Abstract:

The presentation will be about a long-running, perhaps quixotic effort to reconstruct all of the world’s structures in 3D from Internet photos, why this is challenging, and why this effort might be useful in the era of generative AI.

Bio:

Noah Snavely is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University and Cornell Tech, and a research scientist at Google DeepMind in NYC. Noah’s research interests are in computer vision and graphics, in particular in recovering structure from large photo collections for use in understanding and visualizing the world around us. Noah is the recipient of a PECASE, a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award, and is a Fellow of the ACM.

Homepage:  https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~snavely/

Sponsored in part by:   Meta Reality Labs Pittsburgh