Computer vision
Teaching machines to interpret and reason about the visual world, from object recognition to medical imaging.
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Appearance-from-Motion: Recovering Spatially Varying Surface Reflectance under Unknown Lighting
We present “appearance-from-motion”, a novel method for recovering the spatially varying isotropic surface reflectance from a video of a rotating subject, with known geometry, under unknown natural illumination. We formulate the appearance recovery as an…
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Automatic Acquisition of High-fidelity Facial Performances Using Monocular Videos
This paper presents a facial performance capture system that automatically captures high-fidelity facial performances using uncontrolled monocular videos (e.g., Internet videos). We start the process by detecting and tracking important facial features such as the…
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Fitzgibbon Channels Led Zeppelin into Practical Engineering
When it comes to research, the concept of “head-banging” most likely conjures images of researchers banging their heads against walls or dry-erase boards. But for Microsoft researcher Andrew Fitzgibbon, it’s about inspiration. “I was on…