[CFAR Distinguished Professor Lecture Series]Computer Vision and Graphics for Marine Challenges (Hybrid event) by Dr Yeung Sai-Kit
31 Jan 2023 | 11.00am (Singapore Time)
The fundamental challenge of applying computer vision algorithms in the marine environment lies in its dynamic nature: objects like fishes are constantly moving, seaweed and soft coral change their shapes with water current, light becomes everchanging and also attenuates as we go deeper. Depending on the season, location, and even different time in the day, the visibility could vary significantly.
In this talk, Dr Yeung Sai-Kit will discuss some of his recent computer vision and graphics projects that aim to address the challenging marine environment. He will then give a brief overview on his different research directions and describe how they are connected to contribute in different multi-disciplinary projects such as city planning, seafloor surveying, and fishery design.
SPEAKER
Dr Yeung Sai-Kit is an Associate Professor at the Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD) and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research interests include 3D vision and graphics, content generation, fabrication, and novel computational techniques and integrative systems for marine-related problems.
Dr Yeung has published extensively in premiere computer vision and graphics venues including numerous full oral papers in CVPR, ICCV, and AAAI. His work has received best paper honourable mention awards at ICCP 2015 and 3DV 2016. He has served as a Senior Program Committee member in IJCAI and AAAI, and as a Course Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2019. In addition, Dr Yeung regularly serves as a Technical Papers Committee member for SIGGPAPH & SIGGRAPH Asia and is currently an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). Lately, he is serving on the Technical Papers Committee in Eurographics 2023 and also as an Area Chair in CVPR 2023 and ICCV 2023.