Gastvortrag I - Prof. Seidel
The Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction (M2CI)
Prof. Hans-Peter Seidel
The past three decades have brought dramatic changes in the way we live and work. This phenomenon is widely characterized as the advent of the Information Society. Ten years ago, most digital content was textual. Today, it has expanded to include audio, video, and graphical data. The challenge is now to interface, organize, understand, and search this multimodal information in a robust, efficient and intelligent way, and to create dependable systems that allow natural and intuitive multimodal interaction. The Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction (M2CI), established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative, addresses this challenge. The term multimodal describes the different kinds of information such as text, speech, images, video, and graphics, and the way it is perceived and communicated, particularly through vision, hearing, and human expression. In this talk I will briefly elaborate on the structure of this research cluster, and I will then highlight some of our ongoing research by means of examples. Topics covered include 3D Reconstruction and Digital Geometry Processing, Motion and Performance Capture, 3D Video Processing, and Multimodal Music Processing.
Hans-Peter Seidel is the scientific director and chair of the computer graphics group at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics and a professor of computer science at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. He is co-chair of the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication (MPC-VCC) (since 2003), and he is the scientific coordinator of the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction (MMCI) that was established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative in 2007. In addition, Seidel is a member of the Governance Board of the newly established Intel Visual Computing Institue (IVCI) (since 2009).
