Toward a Theory of Perspective Perception in Pictures – Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe Research)

Toward a Theory of Perspective Perception in Pictures – Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe Research)

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Date(s) - 02.09.
11:00 - 15:00

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Dear colleagues,

 

It is our pleasure to invite you to the following seminar organized by the IMPACT group and the Applied Algebra and Geometry (AAG) group:

 

Toward a Theory of Perspective Perception in Pictures

Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe Research)

 

Monday 2024-09-02 at 11:00

CIIRC Room B-670 (building B, floor 6)

http://impact.ciirc.cvut.cz/seminars/#seminar2024-09-02-hertzmann

 

Abstract:

I propose a new approach to understanding how human vision interprets 3D shape in realistic pictures, specifically focusing on perspective. I argue that most of human shape perception happens in single eye fixations, mostly in foveal vision, and that humans preserve surprisingly little 3D awareness over time. In pictures, this means that each individual eye fixation can have, to some extent, a separate perspective from the others. This theory integrates ideas from human vision science, art history, and computational photography, and suggests new ways to think about how pictures work, and how we can make them.

Bio:

Aaron is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Research, and Affiliate Faculty at University of Washington. He received a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Art at Rice University and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from New York University. He was previously a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto for ten years. He has published over 120 papers in computer graphics, several subfields of AI, and in the science of art. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, and winner of the 2024 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.