Computer Vision and Graphics for Marine Challenges
Sai-Kit Yeung, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
3pm 9th Jun 2023
Abstract
Applying computer vision algorithms in the marine environment presents a fundamental challenge due to its dynamic nature. Objects such as fish are constantly in motion, seaweed, and soft coral change their shapes with the water current, and light undergoes continuous changes while also becoming increasingly attenuated as we move deeper. Additionally, visibility can vary significantly depending on the time of day, season, and location. In this talk, I will discuss some of our recent computer vision and graphics projects that aim to address the challenging marine environment. Additionally, I will provide an overview of my research directions and how they are connected to contribute to multidisciplinary projects such as city planning, seafloor surveying, and fishery design
Short Bio
Dr. Sai-Kit Yeung is an Associate Professor at the Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD) and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research interests include 3D vision and graphics, content generation, fabrication, and novel computational techniques and integrative systems for marine-related problems. Dr. Yeung has published extensively in premiere computer vision and graphics venues including numerous full oral papers in CVPR, ICCV, and AAAI. His work has received best paper honorable mention awards at ICCP 2015 and 3DV 2016. He has served as a Senior Program Committee member in IJCAI and AAAI, and as a Course Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2019. In addition, he regularly serves as a Technical Papers Committee member for SIGGPAPH & SIGGRAPH Asia and is currently an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). More recently, he served as a member of the Technical Papers Committee for Euro