Modeling and understanding human beings is pivotal to numerous applications ranging from 3D modeling for telepresence in virtual reality, films, summarizing and visualizing big photo collections, autonomous driving, and recognizing and searching for missing people to name a few.
While typically done in a laboratory setting and lots of manual interaction, Ira and her colleagues have been pioneering human modeling "in the wild", by leveraging casual photos and videos that were already captured or easy to capture with commodity cameras.
Ira takes her audience on a journey of attempting to achieve that, showing her team's latest technical progress as well as applications they've developed in the process.
Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. She holds positions at UW and Facebook. Her research is in the intersection of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and AI. In particular she and her team pioneered modeling humans from photographs and videos "in the wild".
