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Curriculum Vitae
James
E. Davis
EducationDissertation: "Mixed Scale
Motion Recovery" Advisor: Pat Hanrahan Diploma with Highest Honors Research InterestsHuman computation. Technology and entrepreneurship for addressing social issues. Information and communication technologies for global development. Computer graphics, computer vision, and computational photography. EmploymentAssociate Professor, Assistant Professor, Scientific Advisory Consultant, Vsee Lab. Function as outside technical advisor for a startup focused on video conferencing and remote collaboration. 2002-present. Senior Research Scientist, Honda
Research Institute. Developed
real-time range scanning technology for use with robotic applications and
biomechanical modeling. 2002-2004. Research Assistant, Stanford
Computer Graphics Lab. Research,
dream, implement, and publish on a dozen different topics in computer graphics
and computer vision. 1995-2002. Teaching Assistant, Consulting Researcher, Presenter,
Inc. Developed algorithms for image
mosaicing which robustly find frame motion despite foreground motion and high
levels of image noise. 1999-2000. Research Intern, Apple
Computer, Inc. Designed and
implemented an algorithm for customizing standard geometrical meshes using
texture maps derived from photographs. Summer 1995. Research Assistant, Stanford
Database Group. Designed and
implemented a document matching system capable of efficiently finding
duplicated text phrases in very large databases. 1993-1994. Management Intern, Pacific
Consultant, UC Davis
Music Dept. Designed and implemented
multimedia music instruction software used to teach Introductory Music to
thousands of undergraduates. 1991-1992. Teaching Assistant, Newspaper layout assistant,
Pizza delivery, Restaurant bus-boy, Pigeon-poop cleanup crew, pre-1990. Awards and HonorsICCV
Marr Prize (2nd Best Paper) 2009 NSF
CAREER, 2008 Omidyar
Network Community Favorites Award, 2007 (for
innovative teaching style of CMPS80J) UCSC
Excellence in Teaching Award Honorable Mention (top 2% of faculty), 2006 IEEE
ICRA Best Vision Paper Award, 2003 NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship, 1993-1996 UCDavis Computer Science
Department Citation Award, 1993 Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key,
Psi Chi, Pi Mu Epsilon National Honor Societies, 1992 Fourth Place Team, Pacific
Region, Annual ACM Programming Contest, 1990, 1992. Publications
Vassilis Polychronopoulos, Luca de Alfaro, James Davis, Hector
Garcia-Molina, Neoklis Polyzotis, "Human-Powered Top-k Lists", Int. Workshop
on the Web and Databases (WebDB), 2013. Jing Liu, James Davis, "Practical 3D+2DTV Displays", ACM SIGGRAPH (poster), 2013. Steven
Scher, Jing Liu, Rajan Vaish, Prabath Gunawardane, James Davis, "3D +
2D TV: 3D Displays With no Ghosting for Viewers Without Glasses", ACM Transaction on Graphics (presented
SIGGRAPH 2013). Ben Crow, James Davis, Susan Paterson, Julio Miles "Using GPS and
recall to understand water collection in Kenyan informal settlements", Water
International 38 (1), 43-60, 2013. Chenxi Zhang, Jizhou Gao, Oliver Wang, Pierre Georgel, Ruigang Yang,
James Davis, J Frahm, Marc Pollefeys, "Personal Photo Enhancement Using
Internet Photo Collections," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer
Graphics (TVCG), 2013. James Davis, Bernd Jahne, Andreas Kolb, Ramesh Raskar, Christian
Theobalt, "Time-of-Flight Imaging: Algorithms, Sensors and Applications
(Dagstuhl Seminar 12431)", Dagstuhl
Reports 2(10), pp 79-104, 2012. Alex Gainer; Mary Roth; James Davis; Philip Strong, "Field Experience
with an Open Source Application for Gathering Health Assessment Data in
Developing Countries That Saves Data in HL7 Continuity of Care Document
