CS Seminar: Silvia Sellan

Description

Silvia Sellán, a fifth-year computer science PhD student at the University of Toronto, will give a talk titled "Stochastic Computer Graphics" for the Department of Computer Science.

Abstract:

Computer graphics research has long been dominated by the interests of large film, television, and social media companies, forcing other, more safety-critical applications (e.g., medicine, engineering, security) to repurpose graphics algorithms originally designed for entertainment. In this talk, Silvia Sellán will advocate for a perspective shift in this field that allows researchers to design algorithms directly for these safety-critical application realms. She will show that this begins by reinterpreting traditional graphics tasks (e.g., 3D modeling and reconstruction) from a statistical lens and quantifying the uncertainty in algorithmic outputs, as exemplified by the research she has conducted for the past five years. She will end by mentioning several ongoing and future research directions that carry this statistical lens to entirely new problems in graphics and vision and into specific applications.