BIRS Talk Sessions

Mathematics meets Computer Vision ... and Visual Arts

The workshop participants will link PIMS/BIRS math centre with with the creative visual arts at the Banff centre's New Media Institute (BNMI). Workshop participants will pair up with artists, modelers and animators to explore and create artistic use for the mathematical methods.
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Schedule for the interaction sessions

Sun 19-20:30, Max Bell 251 Talks of interest to a wide Banff Centre audience (talk abstracts)

Gabriel Taubin, Brown U. "The digital capture and virtual exhibit of Michelangelo's Pieta"

"Photo-tourism Exploring photo collections in 3D"
Noah Snavely and Richard Szeliski, Microsoft Research

Mon 16-18, Max Bell 251 Talks of special interest to New Media Artists (talk abstracts)

Neil Birkbeck, Adam Rachmielowski, U of Alberta "Capture of 3D models from 2D photos using variational shape and reflectance estimation"	Jim Rehg: Georgia Tech, "Projector-Guided Painting"
Adrian Broadhurst, Vicon, Motion capture, the state of the art and new developments	Geert Caenen, KU Leuven An Internet application for 3D modeling from 2D photos

Mon 19-21, Max Bell 1st floor Demos related to New Media interaction talks

Demos

Noah Snavely, U of Washington, Richard Szeliski Microsoft: Photo-tourism
Adam Rachmielowski/Neil Birkbeck, U of Alberta: 3D capture from 2D photos
Matt Flagg/Jim Rehg Georgia Tech, Projector guided painting
Adrian Broadhurst, Vicon, Motion capture
Geert Caenen, KU Leuven An Internet application for 3D modeling from 2D photos

Posters (abstracts)

Recursive Structure from Motion using Hybrid Matching Constraints with Error Feedback

Spherical Catadioptric Arrays: Construction, Multi-View Geometry, and Calibration Douglas Lanman, Daniel Crispell, Megan Wachs, and Gabriel Taubin, Brown Univ.

Reconstructing a 3D Line from a Single Catadioptric Image Douglas Lanman, Megan Wachs, Gabriel Taubin and Fernando Cukierman, Brown Univ.

Synchronization and Calibration of a Camera Network for 3D Event Reconstruction from Live Video Sudipta N. Sinha and Marc Pollefeys, Department of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill

3D city reconstruction using cognitive loops. (video) Geert Caenen, KU Leuven

Towards Urban 3D Reconstruction From Video A. Akbarzadeh, C. Engels, M. Phelps, L. Wang, Q. Yang, H. Stewenius, R. Yang, D. Nister, Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments, University of Kentucky, Lexington, J.-M. Frahm, P. Mordohai, B. Clipp, D. Gallup, P. Merrell, S.N. Sinha, B. Talton, G. Welch, H. Towles,and M. Pollefeys, Department of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill

Tue 19-20:30 Meet after dinner in dining hall
Tour of Banff New Media institute, including their arts studios, multimedia room, immersive visualization "cave" etc.

Thu 9-12 AM Posters 2
Results of interaction: Artists/modelers will present what they produced by combining computer vision captured models, tracked video etc in their arts projects.
Second chance to see other posters as well.