Format.", American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium (poster)
AMIA-0894-A2012, 2012 Brent Arata, Wesley Souza, Steven Scher, Prabath Gunawardane, Dustin
Escoffery, Sasha Ishikawa, James Davis, and Arnav Jhala, "Full-Body Motion
Password Authentication through Kinect", Advances
in Computer Entertainment (poster), (ACE), 2012. Prabath Gunawardane, Steven Scher, and James Davis , "Capturing
Relightable Images using Computer Monitors", CVPR Workshop for Computational Cameras and Displays, 2012. Alex Gainer, Mary Roth, Philip Strong, James Davis, "A Standards-Based
Open Source Application to Gather Health Assessment Data in Developing
Countries", IEEE Global Humanitarian
Technology Conference (GHTC), 2012. Mrunal
Gawade, Rajan Vaish, Mercy Nduta Waihumbu, James Davis, "Exploring
Employment Opportunities through Microtasks via Cybercafes", IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology
Conference (GHTC), 2012. Deepak Pai, James Davis, "Wally - Crowd Powered Image Matching on
Tablets", Crowdsourcing and Data Mining
Workshop at ACM KDD (CROWDKDD), 2012. Mrunal Gawade, Rajan Vaish, Mercy Nduta Waihumbu, James Davis, "Exploring microwork opportunities through cybercafes", ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV) (poster), 2012. Ben Crow, James Davis, Julio Miles, "Measuring water collection times
in Kenyan informal settlements", International
Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
(ICTD), 2012. Tom Malzbender, Ramin Samadani, Steven Scher, Adam Crume, Douglas Dunn,
James Davis, "Printing Reflectance Functions", ACM Transactions on Graphics 31(3) (presented SIGGRAPH 2012). Ahmed Kirmani, Tyler Hutchison, James
Davis, Ramesh Raskar , "Looking Around the corner using Transient Imaging", International Journal of Computer Vision 95(1), 2011. Mario Rodriguez, James Davis, "CrowdSight: Rapidly Prototyping
Intelligent Visual Processing Apps", AAAI
Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP),
2011. Oliver Wang, James Davis, "Gradient Domain HDR Compositing", SIGGRAPH Poster, 2011. William Thies, Aishwarya Ratan, and James Davis, "Paid Crowdsourcing as
a Vehicle for Global Development", ACM
CHI Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human
Computation, 2011. Hungyu Lin, Yi Zhang, James Davis, "Best Document Selection Based on
Approximate Utility Optimization", ACM
SIGIR, Poster, 2011. Jiejie
Zhu, Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang, James E. Davis, Zhigeng Pan,
"Reliability Fusion of Time-of-Flight Depth and Stereo for High Quality
Depth
Maps", IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), July 2011. Shashank Khanna, Aishwarya Ratan, James Davis, William Thies, "Evaluating and Improving the Usability of Mechanical Turk for
Low-Income Workers in Prabath Gunawardane, Tom Malzbender, Ramin Samadani, Alan McReynolds,
Dan Gelb, James Davis, "Invisible Light: Using Infrared for Video Conference
Relighting", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2010. James Davis, Joan Arderiu, Henry Lin, Zeb
Nevins, Sebastian Schuon, Orazio Gallo, and Ming-Hsuan Yang, "The HPU", IEEE CVPR Workshop on
Advancing Computer Vision with Humans in the Loop, 2010. Oliver Wang, Martin Fuchs, Christian Fuchs, James Davis, Hans-Peter
Seidel, Hendrik P.A. Lensch, "A Context-Aware
Light Source", IEEE International
Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2010. James Davis, " Prabath Gunawardane, Oliver Wang, Steve
Scher, James Davis, Ian Rickard, Tom Malzbender, "Optimized Image Sampling for
View and Light Interpolation", International
Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST), 2009. Ahmed Kirmani, Tyler Hutchison, James
Davis, Ramesh Raskar , "Looking Around the corner using Transient Imaging", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009. Sebastian Schuon, Christian Theobalt,
