Computer Vision News Computer Vision News 12 Playlist - Graphics in 5 minutes Steve Seitz is a Professor at the University of Washington and a Distinguished Scientist at Google. He speaks to us about Graphics in 5 minutes, his incredible YouTube playlist, which promises a university-level computer graphics course in two hours. “I enjoy doing it so much that it’s not hard to find the time!” Steve, can you tell us about your work in general? I work in computer vision, and my specialty is 3D computer vision and applications of vision for computer graphics. I got to the University of Washington in 2000, and I was at the faculty of Carnegie Mellon for a couple of years before that. We are almost of the same generation, I think, but you have much more hair. [Steve laughs] Well, we’ll see how long it lasts! Let’s talk about the playlist. I discovered it because Shmuel Peleg sent it to his mailing list. It’s a set of lectures, really, but I call them cartoons. The idea is to give you a fairly deep understanding of a topic in just five minutes. I teach a computer graphics course at the University of Washington, and what I found was that you could convey the same material as a 60-minute class in five minutes using the right techniques. That was the inspiration for this series. Even very busy people could find five minutes for that. [laughs] Hopefully, yeah. I try to make them as entertaining as possible. I think people will find them both fun and informative. Thinking particularly about the most junior computer vision scholars, how do you suggest they get started with this series? Yeah, it’s a good question. I probably
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