My name is Gabriel Brostow, and I am a lecturer in the Visual Computing Institute at ETH Zurich. I work with Marc Pollefeys, his students, and other researchers in the CVG Lab.

I am gradually moving to UCL, so look there for further updates.

Before this, I worked at Cambridge University with Roberto Cipolla, his group, and the amazing researchers at Microsoft Research and Toshiba Research Cambridge. I had moved to the UK as a Marshall Sherfield Fellow after completing my Ph.D. in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Our group there, the Computational Perception Lab, was founded by my advisor, Irfan Essa, as the vision & animation arm of the interdisciplinary GVU Center.

My research and teaching are on the computational perception of motion; analyzing it in video, modeling it, and synthesizing animations. This work is exciting because it can potentially impact diverse areas like A.I., biomechanics, games, special effects, and zoology. Below you'll find links to some of my published research.

Current Teaching:      Computational Photography & Video (ETH only, for now)    and      Visual Computing.

Note to prospective students

G. J. Brostow, I. Essa, D. Steedly, V. Kwatra, "Novel Skeletal Representation For Articulated Creatures," In Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision, May 2004, Vol III: 66-78.

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G. J. Brostow, "Novel Skeletal Representation For Articulated Creatures," Ph.D. Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.

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G. J. Brostow and I. A. Essa, "Image-Based Motion Blur for Stop Motion Animation," In Computer Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2001.

I. A. Essa and G. J. Brostow, "A Course on Digital Video Special Effects," in Proceedings of the IEEE CS Workshop on Undergraduate Education & Image Computation, Hilton Head, South Carolina, June, 2000.

J. O' Brien, B. Bodenheimer, G. J. Brostow, J. Hodgins, "Automatic Joint Parameter Estimation From Magnetic Motion Capture Data," Graphics Interface 2000, Montreal, Canada.

G. J. Brostow and I. A. Essa, "Motion Based Decompositing of Video," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 1999, Corfu, Greece, September 1999.

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