James Davis, Sebastian Thrun, "LidarBoost: Depth Superresolution for ToF 3D
Shape Scanning", IEEE Conf. on Comp. Vision and Pattern Rec. (CVPR), 2009. Oliver Wang, Prabath Gunawardane, Steve
Scher, James Davis, "Material Classification using BRDF Slices", IEEE Conf. on
Comp. Vision and Pattern Rec. (CVPR),
2009. Prabath
Gunawardane, Suresh Lodha, Erin Middleton, Ben Crow, James Davis,
"Analyzing Statistical Relationships between Global Indicators through
Visualization", Information and Communication Technology
for Development (ICTD), 2009. Ian Rickard, James Davis , "Self-calibrating
Optical Object Tracking using Wii Remotes", Sensors,
Cameras, and Sys. For Industrial/Sci. App. X, Proc. SPIE v.7249, Jan 2009. Oliver Wang, James Davis,
Erika Chuang, Ian Rickard, Krystle de Mesa, Chirag Dave, "Video Conference
Relighting Using Infrared Illumination", Proceedings
of Eurographics, 2008. Jiejie Zhu, Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang and
James Davis , "Fusion of Time-of-Flight Depth and Stereo for High Accuracy
Depth Maps", IEEE Conf. on Comp. Vision and Pattern
Rec. (CVPR), 2008. Tien-Chieng Feng, Prabath Gunawardane,
James Davis, Bolan Jiang, "Motion Capture Data Retrieval Using an Artist's Doll",
International Conf. on Pattern
Recognition (ICPR), 2008. Steven Scher, Ryan Crabb, James Davis, "Making
Real Games Virtual: Tracking Board Game Pieces", International Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008. Orazio Gallo, Sonia Arteaga, James Davis, "A Camera Based Pointing Interface for Mobile Devices", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2008 Ryan Crabb, Colin
Tracey, Akshaya Puranik, James Davis, "Real-time Foreground Segmentation via Range
and Color Imaging", CVPR Workshop on Time of Flight Camera Based Comp. Vis., 2008. Sebastian Schuon,
Christian Theobalt, James Davis, Sebastian Thrun, "High-quality Scanning using Time-Of-Flight
Depth Superresolution", CVPR Workshop on Time of Flight Camera Based
Computer Vision, 2008. Mariano I. Lizarraga, David M. Ilstrup, Gabriel
Hugh Elkaim, and James Davis, "Aerial Photography using a Nokia N95", World Congress on Engineering and Computer
Science, (WCECS) 2008. Xing Chen, James Davis, "An
Occlusion Metric for Selecting Robust Camera Configurations", Machine Vision and Applications Journal,
19(4), July 2008. Jerry Yee, James Davis, "Crowd Rendering with non-planar 3D imposters", ACM Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), Poster, 2008. Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang,
James Davis, "BRDF Invariant Stereo using Light Transport Constancy", IEEE Trans. On Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence (PAMI), 29(9), Sep 2007. Oliver Wang, Jonathan
Finger, QingXiong Yang, James Davis, Ruigang Yang, "Automatic Natural Video
Matting with Depth", Proceedings of the 15th Pacific Conference
on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics), 2007. Andrew Leung, Eric Lalonde,
Jacob Telleen, James Davis, Carlos Maltzahn, "Using
Comprehensive Analysis for Performance Debugging in Distributed Storage
Systems", Proceedings IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and
Technologies (MSST), 2007. Jacob Telleen, Anne
Sullivan, Jerry Yee, Prabath Gunawardane, Oliver Wang, Ian Collins, James Davis, "Synthetic Shutter Speed Imaging", Computer
Graphics Forum 26(3), Eurographics 2007. Qingxiong Yang, Ruigang
Yang, James Davis, and David Nister, "Spatial-Depth Super Resolution for Range
Images", IEEE Conf. on Comp. Vision and
Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007. Mark Young, Erik Beeson,
James Davis, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and Ravi Ramamoorthi, "Viewpoint-Coded
Structured Light", IEEE Conf. on Comp.
Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007. Alexandru Balan, Leonid
Sigal, Michael Black, James Davis, and Horst Haussecker, "Detailed Human Shape
and Pose from Images", IEEE Conf. on
Comp. Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007. James Skorupski, Jerry Yee, Josh
McCoy, and James Davis. "Facial Type, Expression, and Viseme Generation",
SIGGRAPH Poster, 2007. Prabath Gunawardane, Eddy
Chandra, Tien-Chieng Jack Feng, James Davis. "Keyframe Animation Using an
Artist's Doll", SIGGRAPH Poster, 2007. Dragomir Anguelov, Praveen
Srinivasan, Daphne Koller, Sebastian Thrun, Jim Rodgers, James Davis. "SCAPE:
Shape Completion and Animation of People", ACM
Transactions of Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 24(3), 2005. Diego Nehab, Szymon
Rusinkiewicz, James Davis, Allen Y. Yang, Hector
Gonzalez-Banos, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, James Davis. "RoboTalk: controlling arms,
bases and androids through a single motion interface", International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2005. Diego Nehab, Szymon
Rusinkiewicz, and James Davis. "Improved Sub-pixel Stereo Correspondences
through Symmetric Refinement", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
(ICCV), 2005. James Davis, Ruigang Yang,
Liang Wang. "BRDF Invariant Stereo using Light Transport Constancy", IEEE International Conference on Computer
Vision (ICCV), 2005. James Davis, Diego Nehab, Drago Anguelov, Praveen
Srinivasan, Daphne Koller, Sebastian Thrun, Hoi-Cheung Pang, James Davis. "The
Correlated Correspondence Algorithm for Unsupervised Registration of Nonrigid
Surfaces", Neural Information Processing
Systems (NIPS), 2004. James Diebel, Kjell
Reutersward, Sebastian Thrun, James Davis, Rakesh Gupta. "Simultaneous
Localization and Mapping with Active Stereo Vision," IEEE/RSJ Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2004. Hector Gonzalez-Banos, James
Davis. "A method for computing depth under ambient illumination using
multi-shuttered light", IEEE Conf. on
Comp. Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2004. James Davis, Xing Chen . "Foveated observation of shape and motion", IEEE Conf. on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA), 2003. [ ICRA 2003 Best Vision Paper Award Winner ] James Davis, Maneesh
Agrawala, Erika Chuang, Zoran Popovic, David Salesin. "A Sketching Interface for
Articulated Figure Animation", Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer
Animation (SCA), 2003. [ Nominated among the five best papers at the symposium ] James Davis, James Davis, Hector Gonzalez-Banos. "Enhanced Shape Recovery with Shuttered Pulses of Light", IEEE International
Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS), 2003. James Davis, Xing Chen. "Calibrating Pan-tilt Cameras in Wide-area Surveillance Networks", IEEE
International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2003. James Davis, Stephen
Marschner, Matt Garr, Marc Levoy. "Filling Holes in Complex Surfaces Using
Volumetric Diffusion", Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and
Transmission, June 2002. James Davis, Xing Chen. "LumiPoint: Multi-User Laser-Based Interaction on Large Tiled Displays", Displays,
Vol. 23-5, Elsevier Science, 2002. James Davis, Xing Chen. "A Levoy, Pulli, Curless,
Rusinkiewicz, Koller, Xing Chen, James Davis, and Philipp
Slusallek. "Wide Area Camera Calibration Using Virtual Calibration Objects", IEEE
Comp. Soc. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2000. James Davis. "Mosaics of
Scenes with Moving Objects", IEEE Comp. Soc. Conf. on Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 1998. Sergey Brin, James Davis,
and Hector Garcia-Molina. "Copy Detection Mechanisms for Digital Documents", Proceedings
of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, May 1995.
