Slides from technical talks

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

• HDR+, portrait mode, Super Res Zoom, Night Sight:
  computational photography and machine learning on Google's smartphones
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Google AI Connect workshop
  San Francisco, February 1, 2019.

• Extreme imaging using cell phones
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: ICCV 2015 Extreme Imaging Workshop
  Santiago, Chile, December 17, 2015.
  Slides were revised on September 15, 2016.
  The teaser video in slide #4 is available on YouTube using this link.
  However, the app is not currently available to the public.
  Also presented as invited talked at ICCP 2017.

• 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)

• Multi-perspective panoramic imaging: The Stanford-Google CityBlock Project
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Dinner talk at the 2004 Stanford Computer Science Department retreat
  Related website: Stanford CityBlock Project

• 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)

• Volumegraphica
  Presented by: Marc Levoy
  Presentation: Various Stanford internal seminars, 2001
  Also available as: PPT
  This talk outlines a still-incomplete, sabbatical-type personal project to create a book of volume renderings,
  tentatively called Volumegraphica, inspired by Robert Hooke's 1665 classic, Micrographia.
  See also the paragraph about Volumegraphica on my home page under My Stanford Career
  Videos from talk: sliced hardwoods, sliced maple, volume rendered.

• 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.