slc.gif (139 bytes)Ramesh  Raskar


Ramesh
| Publications | Courses | Talks | Patents | Press | Art&Demos | Personal |

MIT Media Lab , Associate Professor [raskar@media(.)mit(.)edu, Room E14-474G, 75 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02139, 
Assistant: Amna C at amnac@media(.)mit(.)edu Room E14-445B, (617)253-8321]
Camera Culture group, Leader

Center for Future Storytelling, Co-director

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
Fall course: MAS 131/531
Computational Camera and Photography (6-3-3)
Fridays 1:30-4:30pm

Spring course: MAS 966 (H)
Camera Culture (0-9-0) F 1pm-3pm
Special Topics in Media Technology:
Computational Photography         |       Spatial Augmented Reality

Affiliations: Ph.D., December 2002, UNC, Chapel Hill, Senior Research Scientist at MERL
Spring 2009 course: MAS 964 (H)
Imaging Ventures (0-9-0) T 6pm-8pm
Special Topics in Media Technology:



** We have open MEngg, RA and Post-doc slots in Camera Culture group. Pl Apply.

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Projects


Visual Social Computing
          See Camera Culture group page for details

Computational Photography

Computational Photography is an emerging multi-disciplinary field that is at the intersection of optics, signal processing, computer graphics+vision, electronics, art, and online sharing in social networks. The field is evolving through three phases. The first phase was about building a super-camera that has enhanced performance in terms of the traditional parameters, such as dynamic range, field of view or depth of field. I call this Epsilon Photography. Due to limited capabilities of a camera, the scene is sampled via multiple photos, each captured by epsilon variation of the camera parameters. It corresponds to the low-level vision: estimating pixels and pixel features. The second phase is building tools that go beyond capabilities of this super-camera. I call this Coded Photography. The goal here is to reversibly encode information about the scene in a single photograph (or a very few photographs) so that the corresponding decoding allows powerful decomposition of the image into light fields, motion deblurred images, global/direct illumination components or distinction between geometric versus material discontinuities. This corresponds to the mid-level vision: segmentation, organization, inferring shapes, materials and edges. The third phase will be about going beyond the radiometric quantities and challenging the notion that a camera should mimic a single-chambered human eye. Instead of recovering physical parameters, the goal will be to capture the visual essence of the scene and analyze the perceptually critical components.  I call this Essence Photography and it may loosely resemble depiction of the world after high level vision processing. It will spawn new forms of visual artistic expression and communication. Related work




Coded Time (Exposure)
 
Coding in Space
 
Coded Illumination  
Coded Wavelength
Coded Sensing


Flutter Shutter Cam

Coded Aperture Optical Heterodyning
Multi-flash Camera
Agile Spectrum
 
Gradient Processing


Flutter Shutter Camera

Encoded Blur Camera for Digital Refocussing LightField Camera

Multi Flash Camera
Agile Spectrum Imaging

Cliques for computing forward difference


2006

2007
2007
2004
2008
2005


Computational Illumination: Projector as the dual of a camera
Traditionally, a projector is considered a display device that maps a 2D image onto a larger flat screen. In our research, we have questioned this restrictive consideration. By treating projector as the dual of a camera – that is, a 3D projective device that maps 2D pixels to 4D rays – we have shown that programmable illumination can be used in a versatile fashion for display, augmentation, optical communication and mobilityPrevious related work

 Projector Research, Keystone correction with homography, quadric image transfer, augmented reality and pocket projectors

Disclosed Product Impact:
Acute Angle Seamless Multiprojector Display
MPC Polgyonal 3D scene display
Multiprojector quadric curved immersive display
Six Projector 3D rendering on curved display (A detailed press release)

Radio Frequency Identity and Geometry (RFIG), location using photosensing RFID

We bring RFID and wireless tags into the realm of computer vision, graphics and HCI by supporting precise geometric analysis of tagged objects and surfaces using a composite RF and optical communication. Related work

