[AI Seminar] AI Seminar on Dec 10 (NSH 1305) -- Jason Saragih -- Virtually Indistinguishable Digital Doubles

[Aayush Bansal]

Reminder.. this talk is today at 12:00-01:00 PM in NSH-1305 (NOTE: change
in location)

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:19 PM Aayush Bansal <aayushb at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Jason Saragih, a Director Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Labs,
> will be giving a seminar on  "Virtually Indistinguishable Digital Doubles"
> from *12:00 - 01:00 PM* in *Newell Simon Hall (NSH) 1305*. (NOTE: CHANGE
> IN LOCATION)
>
> CMU AI Seminar is sponsored by Apple. Lunch will be served.
>
> Following are the details of the talk:
>
> *Title: *Virtually Indistinguishable Digital Doubles
>
> *Abstract:* One of the holy grails of AR/VR is a system for telepresence
> that feels indistinguishable from face to face interactions. A key
> technology for enabling this is the ability to create digital doubles;
> representations of humans that are indistinguishable in how they look and
> move from the real thing. Facebook Reality Labs in Pittsburgh has been
> working on automating the creation of digital doubles and their animation
> during social interactions in VR. In this talk, I will give an overview of
> some of the technology behind our system and outline directions for future
> work.
>
> *Bio*: Jason Saragih is a Director Research Scientist at Facebook Reality
> Labs (FRL). He works at the intersection of graphics, computer vision, and
> machine learning, specializing in human modeling. He received his Bachelors
> in Mechatronics and PhD in Computer Science from the Australian National
> University in 2004 and 2008 respectively. Prior to joining FRL in 2015,
> Jason developed computer vision systems for the mobile AR industry. He has
> also worked as a Post Doc at CMU and as a research scientist at CSIRO where
> he developed face tracking and modeling technologies.
>
> To learn more about the seminar series, please visit the website
> <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
>
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