Lab Director

Loose end: All the world's a lab … into a Director

Research Institute; I know this happened some time ago and I should have written then, but I now have so little to do that there doesn't seem to be much point in doing anything, even if I can remember to do it. No doubt you have already discovered that being the head of a large organization isn't all that it is cracked up to be, and that it is quite difficult to realize your plans. The problem ...

Deputy Director

Director Oriented Virtual Cinematography

Traditionally film making costs a huge amount of money and a great deal of time and labor. Converting traditional techniques of film making into virtual techniques could save money, time and labor. In this research, we have established a director friendly virtual camera work, which gives a film director the freedom to look through the shots before shooting. This way, a director is able to make ...

Director ’ s Corner

What I would like to discuss and bring your attention to is my recent trip to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, December 12, 2007. I traveled, to testify before a House subcommittee citing the potential for acts of terrorism on any of the thousands of chemical processing plants throughout the country and urged Congress to give the Department of Homeland Security permanent and continuing authority...

An Adaptive Machine Director

We model the class of problem faced by a video broadcast director, who must act as an active perception agent to select a view of interest to a human from a range of possibilities. Real-time learning of a broadcast direction policy is achieved by efficient online Bayesian learning of the model’s parameters based on intermittent user feedback. In contrast to existing machine direction systems, w...