Note that this seminar will be held on a TUESDAY at 10am!

If you would like to meet with Ramin, please send email to
Michelle Agie (maa@cs).

            VASC Seminar Announcement
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Date: TUESDAY, 4/27/99
Time: 10am (NOTE SPECIAL TIME)
Place: Smith Hall 2nd Floor Common Area

Speakers:  Ramin Zabih
           Cornell University
           http://simon.cs.cornell.edu/home/rdz/rdz.html


Title: Fast Energy Minimization for Computer Vision via Graph Cuts

Abstract:

Many problems in computer vision can be naturally described in terms of
energy minimization. Unfortunately, minimizing the energy is highly
intractable; the energy functions have multiple local minima, and the
search space has many thousands of dimensions. I will present some fast
algorithms for solving these problems that rely on graph cuts. These
algorithms produce answers with quality guarantees: the output is a local
minimum even when very large moves are allowed. Experimental stereo results
from real data with ground truth suggest that our results are several times
more accurate than previous methods.

This is joint work with Yuri Boykov and Olga Veksler.