Thomas A. Funkhouser

How to Reach Me:

E-mail: funk@cs.princeton.edu

Princeton Computer Graphics Group

Department of Computer Science

Princeton University

35 Olden Street, Room 422

Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone: (609) 258-1748

Fax: (609) 258-1771

Office Hours: by appointment

Current Research Projects:

• 3D Shape-Based Retrieval and Analysis
• Structural Bioinformatics
• Princeton Shape Benchmark
• Princeton Search Engine for 3D Models

Selected Recent Publications (here is a full list of publications):

• Forrester Cole, Aleksey Golovinskiy, Alex Limpaecher, Heather Stoddart Barros,
  Adam Finkelstein, Thomas Funkhouser, and Szymon Rusinkiewicz,
  Where Do People Draw Lines?,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2008), August 2008
• Jeehyung Lee and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Sketch-Based Search and Composition of 3D Models,
  EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, June 2008
• Philip Shilane and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Distinctive Regions of 3D Surfaces
  ACM Transactions on Graphics, volume 26, number 2, June 2007
• Joshua Podolak, Philip Shilane, Alex Golovinskiy, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  A Planar-Reflective Symmetry Transform for 3D Shapes
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2006), August 2006
• Alex Golovinskiy, Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  A Statistical Model for Synthesis of Detailed Facial Geometry
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2006), August 2006
• Thomas Funkhouser and Philip Shilane,
  Partial Matching of 3D Shapes with Priority-Driven Search
  Symposium on Geometry Processing, June 2006.
• Philip Shilane and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Selecting Distinctive 3D Shape Descriptors for Similarity Retrieval
  Shape Modeling International, June 2006
• Thomas Funkhouser, Michael Kazhdan, Patrick Min, Philip Shilane,
  Shape-based Retrieval and Analysis of 3D Models
  Communications of the ACM, 48(6):58-64, June 2005
• Thomas Funkhouser, Michael Kazhdan, Philip Shilane, Patrick Min, William Kiefer, Ayellet Tal, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and David Dobkin
  Modeling by Example
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2004), Los Angeles, CA, August 2004
• Michael Kazhdan, Thomas Funkhouser, and Szymon Rusinkiewicz,
  Shape Matching and Anisotropy,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2004), Los Angeles, CA, August 2004
• Philip Shilane, Patrick Min, Michael Kazhdan, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  The Princeton Shape Benchmark,
  Shape Modeling International, Genova, Italy, June 2004.
• Thomas Funkhouser, Nicolas Tsingos, Ingrid Carlbom,
  Gary Elko, Mohan Sondhi, James E. West, Gopal Pingali, Patrick Min and Addy Ngan
  A Beam Tracing Method for Interactive Architectural Acoustics,
  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115(2):739-756, February 2004.
• Michael Kazhdan, Bernard Chazelle, David Dobkin, Thomas Funkhouser, and Szymon  Rusinkiewicz
  A Reflective Symmetry Descriptor for 3D Models,
  Algorithmica, 38(2), November 2003.

Current Professional Activities:

• Papers chair, ACM SIGGRAPH 2009
• Program committee, ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008
• Program committee, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008
• Program committee, Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2008
• Program committee, Shape Modeling International 2008

Teaching Activities:

• COS 598C (Spring 2008) -- Advanced Topics in CS: Geometric Modeling and Analysis
• COS 597A (Fall 2007) -- Structural Bioinformatics
• COS 426 (Spring 2007) -- Computer Graphics
• COS 526 (Fall 2006) -- Advanced Computer Graphics
• COS 426 (Spring 2006) -- Computer Graphics
• COS 597A (Fall 2005) -- Structural Bioinformatics
• COS 426 (Spring 2004) -- Computer Graphics
• COS 597d (Fall 2003) - Advanced Topics in CS: Geometric Modeling and Analysis
• COS 217 (Spring 2003) - Introduction to Programming Systems
• COS 526 (Fall 2002) - Advanced Computer Graphics
• COS 217 (Spring 2002) - Introduction to Programming Systems
• COS 597e (Fall 2001) -- Advanced Topics in CS: Shape Analysis
• COS 598b (Spring 2001) -- Advanced Topics in CS: Computer Graphics Rendering Techniques
• COS 426 (Fall 2000) -- Computer Graphics
• COS 598b (Spring 2000) -- Advanced Topics in CS: Geometric Modeling for Computer Graphics
• COS 398, 498, JIW, SRT (Spring 2000) -- Undergraduate Independent Work
• COS 426 (Fall 1999) -- Computer Graphics
• COS 397, 497, JIW, SRT (Fall 1999) -- Undergraduate Independent Work
• COS 126 (Spring 1999) -- General Computer Science
• COS 398, 498, JIW, SRT (Spring 1999) -- Undergraduate Independent Work
• COS 597c (Fall 1998) -- Advanced Topics in CS: Immersive Computing Systems
• COS 397, 497, JIW, SRT (Fall 1998) -- Undergraduate Independent Work
• COS 598d (Spring 1998) -- Advanced Topics in CS: Geometric Modeling for Computer Graphics

Graduate Students:

• Alex Golovinskiy
• Paul Calamia
• Phil Shilane (Ph.D. 2008)
• Misha Kazhdan (Ph.D. 2004)
• Patrick Min (Ph.D. 2004)
• Rudro Samanta (Ph.D. 2002)

Past Research Projects:

• Acoustic Modeling for Virtual Environments
• Sea of Images (Image-Based Rendering of Large Environments)
• Parallel Rendering With Clusters of PCs
• Scalable Display Wall
• Nonphotorealistic Virtual Environments
• Hybrid Geometry- and Image-Based Modeling and Rendering
• Interactive Architectural Walkthroughs
• Radiosity Lighting Simulation
• Multi-User Virtual Environments
• Consistent Solid Models from Arbitrary Polygonal Data

Miscellaneous:

• Curriculum vita (out of date)
• Links I find useful