i------------------------------------------------------------------------ Speaker: Dr. George Chen Research Manager Intelligent Interfaces and Systems Group STMicroelectronics San Diego Laboratory Topic: "Visual Computing Research in STMicroelectronics" Date: Monday, 11 November 2002 Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00pm Venue: Lecture Theater F (Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theater, near lift nos. 25/26) HKUST ABSTRACT: "Seeing is believing." Visual information is a vital part of human communication. STMicroelectronics San Diego lab is doing research in all aspects related to sensing, disseminating, processing and displaying of visual information. This talk has two parts. First, I will introduce some of the research work conducted in the lab. The topics include compound camera, structure-from-motion, super resolution, multi-view stereo, programmable rendering, etc. In the second part, I will concentrate on our recent work towards building a practical light-field rendering system. Both hardware and software challenges will be described, and how a niche combination of graphics and vision techniques may provide a solution. ******************** Biography: Dr. George Chen holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. During 1996 and 1997, he worked part-time as a technical staff in Hughes Research Laboratories where he participated in the development of a distributed visualization system for astronaut training. His doctoral work has been successfully commercialised by a startup company and resulted in a 3-D face recognition system. Currently, he is the research manager of the Intelligent Interfaces and Systems group in STMicroelectronics San Diego laboratory. The group is engaged in applied research in intelligent human-computer-interface, at the sensor, algorithm and system levels. For enquiries, please call 2358 7008 **** ALL are Welcome **** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------