Title: Photometric 3D Modeling

Date: 9 February 2012

Time: 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm

Venue: Room G22, L1 Lecture Theater, Institute of Chinese Studies

Speaker: Dr. Yasuyuki Matsushita

               Lead Researcher in the Visual Computing Group

               Microsoft Research Asia

Abstract:

Over the past two decades, we have seen tremendous theoretical advances in photometric methods for 3-D modeling, where we wish to reconstruct the scene geometry from observed images under varying lighting conditions. These advances now motivate us to more practical applications in industry, or even in our daily life. The first half of this talk introduces theory and algorithms in photometric stereo. The second half will cover recent advanced techniques for photometric stereo and discuss how to remove the limitations of traditional approaches. 

Biography:

Yasuyuki Matsushita received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in EECS from the University of Tokyo in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in April 2003. He is a Lead Researcher in Visual Computing Group. His research area includes photometric methods in computer vision. He is on the editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), IPSJ Journal of Computer Vision and Applications (CVA), The Visual Computer Journal, and Encyclopedia of Computer Vision. He served/is serving as a Program Co-Chair of PSIVT 2010, 3DIMPVT 2011, and ACCV 2012. He is appointed as a Guest Associate Professor at Osaka University (April 2010-) and National Institute of Informatics, Japan (April 2011-). He is a senior member of IEEE.