Distinguished Lecture Series: Noah Snavely, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University and Cornell Tech
Date & Time: March 25, 2021 from 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Location: Virtual via Zoom
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“Capturing and Rendering the World from Photos”
Imagine a futuristic mapping service that could dial up any possible view along any street in the world at any possible time. Effectively, such a service would be a recording of the plenoptic function—the hypothetical function described by Adelson and Bergen that captures all light rays passing through space at all times. While the plenoptic function is completely impractical to capture in its totality, every photo ever taken represents a sample of this function. I will present recent methods we've developed to attempt to reconstruct the plenoptic function from sparse space-time samples of photos—including Google Street View data and tourist photos on the internet. The results of this work include compelling new ways to render new views of the world in space and time.
About the Speaker
Noah Snavely is an associate professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and Cornell Tech, and a researcher at Google Research in NYC. Noah's research interests are in computer vision and graphics, in particular 3D understanding and depiction of scenes from images. Noah is the recipient of a PECASE, a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and a SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award.