[Robotics] GSoC 2013 mentor proposal (copy of improved application and additional info)

[Séverin Lemaignan]

Hello Ricardo,

I'm not sure this mailing list is the best target for your offer: we do 
not supervise in anyway GSOC projects. You'd better contact people on 
IRC: irc.freenode.net #blendercoders  or on the bf-committers mailing list.

However, regarding robotics application, if you do mentor a student in 
this field, we'll be delighted to know about it and provide support/testing.

Cheers,
Severin

On 05/03/2013 04:06 PM, Ricardo Fabbri wrote:
> Dear Colleagues from the Blender developer community,
>
> I am posting this here since there is a large overlap between this
> interest group and my interests with helping out with Blender
> development.
>
> I'd like to offer my voluntary service as a mentor during GSoC 2013. I
> am a tenured professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, have
> extensive experience in computer graphics in top players in the
> industry and academia. My specialty is computer vision and image
> processing, specially 3D reconstruction (structure from motion, match
> moving, multiple view stereo, motion capture, etc). Prior to my
> current permanent position as a professor I have interned and worked
> full-time at Google in the US, and hold a PhD from Brown University.
>
> I was an official mentor for GSoC 2012 for the Scilab org, having
> helped 6 students from my university and hacker org to get accepted.
> This year I am foreseeing many GSoC applications, trying to encourage
> more students to apply than last year. In particular, I have
> encouraged a very bright graduate student of my university to apply to
> Blender, Marcos Couto (IRC handle ocf). Perhaps I could help Blender
> either through direct mentoring of Marcos, or by mentoring someone
> else but also helping out with Marcos, as I have direct contact with
> him daily. My personal interests with this mentoring would be to use
> the oportunity as a stimulus to develop match moving applications in
> Blender, as well as video editing. I am directly interested in the
> general software engineering that go into this scale of development of
> this central computer graphics application. I have learned many things
> at this scale with VTK, VXL (vxl.sf.net), Scilab, and working at
> Google, but Blender surely complements that in its particularities and
> in my desire to develop it for my research. I hope that as an
> experienced programmer and computer graphics / computer vision
> researcher I can somehow be useful to the Blender community in GSoC
> 2013. If so, I can easily and promptly get started with the
> technicalities.
>
> Regardless of GSoC, I personally plan to develop general inverse
> rendering functionality in blender, match moving applications (3D
> reconstruction of scene and object geometry from video) and the video
> editor. As far as robotics go, I am interested in working with
> flexible matchmoving systems that do not require precise prior
> knowledge of camera parameters and that can work in general
> uncontrolled environments.
>
> If you have any doubts of my competence for this role you can use the
> next few days to interact with me before accepting to connect here.
> Best regards, Ricardo Fabbri.
>
> PS: I apologize but in melange there is a wrong mention to LibreOffice
> in my melange application, I meant Blender throughout. I typed
> 'Libreoffice' by complete accident as I was helping out another
> student with his application there. Blender is clearly within my
> expertise field, so please consider this application carefully as it
> can lead to fruitful activity. I have funding incentives to develop
> advanced functionality for video-related software outside of GSoC, and
> have also worked with Kdenlive/MLT and with projects for writing a
> Rivendell video application (which would be a TV/video broadcasting
> application with added computer vision features to index video).
> Moreover, I also authored of the Scilab image processing toolbox. I
> hope this makes it clear that this is not a generic application, but
> that I have solid interests in Blender.
>
> Let me know if I can be of any specific help.
> Ricardo Fabbri.
>
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