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Math Dept. Colloquium
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Monday October 29, 2007
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4:00 p.m. |
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S G Mudd
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Lecture |
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Speaker: Oliver Knill, Harvard University
Title: The Mathematics of Panorama Photography
The structure from motion problem is the mathematical quest to reconstruct a scene as well as the camera path from a sequence of camera pictures. This problem in computer vision leads to interesting problems which are accessible to undergraduate mathematics. It leads for example to systems of nonlinear equations, to least square solutions in linear algebra and also revives old fashioned geometry like Desargues theorem. The talk also aims to give some historical perspective of the problem and stress applications, especially for panorama photography.
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