2019年9月9日上午，英国巴斯大学Peter Hall教授应我院图形图像中心贾金原教授的邀请，在我院417会议室做了“Acquisition of Natural Phenomena from Video”的精彩学术报告。

此次报告针对电影与游戏行业的艺术家们往往需要对大自然中的树木、火焰、烟雾与水面波纹进行真实感三维重建，由工程师设计的此类模型往往都是基于物理的，艺术家们很难使用这些基于物理的模型，艺术家所要的是基于自然行为的动态模型， 然而这项任务十分具有挑战性。Peter Hall教授团队对此做出了十分出色的工作。

随后Peter Hall教授听取了贾金原教授针对我们中心这年来在Web3D领域的一系列工作，对我们的工作表示赞赏。双方也随之探讨双方潜在的合作课题。大约30名研究生参加这次学术报告，Peter Hall教授的报告也引起在场师生们的热烈反响。Peter Hall教授是今年4月份中英两国创意媒体联盟的英方发起人，他希望此次访问上海能够促进该联盟的发展。

Peter is Professor in the Visual Computing Group and is Director of the Centre for Visual Entertainment. His research spans more than twenty years is primarily directed at style transfer, the acquisition of complex moving 3D models from video, and recognition; additional interests include machine learning, robotics, and accessible computing. He works with companies both large and small including Disney, Ninja Theory, dcActive and Lego. He has international academic collaborations in Netherlands, Germany, Canada, and China. Peter is Associate Editor with three journals; he has published in SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, TVCG, TIP, PAMI and many others.