Distinguished Lecture: "Slow Glass"

Abstract: Wouldn’t it be fascinating to be in the same room as Abraham Lincoln, visit Thomas Edison in his laboratory, or step onto the streets of New York a hundred years ago? We explore this thought experiment, by tracing ideas from science fiction through antique stereographs to the latest work in generative adversarial networks (GANs) to step back in time to experience these historical people and places not in black and white, but much closer to how they really  appeared.  In the process, I’ll present our latest work on Keystone Depth, and Time Travel Rephotography.

Biography: Steve Seitz is Robert E. Dinning Professor in the Allen School at the University of Washington, where he co-leads the UW Reality Lab. He is also a Director at Google, where he's led a number of projects across VR, Maps, and Computational Photography.  He received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1997, and subsequently worked at Microsoft Research and as a faculty at Carnegie Mellon University.  He joined the faculty at the University of Washington 2000. His co-authored papers have won the David Marr Prize (twice) at ICCV, and the CVPR 2015 best paper award. He received an NSF Career Award, and ONR Young Investigator Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow. His work on Photo Tourism (joint with Noah Snavely and Rick Szeliski) formed the basis of Microsoft’s Photosynth technology.