Event Location: Gates 8102
Bio: Matthias Niessner is a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University. Previous to his appointment at Stanford, he earned his PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany under the supervision of Günther Greiner. His research focuses on different fields of computer graphics and computer vision, including the reconstruction and semantic understanding of 3D scene environments. http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/~niessner/publications.html

Abstract: In recent years, commodity 3D sensors, such as the Microsoft Kinect, have become easily and widely available. These advances in sensing technology have inspired significant interest in using the captured data for mapping and understanding 3D environments. In this talk, I will present our current research in this fascinating field, show potential future research directions, and talk about long-term goals. More specifically, I will show how we can now easily obtain a 3D reconstruction of an environment, and how we can exploit these results in order to infer semantics of a scene.