Seminars

Mobile Computer Vision

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Dr. Matthew Turk

Abstract

Mobile platforms provide a rich opportunity for research in computer vision and multi-sensor integration. Many mobile applications demand robust, real-time performance under a wide range of environmental conditions; in some cases, additional available sensors, such as accelerometers, can be used to enhance the image processing approaches or to provide altogether new capabilities. In this talk, I will present work on mobile vision for applications in augmented reality and computational photography, supporting gestural interaction, localization, and sign translation.

Speaker Biography

Matthew Turk received a B.S. from Virginia Tech, an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab. He worked for Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace from 1984 to 1987 on vision for autonomous robot navigation. In 1992 he moved to Grenoble, France as a visiting researcher at LIFIA/ENSIMAG, then took a position at Teleos Research (in Palo Alto, CA) in 1993. In 1994, he joined Microsoft Research as the founding member of the Vision Technology Group. In 2000 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is now a full Professor in the Computer Science Department and former Chair (2005-2010) of the Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program. He co-directs the UCSB Four Eyes Lab, where the research focus is on the "four I's" of Imaging, Interaction, and Innovative Interfaces. He is a founding member and former chair of the advisory board for the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and on the editorial board of the Journal of Image and Vision Computing and the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems. He was a general chair of the recent 2011 IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition.