<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style="" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b style="">When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">    Monday, February 17th at <b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11:30am CT</b><b> </b></font></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Where:       </b>Talk will be given <font style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</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="georgia, serif" color="#000000">                       TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</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 color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                       5th Floor, Room 530<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"><b><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Virtually:</b><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">  via Panopto </span>(<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1f69e196-b19e-460d-a5ea-b248011d7619" target="_blank">livestream</a><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">)</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b>         </font></font>Shubham Tulsiani, CMU</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></p><div><p style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><b>Title:</b>          </span><span style="letter-spacing:normal">Reconstructing and Generating 3D</span></font></p><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Abstract:  </b> Modern reconstruction systems, leveraging advances in pose estimation and generative modeling, can reconstruct everyday objects and scenes from casually captured images. In this talk, I will highlight recent work from our group that pushes these frontiers. I will first present a learning-based approach to the structure-from-motion task, highlighting how we can rethink camera parametrization for neural prediction methods. I will then an approach for ‘ultra-fast’ 3D generation that allows users to synthesize high-fidelity 3D assets in under a second. Finally, I will outline a framework for combining generative priors and pose estimation for high-fidelity 3D reconstruction ‘in-the-wild'.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Short Bio</b>: Shubham Tulsiani is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute at CMU. Prior to this, he was research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and received a PhD. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2018. He is interested in building perception systems that can infer the spatial and physical structure of the world they observe. On a personal note, his shared last name with another TTIC faculty is not a coincidence.</font></div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br><b>Host:<span class="gmail_default"></span><a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" target="_blank"> </a><span class="gmail_default" style=""><a href="mailto:shiry@ttic.edu">Shiry Ginosar</a></span></b></font></div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Brandie Jones </font></b><div><div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><b><i>Executive </i></b></font><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Administrative Assistant</i></b></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Toyota Technological Institute</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div>