Virtual Earth Summit – Efficient Image Correspondence and Indexing Methods for Urban Scene and Object; Enhancement of Photographs Using Virtual Earth ; City Capture

Speaker Details

Frank Dellaert is an Assistant Professor at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He graduated in 2001 with a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on probabilistic methods in Robotics and Computer Vision: he has applied Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling methodologies in a variety of novel settings, most notably to address the correspondence problem in computer vision. Before that, with Dieter Fox and Sebastian Thrun, he has introduced the Monte Carlo localization method for estimating and tracking the pose of robots, which is now a standard and popular tool in mobile robotics. Since coming to Georgia Tech, he explored the theme of probabilistic, model-based reasoning paired with randomized approximation methods in three main research areas: Advanced sequential Monte Carlo methods, Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction from Images, and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. His homepage can be found at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dellaert

Trevor Darrell is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at M.I.T. He leads the Vision Interface Group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His interests include computer vision, interactive graphics, and machine learning. Prior to joining the faculty of MIT he worked as a Member of the Research Staff at Interval Research in Palo Alto, CA, researching vision-based interface algorithms for consumer applications. He received his PhD and SM from MIT in 1996 and 1991, respectively, while working at the Media Laboratory, and the BSE from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988, where he worked in the GRASP Robotics Laboratory.

Johannes Kopf is a summer intern at MSR. He has 3 first authored SIGGRAPH papers to be presented this year including two resulting from the work we will describe.

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Speakers:
Frank Dellaert, Trevor Darrell, Johannes Kopf, Kristen Grauman, Oliver Deussen, and Irfan Essa