Graphics research and courses at Stanford

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Graphics research and courses at Stanford
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Graphicsfaculty
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Relatedareas
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Research projects

• Digital Michelangelo project
• Solving the Forma Urbis Romae
• Visualizing cuneiform tablets
• Modeling subsurface scattering
• Multi-image digital photography
• Measuring and modeling reflectance
• Acquisition and display of light fields
• Image-based modeling and rendering
• Real-time volume rendering

• Interactive workspaces
• Parallel graphics architectures
• Stanford immersive television project
• Texture analysis-synthesis methods
• Motion analysis / synthesis
• Automatic illustration systems
• Physics-based modeling and simulation
• Visualization of computer systems
• Real-time programmable shading

and many more
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Digital Michelangelo project(Levoy)

• very large geometric models
• scientific tool for art historians
• virtual museums, multimedia, replicas
• lasting archive of important cultural artifacts

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Research challenges

• vision problems
• aligning and merging scans
• automatic hole filling
• inverse color rendering
• automated view planning

• digital archiving problems
• making the data last forever
• robust 3D digital watermarking
• indexing and searching 3D data
• real-time viewing on low-cost PCs

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The Forma Urbis Romae(Levoy)

• 60 x 45 x 4 marble map of ancient Rome, carved
  200 A.D.
• shows the city at a scale where you can see every
  room
• now in 1,163 fragments, an open problem for 500
  years

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Solving the puzzle

• algorithms must be fast
• minimize false positives
• robust to effects of weathering

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Real-Time Programmable Shading(Hanrahan)

• high-level languages for programmable graphics
  hardware
• RenderMan in real-time
• guide the future of graphics hardware
• parallelizing scientific computations on the same
  hardware

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Modeling subsurface scattering(Hanrahan, Levoy)

• translucency is caused by multiple scattering
• approximated by volumetric diffusion
• validation using physical measurements

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Stanford Immersive Television Project(Bregler,
Dally, Girod, Hanrahan, Horowitz, Levoy)
Intel DTV tuner card

• light field cameras
• real-time range scanning

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Light field cameras(Horowitz, Levoy, Hanrahan)
video light field camera
spherical light field camera
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Real-time range scanning
time
space
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• holes can be found and filled on-the-fly
• object or scanner can be handheld / shoulderheld

video frame
range data
merged model(159 frames)
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Motion analysis / synthesis(Bregler)
Acquisition Analysis Animation Kinematics Dynamic
s Language
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Physics-based modeling and simulation(Fedkiw)

• new computational algorithms for numerical
  simulation of physical phenomena

Water - simulated using the Navier Stokes
equations and the level set method for implicit
surface evolution. A solid invisible sphere
initiates the splashing.
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Physics-based modeling and simulation(Fedkiw)

• new computational algorithms for numerical
  simulation of physical phenomena

Smoke - simulated as a scalar in a flow field
generated using the Navier Stokes equations.
Photon mapping is used for the visualization.
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Virtual Human(oid) Project (Fedkiw)

• derive and improve physics-based models of
  tissues, organs, organ systems, clothing

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Kinetic Data Structures(Guibas)

• A kinetic data structure (KDS)maintains an
  attribute of interest in a collection of moving
  or deforming objects.
• Examples include many kinds ofproximity,
  visibility, or connectivityinformation.
• This yields efficient algorithms for collision
  detection, visibility maintenance, and
  aggregation orcommunication among mobile nodes.

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Interactive workspaces (iRoom)(Winograd, Fox,
Hanrahan)
The ultra-high resolution Interactive Mural
integrates desktop access, sketching, 3D models,
and images under pen-based control

• multiple display surfaces
• multiple interaction devices
• flexible display architecture
• facilitates group work

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Courses

• CS 148 Introductory Computer Graphics
• CS 248 Introduction to Computer Graphics
• CS 348A Mathematical Foundations (modeling)
• CS 348B Image Synthesis Techniques (rendering)
• CS 348C Animation Techniques
• CS 338 Level Set Methods
• CS 368 Geometric algorithms (computational
  geometry)
• CS 448 Topics in Computer Graphics
• CS 468 Topics in Geometric Algorithms

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Examples of topics

• CS 448 - Topics in Computer Graphics
• experiments in digital television
• interactive workplaces
• modeling appearance
• This year
• graphics architectures (Autumn, Hanrahan)
• digital photography (Spring, Levoy)
• CS 468 - Topics in Geometric Algorithms
• matching techniques and similarity measures

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PhD students

• Maneesh Agrawala lt maneesh_at_pepper.stanford.edu gt
• Sean Anderson lt seander_at_cs.stanford.edu gt
• Robert Bosch lt bosch_at_cs.stanford.edu gt
• Ian Buck lt ianbuck_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Cindy Chen lt xcchen_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Milton Chen lt miltchen_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Scott Cohen lt scohen_at_cs.stanford.edu gt
• Joao Comba lt comba_at_cs.stanford.edu gt
• James Davis lt jedavis_at_cs.stanford.edu gt
• Matthew Eldridge lt eldridge_at_graphics.stanford.edu
  gt
• Reid Gershbein lt rsg_at_uni.stanford.edu gt
• Francois Guimbretiere lt francois_at_graphics.stanford
  .edu gt
• Olaf Hall-Holt lt olaf_at_cs.stanford.edu gt
• David Hoffman lt hoffman_at_cs.stanford.edu gt
• Greg Humphreys lt humper_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Homan Igehy lt homan_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Brad Johanson lt bjohanso_at_stanford.edu gt
• Menelaos Karavelas lt menelaos_at_graphics.stanford.ed
  u gt

• Dave Koller lt dk_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Song Sam Liang lt sliang_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Tamara Munzner lt munzner_at_cs.stanford.edu gt
• Bradley Nelson lt bdnelson_at_stanford.edu gt
• John Owens lt jowens_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Lucas Pereira lt lucasp_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Matt Pharr lt mmp_at_lux.stanford.edu gt
• Kekoa Proudfoot lt kekoa_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Katheline Pullen lt pullen_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
  
• Timothy Purcell lt tpurcell_at_graphics.stanford.edu
  gt
• Ravi Ramamoorthi lt ravir_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Szymon Rusinkiewicz lt smr_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
  
• Gordon Stoll lt gws_at_aperture.stanford.edu gt
• Chris Stolte lt cstolte_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Diane Tang lt dtang_at_cs.stanford.edu gt
• Yelena Vileshina lt lena_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt
• Li-Yi Wei lt liyiwei_at_graphics.stanford.edu gt

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