21 DAILY ICCV Wednesday Elaheh Hatami Elaheh Hatami is a computer graphics research scientist at OpsiClear, a spin-off from Case Western University. Eli, tell me about your work. As a computer graphics research scientist, I am involved in multiple projects, called 3D and 4D scene reconstruction. Now we are prototyping it. One application of that can be robotic surgery in which they have multiple cameras, but they want to see the whole scene. We use a technique called Gaussian splitting, which actually is the quickest way to reconstruct the scene. Maybe you can think of a couple of real-world application where this work might be useful. Sure! The final application is that you can have the 3D digital twin. For example, if you have an adorable dog doll from your childhood and you want to have the 360 view of it forever, we will scan it for you. Recently we have been talking to the Department of Physical Therapy: they watch patients, but sometimes don't have access to all the view. If the doctors can access all the 360 view, everything will be easier. Another fun application: it can embed it to the VR. For example in education, you want to train a student or nurses about the injection. You can mount it on the VR and they can feel like doing it in the real time. Or education in the health care system, like medical students that have to be trained on the bodies. We can have one training session, 4D, and they can use it as many times as they can. It can even go for fun activity. For example, if you want to capture a 4D scene of your wedding. It has many applications! Tell me, is it as fascinating as it sounds? Oh, it always fascinates me because you always find different aspects of that. I'm learning every day a new aspect of what we can do about that and how we can make it even more efficient. But the thing that brings joy is when you go and present it to other people and you feel that, wow, they find it very practical. That's good! That's the part that also fascinates me a lot! Most Iranian scholars start studying in Iran universities and then move to the USA or somewhere else for their PhD. While you are one of the very rare who did all the studies in Iran. I'm glad you're familiar with the system. But yeah, I did my bachelor in computer science, specifically in software engineering and then my master in AI. After that I started my PhD, again in AI and robotics. But I Read 160 FASCINATING interviews with Women in Science Read 160 FASCINATING interviews with Women in Science
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