News Release

Center for Visual Computing / Video Conversation with Director Ravi Ramamoorthi

San Diego, CA, September 1, 2015 -- On the latest edition of Computing Primetime, Ravi Ramamoorthi, director of the UC San Diego Center for Visual Computing and a computer science professor is joined by two other faculty members on the interdisciplinary roster of the UC San Diego researcher center: Cognitive Science professor Zhuowen Tu, and Qualcomm Institute research scientist Jurgen Schulze, who also teaches computer graphics in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the Jacobs School of Engineering. 

In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss the three grand research themes that underpin VisComp activities: 

* Mobile visual computing and digital imaging to capture, process and display the visual world with smartphones and other devices 

* Interactive digital (augmented) reality to allow us to render and mix real and virtual content seamlessly and realistically in real time

* The ability to automate computer-based visual understanding of the world from small-scale underwater organisms to large cities. 

Media Contacts

Doug Ramsey
Jacobs School of Engineering
858-822-5825
dramsey@ucsd.edu

Ioana Patringenaru
Jacobs School of Engineering
858-822-0899
ipatrin@ucsd.edu