Selected Other Reports
James Davis. "Mixed Scale
Motion Recovery", Ph.D. Dissertation, Curated
Exhibitions "Name Your Price:
Unpacking Social Cost at 01SJ", Prof. Sharon Daneil, Lyes Belhocine, Kyle
McKinley, Drew Detweiler, Antoine Abou Jaoude, Christoph Girard, Phoenix Toews,
Prof. James Davis, ZER01, San Jose, Sep 16-19 2010. Patents
Ahmed Kirmani, Ramesh
Raskar, James Davis "Methods and Apparatus for Transient Light Imaging", US
Patent 20,120,075,423; 2012. Hector Gonzalez-Banos, James
Davis. "Systems and methods for determining depth using shuttered light pulses",
US Patent 7,095,487; 2006 Professional Activities
Workshop co-Chair / co-Organizer
Dagstuhl Seminar on Time-of-Flight Imaging:
Algorithms, Sensors and Applications: Oct 2012 (with Joachim Denzler, Christian Theobalt, Reinhard
Koch, Bernd Jaehne, Andreas Kolb, Ramesh Raskar) Workshop on Human Computation, UC Santa Cruz, Oct
2011. Workshop on Real Time 3D Sensors and Their Use in
conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2004 (with S. Burak Gokturk , Carlo Tomasi, and Abbas
Rafii) Poster Chair
5th
International workshop on projector camera systems (PROCAMS), 2008
Session Chair
ACM DEV, "Data
Collection": 2012, "Devices": 2010 IEEE ICCP "Computational
Cameras": 2010
ACM SIGGRAPH "Performance Capture": 2007 IEEE ICRA "3D Vision (II)": 2003 Program Committee
Conference on Technologies and Applications of
Artificial Intelligence (TAAI), 2013. ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
(DEV): 2013, 2012, 2010 3D Camera Workshop at International Conf. on
Virtual Reality and Visualization: 2012 IEEE Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for
Computer Vision at ICCV: 2011 International Symposium 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and
Transmission (3DPVT) 2010 National Science Foundation Panels: 2009, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2009 Dynamic 3D Imaging Workshop 2009 ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Workshop on Evaluation of
Articulated Human Motion and Pose Estimation, NIPS 2006, CVPR 2007 IEEE Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2006, 2005 Pacific Graphics, 2006 Paper Reviewing
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV):
2012 ACM SIGGRAPH: 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006,
2005, 2004 Journal Real Time Image Processing: 2011 IEEE Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): 2011 IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
(PAMI): 2011, '09, '06, '05, '04, '03, '02 ACM Computer Human Interaction (CHI): 2011, 2010,
2004 Austrian Fund of Science: 2010 Communications of the ACM (CACM): 2009 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV):
2009 IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR):
2009, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia: 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH in Computer Graphics Forum: 2008 Pattern Recognition: 2008 IEEE Trans. Image Processing: 2008, 2003 IEEE ICME: 2008 Eurographics: 2007, 2004, 2003 IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics: 2007 ACM User Interface Systems and Technology: 2007 ACM Transactions on Graphics: 2006, 2005 IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems I: 2006 ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science
in Engineering: 2006 IEEE Trans. On Automation Science and Engineering:
2005 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
Graphics: 2005 Machine Vision and Applications Journal: 2005 IEEE 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling: 2005 National Science Foundation Reviews: 2004 Visual Computer: 2003 ACM Symposium of Computer Animation: 2003 Image and Vision Computing: 2003 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics: 2003 IEEE Multimedia: 2002 ACM Conf. on Multimedia: 2002 Advisory Boards
Workshop on Human Computation in Digital Entertainment
