Charla “Enhancing the Impact of Visual Media Collections through Computer Vision”

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Charlista:

Dr John Collomosse

Fecha:

21 Enero, 2013 - 15:00

Sala:

Auditorio DCC - Piso 3

Organización:

DCC

Bio:

Dr John Collomosse
Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK.

ABSTRACT:
Collections of visual media pervade our lives; from online video archives to personal photo collections. However the way in which we commonly search these visual media collections is far from visual; we are still reliant upon text based search of metadata annotated to content post-capture. In this talk I will summarise several recent research projects undertaken by my group at Surrey. These projects explore new ways to enhance the impact of visual media collections, through new Graphics/Vision algorithms to visually search and present visual media. Specifically, I will outline:

How large databases of photographs may be searched using free-hand sketched queries. (EPSRC)

How large archival dance collections of 2D images and video, may be searched to identify similar human poses so enabling choreographic search. (AHRC)

How the Microsoft Kinect sensor may be used to search 3D captured sequences of dance performance, to enable interactive replay of choreography through 3D pose search. (EPSRC)

How home video may be stylized into artwork for unobtrusive presentation on ambient displays in shared living spaces. (HP Labs)

How we can learn to transform photos into portraits by example, using real artwork as training data. (HP Labs)