Keynote speaker : Steven Seitz

Photos of People

I have 10,000 photos of my five-year-old son. This number, while it sounds large, is actually v\ ery common--most of us have many thousands of photos of family and friends. These photos track \ the changes in my son's appearance, shape, and behavior over the course of his life. They conta\ in detailed information about shape geometry and reflectance, and it's evolution over time. The\ y also characterize the variability in his facial expressions. Can we reconstruct my son from t\ his collection (and what does that mean exactly?). In this talk, I explore new directions in ph\ oto browsing and modeling from large photo collections of people.

Short bio

Steve Seitz is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Universi\ ty of Washington. He received his B.A. in computer science and mathematics at the University of \ California, Berkeley in 1991 and his Ph.D. in computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin, \ Madison in 1997. Following his doctoral work, he spent one year visiting the Vision Technology G\ roup at Microsoft Research, and subsequently two years as an Assistant Professor in the Robotics\ Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the faculty at the University of Washington \ in July 2000. He was twice awarded the David Marr Prize for the best paper at the International \ Conference of Computer Vision, and has received an NSF Career Award, an ONR Young Investigator A\ ward, and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
Professor Seitz is interested in problems in computer vision and computer graphics. His current \ research focuses on capturing the structure, appearance, and behavior of the real world from dig\ ital imagery. He enjoys biking, hiking, eating crab, and staring obsessively at Mount Rainier.