AIC Seminar Series

Mobile devices are the new frontier in computation, internet connectivity, imaging, and computer graphics. For many people it provides their first computer of any kind. For example in China there are about 100 million PCs but over 400 million mobile phones. And the sales of camera phones far surpass the number of digital or any other types of consumer cameras. The visual capabilities of these devices have progressed at amazing pace, and today the high-end smart phones have large color screens, fast CPUs, even dedicated graphics HW acceleration. We will cover the short history of mobile 3D graphics, and introduce recent mobile graphics standards such as OpenGL ES, M3G, and OpenVG; these provide visual output. In recent years photography and graphics have begun to move closer to each other, we will also discuss computational and contextual photography and augmented reality as fertile research topics and present some results; these provide visual input.

Kari Pulli is a Research Fellow at Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, where he heads a team working on how to make good use of cameras on mobile phones. He has been an active contributor to several mobile graphics standards. Kari has a PhD in computer science from University of Washington and Lic. Tech., M.Sc., and MBA from University of Oulu, where he also taught computer graphics as an adjunct faculty. Before Nokia Kari has worked on graphics at Stanford University, Alias|Wavefront, SGI, and Microsoft; during 2004-06 Kari was also a Visiting Scientist at MIT.

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