The following has emerged as a plan to enable interaction on several levels.
We have identified talks of a more general interest to people making creative use of visual arts and technology. These have been grouped together, and a larger lecture room (Max Bell 251) has been arranged for these talks so that we can fit additional participants. Mostly this will be for BNMI people, but we have also had some questions from other Banff Centre artists who would like to be observers.
Additionally, several workshop participants will bring along hands-on demos, giving practical examples of how computer vision can be used in a variety of 3D modeling, animation and new media related applications.
Finally, as an experimental deeper level interaction we will have a handful Banffcentre 3D modelers, animators and video artists try to make creative use of new computer vision methods and software during the week. After the initial talks on the topics we will give them hands on training with the various softwares. We hope that early results from this interaction will be ready to be shown in our Wed and Thu poster sessions.
Sun 7-8:30PM Max Bell 251 Applications/Banff Arts centre interaction Talks of interest to a wide Banff Centre audience Gabriel Taubin, Brown U. "The digital capture and virtual exhibit of Michelangelo's Pieta" Rick Szeliski, Microsoft: "Photo-tourism Exploring photo collections in 3D" Mon 4 - 6PM Max Bell 251 Applications/Banff Arts centre interaction Mainly of interest to New Media people and video producers Neil Birkbeck, UofA "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
Mon 7 - 9PM Max Bell 1st floor Demos related to interaction talks Demos: Noah Snaverly, U of Washington, 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 Bill Triggs, Possibly demoing Tracking human motion? Posters: (abstracts) Fredrik Nyberg/Anders Heyden, Malmo Sudipta Sinha/Marc Pollefeys, UNC Gabriel Taubin, Brown Univ Sudipta Sinha/Marc Pollefeys UNC, David Nister, U Kentucky Geert Caenen, KU Leuven Tue 7PM - 8:30PM Tour of Banff New Media institute, including their arts studios, multimedia room, immersive visualization "cave" etc. Thu 9 - 12 AM Posters 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.