Chris Graczyk

BS candidate in Media Arts and Sciences

Technical interests

Computer modeling, rendering, animation, user interface design and video understanding.

Advisor: Roz Picard

Working with: Steve Mann

Project Description

My work centers around video understanding. I use the term video understanding to represent the process where by a computer gathers key information about a video sequence in order to better understand and manipulate the content of that sequence. In part, my work deals with shot boundry detection, key frame extraction, scene recognition, and image resolution enhancement from a video sequence.

Interests

Cycling, high end / vintage audio equipment, landscape photography, Friends of Henry David Thoreau

Birthplace

Buffalo, New York

A favorite book

Walden

Most wishes to have dinner with

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Angus Young of AC/DC

Personal Web Page

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