Image based modeling (IBM) combines aspects of computer vision, graphics and interface design. Practitioners in each field have approached IBM within the context of their own discipline, but recently systems have emerged that harness the strengths of ...

Figure 1 shows a vision of the future from the 1939 World's Fair. The human-machine interface that was envisioned is wonderful. Both machines are equipped with cameras; the woman interacts with the machine using an intuitive gesture. That degree of ...

Computer vision techniques have become increasingly important in visual effects. When a digital artist inserts an effect into a live-action scene, the more information that they know about the scene, the better. In visual effects, we use vision ...

Over the past decade, the Visual Modeling Research Program at the University of Toronto has consistently championed the concerted exploration of computer graphics and computer vision. Our premise has been this: graphics, the forward/synthesis/models-to-...

Each year, we see a growing number of 3D range scanning products on the SIGGRAPH exhibition floor. You may find yourself asking "how do these technologies work?" and "how can I make use of the shape data they produce?" In this article, I will describe a ...