Steve Seitz has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers “for contributions to three-dimensional computer vision.”
Steve’s research interests include many aspects of computer vision and computer graphics, particularly capturing the structure, appearance, and behavior of the real world from digital imagery. Steve was twice awarded the David Marr Prize for the best paper at the International Conference of Computer Vision, and has received an NSF Career Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and an… Read more →
Noah Snavely receives Honorable Mention in 2009 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Noah Snavely, now a faculty member at Cornell University, received Honorable Mention in the 2009 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition. Noah’s dissertation, “Scene Reconstruction and Visualization from Internet Photo Collections,” provides much of the technology behind Microsoft’s Photosynth offering, as well as the “Rome in a Day” project.
Congratulations Noah!… Read more →
PhotoCity in Xconomy
PhotoCity – a research effort and online game developed by faculty and students at the University of Washington and Cornell to capture a virtual 3D world from millions of cell phone photographs – was most recently featured in Xconomy.
“Building on a previous program called Photo Tourism [the core technology of Microsoft’s Photosyth] that pieces together photos culled from Flickr into virtual 3D models, PhotoCity is a ‘capture the flag’-esque game that re-creates sections of campuses or city blocks,… Read more →
“Rome in a Day” is Computing Research Highlight of the Week
The Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium have selected UW CSE’s Rome in a Day project as the Computing Research Highlight of the Week.
“Several years ago, a collaboration between computer graphics and computer vision researchers at the University of Washington and Microsoft yielded Photosynth, a revolution in organizing and navigating digital photographs.
“Now, that same collaboration has yielded Rome In A Day, which reconstructs entire cities from images harvested from the web, in less… Read more →
CSE’s Noah Snavely wins UW Graduate School “6th Chapter” Dissertation Award
2008 UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Noah Snavely, now on the computer science faculty at Cornell University, has received the University of Washington Graduate School “6th Chapter” Dissertation Award.
Named by former Dean of the Graduate School Suzanne Ortega, the 6th Chapter Award refers to the five-chapter length of most dissertations. In a hypothetical sixth chapter, Ortega reasoned, candidates would propose practical applications resulting from their research, translating their insights into real-world policies or programs.
Noah’s Ph.D. work, co-supervised by… Read more →
“Rome Was Built in a Day”
UW CSE’s computer graphics team— including professor Steve Seitz, graduate student Ian Simon, graduate alumnus Noah Snavely, affiliate professor Rick Szeliski, and acting professor Sameer Agarwal— has developed a new computer algorithm that automatically reconstructs an entire city from hundreds of thousands of tourist photos in about a day (of computing). The tool is the most recent in a series developed at UW CSE to harness the increasingly large digital photo collections available on photo-sharing… Read more →
“Microsoft Live Labs Reorganization, Questioned by Many, is Great for Innovation, says Lazowska”
An Xconomy post describes UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska‘s take on the recent reorganization of Microsoft Live Labs, the organization that (among other things) created Photosynth by combing Seadragon’s streaming technology with UW and Microsoft Research’s PhotoTourism photo navigation technology. See the full post here.… Read more →
Esquire’s ‘Best and Brightest of 2008’ recognizes CSE connections
The December issue of Esquire highlights 28 ‘Best and Brightest 2008‘. Two of the articles have UW CSE connections:
Tapan Parikh, currently at Berkeley, is recognized for his UW thesis work in Esquire’s article: “Why the Real Hundred-Dollar Laptop Is a Cell Phone.”
Microsoft PhotoSynth, a collaborative effort with UW, is highlighted in: “How Microsoft Photosynth Built a Globe for the 21st Century.”… Read more →
CNN Teams with PhotoSynth to Crowdsource Inauguration Coverage
CNN is harnessing Microsoft PhotoSynth technology to “crowdsource” the Tuesday inauguration of the 44th president of the United States, producting the first “synth” of a major historical event. Photos mailed to themoment@cnn.com will be processed in real time to create synths that will be available at The Moment site. CNN coverage starts at 5AM Eastern time (2AM Pacific).
Read the article announcing the collaboration and explaining how to participate here.
PhotoSynth technology grew out of collaborative research involving… Read more →
“UW-Microsoft Photosynth team back at it with new mind-blowing demo”
Read the article here.
“When I saw Photosynth for the first time about two years ago, it joined a small handful of new products that really captured my attention. The software arranges sets of photos in 3-D context and allows viewers to navigate fluidly from image to image, moving their gaze from a building’s facade to a detail shot of a specific fresco, for example.
“Photosynth is a distinctly Seattle invention. It emerged from a collaboration of University of… Read more →