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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:.15in;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747'>Intelligent cameras: Composition and Context<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:0in 3.0pt 0in 3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>October 16, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 3.0pt 0in 3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>5:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0in 3.0pt 0in 3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>to<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0in 3.0pt 0in 3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>6:45 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#363636;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Please note that this seminar will take place in Elings/CNSI 1605.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#363636'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#363636;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Speaker:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#363636'>Daniel Vaquero, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.4pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#363636'>Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#363636'>We present novel camera technology that explores contextual<br>information silently gathered while the user is attempting to frame a<br>shot. The camera employs computer vision and computational photography<br>techniques to automatically generate a wide range of interesting and<br>compelling photo suggestions. Applications include improving the<br>aesthetic quality of photographs taken by the user, as well as<br>explorations in media arts created by combining multiple images. Our<br>technology can be integrated into current point-and-shoot cameras, and<br>it effectively expands the photographic possibilities for casual and<br>amateur users, who often rely on automatic camera modes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.4pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#363636'>Bio<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#363636'>Daniel Vaquero received a PhD degree from the Department of<br>Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara. Throughout<br>his doctoral studies, Daniel held research internship positions at<br>Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, IBM Research, and the Nokia<br>Research Center, where he worked on novel computational photography<br>and surveillance techniques. Daniel’s research has been featured in<br>major Computer Vision and Graphics conferences, such as CVPR, ICCV and<br>SIGGRAPH. His interests span topics in computer vision, graphics, and<br>image processing, with applications in computational photography and<br>visual surveillance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>