[4eyes] Fwd: [MAT-announce] MAT Seminar: Dan Sandin: Challenges in acquiring and display of 3D video panoramas in VR environments

[Saiph Savage]

In case you are not part of the MAT mailing list:
Tomorrow's talk might be of interest to some of you:
*Challenges in acquiring and display of 3D video panoramas in VR
environments*
Cheers

-- 
Saiph Savage
Ph.D Candidate, Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~saiph/


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Dear all,

The coming Monday at noon, The Media Arts and Technology program (MAT) at
UC Santa Barbara will present the last talk of Fall 2014. We will come
back on Jan 12th, 2015, same time, same location.

MAT 595M Seminar Series
December 1, 2014 - 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm, we have:

Speaker: Dan Sandin: Emeritus Director of the Electronic Visualization
Laboratory at UIC
Emeritus Professor of the school of Art and Design at UIC
Visiting Research Scientist at Qualcomm institute UCSD
Visiting Research Scientist at UIC

Title: Challenges in acquiring and display of 3D video panoramas in VR
environments
Devember 1, 2014
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Engineering Science Building, room 2001

Abstract: Most VR systems are good at displaying 3D digital models.
Displaying natural scenes or the “as built” environment based on image
material is more challenging. Full sphere stereo panoramas provide a
partial solution to the display of image based material in VR. There are
excellent solutions for 360° by 180° stereo panoramas of static scenes.
There are excellent solutions for 360° by <180° monoscopic video
panoramas. There are no good solutions for 360° by 180° stereo video
panoramas. There are also issues with displaying stereo in an
omnidirectional display system. Professor Sandin will describe the problem
and the beginning of research activities for a 3 year NSF grant to develop
a full sphere stereo video system for scientific research and immersive
cinema. This work is based on a long term collaboration with Tom DeFanti
and Dick Ainsworth.

Bio: Daniel J. Sandin is an internationally recognized pioneer of
electronic art and visualization. He is director emeritus of the
Electronic Visualization Lab and a professor emeritus in the School of Art
and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is continuing his
professional activities with Tom DeFanti at Calit2, UCSD. As an artist, he
has exhibited worldwide, and has received grants in support of his work
from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National
Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His video
animation Spiral PTL is in the inaugural collection of video art at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1969, Sandin developed a computer-controlled light and sound
environment called Glow Flow at the Smithsonian Institution and was
invited to join the art faculty at the University of Illinois the same
year. By 1973, he had developed the Sandin Image Processor, a highly
programmable analog computer for processing video images in real time. He
then worked with DeFanti to combine the Image Processor with real-time
computer graphics and performed visual concerts, the Electronic
Visualization Events, with synthesized musical accompaniment. In 1991,
Sandin and DeFanti conceived and developed, in collaboration with graduate
students, the CAVE virtual reality (VR) theater.
In recent years, Sandin has been concentrating on the development of auto
stereo VR displays (i.e., free viewing, no glasses), and on the creation
of network-based tele-collaborative VR art works that involve video camera
image materials, rich human interaction and mathematical systems.
website:
http://www.evl.uic.edu/dan/
http://www.evl.uic.edu/

Free to public. coffee will be served.

We look forward to seeing you at the seminar on Monday!

Happy holiday season,
J. Cecilia Wu

M595 Seminar Series - Sponsored by Media Arts & Technology
Visit the MAT595M's home page at http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/595M/ for
detailed information and a list of speakers and talks.
Admin Contact J. Cecilia Wu - mat-seminars (at) mat.ucsb.edu
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Saiph Savage
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