VASC Seminar Announcement
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Date: Monday, 3/22/99
Time: 3:30-4:30
Place: Smith Hall 2nd Floor Common Area

Speaker: Mark Holler
         Intel Corporation

Title:  Computer Vision on sub $1000 PCs with Video Conferencing Cameras 

Abstract: 

The drop in prices of PC cameras for internet video phones and the SIMD 
compute bonus provided by Intel's MMX(TM) technology and now Pentium III 
with Streaming Floating Point SIMD Extentions has inspired new interest in 
applications of computer vision on the PC.   Our focus has been primarily 
on real-time human computer interface components including a head tracker, 
hand pose recognizer, body tracking from overhead and 3D orientation tracking 
of a held object  such as an Airplane. Large projective displays present new 
opportunities to apply vision in the interface.   The talk will include some 
learnings from experimenting with these alternative formats.   Finally the 
talk will conclude with a discussion of a scalable video capture 
architecture.       

Mark Holler is Technical Director of computer vision research in Intel's 
Microcomputer Research Lab.  Since October of 1996 Mark has been working on 
computer vision for face, hand and body gesture recognition and tracking. 
He also manages several researchers physically modeling articulated bodies 
for real time game animation.  He joined Intel in 1976 with an M.S. in 
Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he 
worked on non-volatile memory development.  In 1987 Mark initiated Intel's 
Neural Network program which developed the 80170NX and NI1000 Neural Network 
chips and associated hardware and software development tools.   In 1994 he 
moved to Intel's Microcomputer Software Lab where he defined and managed 
implementation of optimized Image Processing, Signal Processing and Pattern 
Recognition Libraries for the Pentium Processor with MMX(TM) technology.

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