Kostas Daniilidis

Professor, CIS

Research Interests

My research focuses on the basic questions of space and motion perception with machines and how we can use resulting algorithms to create visually compelling immersive environments.

• Geometry and signal analysis of omnidirectional vision
• Scene acquisition for tele-immersion
• Registration in mixed realities

Current Projects

• Digital Archeology
• Geometry of omnidirectional vision
• Multi-robot Emergency Response
• Tele-immersion creates the illusion of sharing the same space though you might be thousands of miles apart. (view image)
• Signal processing in non conventional images

Representative Publications

A. Makadia and C. Geyer and K. Daniilidis. Radon-based structure from motion without Correspondences Computer Vision Pattern Recognition, 2005, accepted as oral (best 60 out of 1000). pdf

V. Isler, S. Kannan, K. Daniilidis, P. Valtr, VC-Dimension of Exterior Visibility, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., to appear 2004. pdf.

C. Geyer and K. Daniilidis, Mirrors in motion: Epipolar geometry and motion estimation, International Conference on Computer Vision, Nice, France, pp. 766-773, 2003, pdf

A. Makadia and K. Daniilidis. Direct 3d-rotation estimation from spherical images via a generalized shift theorem. Computer Vision Pattern Recognition, 2003, to appear. pdf

X. Zabulis and K. Daniilidis. Multi-camera reconstruction based on surface normal estimation and best viewpoint selection. In 2nd International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, pages 733-740, 2004. pdf.

C. Geyer and K. Daniilidis. Catadioptric projective geometry. International Journal of Computer Vision, 43:223-243, 2001. pdf.

A. Ansar and K. Daniilidis, Linear Pose Estimation from Points and Lines, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 25:April ,2003. pdf.

J. Mulligan, N. Kelshikar, X. Zampoulis, K. Daniilidis, Stereo-based Environment Scanning for Immersive Telepresence, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, pdf.

K. Daniilidis, "Hand-Eye Calibration Using Dual Quaternions", International Journal of Robotics Research, 18:286-298, 1999. pdf.

K. Daniilidis, "Fixation simplifies 3D motion estimation", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 68:158-169, 1997. pdf.

K. Daniilidis and M. Spetsakis, "Understanding noise sensitivity in structure from motion", In Y. Aloimonos, editor, Visual Navigation, pp. 61-88. pdf.

Teaching

• CSE 399b - Computer Vision
• CIS 700 - Special Topics in Machine Perception

Contact Information

Office:	472 Levine/GRW
Phone:	215-898-8549
Fax:	215-573-2048
Email:	kostas at host cis.upenn.edu
Mail:	Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania 3330 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104