Broad Area Colloquium For AI-Geometry-Graphics-Robotics-Vision
Modeling the Illusive Thing Called `Shape': a Mathematician's View
Stefano Soatto
UCLA
Monday, November 4, 2002, 4:15PM
TCSeq 200
http://robotics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Abstract
"We see in order to move, and we move in order to see." In this expository
talk, I will explore the role of vision as a sensor for interaction with
physical space. Since the complexity of the physical world is far superior
to that of its measured images, inferring a generic representation of the
scene is an intrinsically ill-posed problem. However, the task becomes
well-posed within the context of a specific control task. I will display
recent results in the inference of dynamical models of visual scenes for
the purpose of motion control, shape visualization, rendering, and
classification.
About the Speaker
Stefano Soatto received his Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from
the California Institute of Technology in 1996. He joined UCLA in 2000
after being Assistant and then Associate Professor of Electrical and
Biomedical Engineering at Washington University, and Research Associate in
Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Between 1995 and 1998 he was also
Ricercatore in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the
University of Udine, Italy. He received his D.Ing. degree (highest honors)
from the University of Padova, Italy in 1992. Dr. Soatto is the recipient
of the David Marr Prize (with Y. Ma, J. Kosecka and S. Sastry of U.C.
Berkeley) for work on Euclidean reconstruction and reprojection up to
subgroups. He was awarded the Siemens Prize with the Outstanding Paper
Award from the IEEE Computer Society for his work on optimal structure
from motion (with R. Brockett of Harvard). He also received the NSF Career
Award and the Okawa Foundation Grant. For more details, see his research
group's webpage http://vision.ucla.edu
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