Modeling from Reality

Katsushi Ikeuchi
Institute for Social Science
University of Tokyo

SPECIAL PLACE

4623 Wean Hall
Refreshments 3:15 pm
Talk 3:30 pm

Abstract

This talk presents an overview of our efforts in modeling-from-reality, which automatically creates photorealistic object models for virtual reality systems from observation of the real objects. Our efforts cover recovery of geometric, photometric and environmental models from real images. The first half of this talk will briefly explains recovery methods of these three kinds of models. Its second half will explain, as an application of these methods, a project to preserve Kamakura Big Buddha in the virtual space.

Speaker Biography

Dr. Katsushi Ikeuchi is a Professor at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. He received the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1978. After working at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Electrotechnical Laboratory of the Ministry of International Trade and Industries, and the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, he joined the University of Tokyo, in 1996. He has received several awards, including the David Marr Prize in computational vision, and IEEE R&A K-S Fu memorial best transaction paper award. In addition, in 1992, his paper, "Numerical Shape from Shading and Occluding Boundaries," was selected as one of the most influential papers to have appeared in Artificial Intelligence Journal within the past ten years.

Speaker Appointments

For appointments, please contact the host, Takeo Kanade (tk@ri.cmu.edu).