CS Seminar: Jeong Joon Park

Description

Jeong Joon Park, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, will give a talk titled "Learning to Re-Create Reality in 3D" for the Department of Computer Science.

Abstract:

Despite its tremendous impact, 2D media (e.g., photos and videos) remain "static" snapshots of the world that don't allow us to change our viewpoints or interact with the captured scene. In contrast, modeling the world in 3D can enable interactive experiences such as walking around the scene and manipulating objects. However, traditional pipelines of designing 3D media content are time-consuming and require expert knowledge. In my research, I aim to democratize 3D media by building intelligent systems that learn to synthesize realistic 3D content. Toward this goal, I seek answers to fundamental 3D learning problems, including 1) how to represent 3D data, 2) how to train 3D generative models from 2D inputs, and 3) how to generate large, compositional scenes. My work has far-reaching implications, as 3D reconstruction and generation technologies have broad applications across fields such as robotics, autonomous driving, and medical imaging.