Non photorealistic Rendering

Features such as silhouette edges, ridges, valleys and intersections of geometric primitives are useful in conveying shape in illustrations and art. We have developed a proactive imaging method to capture such features in real world scenes of various scales. One area of focus is shape clarifying multi-flash imaging for endscopes. For polygonal scenes, our focus has been real-time rendering of these features without requiring the connectivity information. Previous related work

Intelligent user interfaces

We are developing user interaction methods with novels gadgets and sensors. We have also exploited variational implicit surfaces for free form sketching and manipulation. Previous related work


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Publications


Siggraph Papers, Courses, Emerging Technologies, Sketches




2009
Bokode: Long Distance Barcodes


Paper: Bokode: Imperceptible Visual tags for Camera-based Interaction from a Distance

A Mohan, G Woo, S Hiura, Q Smithwick, R Raskar, SIGGRAPH 2009
Long distance barcodes of size 3x3mm captured via ordinary cameras at 3 meters for id, and 6DoF pose (angle and distance).
Invertible Motion Blur in Video


Paper: Invertible Motion Blur in Video

A Agrawal, Y Xi, R Raskar, SIGGRAPH 2009
Smarter image capture to make blur invertible in video frames and for producing the very first completely automatic motion deblurring system.


2008
Glare Reduction


Paper: Glare Aware Photography: 4D Ray Sampling for Reducing Glare Effects of Camera Lenses

R Raskar, A Agrawal, C Wilson, A
Veeraraghavan
SIGGRAPH 2008
First 'single-shot' approach to classify and reduce glare. We show that glare manifests as an outlier in 4D ray space and use a statistical approach to remove it by 4D sampling without reconstructing a 4D-lightfield.
6D Display


Paper: Towards 6D Displays
M Fuchs, Raskar, HP Seidel, H Lensch

SIGGRAPH 2008
A method for embedding 4D and 6D data into 2D films and employing lenslet arrays so that an observer experiences encoded objects as if they are lit by real-world incident illumination.
Shield Field 2008

Paper: Shield Fields: Heterodyned Shadows for Single-Shot Capture and Visual Hull Reconstruction of 3D Occluders
Lanman, Raskar, Agrawal, Taubin

SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008
A method for capturing shadows created due to multiple light sources using a mask and converting shadows into a 3D visual hull.


2007
Light Field and Coded Aperture Camera


Paper: Coded aperture and Optical Heterodyning : A mask-based approach for Digital Refocusing and Light Field Acquisition by Conventional Cameras

A Veeraraghavan, R Raskar, A Agrawal, A Mohan, J Tumblin
SIGGRAPH 2007
We exploit Fourier domain remapping of 4D ray-space to capture 4D light field on a 2D sensor in a conventional camera using a transmissive mask. No lens array is used.
Outdoor motion capture
Paper: LumiNetra: High Speed Scene Point Capture and Video Enhancement using Photosensing Markers and Multiplexed Illumination
R Raskar, H Nii, B de Decker, Y Hashimoto, J Summet, D Moore, Y Zhao,J Westhues, P Dietz, M Inami, S Nayar, J Barnwell, M Noland, P Bekaert, V Branzoi, E Bruns
SIGGRAPH 2007

A high speed optical motion capture also measures orientation and incident illumination via photosensing tags. Imperceptible tags work in natural lighting, to support on-set mocap or real-time broadcast of virtual_sets.


Course: Computational Photography, Course details and Slides
Course: Spatial Augmented Reality:Merging Real and Virtual Worlds
Emerging Technologies : Illumination Sensitive Dynamic Virtual Sets, [More Details]



2006

Motion deblurring of Taxi
Paper: Coded Exposure Photography: Motion Deblurring via Fluttered Shutter
R Raskar, A Agrawal, J Tumblin
SIGGRAPH 2006
This method flutters the camera shutter open and closed with a binary pseudo-random sequence during exposure. Fast-moving objects are blurred, but sequenced shuttering preserves all spatial frequencies, simplifying the deblurring process.



