UMass Lowell
Computer Science Colloquium 
Announcement
 
 
Speaker: Dr. Vincent Hammer
 Principle Software Engineer, SynaPix Inc.
Date: December 12, 2001 
Time: 3:00pm--4:00pm
Place: Olsen 311 (The Media Lab)
 Refreshments are served at 2:30pm



 
  
 
 
  
  
 


 

A practical solution to image based modeling

Over the past few years several companies have attempted to build a commercially viable product that can construct 3d geometry directly from a sequence of 2d images. Current Computer Vision techniques tend only to work in a limited manner under restricted circumstances and do not produce sufficient high quality data to build satisfactory 3d models. The practical solution lies in using several techniques in combination with minimal user intervention. Dr. Hammer will give an overview of some of the difficulties as well as successes of techniques used to build a of techniques used to build a working product.

Dr. Hammer completed a Ph. D. in music composition from SUNY at Buffalo in 1995 and a Masters of Engineering in computer science from Cornell, Ithaca in 1997. In the years following he worked at Digital Equipment Corporation & Alpha Processor Inc. His role at both was to provide software development consultation to key Digital Content Creation and Computer Aided Design companies running on Alpha NT. Among others these companies included: Discreet Logic, Corel, SolidWorks, Kinetix (3D Studio Max) and LightWave. In 1999 Dr. Hammer joined SynaPix where he worked as principal software engineer on the SynaFlex, SynaModeler and SynaVision products. During his last year there he became the de facto architect of the SynaModeler product. SynaModeler is an image based modeling application. Currently Dr. Hammer is working with several former SynaPix engineers to obtain the SynaPix IP so ! that they can create a new company and continue work on the SynaModeler product.

Colloquium Coordinator: Jie Wang, wang@cs.uml.edu

Website: http://www.cs.uml.edu/~wang/colloquia/