[Brown CS Talks] Brown CS Colloquium: Peter Allen in Lubrano on February 28, 2002 at 4 pm

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			   BROWN UNIVERSITY

		     COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM

				
			       presents

			     Peter Allen
			     
		    Department of Computer Science
			 Columbia University
		 
				 
	       Thursday, February 28, 2002  at 4:00 pm

	       Lubrano Conference Room (CIT 4th floor)

		Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm
			      

``The AVENUE Automated Site Modeling Project: Geometry and Texture
Recovery of Scenes of Large Scale''

			       
			       Abstract

The AVENUE project's goal is to automate the site modeling process.
The main component of AVENUE is a system for photo-realistic 3D model
acquisition from the combination of range and image sensing. The input
is a sequence of unregistered range scans of the scene and a sequence
of unregistered 2-D photographs of the same scene. The output is a
true texture-mapped geometric model of the scene.  Segmentation
algorithms simplify the dense data-sets and provide stable features of
interest which can be used for registration purposes.  Solid modeling
provides geometrically correct 3-D models, which can be automatically
texture mapped from current or historic photographs.  The system is
comprehensive in that it addresses all phases of the modeling problem
with a particular emphasis on automating the entire process.  We
present results from scanning and modeling a variety of objects
ranging from buildings in New York City to the Cathedral of
Ste. Pierre in Beauvais, France. The system currently resides on a
mobile robot which will be used to model archaeological sites in
Egypt.

Website: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~allen/NEW/workshop.html


		    Host: Professor Michael Black