Last updated: September 22, 2004

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Calendar of events.

For maps/directions to/on the Brown campus, check: http://fm-cad.plantops.brown.edu/maps/

• Rama Chellappa (Maryland), on "Recognition of Humans and their Activties Using Still and Video Images," Aug. 9.

May

• Craig Gotsman (Technion), on "Spectral Methods for Spherical Parameterization of 3D Meshes," May 13.
• Donald H. Sanders (VizIn.org & LearningSites.com), "Digitally Reconstructed Ancient Worlds for Interactive Education and Research," May 10.

April

• Andrew Willis (Brown) on "Stochastic 3D Geometric Models for Classification, Deformation, and Estimation," (Ph.D. defense) April 28.
• Kongbin Kang (Brown) on "3D Free Form Surface Reconstruction from Occluding Contours in a Sequence of Images or Video," (Ph.D. defense) April 27.

March

• Ramesh Raskar (MERL) on "Vision, Graphics and HCI Research at MERL," March 18.
• Kongbin Kang (Brown) on "An Algebraic Visual Hull," March 2.

February

• Li Fei-Fei (Cal.Tech.) on "A Bayesian Framework for Unsupervised One-Shot Learning of Object Categories," Feb. 3.
• Silvio Savarese (Cal.Tech.) on "Perception and 3D Reconstruction of Specular Surfaces," Feb. 2.

October

• Prof. Richard Fishman (Brown U.) on his "Sculpting and the creative process," Oct. 20.
• Prof. Aytul Ercil (Sabanci U., Turkey) on "Independent Component Analysis for Texture Defect Detection & Face Recognition," Oct. 2.

September

• Prof. Franz-Erich Wolter (Hannover U., Germany) on "Cognition and Construction of Shape." Sept. 30.
• Prof. Aytul Ercil (Sabanci U., Turkey) on "A Multimedia Database for Archaeological Sites," Sept. 30.

August

• Pierre-Louis Bazin (SHAPE Lab.) on "Data Collection at the Great Temple of Petra,"
  followed by : "The Light Ray Representation for 3D Shape and Motion Analysis," Aug. 21.

April

• Holly Rushmeier (IBM) on "3D Scanning for Cultural Heritage Applications," April 21.
• Demetri Terzopoulos (MRL, NYU) on "D-NURBS," April 15.
• Wei Shao (MRL, NYU) on "Simulating Autonomous Pedestrian Agents In A Virtual World," April 15.

January

• Brower Hatcher on "Brower Hatcher Structures", Jan. 30.

October

• Frederic Leymarie (SHAPE Lab) on "3D Shape Representation via Shock Flows," Oct. 21
• Jonah McBride (LEMS) on "Archaeological Fragment Re-Assembly Using Curve Matching," Oct. 7.

July

• Prof. James Damon (Maths @ North Carolina), on "Determining the geometry of boundaries of objects from medial data," July 23.

May

• Prof. F. Meyer (University of Colorado @ Boulder) on "From Image Coding to fMRI Analysis," May 3.
• Dr. Ishikawa (Courant Institute) on "Graphs in Vision and Global Optimization," May 2.

April

• Prof. Y. Aloimonos (CVL, Maryland) on "Visual Space-Time: Geometry and Statistics," April 30.
• Dr. O. Veksler (NEC) on "Graph algorithms for Stereo Correspondence," April 23.
• Guy Godin (NRC, Canada) on "3D Imaging and Modeling for Heritage Documentation and Analysis," April 22.
• Dr. G. Taubin (IBM) on "Signal Processing on Meshes & 3D Geometry Compression," April 22.
• Dr. E. Sharon (Weizmann Institute) on "A Hierarchical Image Description," April 19.
• Dr. C. Sminchisescu (INRIA, France) on "Deterministic and Stochastic Methods for Multi-Modal High-Dimensional Search," April 18.
• Dr. David Jacobs (NEC) on "Recognizing Objects when the Lighting Changes," April 17.

March

• Prof. Piotr Indyk (MIT), on "Sublinear time algorithms for metric space problems," March 19.
• Stuart Andrews (SHAPE Lab) on "A Framework for Assembling Broken Pottery Vessels," March 14.
• Dr. Jean-François Mangin (CEA, France) on "Structural Approaches for the Mapping of Brain Anatomy," March 1st.

February

• Prof. Michael Leyton (DIMACS, Rutgers U.) on "A Generative Theory of Shape," Feb. 13.
• Dr. Pierre-Louis Bazin and Dr. Mireille Boutin (SHAPE Lab.) on "Structure from Motion: a Novel Approach Using Custom Built Invariants," Feb. 6.
• Daniel Acevedo (SHAPE Lab) on "Archaeological Data Visualization in VR: The development of a novel research environment," Feb.6.
• Prof. Lawrence Sirovich (Mt. Sinai School of Medicine), on "Modeling (& Imaging) the Visual Cortex", Feb. 5.