Paper: Fast Separation of Direct and Global Components of a Scene Using High Frequency Illumination
S Nayar, G Krishnan, M Grossberg, R Raskar
SIGGRAPH 2006
This work proposes a fast capture method for separating a scene into its direct and global illumination components. The method can handle a variety of global effects including inter-reflections, subsurface scattering, and volumetric scattering.



Course: Computational Photography, Course details and Slides
Course: Spatial Augmented Reality: A Modern Approach to Augmented Reality
Emerging Technologies Booth showing real-time demonstration of a new 500 Hz Motion Tracking which costs only a few hundred dollars, [More Details]


2005

Flash Articat Removal and Recovering the reflection layer
Paper: Removing Photography Artifacts Using Gradient Projection and Flash-Exposure Sampling
A Agrawal, R Raskar, S Nayar, Y Li

SIGGRAPH 2005
We address three problems: over or under illumination at a given flash brightness, unwanted reflections in glass, and attenuation over depth. And show a strikingly simple technique based on local gradient analysis.

Highlighted Course: Computational Photography, Course details and Slides
Course: Spatial Augmented Reality: A Modern Approach to Augmented Reality
Panel: The Ultimate Display(My position: Pocket Projector)


2004

Paper: Non-photorealistic Camera: Depth Edge Detection and Stylized Rendering using Multi-Flash Imaging
R Raskar, K Tan, R Feris, J Yu, M Turk

SIGGRAPH 2004 Flashlights cast annoying slivers of shadow around the subject. We locate shape contours by analyzing these cast shadows. We then use these silhouettes for artistic effects. But the contours can be used for many Computer and Machine vision applications.

Related Siggraph 2004 Activities and Publicity
Emerging Technologies Booth showing real-time demonstration
Siggraph 2004 cover
Highlighted Paper
Highlighted Emerging Technology activity, (More)
Electronic Theater (conference video highlight)
Student Poster (Specularities)
Paper: RFIG Lamps: Interacting with Self-describing World via Photosensing Wireless Tags and Projectors
R Raskar, P Beardsley, J vanBaar, Y Wang, P Dietz, J Lee, D Leigh, T Willwacher

SIGGRAPH 2004 It is difficult to precisely locate wireless tags using RF alone. But by adding a photosensor to these tags, we can locate using a hybrid RF+Optical scheme. We show this can be implemented in RFID tags and locate these tags using a pocket projector.


Related Siggraph 2004 Activities and Publicity
Emerging Technologies Booth showing real-time demonstration of handheld iLamps projectors
Highlighted Paper

Course: Advanced Projector Geometry topics



2003

Pocket Projector Based Interaction Paper: iLamps: Geometrically Aware and Self-Configuring Projectors
R Raskar, J vanBaar, P Beardsley, T Willwacher, S Rao, C Forlines

SIGGRAPH 2003
Related research on mobile phone-type with pocket projector.

Course: Projectors: Advanced Geometric Issues in Applications



2002


Course: Projector-Based Graphics



2000

Paper: Image Based Visual Hulls
Matusik, Buehler, Raskar, Gortler, McMillan 
SIGGRAPH 2000


Paper: The Office of the Future: Unification of Image-Based Modeling and Immersive Displays
R Raskar,G Welch, M Cutts, A Lake, L Stesin, H Fuchs,
SIGGRAPH 1998 


Other Journal and Conference Papers



A Projector-Camera Setup for Geometry-Invariant Frequency Demultiplexing
D. A. Vaquero, R. Raskar, R. S. Feris, and M. Turk.
CVPR 2009




Optimal Single Image Capture for Motion Deblurring
Amit Agrawal and Ramesh Raskar
CVPR 2009



3D Pose Estimation and Segmentation using Specular Cues
Ju Yong Chang, Amit Agrawal, Ramesh Raskar
CVPR 2009




Multiflash Stereopsis: Depth-Edge-Preserving Stereo with Small Baseline Illumination
Rogerio Feris, Ramesh Raskar, Longbin Chen, Kar-Han Tan, Matthew Turk
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 30(1): 147-159 (2008)


