There and Back Again or Academia vs. the Visual Effects Industry

Many machine vision/image processing algorithms are designed to be real-time and fully automatic. These attributes are essential, e.g., for stereo robotics vision applications. Visual Effects Studios, however, posses giant server farms and command armies of artists to perform intelligent initialization or provide guidance to algorithms. On the other hand, motion pictures have very high accuracy requirements and the ability to influence an algorithm manually is often more important than other factors, generally considered crucial in Academia. In this talk I will highlight some scenarios, where Academia and the Visual Effects industry disagree.