<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-color:rgb(207,226,243)"><span>Thesis</span> Defense: <span>Igor</span> Vasiljevic, TTIC</b><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">When: </span></b><span style="color:black"> Thursday, June 16th at <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">3<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">:</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">00 </span></span><span style="background:yellow">- 5:00 pm CT</span></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><b><span style="background:yellow"><br></span></b></span></font></p><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where: </font><font color="#000000"> </font></b><font color="#000000">Talk will be given </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-weight:bold"> </font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">at</font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 529<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><b>Virtually: </b> </span><u><font color="#000000">via zoom</font><b style="color:blue"> (<a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/97343266685?pwd=elB4RnJUQ1p1b0lWOFR2anBzN2ZXUT09" target="_blank">join here</a>)</b></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Who: </span></b><span style="color:black"> </span></font><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"></span> <span>Igor</span> Vasiljevic, TTIC</p></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b><span>Thesis</span> Title: </b>Neural Camera Models<div><br></div><b>Abstract: </b> <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Modern computer vision has moved beyond the domain of internet photo collections and into the physical world, guiding camera-equipped robots and autonomous cars through unstructured environments. To enable these embodied agents to interact with real-world objects, cameras are increasingly being used as depth sensors (through depth estimation), reconstructing the environment for a variety of downstream reasoning tasks.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">While impressive strides have been made in depth estimation, significant challenges remain: (1) ground truth depth labels are difficult and expensive to collect at scale, (2) camera information is typically assumed to be known, but is often unreliable and (3) restrictive (typically pinhole) camera assumptions are common, even though a great variety of camera types and lenses are used in practice. In this <span>thesis</span>, we focus on relaxing these assumptions, and describe contributions toward the ultimate goal of turning cameras into truly generic depth sensors.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span>Thesis</span> Advisor:</font></b><font color="#500050" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </font><a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><b><font color="#0000ff">Greg Shakhnarovich<br></font></b></a></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 11:22 AM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-color:rgb(207,226,243)"><span>Thesis</span> <span>Defense</span>: Igor Vasiljevic, TTIC</b><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">When: </span></b><span style="color:black"> Thursday, June 16th at <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">3<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">:</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">00 </span></span><span style="background:yellow">- 5:00 pm CT</span></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><b><span style="background:yellow"><br></span></b></span></font></p><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where: </font><font color="#000000"> </font></b><font color="#000000"><span>Talk</span> will be given </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-weight:bold"> </font><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">at</font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> <span>TTIC</span>, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 529<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><b>Virtually: </b> </span><u><font color="#000000">via zoom</font><b style="color:blue"> (<a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/97343266685?pwd=elB4RnJUQ1p1b0lWOFR2anBzN2ZXUT09" target="_blank">join here</a>)</b></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Who: </span></b><span style="color:black"> </span></font><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"></span> Igor Vasiljevic, TTIC</p></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b><span>Thesis</span> Title: </b>Neural Camera Models<div><br></div><b>Abstract: </b>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Modern computer vision has moved beyond the domain of internet photo collections and into the physical world, guiding camera-equipped robots and autonomous cars through unstructured environments. To enable these embodied agents to interact with real-world objects, cameras are increasingly being used as depth sensors (through depth estimation), reconstructing the environment for a variety of downstream reasoning tasks.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">While impressive strides have been made in depth estimation, significant challenges remain: (1) ground truth depth labels are difficult and expensive to collect at scale, (2) camera information is typically assumed to be known, but is often unreliable and (3) restrictive (typically pinhole) camera assumptions are common, even though a great variety of camera types and lenses are used in practice. In this thesis, we focus on relaxing these assumptions, and describe contributions toward the ultimate goal of turning cameras into truly generic depth sensors.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span>Thesis</span> Advisor:</font></b><font color="#500050" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </font><a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><b><font color="#0000ff">Greg Shakhnarovich<br></font></b></a></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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