6th Annual Henry Taub International TCE Conference to Be Held Tomorrow at The Technion
Tomorrow the 6th Annual TCE Conference will be held at the Technion Computer Engineering Center (TEC). The Conference, entitled 3D Visual Computing, will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 24-25, 2016. It will be attended by academics and industry leaders from Israel and abroad who study and work in the field of 3D and Computer Graphics.
The conference will be chaired by Assistant Prof. Mirela Ben-Chen of the Faculty of Computer Science and Prof. Yoav Schechner of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Prof. Schechner’s field is computer vision and Assistant Prof. Ben-Chen researches computer graphics, geometric processing and more.
The widespread of virtual and layered reality technologies along with 3D printing gives an advantage to those with a solid theoretical base and the ability to produce algorithms for the analysis and synthesis of 3D geometric data. “3D has become a hot topic,” says Prof. Ben-Chen. “Scanning and 3D printing technology is constantly improving, but we need tools for processing this data so that people who are not experts will be able to use the technology. Everything done today with images can be done better with 3D data, but for this we need search, comparison and editing algorithms, which are currently at the forefront of research in the field.
The leading researchers in the field will attend the Conference. Prof. William T. Freeman of MIT will speak about his study examining the possibility of studying the properties of a material from video and sound clips that document tapping on it. Prof. Helmut Pottmann of the Vienna University of Technology will speak about geometric architecture – using technological tools for architecture. Prof. Eitan Grinspun of Columbia University will speak about the simulation of physical processes using computer graphics. Other speakers include Prof. Marc Pollefeys of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Prof. Thomas Funkhouser of Princeton University, Prof. Marc Alexa of the Technical University in Berlin and many more.
The Conference is organized by the Technion Computer Engineering Center (TCE), which promotes joint applied research between the Technion faculties of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Members of both faculties and their industry partners conduct research at the Center, which fosters a dialogue between industry and academia on research topics of interest to both. Among other things, the Center disseminates knowledge and holds numerous conferences, culminating in its annual conference.
Click here for the conference program: http://tce.technion.ac.il/tce-conferences/tce-conference-2016-program/