at AAAI AIIDE, 2012 EcoSynth UMBC (NSF Grant) 2012-2015 Imaging Technology Pathways for Musuem
Professionals (IMLS Grant) 2010-2013. eHealth Nigeria, 2010-present: Non-profit
developing electronic health record systems NextSpace, 2009-2011: Startup business incubator
and co-location service YourSharade.com 2007-2008 startup by former student
VseeLab.com 2002-present: startup focused on video
based remote collaboration Cultural Heritage Imaging (Non-profit organization),
2006-present Developing Advanced Tech. for the Imaging of
Cultural Heritage Objects, (IMLS Grant) 2006-2008 Center for Art and Visual Studies, UCSC, 2005-2007 Invited Talks
"AI Meets Human Computation:
Panel" "Better Displays : On paper and on TV" "The HPU: Human Processing
Units for Computer Vision" "The Human Processing Unit" "Transient Imaging" "The HPU: How lazy coders
will impact poverty" "The HPU" "Combining 3D Shape
Reconstruction and Relighting" "The HPU: Human
Processing Units as Computer Vision Co-Processors" "Video Relighting Using
Infrared Illumination" "Exploring Human Body Shape
and Motion" "Modeling the shape and
motion of people (+short-takes on what to do with a mobile phone camera)" "3D Range Scanning Methods" "Shape estimation : from vision to graphics" Stanford University, GRAI Seminar, Feb 2008. "Hybrid time-of-flight cameras" Canesta, Sunnyvale, August 2007. "Acquiring
computer graphics models of people" Santa Clara University, April 2007. "Coding space
with light" Stanford
University, Graphics-Cafe, Feb 2007. "Shape
estimation: from low level images to high level human body models" MERL, Microsoft Research, Cal Poly, NASA Intel, "Acquiring graphical models of shape and motion" Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu,
Jan 2005. National
Taiwan University, Dec 2004. U. UC "The
challenge and opportunity of cultural diversity" ShiLin
District Office, "Acquiring
models of human shape and motion" Stanford
Biomechanics Group, August 2004. "Spacetime
Stereo - A Unifying Framework for Depth from Triangulation" Hewlett
Packard Research Lab, Bay Area Vision Meeting, UC Stanford
Graphics Retreat, Soquel "A Sketching
Interface for Articulated Figure Animation" "Filling Holes in Complex Surfaces Using Volumetric
Diffusion" "Acquiring Reality" Hewlett
Packard Research Lab, Honda
R&D Teaching
Instructor
CMPS290T: Topics in
Computing for Society, Health Records, Spring 2012. CMPS119:
Software for Society, Spring 2012. CMPS280H: Seminar in Human Computation, Spring 2012. CMPS280H: Seminar in Human Computation, Fall 2011. CMPS280J: Seminar in Graphics, Fall 2011. CMPS160/L:
Introduction to Computer Graphics, Fall 2011. CMPS290T: Topics in
Computing for Society, Health Records, Spring 2011. CMPS280J: Seminar in Graphics, Spring 2011. CMPS280D: Seminar in Human Computation, Spring 2011. CMPS260:
Computer Graphics, Fall 2010. CMPS160/L:
Introduction to Computer Graphics, Fall 2010. CMPS290T: Topics in
Computing for Society, Fall 2009. CMPS80J: Technology
Targeted at Social Issues, Fall 2009. CMPS290B: Special topics in Digital Art and New
Media, Spring 2009. CMPS80J: Technology Targeted at Social Issues,
Spring 2008. CMPS280J: Seminar in Graphics, Spring 2008. CMPS280J: Seminar in Graphics, Winter 2008. CMPS280J: Seminar in Graphics, Autumn 2007. CMPS160/L: Introduction to Computer Graphics, Autumn
2007. CMPS290B: Computational Photography and Vision on CMPS280J: Seminar in Graphics, Spring 2007. CMPS80J: Technology Targeted at Social Issues,
Spring 2007. CMPS280J: Seminar in Graphics, Winter 2007. CMPS262: Computer Animation, Winter 2007. CMPS280J: Seminar in Graphics, Autumn 2006. CMPS160/L: Introduction to Computer Graphics, Autumn
2006. CMPS280J: Seminar in Graphics, Spring 2006. CMPS290B: Advanced Topics in Graphics -
Computational and 3D Photography, Autumn 2005. CMPS160/L: Introduction to Computer Graphics, Autumn
