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The Preliminary Oral Examination for the Degree of Ph.D. for

			Robert Pless

  will be held:		Wednesday September 1 at 2:00 p.m.
			A. V. Williams Building, Room 4406

  Title of Proposal:	Combining Viewpoints: Reconstruction from Video

  When a video is captured by a camera moving through a scene, the
changing images encode the parameters of motion of the camera and the
structure of the scene.  This proposal studies models of scene structure,
and their relationships to simple functions of the spatial and temporal
derivatives in the sequence of images.  This study has three major
thrusts.  First, we provide an algorithm to simultaneously provide a
camera motion estimate and a piecewise planar model of the scene which
respects scene depth discontinuities.  Second, we propose an analysis of
how such depth models are distorted when the camera motion is
miscalculated.  Third, we propose to study properties invariant to such
distortions as a method of matching and reconciling information from
disparate camera viewpoints.  These goals all directly relate to the
problem of creating viewpoint independent descriptions of arbitrary scenes
from general camera motions.  This relates to the study of human
perception and has applications to Virtual Reality, Video Editing,
Graphics, and Robotics.


  Examining Committee:	Dr. Yiannis Aloimonos, Chair
			Dr. Samir Khuller, Dept. Rep.
			Dr. Larry Davis
			Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld

    EVERYONE IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE PRESENTATION.