December

• Prof. Stephen Pizer (University of North Carolina) on "Geometry, Statistics, and Data Structure," Dec. 3-5.

November

• Fabienne Maile (Sorbonne @ Paris) on "New Archaeology and its Emphasis on Quantitative Analysis and Model Building," Nov. 7.

October

• Prof. Franz-Erich Wolter (Hannover University) on "Local and Global Geometric Methods...", Oct. 9.

August

• Diane Gilles and Fabienne Mail (Sorbonne @ Paris) on "Pottery and Form and more", August 28.
• Xavier Orriols (CVC @ Barcelona) on "Parametric Video Registration", August 21.
• Dr. Pierre-Louis Bazin (INRIA & SHAPE Lab.) on "Motion/Structure in video", August 14.
• Prof. Uli Walther (Purdue University), on "Groebner bases," August 7.
• Prof. Aytul Ercil (Bogazici University, Turkey) on "Industrial Vision", August 1.

July

• Prof. Richard M. Golden (U. of Texas @ Dallas) on "Statistical Pattern Recognition Models," July 30.
• Juan Ma Sanchez (CVC, Barcelona, Spain) on "Affective video content characterization," July 24.
• Dr. Joseph L. Mundy (GE Corporate R&D) on "Computer Vision Research at GE," July 20.

May

• Eileen Vote's Ph.D. defense, "A New Methodology for Archaeological Analysis: Using Visualization & Interaction to Explore Spatial Links in Excavation Data," May 30.

February

• Visit of Stefano Tilia and Angela Bizzarro from Treerre SAS (Rome, Italy), Feb. 21.
  • "Our main interests, as professionals, are in the graphic documentation of artefacts, sites and monuments of cultural heritage relevance, and in methodologies (existing or in development) for expeditive 3D data acquisition and usage through laser (or other) scanning techniques."

October

• 2 Days Course: ShapeGrabber of Vitana, by Tom Schoenhofer (Ottawa, Canada), Oct. 30-31.
• Visit of Maurizio Forte (CNR/Rome) & Kathryn Bard (Boston University), Oct. 23-24.
  • Maurizio Forte on Virtual Archaeology, Oct. 24.

August

• Jill Baker (Brown U.) on "Lots of Pottery - from Ashkelon, Israel", August 30.
• Xavier Orriols (Barcelona, Spain) & Andrew Willis (Brown U.) on "Bayesian Estimation of Axial Symmetries from Partial Data", August 23.
• Frederic F. Leymarie (Brown U.) on "3D Medial Axis for Sherds", August 16.
• Yan Cao (Brown U.) on "Global Approach for Curvature Calculations", August 9.
• Kongbin Kan (Brown U.) on "Bayesian 3D Reconstruction from Multiple Images or Video", August 2.

July

• Prof. David Cooper (Brown U.) on "STITCH implementation considerations for computationally practical assembly", July 12.
• Jean-Philippe Tarel (INRIA, France) on "3D Structure from 2D Images - A Survey", July 5.

June

• Stuart Andrews (Brown U.) on "A STITCH Algorithm,", June 30.
• Eileen Vote and Daniel Acevedo Feliz (Brown U.) on "ARCHAVE - a user study of VR environments for Digital Archaeology : Introduction and goals/methodology", June 23.
• Xavier Orriols (Barcelona, Spain) on "Appearance Based Vision via Local Linear Models", June 22.
• Stuart Andrews (Brown U.) on "A STITCH: Interface," June 16.

February

• Prof. Franz-Erich Wolter (Hannover U., Germany), on "Cut Locus and Medial Axis in the Euclidean Space and on Surfaces", Feb. 11.
• Daniel Acevedo Feliz (Brown U.), on "ARCHAVE: A virtual reality interface for archaeological 3D GIS", Feb. 4.

December

• Prof. David Laidlaw (Brown U.) on the "SHARP Spelunking Software," Dec. 3.
  • Videotape available.

November

• Prof. David Cooper (Brown U.) on "Algebraic Curves & Surfaces, and On Virtual Pots," Nov. 19.
  • Videotape available.
• Eileen Vote (Brown U.) on the "Architecture of the Nabateans," Nov. 12

October

• Jill Baker (Brown U.) on Pottery, Oct. 29.
  • Videotape available.
• Prof. Benjamin Kimia (Brown U.) on "Skeletons : Symmetry-Based Shape Representationst", Oct. 22.
• Prof. David Mumford (Brown U.) on "My view of the problem of shape representation", Oct. 15.
  • Videotape available.
• Adam Brin and Eileen Vote (Brown U.) on "Problems in Archaeology: Modeling & Analysis", Oct. 8
  • Videotape available.
• Prof. Richard Fishman (Brown U.) on "the use of shape representations in the arts", Oct. 5.

September

• Prof. Martha Joukowsky (Brown U.) on "Petra and The Great Temple Site", Sept. 30.

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