Speaker: Fabio Pellacini, Professor, Cornell University

Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:15-5:15p

Location: 301 College Avenue, Seminar Room

Abstract -

Recent advances in algorithms and hardware architectures have made images rendered using 3D graphics techniques available to the general public. Unfortunately major issues remain in the creation of the models required for image generation to the point where artists require extensive technical training and image synthesis costs keep rising. During this talk I will illustrate these problems and show a few recent advances in user interface design that try to address some of these issues for modeling and animation. I will then concentrate on some of the work I have been doing to address the digital lighting design problem.

Bio -

Fabio Pellacini received a Laurea degree in computational physics from the University of Parma and a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University concentrating his work in Computer Graphics under the supervision of Prof. Greenberg. After his PhD, Fabio joined Pixar Animation Studios working on new algorithms and user interfaces for digital lighting while helping to bridge the gap between artist and computer scientist in the studio by leading the development of new algorithms and user interfaces that now form the base for the new Pixar Lighting system. Fabio is currently working as a visiting assistant professor in Computing and Information Science at Cornell dividing his time between teaching Computer Animation to Art and CS students and continuining his computer graphics research interests.

If you would like to meet with Fabio, please contact Anat Nidar-Levi.


For more information please contact Jeff Hancock.