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CS Colloquia: Interactive and Intuitive Appearance Design

Title: Interactive and Intuitive Appearance Design Speaker : Professor Fabio Pellacini - Dartmouth CollegeABSTRACT:
The appearance of objects comes from the interaction of scene lighting and
surface materials, whose careful definition is necessary to achieve the
remarkable sophistication of today's synthetic imagery.
Currently, appearance design is one of the remaining roadblocks for a
ubiquitous use of computer-generated imagery, since slow user feedback and
cumbersome user interfaces make the process significantly time consuming for
expert designers, and beyond the reach of novices.In this talk, I will present our recent results in rendering accurate
lighting for complex environments where we achieve interactivity by
developing new approximation algorithms that can take advantage of inherent
properties of lighting and of today's commodity hardware architectures.
These algorithms completely change the workflow of artists from an offline
to a fully interactive process.
I will also show results from algorithms that build on this interactivity to
support intuitive user interfaces for appearance design that drastically
simplify the time require for designing appearance.BIO:
Fabio Pellacini is an assistant professor in computer science at Dartmouth
College. His research focuses on algorithms for interactive, high-quality
rendering of complex environments and for artist-friendly material and
lighting design to support more effective content creation.Prior to joining academia, Pellacini worked at Pixar Animation Studios on
lighting algorithms, where he received credits on various movie productions.Pellacini received his Laurea degree in physics from the University of Parma
(Italy), and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University.

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: CS Colloquia