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Keynote
Presentation
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"Vision and Graphics for Multimodal Communication and
Collaboration"
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Dr. Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA
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Abstract
With increasing economic globalization and workforce
mobilization, there is a strong need of research and
development of advanced infrastructures and tools to bring
immersive experience into teleconferencing so people
across geographically distributed sites can interact
collaboratively. This requires deep understanding of
multiple disciplines. In particular, computer vision and
graphics are indispensable in order to capture and render
photorealistic 3D environments that create the illusion
that the remote participants are in the same room.
I will provide an overview of the research work being done
at Microsoft Research along that direction. Specifically,
I will discuss 360º panoramic video devices, face
detection and tracking, face modeling and animation,
head-size equalization, eye-gaze correction, active
speaker detection, virtual/active lighting for video
enhancement, whiteboard and audio meeting capture and
browsing, and visual echo cancellation in a
projector-camera system.
Bio
Dr. Zhengyou Zhang (http://research.microsoft.com/~zhang/)
is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR), the
research center of Microsoft Corp, in Redmond, WA, USA. He
manages the Multimodal Collaboration Research Team. His
research interests are in computer vision, speech signal
processing, multi-sensory fusion, multimedia computing,
real-time collaboration and human-machine interaction.
Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and is on the Editorial Board
of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV),
the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE
T-MM), the International Journal of Pattern Recognition
and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), and the Machine
Vision and Applications. He was on the Editorial Board of
the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence (IEEE T-PAMI) from 1999 to 2004. He is a
member of the IEEE Computer Society Fellows Committee from
2005 to 2007, a member of IEEE Technical Committee on
Multimedia Signal Processing and the Chair of IEEE
Technical Committee on Autonomous Mental Development. He
is a member of ACM. He is listed in Who's Who in the
World, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Science and
Engineering.
Dr. Zhang holds more than 50 US patents and has about 40
patents pending. He also holds a few Japanese patents for
his inventions during his sabbatical at ATR. He has
published over 150 papers in refereed international
journals and conferences, and is the author of the
following books
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3D Dynamic Scene Analysis: A Stereo Based Approach (with
O. Faugeras) (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1992).
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Epipolar Geometry in Stereo, Motion and Object
Recognition: A Unified Approach (with G. Xu) (Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1996).
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Computer Vision: Fundamentals of Computational Theory and
Algorithms (in Chinese) (with S. Ma) (Chinese Academy of
Sciences, 1998; Second edition, 2003).
Dr. Zhang was a Technical Co-Chair of the International
Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP06), October
3-6, 2006, Victoria, BC, Canada. He was the Program
Co-Chair of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision
(ACCV2004), Jan. 27-30, 2004, Jeju Island, Korea; a Demo
Chair and an Area Chair of the International Conference on
Computer Vision (ICCV2003), Oct. 14-17, 2003, Nice,
France; the Demo Chair of the International Conference on
Computer Vision (ICCV2005), Oct. 15-21, 2005, Beijing,
China. He co-organized the International Workshop on
Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration,
held in Nice, France, on October 17, 2003. He served on
the Program Committees of ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, ACCV and many
other international conferences and workshops.
Dr. Zhang received a B.S. degree in electronic engineering
from the University of Zhejiang, China, in 1985; an M.S.
degree (DEA) in computer science from the University of
Nancy, France, in 1987; a Ph.D. degree in computer science
from the University of Paris XI, Orsay, France, in 1990;
and a D.Sc. degree (Habilitation à diriger des recherches)
from the University of Paris XI, Orsay, France, in 1994.
Dr. Zhang was previously a Senior Research Scientist at
INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer
Science and Control) from 1991 to 1998, where he worked in
the Computer Vision and Robotics group. In 1996-1997, he
spent one-year sabbatical as an Invited Researcher at the
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute
International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan.
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