V-SENSE - Extending Visual Sensation through Image-Based Visual Computing

Abstract

Extending visual sensation to the limits of human perception, while enabling a maximum of artistic freedom and creative potential has always been the focus of my research. Technologies for image-based visual computing have been the means to achieve that. In my new role as Professor of Creative Technologies at Trinity College Dublin, I now have the opportunity to take this to a new level. This talk will highlight some of my past achievements and an outlook to plans around 3D, VR, AR, HDR, and beyond.

Short Bio

Prof Aljosa Smolic joined Trinity College Dublin as SFI Research Professor of Creative Technologies in summer 2016. From 2009 to 2016 he was Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Advanced Video Technology group at Disney Research Zurich. Before he was Scientific Project Manager at the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI), Berlin, also heading a research group. He has been involved in many national and international research projects, where he conducted research in various fields of video processing and visual computing, and published more than 150 referred papers in these fields. He received the Dipl.-Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 1996, and the Dr.-Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Germany, in 2001. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, and served as Guest Editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE, and other scientific journals. He has been involved in MPEG standardization for 3D video as group leader and one of the Editors of the Multi-view Video Coding (MVC) standard. Before joining TCD he was teaching at ETH Zurich and had an appointment as Adjunct Professor for Media Art at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.

Venue

Large Conference Room, O'Reilly Institute