Research at the USC Integrated Media Systems Center

Dr. Ulrich Neumann

Computer Science
University of Southern California

Date: Friday, April 15, 2005
Place: Engineering Sciences Building, Room 2001
Time: 2:00 pm — 3:00 pm

Abstract:
This talk will be a survey of research pursued at the USC Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC). This NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) has pursued media research for over 9 years. Greater detail will be provided for the IMSC research topics pursued in my laboratory; the CGIT lab pursues research in augmented reality and virtual humans. In recent years this has included research into human hair modeling and styling; the animation of faces for speech
and expression; face caricature and non-photorealistic rendering; rapid modeling of urban environments; and the fusion of real-time video with 3D geometry to create Augmented Virtual Environments (AVE).

ULRICH NEUMANN is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, with an adjunct appointment in Electrical Engineering, at the University of Southern California. He completed an MSEE from SUNY at Buffalo in 1980 and his computer science Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993, where his focus was on parallel algorithms for interactive volume-visualization. His current research relates to immersive environments and virtual humans. He won an NSF CAREER award in 1995 and the Jr. Faculty Research award at USC in 1999. Dr. Neumann held the Charles Lee Powell Chair of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering while the Director of the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), an NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) from 2000-2004. He directs the Computer Graphics and Immersive Technologies (CGIT) Laboratory at USC. In his commercial career, he designed multiprocessor graphics and DSP systems, cofounded a video game corporation, and independently developed and licensed electronic products.

Host: Matthew Turk, Professor of Computer Science