Big Picture Summit

• The photographer-artist Clifford Ross has received a patent for his "R1 Camera System". This system creates an unprecedented gigapixel resolution images.

• On Dec 8-9, 2004, Clifford Ross and Red Burns (chair of the NYU Interactive Comunications Program, Tisch School) organized the Big Picture Summit to explore the implications and applications of such a camera system. (source: www.supercomputingonline.com) The conference was co-sponsored by Sandia National Lab.

• Such images has many potential applications: in the art world (online museums), entertainment (film industry), in commerce (electronic catalogs), homeland security and in scientific visualizations. Sandia National Lab is interested, for instance, because of the latter applications.

• Our foveation techniques could be used in bring such gigapixel images to users on the web.

• Other accounts of the conference:
  (1) Big Picture Summit (source: www.photonics.com)
  (2) www.spacedaily.com

For related information, please contact yap@cs.nyu.edu.