Agile Spectrum Imaging Agile Spectrum Imaging: Programmable Wavelength Modulation for Cameras and Projectors
A Mohan, R Raskar, J Tumblin 

Eurographics 2008



Sensing increased image resolution using aperture masks
Ankit Mohan, Xiang Huang, Jack Tumblin, Ramesh Raskar
CVPR 2008



Non-Refractive Modulators for Encoding and Capturing Scene Appearance and Depth
Ashok Veeraraghavan, Amit Agrawal, Ramesh Raskar, Ankit Mohan and Jack Tumblin
CVPR 2008



Characterizing the Shadow Space of Camera-Light Pairs
Daniel A. Vaquero, Rogerio S. Feris, Matthew Turk, Ramesh Raskar
CVPR 2008



Capturing Images with Sparse Informational Pixels using Projected 3D Tags
Li Zhang, Neesha Subramaniam, Robert Lin, Ramesh Raskar, Shree K. Nayar
IEEE-VR 2008: 11-18


Super-resolution from Motion
Resolving Objects at Higher Resolution from a Single Motion-Blurred Image
A Agrawal, R Raskar 

CVPR 2007 (Oral)


Retargetting
Automatic Image Retargeting
Setlur, V., Takagi, S., Raskar, Ramesh., Gleicher, M., and Gooch, B.
Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) 2005, ACM Press 2005.
Related research on Computational Photography.

Related wonderful research on Seam Carving and Context Aware Resizing.



Videoshop: A new framework for spatio-temporal video editing in gradient domain 
Hongcheng Wang, Ning Xu, Ramesh Raskar and Narendra Ahuja 

Graphical Models Volume 69, Issue 1, Pages 1-88 (January 2007)



Detecting and Segmenting Un-occluded Items by Actively Casting Shadows
Tze Koh, Amit Agrawal, Ramesh Raskar, Steve Morgan, Nicholas Miles and Barrie Hayes-Gill
ACCV 2007 (oral presentation)



Edge Suppression
Edge Suppression by Gradient Field Transformation Using Cross-Projection Tensors 
A Agrawal, R Raskar, R Chellappa 

CVPR 2006, New York, NY



What is the Range of Surface Reconstructions from a Gradient Field?
A Agrawal, R Raskar, R Chellappa

ECCV 2006 (Oral), Graz, Austria



Discontinuity Preserving Stereo with Small Baseline Multi-Flash Illumination
R Feris, R Raskar, L Chen, K Tan, M Turk

ICCV 2005 (Oral), Beijing



An Algebraic Approach to Surface Reconstruction from Gradient Fields
A Agrawal, R Chellappa, R Raskar

ICCV 2005, Beijing



Photosensing Wireless Tags for Geometric Procedures
R Raskar, P Dietz, P Beardsley, J vanBaar

Communication of the ACM (Invited Article) Sept 05


Gradient Camera
Why I Want a Gradient Camera
J Tumblin, A Agrawal, R Raskar

CVPR 2005, San Diego, CA


Quadric Image Transfer for Curved Screens
Quadric Image Transfer for Immersive Curved Screen Displays
R Raskar, J vanBaar, T Willwacher, S Rao

Eurographics 2004, Grenoble, France



Automatic Projector Calibration with Embedded Light Sensors
Lee, J.C.; Dietz, P.H.; Maynes-Aminzade, D.; Raskar, R.; Hudson, S.E.

