Fellowship Year: 2005
Discipline: Computer/information sciences
Fellowship Institution: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Interests
My main research interest is in the area of computer vision. The main contributions of my PhD consisted of developing the first complete system that takes images recorded with an uncalibrated hand-held camera as input and yield detailed photo-realistic 3D models as output. This was achieved by solving a significant number of fundamental computer vision problems. The main research theme I intend to pursue in the coming years is the development of algorithms that will enable camera networks to perform a multitude of observation tasks, ranging from surveillance and tracking to high-fidelity, immersive reconstructions of dynamic events. Here also my goal is to provide a maximum of flexibility by making it possible to compute as much information as possible from the image data itself and allowing parameters to change during operation (e.g. enabling the use of pan-tilt-zoom cameras), as well as to improve the quality of results by optimally exploiting all the available constraints.