2005. CMPS160/L: Introduction to Computer Graphics, UC Introduction to Programming for K-6, Advising
Jing
Liu (PhD 2016 expected) Rajan
Vaish (PhD 2016 expected) David
Olsen (left PhD after one year in my group to start company) Steve
Scher (PhD 2012) - "Advances in Display Technology" Prabath
Gunawardane (PhD 2011) - "Advances in Image Based Relighting" Oliver Wang (PhD 2010) - "Illumination for Clarity" Alex Gainer (MS 2012) - "A
Standards-Based Open Source Application to Gather Health Assessment Data in
Developing Countries" Sascha Ishikawa (MS 2012) - "An Automated Classification of Mineral
Spectra: Applications for the Exploration of Planetary Surfaces" Mario
Rodriguez (MS 2011) - "CrowdSight: Rapidly
Prototyping Intelligent Visual Processing Apps" Rita McCue (MS 2011) - "A Flash Card Game Framework for Henry
Lin (MS 2010) - "Content promotion by utility measure optimization" Sigmon Myers (MS 2010) - "Green Laser: An App. To Encourage "Green" Consumer Spending" Zeb
Nevins (MS 2009) - "Transcribing Numbers from Images using Amazon Mechanical
Turk" Ian
Rickard (MS 2009) - "Self Calibrating Optical Object Tracking using Wii
Remotes" Jack
Feng (MS 2008) - "Motion Capture Retrieval using an Artist's Doll" Jacob
Telleen (MS 2007) - "Synthetic Shutter Speed Imaging" Jerry Yee (MS 2007) - "Crowd
Rendering with Non-Planar 3D Impostors" Tonton
Rue (BA 2013) Dominic
Arcamone (BS 2013) Brian
Nguyen (BS 2013) Brent
Arata Allison
Carlisle (BA/BS 2013) Sarah
Ross (BS 2012) Armin
Samii (BS 2011) [Berkeley PhD candidate] Chirag
Dave (BS 2008) Emily
Lovell (BS 2007) [MIT MS; PhD candidate] Krystle
de Mesa (BS 2007) [UC San Diego MS] Ian
Collins (BS 2007) Patrick Auld (BS 2007) Erik Beeson (BA 2006) Mark
Young (BS 2006) Jeremy
Randolph (BS 2006) Awards to my students
Sarah Ross - Pat
Mantey Leadership Award 2012 (only 1 award in School of Engineering) Sarah Ross -
Undergraduate Research Deans Award 2012 (top 0.3% of undergraduates) Kevin Armin Samii - Undergraduate Research Chancellors Award 2011 (top 0.1%
of undergraduates) Kevin Armin Samii - Huffman Prize 2011 (only 1 award in Prabath Gunawardane - TA Award 2011 (top 2% of graduate students) Oliver Wang -
ARCS Foundation Fellowship 2008 Slug Biodiesel Team
in CMPS80J - KEEN Social Entrepreneurship Idea Award 2007 Adam Smith - Excellence
in Teaching Award 2006 (top 1% of graduate students) Technology Transfer
CHI, 2008 - Interpolation
methods for reflectance transformation imaging. Canesta, 2007 - Matting
using joint depth and image data. Sony PictureGear Ver. 4.0,
Digital Photo Manager, 2000 - Methods from my CVPR98 paper were
incorporated into this product as the Panorama Maker feature, allowing easy
creation of panoramas from a sequence of individual photographs. AutoType / AutoClick, Tools
for Macintosh Input Automation, 1999 - Software to allow scripted
automation of keyboard and mouse input into any application. Apple Inc.
officially refers to this tool as the solution for scripting Quicktime Player
4.1. Self published and distributed on the net. Prentice Hall Publishing,
Masterworks: A Musical Discovery, 1993 - Educational software allowing
interactive browsing of annotated musical content, used in conjunction with an Introductory
Music class for five years. The software was rewritten by Prentice Hall,
now in its second edition. University
Service Faculty Search Committee, Computer Science Dept, 12-13. Online Course Strategy Committee, Computer Science Department, 11-12 Chair of Faculty Board of UCSC Center for Entrepreneurship: 2010-2012 Future Directions Committee, Computer Science Department, 10-11 Founder and Director of Ad-hoc Committee (personnel case): 2010 UCSC Business Plan Competition: 2009 DANM Executive Committee: 2008-09, 09-10 Grad Committee, Computer Science Department: 2005-06, 06-07, 07-08,
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