About the Authors
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Ramesh RaskarDr. Ramesh Raskar is currently head of the Camera Culture research group and an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences- both at MIT Media Lab. The Camera Culture research group focuses on developing tools to better capture and share the visual experience, and in creating a universal platform for the sharing and consumption of visual media. More specifically, the research involves developing cameras with digital wavelength control, unusual optical elements, femtosecond analysis of light transport, programmable illumination, and tools to decompose pixels into perceptually meaningful components. His work spans a range of topics in computer vision and graphics including non-photorealistic rendering and intelligent user interfaces, projective geometry, and computational photography. Raskar received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His doctoral research at UNC Chapel Hill lead to his joining with Mitsubishi Electronic Research Labs (MERL) where he was Senior Research Scientist. Raskar has received three Mitsubishi Electric Invention Awards as well as holding 30 U.S. patents. In 2003 he received the Global Indus Technovator Award, instituted at MIT that recognizes the top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide. In 2004 he received Technology Review's TR100- recognizing the top one-hundred innovators under the age of 35. He has been producing journal and conference papers since 1993, and various other publications since 2000. His publications have appeared in SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, IEEE Visualization, and CVPR, as well as many other graphics and vision conferences. |
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Jack TumblinJack Tumblin is an Associate Professor in the EECS Department at Northwestern University, where his “Look Lab” group pursues research on new methods to capture and manipulate the appearance of objects and surroundings, in the hope that hybrid optical/computer methods may give us new ways to see, explore, and interact with objects and people anywhere in the world. Funded projects (NSF, MERL, Adobe, NU) and research publications include novel photographic sensors, optics, and lighting devices; gigapixel image representations for scene capture, rendering and display; and low-cost self-contained systems to help museum curators explore, archive, and share their collections digitally. In addition to numerous journal and conference papers, he presents tutorials and courses on Computational Photography (SIGGRAPH 2005-8, Eurographics 2006-8), and on Bilateral Filtering (SIGGRAPH 2007-8, IEEE CVPR 2008). He has been Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Graphics (2001-2006) a member of the Eurographics Program Committee and Gunderle Award Comittee(2007,2008), SIGGRAPH Papers Committee (2003, 2004), and a Guest Editor of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (2001), and his work has been granted 10 patents. He joined Northwestern as an Assistant Professor in 2001, after post-doctoral studies at Cornell (1999-2001) from his Ph. D at Georgia Tech (1999) and from earlier originating work on tone mapping and perception topics in high dynamic range imaging (HDR). His MS in Electrical Engineering (December 1990) and BSEE (1978), also from Georgia Tech, bracketed his work as co-founder of IVEX Corp., (more than 45 people as of 1990) where he developed what may have been the first FAA-certified image-based flight simulators. This work stemmed from his early (1983) videodisk-based 3D-flying video-game device and work as a television engineer (KTLA) and cinema/fine arts student at Univ. of Southern California (1980). |