Saturday, June 17, 2006 08:45-09:30
Keynote Talk: Shree Nayar, "Procam and Campro"
A projector can be used as a programmable light source to enable a camera to recover detailed scene information. Conversely, the camera can be used as a sensor to enable a projector to display high quality images on arbitrary surfaces. In this talk, I will present our recent results on the use of projectors for cameras and cameras for projectors. I will show how a projector can be used to recover high resolution scene geometry as well as the complex optical interactions between objects in the scene. Then, I will show how a camera can be used to project high quality images on textured surfaces as well as focused images on non-planar surfaces.
	Shree K. Nayar is the T. C. Chang Chaired Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. He received his Phd degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. At Columbia, he is co-director of the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center and heads the Computer Vision Laboratory (CAVE), which is dedicated to the development of advanced computer vision systems. His research is focused on three broad areas, namely, the creation of novel vision sensors, the design of physics based models for vision, and the development of algorithms for scene interpretation. The work conducted by his research team is motivated by applications in the fields of digital imaging, computer graphics, human-machine interfaces and robotics. Among other honors, Shree was awarded a Keck Engineering Teaching Excellence Award in 1995, an NTT Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award in 1994, and a Packard Fellowship (Fellow of the Packard Foundation) in 1992.