Slides from technical talks

Last updated May 2015
(As of July 2014 Marc Levoy is Emeritus and updating this page only infrequently.)

• What "mobile-first" means for the future of computer science
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: University of North Carolina Computer Science Department's 50th Anniversary Symposium
  Chapel Hill, May 2, 2015.
  A revised version was presented at: ETH/Disney Research, September 18, 2015.
  

• What Google Glass means for the future of photography
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: TTI Vanguard [next] 2014 conference
  San Francisco, December 4, 2014.
  Also presented as keynote or invited addresses at: National Press Club, L.A. County Museum of Art, ICCP 2013,
  ETH/Zurich, Stanford Computer Forum, Cornell University, Princeton University, University of Washington,
  University of Texas at Austin, University of North Carolina.

• Computational Photography and Cinematography
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)'s
  2nd International Conference on Stereoscopic 3D for Media and Entertainment,
  New York City, June 22, 2011

• Why is Sports Photography Hard? (and what we can do about it)
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Stanford University, Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Video, MIT/CSAIL, and other places
  May-November, 2010

• Computational photography and the Stanford Frankencamera
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Numerous technology companies (some of whom prefer to remain unnamed),
  6sight imaging conference, and other places, March-December, 2010
  Related paper: Frankencamera: An Experimental Platform for Computational Photography
  The web site of this paper includes slides of the accompanying talk (given at SIGGRAPH 2010).
  For a more complete survey talk on computational photography, but without the Frankencamera,
  see talk below on "New techniques in computational photography".

• Light field photography and microscopy
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
  Place and date: Chapel Hill, NC, March 23, 2009
  Related papers: on our camera array, light field camera, light field microscope, and light field illumination system
  Also presented around the same time at: CMU, SUNY Stonybrook

• Light field sensing
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Workshop on Computational Imaging and Superresolution
  Devices we have built for recording light fields: multi-camera array, handheld plenoptic camera, light field microscope
  Place and date: Charlotte, NC, June 10, 2008
  

• New techniques in computational photography
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: An overview of recent work in the graphics and vision research communities,
  including research in light field sensing conducted at the Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory
  Place and date: Stanford, ETH, MBL, NSF, Kodak, Nokia, Adobe, Sanyo, etc., 2007-2008
  

• Where does volume and point data come from?
  (a.k.a. Computational imaging in the sciences)
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Keynote address at Point Graphics 2006 / Volume Graphics 2006
  Place and date: Boston, July 30, 2006
  Also available as: PDF file or PPT

• Light field photography and videography
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Invited address at the University of Virginia
  Place and date: Charlottesville, October 18, 2005
  Also available as: PDF file, or a PPT
  Related papers: on our camera array, light field camera, and dual photography

• Graphics research and courses at Stanford, 2005
  Assembled by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Overview of the graphics lab for admitted CS PhD students
  Place and date: Gates Hall B01, March 12, 2005
  Also available as: PPT (8 MB)

• Are Points the Ultimate Modeling Primitive?
  Presented by: Turner Whitted, with material provided by Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Keynote address at the First International Symposium on Point-Based Graphics
  Place and date: Zurich, Switzerland, June 2004
  Also available as: PPT (36 MB)
  Related paper: The Use of Points as a Display Primitive

• Synthetic aperture photography and illumination using arrays of cameras and projectors
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Various research groups at Stanford and elsewhere, 2004-2005
  Also available as: PDF file or a PPT
  Related papers: Synthetic Aperture Confocal Imaging

• Why is 3D scanning hard?
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Invited address at 3D Processing, Visualization, Transmission, Padua, Italy, June 19, 2002
  Also available as: PPT (10.6 MB)

• Slides from talks about the Digital Michelangelo Project
  Dates: 1998-2005s
  Related projects: The Digital Michelangelo Project
  

• A Signal-Processing Framework for Forward and Inverse Rendering
  Presented by: Ravi Ramamoorthi
  Place and Date: ACM Siggraph Silicon Valley meeting, June 21
  Presentation: Powerpoint (14.5M)

• Pat Hanrahan's research projects, 1999-2000
  Assembled by: Pat Hanrahan, September 20, 1999
  

• Drawing Large Graphs with H3Viewer and Site Manager
  Presentation: by Tamara Munzner at Graph Drawing '98
  Place and date: Montreal, Canada, August 14, 1998
  Related paper: Drawing Large Graphs with H3Viewer and Site Manager
  

• Prefetching in a Texture Cache Architecture
  Presenter: Matthew Eldridge
  Paper:Prefetching in a Texture Cache Architecture
  Presentation: 1998 Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Workshop on Graphics Hardware
  Place and date: Lisbon, Portugal, September 1, 1998

• The Design of a Parallel Graphics Interface
  Presenter: Homan Ighey
  Paper:The Design of a Parallel Graphics Interface
  Presentation: SIGGRAPH 1998
  Place and date: Orlando, Florida, July 23, 1998

• Acquisition and Manipulation of Dense Range Data, Light Fields, and BRDFs
  Author: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Workshop on Image-Based Modeling and Rendering
  Place and date: Stanford University, March 24, 1998

• The Visual Computer
  Presenter: Pat Hanrahan
  Presentation: Invited State-of-the-Field talk at Supercomputing97
  Date: November 20, 1997
  

• Expanding the Horizons of Image-Based Modeling and Rendering
  Author: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Siggraph '97 panel on Image-Based Rendering (IBR) (8/8/97)
  Related paper: Light Field Rendering
  Related project: Light Field Rendering

• The Responsive Workbench: Two-Handed Input and Two-User Output
  Authors: Bernd Fröhlich, Andrew Beers, Maneesh Agrawala, and Pat Hanrahan
  Presentation: by Bernd Fröhlich at the 1997 Immersive Projected Technology Workshop
  Related project: Responsive Workbench

• Two-Handed Direct Manipulation on the Responsive Workbench
  Authors: Larry Cutler, Bernd Fröhlich, and Pat Hanrahan
  Presentation: by Larry Cutler and Bernd Fröhlich at the 1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics
  Related paper: Two-Handed Direct Manipulation on the Responsive Workbench
  Related project: Responsive Workbench

• Rendering from Compressed Textures
  Authors: Andrew C. Beers, Maneesh Agrawala and Navin Chaddha
  Presentation: by Andrew C. Beers at SIGGRAPH '96
  Related paper:Rendering from Compressed Textures
  Related projects: Compression of Synthetic Images and FLASH graphics

• Visualizing the Global Topology of the MBone
  Presentation: by Tamara Munzner at InfoVis '96
  Place and date: San Francisco, October,1996
  Related paper: Visualizing the Global Topology of the MBone
  

• Dimension, Space, Information Visualization and the Web
  Presentation: by Tamara Munzner at Imagina 96
  Place and Date: Monte Carlo, Monaco, 2/96.