UIST 2004




Display Grid
R Raskar, J vanBaar, P Beardsley

SID (Society for Information Display) 2004
(Comparison of Compute Grid with Projector-based Display Grid)



Seamless Video Editing
H Wang, R Raskar, N Ahuja

ICPR 2004



Image Fusion for Enhancing Context in Images and Video
R Raskar, A Ilie, J Yu

ACM Nonphotorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR) 2004, Annecy, France      ( Results, Project)



The Large Display Dilemma
R Raskar

Invited Talk at Pro-Cams workshop, Nice, France, Oct 2003           (Slides)



Blending Multiple Views
R Raskar, K Low

Pacific Graphics 2002, Beijing, China


Merging Fossil Specimens with Computer-Generated Information
Bimber, Gatesy, Witmer, Raskar, Encarnacao

IEEE Computer, Sept 2002


Free Form Sketching Using Variational Implicit Surfaces
O Karpenko, John F Hughes, R Raskar

Eurographics 2002, Saarbruken, Germany


Cartoon Diorama in Motion
R Raskar, R Ziegler, T Willwacher

NPAR 2002, Annecy, France


A Self Correcting Projector
R Raskar, P Beardsley

IEEE CVPR, Lihue, 2001
Related research on pocket projector


Shader Lamps
R Raskar, G Welch, K Low, D Bandyopadhyay

Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, London, 2001
Hardware Support for Non-photorealistic Rendering
R Raskar

Siggraph/Eurographics Graphics Hardware, LA, 2001 Source Code


A Low Cost Projector Mosaic
R Raskar, J vanBaar, J Chai

ACCV 2002
Related research on projectors.



Interacting with Spatially Augmented Reality
R Raskar, K Low

ACM Afrigraph, 2001


Dynamic Shader Lamps: Painting on Real Objects
D Badyopadhyay, R Raskar, H Fuchs

IEEE ACM Int. Symp. on Augmented Reality (ISAR), New York, 2001
Related research on Projector Based Augmented Reality 



Projected Imagery in Your Office of the Future
G Welch, H Fuchs, R Raskar, M Brown, H Towles
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, November 2000 


Immersive Planar Displays using Roughly Aligned Projectors
R Raskar   
IEEE VR 2000, March 2000, NJ



Multi-Projector Displays using Camera-Based Registration
R Raskar, M Brown, R Yang, W Chen, G Welch, H Towles, B Seales, H Fuchs
IEEE Visualization 99, Oct 1999, San Francisco, CA



Tabletop Spatially Augmented Reality: Bringing Physical Models to Life using Projected Imagery
R Raskar, G Welch, W Chen
Second Int Workshop on Augmented Reality (IWAR'99), October 1999, San Francisco, CA  



Oblique Projector Rendering on Planar Surfaces
R Raskar
ACM Siggraph 99 Sketch 


Image Precision Silhouette Edges
R Raskar, Michael Cohen
Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Atlanta GA, April 1999  Source Code



Efficient Image Generation for Multiprojector and Multisurface Displays
R Raskar, Matt Cutts, Greg Welch, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
Ninth EuroGraphics Rendering Workshop,(Appeared in Drettakis, G., Max, N. (eds.), Rendering Techniques '98. Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Vienna, Austria, June 1998



Seamless Projection Overlaps Using Image Warping and Intensity Blending
R Raskar, G Welch, Henry Fuchs
Fourth International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Gifu, Japan. Nov 1998. 



Spatially Augmented Reality
R Raskar, G Welch, H Fuchs
First International Workshop on Augmented Reality, San Francisco CA, Nov 1998. 


Augmented Reality Visualization for Laparoscopic Surgery
H Fuchs, M Livingston, R Raskar and others
First International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 1998. 



Simulation, Animation and Analysis of Design Disassembly for Maintainability Analysis
R Vujosevic, R Raskar, N Yetukuri
International Journal of Production Research, November 1995 



Incremental Path Generation for 6-DOF Robots
Ninth International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems, New Delhi, January 1993.




