Computer Science Lectures
at Northwestern University 


Holly Rushmeier

IBM Research

    presenting
 
3D Scanning for Cultural Heritage Applications

Friday, May 16th - 3:00-4:00pm
Location - TBA



ABSTRACT


Over the past 5 years there has been a great deal of interest in using 3D scanning in cultural heritage projects. Applications range from documentation for subject experts to communication to the general public.  We have been involved with two cultural heritage projects at IBM Research - the now completed study of Michelangelo's Florence Pieta`, and an ongoing project with the Egyptian National Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage. I will present some new algorithms for geometric and photometric processing we developed to address problems we encountered in the Pieta` project. I will also describe our efforts in developing algorithms for very inexpensive capture systems. Finally I will show preliminary results from the Egyptian culture project and  discuss issues that we are working on related to ease of use and  the  estimation of surface properties.

BIO

Holly Rushmeier is a research staff member at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center. Her research interests include data visualization, rendering algorithms,and acquisition of input data for computer graphics image synthesis. She received a BS, MS,and PhD in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1977,1986, and 1988, respectively. In 1990, she was selected as a US National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator.  She has served as papers chair or cochair for the ACM SIGGRAPH conference,the IEEE Visu-
alization conference,and the Eurographics Rendering Workshop.  From 1996 to 1999, she was editor in chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics

http://www.research.ibm.com/people/h/holly

Holly Rushmeier  hertjwr@us.ibm.com
(914)784-7252
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA


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