Just a quick reminder that if you are around Dublin tonight to pop into TCD Arts Block, Walton Theatre at 7:30pm to hear Prof. Andrew Blake from Microsoft Research give his talk on “Computer Science and Illusion: A Computational View of the Interpretation and Manipulation of Images”. Abstract and reg link are included below. The talk will be followed by a reception afterwards.

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Presentation Abstract

The Interaction, Simulation and Graphics (ISG) Lab in Trinity College Dublin, in association with Microsoft Ireland, are delighted to announce a seminar by Prof. Andrew Blake of Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Prof. Blakes's lecture, "Computer Science and Illusion", will explore some connections between visual perception, geometry, and computer processing of images. It will touch on: perspective in drawings and how a computer can understand it; analysis of perspective in certain paintings; perspective and stereo vision; colour illusions and Edwin Land. Finally there will be demonstrations of how the understanding of visual perspective, colour and texture has helped to produce more powerful tools for manipulating images by computer.