SPEAKER: TAKEO KANADE
The U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor, and
ABSTRACT:
SPEAKER BIO:
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.
Director, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
The 3D Dome: Digitizing a 3D Time-Varying Event into a Computer
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.
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.