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Courses


MIT

Spring 2009 course: MAS 9xx (H)
Special Topics in Media Technology:
Camera Culture (0-9-0) W 3:00-5:00pm in E15-283A


Spring 2009 course: MAS 9xx (H)
Special Topics in Media Technology:
Imaging Culture (0-6-0) W 7:00-9:00pm in E15-Wiesner Room


Fall 2008 course: MAS 963 (H)
Computational Camera and Photography (6-3-3)
Fridays 1:30-4:30pm in E15-283A (Roth room)

Spring 2008 course: MAS 964 (H)
Special Topics in Media Technology:
Camera Culture (0-9-0) W 10:30-12:30pm in E15-235



Elsewhere

Advanced Topics in Computational Photography
R Raskar, J Tumblin
Siggraph 2008 [ Course Notes ]
Gradient Domain Techniques
A Agrawal, R Raskar
ICCV 2007, CVPR 2008 [ Course Notes ]

Computational Photography
R Raskar, J Tumblin
Siggraph 2006 and 2007 [ Course Notes ]
Spatial Augmented Reality
O Bimber, R Raskar
Siggraph 2006 [ Course Notes ]
Computational Photography
R Raskar, J Tumblin
Siggraph 2005 [ Course Notes ]
Spatial Augmented Reality: A Modern Approach to Augmented Reality
O Bimber, R Raskar
Siggraph 2005 [ Course Notes ]
Projectors: Advanced Graphics and Vision Techniques
R Raskar
Siggraph 2004 [ Course Notes in PDF ]
Modern Approaches to Augmented Reality
O Bimber and R Raskar
Eurographics 2004 [ Course Notes in PDF ]
Alternative Augmented Reality Approaches: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications
O Bimber and R Raskar
Eurographics 2003 [ Course Notes in PDF ]
Projectors: Advanced Geometric Issues in Applications
R Raskar
Siggraph 2003 [ Course Notes in PDF ]
Projector-based Graphics
R Raskar, E Lantz
Siggraph 2002 [ Course Notes in PDF ]

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Patents and Applications



Issued (37+)
1 7,218,792  Stylized imaging using variable controlled illumination 
2 7,206,449  Detecting silhouette edges in images 
3 7,154,395  Interactive wireless tag location and identification system 
4 7,137,707  Projector-camera system with laser pointers 
5 7,103,227  Enhancing low quality images of naturally illuminated scenes 
6 7,102,638  Reducing texture details in images 
7 7,068,274  System and method for animating real objects with projected images 
8 7,038,185  Camera for directly generating a gradient image 
9 7,019,748  Simulating motion of static objects in scenes 
10 7,001,023  Method and system for calibrating projectors to arbitrarily shaped surfaces with discrete optical sensors mounted at the surfaces 
11 6,930,681  System and method for registering multiple images with three-dimensional objects 
12 6,834,965  Self-configurable ad-hoc projector cluster 
13 6,811,264  Geometrically aware projector 
14 6,795,069  Free-form modeling of objects with variational implicit surfaces 
15 6,793,350  Projecting warped images onto curved surfaces 
16 6,781,591  Blending multiple images using local and global information 
17 6,764,185  Projector as an input and output device 
18 6,755,537  Method for globally aligning multiple projected images 
19 6,741,248  Rendering geometric features of scenes and models by individual polygons 
20 6,733,138  Multi-projector mosaic with automatic registration 
21 6,729,733  Method for determining a largest inscribed rectangular image within a union of projected quadrilateral images 
22 6,715,888  Method and system for displaying images on curved surfaces 
23 6,709,116  Shape-adaptive projector system 
24 6,677,956  Method for cross-fading intensities of multiple images of a scene for seamless reconstruction 
25 6,527,395  Method for calibrating a projector with a camera 
26 6,520,647  Automatic keystone correction for projectors with arbitrary orientation 

Public (USPTO link for before last 18 months,    45+)
Pending (   12+)


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Press

Recent Media Coverage


Coverage on Camera Culture group


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Books

  Spatial Augmented Reality


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Computational Photography: Mastering New Techniques for Lenses, Lighting, and Sensors


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Presentations and Talks



Keynote Addresses & Invited Presentations

ProCams October 2003, Nice, France, 'The Large Display Dilemma: Projectors are Dead' (Slides)

Symposium on Virtual Reality October 2004, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (Slides)

