<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Just a friendly reminder that Lingqi is hosting a visitor today who will be giving a talk on inverse rendering at 11am. See abstract below.<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>-Pradeep<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">---<div>Pradeep Sen</div><div>Professor</div><div>UCSB MIRAGE Lab</div><div>Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering</div><div>University of California, Santa Barbara</div><div>Santa Barbara, CA <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">93106-9560</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Samantha Oglesby <<a href="mailto:svoglesby@cs.ucsb.edu">svoglesby@cs.ucsb.edu</a>><br><b>Date:</b> October 7, 2019 at 10:30:38 AM PDT<br><b>To:</b> CS Faculty <<a href="mailto:faculty@lists.cs.ucsb.edu">faculty@lists.cs.ucsb.edu</a>>, <a href="mailto:grads@lists.cs.ucsb.edu">grads@lists.cs.ucsb.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:lecturers@lists.cs.ucsb.edu">lecturers@lists.cs.ucsb.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:research@lists.cs.ucsb.edu">research@lists.cs.ucsb.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:colloquia@lists.cs.ucsb.edu">colloquia@lists.cs.ucsb.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[COLLOQUIA] TOMORROW: Colloquium Giljoo Nam Tuesday, October 8th HFH 1132 11AM</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Colloquium</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Giljoo Nam </font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tuesday, October 8th</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif">HFH 1132 11:00 AM</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Host: Lingqi Yan</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Abstract: </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Rendering
refers to a process of creating digital images of an object or a scene from 3D
data using computers and algorithms. Inverse rendering is the inverse process
of rendering, i.e., reconstructing 3D data from 2D images. The 3D data to be recovered
can be 3D geometry, reflectance of a surface, camera viewpoints, or lighting
conditions.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">In
this talk, I will discuss three inverse rendering problems. First, inverse
rendering using flash photography captures 3D geometry and reflectance of a static
object using a single camera and a flashlight attached to the camera. An
alternating and iterative optimization framework is proposed to jointly solve
for several unknown properties such as 3D geometry and reflectance. Second,
inverse rendering at microscale reconstructs 3D normals and reflectance of a
surface at microscale. A specially designed acquisition system, as well as an
inverse rendering algorithm for microscale material appearance, are proposed.
Lastly, inverse rendering for human hair describes a novel 3D reconstruction
algorithm for modeling high-quality human hair geometry. I believe that our
work on these advanced inverse rendering problems will boost hyper-realism in
computer graphics.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Profile:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Giljoo
Nam is a Ph.D. candidate at KAIST (expected to graduate in Aug. 2019) and a
recipient of SIGGRAPH 2019 Doctoral Consortium Award. His doctoral research
focuses on inverse rendering and image-based modeling for realistic computer
graphics. In particular, he has been working on high-quality 3D reconstruction
and material appearance modeling. His work on image-based appearance modeling
was selected as Technical Papers Press Release in SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 and was
introduced in impactful media including Government Computer News, EurekAlert,
Digital Journal, and E&T Magazine.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p>
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