| Interests | Interactive 3D computer graphics and computer vision algorithms and applications | |
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| Education | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ph.D. Computer Science(Aug 1995 May 2000) (Computer Graphics and Computer Vision) Dissertation title : Projector as the Dual of a Camera University of Iowa, Iowa City M.S. Computer Science (Aug 1993- May 1995) GPA: 3.96/4.0 (Computer Vision) Govt. College of Engineering, Pune, India B.S. Electronics and Telecommunication (Aug 1987- July 1991) GPA: 4.0/4.0 (Robotics) |
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| Projects | Non-photorealistic
Rendering Real-time image-precision technical illustrations using silhouettes and artistic effects Generation of Large Field of View Displays Calibrating and rendering on arbitrarily placed projectors with arbitrary overlaps to create instant large panoramic displays 3D Scene Extraction and Rendering Using structured light, extract 3D information of live scenes and render it at remote sites for teleconferencing Visibility Server Client-server model for interactive walkthrough of large polygonal database by computing visibility at server Prediction in Image Space For interactive rendering, predict the user motion by tracking features in image space and warp images till a new frame is rendered Fast 3D virtual models Extract 3D shape of simple objects and import them to render in virtual environments in under 5 minutes Collision detection in virtual worlds Make user interaction simpler by computing collision detection between possibly non-convex objects Edge-based dynamic programming algorithm for Stereo Correspondence Problem Master's research at U. of Iowa Multimedia Networking Design and implementation of an efficient computer telephone. |
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Image
Based Visual Hulls McMillan, Gortler, Raskar and others ACM SIGGRAPH 2000, New Orleans, July 2000 Hardware Support for NPR R Raskar Siggraph/Eurographics Graphics Hardware, LA, 2001 Shader Lamps R Raskar, G Welch, K Low Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, London, 2001 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 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. 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, ACM SIGGRAPH, Orlando FL, July 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. 3D Telecollaboration Systems Talk at California Institute of Technology, Oct 1997 Scene Reconstruction in Real Time Student seminar talk at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Feb 1997 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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| Experience |
Research Scientist,
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL-CRL) Aug 2000 - Present Projective Geometry, Sketching-based interfaces, NPR, Video-based animation Webpage: MERL-CRL Summer Research Intern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology June - Sept 1999 Projective Geometry, Image Based Rendering Mentor: Leonard McMillan Summer Research Intern, Microsoft Research Graphics Group, May - Sept 1998 Image Based Rendering and Non-photorealistic Rendering Mentors: Michael Cohen, Rick Szeliski Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science UNC, May 1996 - May 2000 Large simulation environments, Real time depth extraction, rendering and projection using distributed computing Advisors: Prof Henry Fuchs, Greg Welch Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science U of Iowa, Iowa City, August 1993 - August 1995 Algorithms for Human motion analysis using UPenn's JACK animation package Advisor: Prof Margaret Fleck Programmer, Tandem Computers Cupertino, California, Oct 1992 - August 1993 Software auto-maintenance tools for X.500 based products |
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| Skills | C, C++, Unix, Windows, OpenGL, various 3D tools, web tools | |
| Other Activities | Referee for 'Computer Graphics and Applications' and main computer graphics conferences: SIGGRAPH, I3DG, IEEE-VR | |
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| References | Dr. Henry Fuchs
(fuchs@cs.unc.edu) Dr. Gary Bishop (gb@cs.unc.edu) Dr. Greg Welch (welch@cs.unc.edu) |
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