Graphics Interface May 2005, Victoria, Canada, 'Spatial Augmented Reality: New Problems in Human Interface' (Slides [17MB])
Ciencia and Arte April 2005, Caxias do Sul, Brazil, (Slides)
Flat Information Display November 2005, San Francisco, CA, 'Pocket Projector: All-in-one Solution for Mobility, Augmentation, Communication' (Slides)
Active RFID Summit November 2005, San Antonio, TX, 'RFIG : RFID + Geometry' (Slides)

Imagina February 2006, Monaco (Slides)
International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2006) October 2006, San Diego, 'The Poor Man's Palace: Special Effects in the Real World' (Slides)

Vision Modeling and Visualization Conference, Saarbrucken, Germany, November 2007, 'Coded Imaging', (Slides)
Asian Conference on Computer Vision,
Tokyo, Japan, November 2007, 'Less is More: Coded Computational Photography', (Slides)

Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, Bratislava, Slovakia, April 2008, 'Can Computer Graphics Impact Our Daily Life'
8th Brazilian Conference of Design Research and Development - P&D DESIGN 2008, São Paulo, 'Next in Augmented Reality',
(Slides)
Emerging Trends in Visual Computing (ETVC'08), Ecole Polytechnique (LIX), Paris, France, November 2008, 'Computational Photography: Epsilon to Coded Imaging' (Slides) (Video)
NIPS Symposium on Computational Photography, Vancouver, Canada, December 2008, 'Computational Photography: From Epsilon to Coded Photography', (Slides)


Universities and Research Laboratories

2008
U of Sao Paulo, Brazil (October, Host: Romero Tori, Carlos Morimoto)
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (June, Host: Jean Ponce)
ETH Zurich, Switzerland  (February, Host: Marc Pollefeys)
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia (March, Host: Irfan Essa)

2007
Microsoft Research, Seattle (May, Host: Sing Bing Kang)  Video
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge (June)  Video
U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Oct, Host: Jianbo Shi and
Kostas Daniilidis)
U of Delaware, Newark (Oct, Host: Jingyi Yu)
Boston U., Boston (Nov, Host: Stan Sclaroff)

2006
Technical University Graz, Graz, Austria (May, Host: Dieter Schmalstieg)
New York University (NYU), New York City (March, Host: Prof Ken Perlin)

2005
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (February, Host: Ramakrishna C)
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (August, Host: Prof Yoshifumi Kitamura)
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (April, Host. Prof. Carol O'Sullivan)
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL (March, Host. Prof. Yizhou Yu and Narendra Ahuja)
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL (March, Host: Prof. Bruce Gooch and Jack Tumblin)
Purdue University, IN (March, Host: Prof. Dan Aliaga)
SENAC, Sao Paulo (April, Host: Prof. Romero Tori)
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (November, Computer Vision for Interactive Intelligent Environments Link)

2004
University of Maryland at College Park, MD (Host: Prof Amitabh Varshaney)
Brown University, Providence, RI (Host. Prof. Gabriel Taubin)
North Eastern University, Boston, MA (Host: Prof. Ravi Sundaram)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (Host: Prof. Irfan Essa)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC (Host: Prof. Greg Welch)
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India (Host: Prof. Sharat Chandran)
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (Host: Prof. P. J. Narayanan)
U of Washington, Seattle, WA (Host: Prof. Steve Seitz)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution , Cape Cod, MA (Host: Prof. Hanumant Singh)

2003
Stanford University, CA (Host: Prof Terry Winograd ) Video
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley (Host: Prof Carlo H. Séquin)
Honda Labs, Mountain View CA (Host: James Davis)
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (Host: Motilal Agrawal)
nVidia , Santa Clara HQ, CA (Host: Wei-chao Chen)
University of California at Irvine, Irvine (Host: Prof Gopi Meenakshisundaram)
Siggraph Boston Chapter, Boston

2002
Siggraph Boston Chapter, Boston

2001
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge
Siggraph Boston Chapter, Boston
U of Tokyo, Tokyo (Host: Prof Tomoyuki Nishita)
Sony Computer Science Lab, Tokyo (Host: Frank Nielsen)
Mitsubishi Electric VIL (UK Research Lab), London (Host: Miroslaw Bober)

