volumetric representations? For this purpose we have been developing computer vision technologies with a dome consisting of many (at this moment 51) video cameras looking inside. I will describe the theory, computation, and results of the project.

SPEAKER BIO:
Takeo Kanade received his Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1974. After holding a faculty position at Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, he joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1980, where he is currently U. A. Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Robotics Institute. Dr. Kanade has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Founding Fellow of American Association of Artificial Intelligence.

He has written more than 150 technical papers on computer vision, sensors, robotics systems. He has received several awards, including the Joseph Engelberger Award, JARA Award, and a few best paper awards at international conferences. Dr. Kanade has served for many government, industry, and university advisory or consultant committees, including Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) of National Research Council, NASA's Advanced Technology Advisory Committee (Congressionally mandate committee) and Advisory Board of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

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