Stefano Soatto, from UCLA, will give an informal talk for this
week's group meeting.  Abstract is below -- please note the
unusual time/day.
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If you want to come and are not a regular attendee, please let Eero
know.  If the rough head count seems likely to exceed 14, I'd
like to move the meeting to the CNS classroom (815).
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			DYNAMIC TEXTURES
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			 Stefano Soatto
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			      UCLA
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		     Wednesday, Aug 22, 1pm
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			 LCV (room 1139)
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Dynamic textures are sequences of images of moving scenes that
exhibit certain stationarity properties in time: these include
sea waves, smoke, foliage, whirlwind etc. We present a
characterization of dynamic textures that poses the problem of
modeling, learning, recognizing and synthesizing dynamic textures
within the general theory of system identification. For the
special case of second-order linear dynamic textures we present a
closed-form learning algorithm that can be employed to synthesize
novel textures with negligible computational cost. We show
examples of how very simple linear models can capture visually
complex phenomena.
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More details can be found <a href="http://vision.ucla.edu"> here</a>.