2000
IBM Research, T. J. Watson, New York (Host: Gabriel Taubin)
AT&T Labs, New Jersey (Host: Shankar Krishnan)
Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey (Host: Dan Aliaga and Ingrid Carlbom)
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (Host: Prof Pat Hanrahan and Prof Marc Levoy)
U of California at Berkeley, California
Intel Research, Santa Clara, California (Host: Jean-Yves Bouguet)
Princeton University, New Jersey

1999
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

1998
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, California (Host: Prof Peter Schröder)
U of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah


Panels

Symposium on Computational Photography and Video at MIT, What Will a Camera Look Like in 20 Years ? May 2005 (Organizer)
Siggraph 2005, The Ultimate Display: What Will It Be?, August 2005


Professional Activities


Papers
Committee: Siggraph 2007, Siggraph 2008

Papers Committee: Eurographics ( EG) 2005, Eurographics 2008, Eurographics 2009

Area Chair: CVPR 2009

Program Committee: International Conference on Computer Vision (IEEE ICCV) 2005, 2007
Program Committee: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (IEEE CVPR) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Program Committee: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2006, 2008
Program Committee: Computer Graphics International ( CGI) 2005
Program Committee: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (IEEE CVPR) 2004, 2005, 2006
Program Committee: Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering (ACM NPAR) 2004, 2006
Program Committee: High Performance Computing - Virtual Reality (HPC) 2004
Program Committee: Sketch-based Interfaces (with Eurographics) 2004

Judging panel member for Global Indus Technovator Awards at MIT, 2004

Reviewer: SIGGRAPH(1999-2004-), Eurographics(2001-2003), EGRW/EGRS, I3D(2001,2003), IEEE Visualization(1999,2000,2002,2003), ISMAR (Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2003,2004), ACM Multimedia, NPAR (2002,2004), UIST(2001,2002), ACM TOG, IEEE CG&A, IEEE TVCG


Awards and Honors


  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2009
  • Mitsubishi Electric Valuable Invention Award, 2006 (For Photosensing Tags, RFIG)
  • Mitsubishi Electric Valuable Invention Award, 2006 (For Dome Screen Projector Display)
  • Dome Screen Projector for prestigious 'Best 10 New Products' Prize in Japan given by Nikkan Kogyo Simbun
  • Technology Review's 100 Top Young Innovators Under 35 (TR100), 2004 (More links)
  • Mitsubishi Electric Valuable Invention Award, 2004
  • MIT Global Indus Technovator Awards (Top 20 Indian Researcher), 2003
  • Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology R&D Award, 2003
  • Link Fellowship Award, 1998-99
  • The undergraduate degree project in robotics awarded "Best Project of the University" prize by IEEE chapter of Pune Institute of Computer Technology , 1991
  • Best student paper, "Incremental Curve Generation" at state level technical paper contest, 1991
  • Ranked First among 500,000 students appearing for entrance exam (HSC Merit List) for the bachelor's program in the state of Maharashtra, India, 1987
  • Selected among TOP 20 to represent India at the International Mathematics Olympiad, 1987


Art/Tech Shows

2007
Prakash: Lighting Aware Motion Capture for Dynamic Virtual Sets, Emerging Tech, SIGGRAPH, Aug 2007, San Diego

2006
Instant Replay Air Hockey , Emerging Tech, SIGGRAPH, Aug 2006, Boston

2005
Contours with Multi-flash , CVPR 2005, June 2005, San Diego
 

2004
Camera Non-photo , COLLISION Senses Show, Nov 2004, Cambridge
Stylized Images with NPR Camera , Emerging Tech, SIGGRAPH, Aug 2004, Los Angeles
Interacting With Projections Using iLamp Projectors , Emerging Tech, SIGGRAPH, Aug 2004, Los Angeles

2001
Contra Inertia , superCOLLISION Show, Oct 2001, Cambridge