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GRASP / CG@Penn Special Seminar: Ariel Shamir, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (now visiting Disney Research Boston & MIT), “Smart tools for photos and 3D models manipulation”
October 24, 2013 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Abstract: Powerful computer applications today allow manipulating and fabricating digital objects in unimaginable ways. However, these tools are often sophisticated and very difficult to use. One of the challenges in graphics and design today is to create simpler tools that allow even novice users to use computers more naturally for photographs and 3D objects manipulations. In this talk I will present several such efforts including sketch2photo, sketch2-3D and the recent 3-sweep technology. The key factor in all these works is utilizing humans specifically for semantic, high-level tasks that are very simple for them, and are still extremely difficult for machines, while utilizing the machine for tasks that are harder and tedious for humans.