Within this talk I shall describe some of the work I have been involved with at Microsoft Research Cambridge on Bayesian methods. In particular I will cover the application of Bayesian methods to certain problems relating to the field of Computer Graphics. Bayesian methods provide a rational way of making inference about problems; including learning parameters that are so often set by hand, and...

We present a system for Internet communication that enhances traditional text-based chatting with real-time analysis and synthesis of the chat parties’ facial expressions. It is composed of three main modules: a real-time facial expression analysis component, a 3D agent with facial expression synthesis and text-to-speech capabilities – a talking head, and a communication module. So far we have ...

In this paper we present a non-causal, non-parametric, multiscale, Markov random field (MRF) texture model. The model is capable of capturing the characteristics of and synthesising a wide variety of textures, varying from the highly structured to the stochastic. We introduce a novel multiscale texture synthesis algorithm that allows us to use large neighbourhood systems to model some complex n...

1 Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham 27708, NC, USA 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign 61802, IL, USA 3 Desert Research Institute, Reno 89512, NV, USA 4 Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, IA, USA 5 Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Ar...