[Gfx-cafe] GFX Cafe Seminar Friday Nov 7, 2008

GFX Café Seminar Friday November 7, 2008
12noon, ECE 118

Food will be served

TITLE:
SIGGRAPH @ UNM
Performance Capture from Video

ABSTRACT:

Details in mesh animations are difficult to generate but easy to observe.
In this GFX Café, we take a look at recent work presented at this year's
SIGGRAPH conference on capturing mesh animations from video streams.
Specifically, we will show the presentations for the following three
papers:

- Articulated Mesh Animation from Multi-view Silhouettes
by Daniel Vlasic, Ilya Baran (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
Wojciech Matusik (Adobe Systems Inc.), Jovan Popovic (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology)

- Performance Capture from Sparse Multi-view Video
by Edilson de Aguiar, Carsten Stoll (Max-Planck-Institut Informatik),
Christian Theobalt (Stanford University), Naveed Ahmed, Hans-Peter
Seidel (Max-Planck-Institut Informatik), Sebastian Thrun (Stanford
University)

- Markerless Garment Capture
by Derek Bradley, Tiberiu Popa, Alla Sheffer, Wolfgang Heidrich
(University of British Columbia), Tamy Boubekeur (TU Berlin)

LOCATION:
The ECE building is located on the campus of the University of
New Mexico (building 46 on the campus map). Directions can be found
here: http://www.ece.unm.edu/visitors/parking.htm