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Alumni Speaker Series: Marc Levoy

February 20, 2019 @ 1:00 pm

Come join UNC Computer Science to learn about computational photography and machine learning on Google smartphones.

Marc Levoy is the VMware Founders Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus) at Stanford University and a Distinguished Engineer at Google.  In previous lives he worked on computer-assisted cartoon animation (1970s), volume rendering (1980s), 3D scanning (1990s), light field imaging (2000s), and computational photography (2010s).  At Stanford he taught computer graphics, digital photography, and the science of art.  At Google he launched Street View, co-designed the library book scanner, and currently leads a team whose projects include HDR+ mode, Portrait mode, and Night Sight mode on Pixel smartphones, the Jump light field camera, and the Halide image processing language

Details

Date:
February 20, 2019
Time:
1:00 pm

Venue

141 Brooks Building
Brooks Computer Science Building, S. Columbia St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 United States
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