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ISUVR 2011 Invited Talks
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Visual
Computing
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Oliver Bimber (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
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Title: PhoneGuide: Adaptive Image Classification for Mobile Museum Guidance
 Oliver Bimber became head of the Institute of Computer Graphics at Johannes Kepler University Linz in October 2009. From 2003-2010 he served as a Junior
Professor of Augmented Reality at the Media System Science Department of Bauhaus-University Weimar, and as an Interim Professor of Computer Graphics at the Computer Science Department of the Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus (2008/2009).
He received a Ph.D. (2002) in Engineering from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, and a Habilitation degree (2007) in Computer Science (Informatik) at Munich University of Technology.
Bimber co-authored the books "Spatial Augmented Reality" and "Displays: Fundamentals and Applications", over 30 journal articles and over 50 other per-reviewed publications.
Bimber's research interests include visual computing, real-time rendering and visualization, computer vision, image analysis and processing, optics, and human visual perception in the context of next-generation display and imaging technologies.
More information: http://www.jku.at/cg
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Computer
Vision
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Hideo Saito (Keio University)
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Title: Computer Vision for 3DTV and Augmented Reality
 Hideo SAITO received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 1987, 1989, and 1992, respectively.
He has been on the faculty of Department of Electrical Engineering, Keio University, since 1992. In 1997 to 1999, he stayed in the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University as a visiting researcher. Since 2006, he has been a Professor of Department of Information and Computer Science, Keio University.
He is currently the leader of the research project ”°Technology to Display 3D Contents into Free Space”±, supported by CREST, JST, Japan.
His research interests include computer vision, mixed reality, virtual reality, and 3D video analysis and synthesis. He is a senior member of IEEE, and IEICE, Japan.
More information: http://www.ozawa.ics.keio.ac.jp/~saito/
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AR
Content
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Alex Hill (Georgia Institute of Technology)
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Title: Architectures for Authoring, Distributing and Discovering Augmented Reality Content
 Alex Hill is a fellow in the Augmented Environments Laboratory lead by Blair MacIntyre at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently leading the KML/HTML Augmented Reality Mobile Architecture (KHARMA) project and development of the Argon client reference implementation. He recently served as lead developer of the Unity AR Toolkit (UART), a rapid prototyping system for mobile augmented reality.
During his doctoral work at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory directed by Daniel Sandin and Thomas DeFanti, he was project lead for the Ygrasil GUI project, a 2D/3D Interactive Development Environment for tele-collaborative virtual world construction.
He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science with specialization in HCI from the University of Illinois at Chicago and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and 1992 respectively.
His research interests include architectures for mobile augmented reality, mixed-reality collaboration and 3D user interfaces.
More information: http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/lab/people/alexhill
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Computer
Animation
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Junyong Noh (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
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Title: Computer Animation
 Junyong Noh is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Culture Technology at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is also affiliated with KAIST Institute of Entertainment Engineering (KIEE).
He earned his computer science Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2002 where his research focus was on facial modeling and animation. His research relates to human facial modeling/animation, character animation, fluid simulation, and stereoscopic visualization.
Prior to his academic career, he was a graphics scientist at a Hollywood visual effects company, Rhythm and Hues Studios. He performed R&D for movie post productions including Superman Returns, Happy Feet, The Chronicles of Narnia, Garfield, Around the world in 80 days, and The Chronicles of Riddick. He had also participated in implementation of fluid simulation software, which received an academy award in 2008.
He has been doing consulting for or collaborative work with many companies such as Weta Digital, SKT, ETRI, Macrograph Olive studio, and KAI studio.
More information: http://vml.kaist.ac.kr/
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Orginized by
The HCI Society of Korea
Hosted by
Culture Technology Institute(CTI), Gwangju Intitute of Science and Technology(GIST)
261 Cheomdan-gwagi-ro(Oryong-dong), Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-712, Korea
Supported by
KIISE sigCG&I
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