Post Doc: New Shape and Reflectance Models for Vision and Image-/Based Rendering

University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL

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Abstract

EIA-0004056 Kriegman, David University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Postdoctoral: New Shape and Reflectance Models for Vision and Image-Based Rendering Two areas of computer vision and image-based rendering are to be explored by the postdoctoral associate. The first project will result in methods for more realistically rendering scenes by constructing surface reflectance models from image data. The result could lead to a new way to measure a bi-directional density function under known lighting conditions and to render images under novel lighting conditions. The second project aims to explore the recognition of objects whose shapes are continuously changing. The problem is phrased as an abstract contour shape recognition problem where shape evolves dynamically. Several immediate applications in biology and related fields are expected.