Video SnapCut and the stories behind it

Speaker:	Dr. Jue WANG
		Adobe Systems

Title:		"Video SnapCut and the stories behind it"

Date:		Monday, 8 February 2010

Time:		11:00am - 12 noon

Venue:		Room 2404 (via lifts 17/18), HKUST
		HKUST

Abstract:

In this talk I will present video SnapCut, a robust video object cutout
system which was originally presented at SIGGRAPH 2009 and now has been
successfully transferred into a commercial product. I will present the
technical details of the system, but more interestingly, I will summarize
various attempts we made in the past five years on tackling this problem,
how we succeeded and failed, what lessons we learnt, and how they
eventually led us to our current state-of-the-art solution.  A firsthand
look at the product will be provided.


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Biography:

Jue Wang joined Adobe Systems as a research scientist in 2007. He
completed his Ph.D. in the same year at the University of Washington,
where he was advised by Michael Cohen at Microsoft Research. During his
Ph.D he was a research intern for three times at Microsoft Research, and
received 2006 Microsoft Research Fellowship.  Before his Ph.D he completed
his Masters and Bachelors at Tsinghua University. His research work can be
found at http://www.juew.org/