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Rockefeller 001: Neel Joshi: Creating compelling and accessible visual media

Visual media is all around us...however, the ability to create compelling & easily viewable content has not grown in proportion to almost infinite ways to store & save images.

Thursday, June 2, 2016
4:15pm – 5:15pm
Room 001, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Abstract:  Visual media is all around us.  The proliferation of inexpensive, high quality cameras and the almost infinite ways to store and share images has made it easier to plaster everything around us, digital or physical, with photos and videos.  However, the ability to create compelling and easily viewable content has not grown in proportion.  As a result, a lot of casually captured media is either not interesting or hard to watch.  In this talk, I will present a set of recent work that explores uses of computer vision and human-computer interaction principles to create tools that make it easier to create compelling, creative content.  This includes media such as “living photos”, hyperlapses, and some initial work that looks at how to make visual experience accessible to people with sensory disabilities.

Bio:  Neel Joshi is a Researcher at Microsoft Research.  His work is in computer vision, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction, focusing particularly on imaging, computational photography, and creative tools for visual arts.  Neel holds an Sc.B. from Brown University, an M.S. from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. from U.C. San Diego all in Computer Science. He has held internships at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Adobe Systems, and Microsoft Research, was a visiting professor at the University of Washington, and has been at Microsoft Research since 2008. 

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