Thomas Funkhouser Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Computer Science Princeton University

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

Recent Talks:

• Thomas Funkhouser,
  Five Principles for Choosing Research Problems in Computer Graphics,
  ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award Talk, SIGGRAPH, August 2014.
  (YouTube video)
   
• Thomas Funkhouser,
  Learning 3D Models for Scene Understanding,
  Intel Reseach Labs, August 2014.
   
• Sid Chaudhuri, Steve Diverdi, Matthew Fisher, Pat Hanrahan, Vladimir Kim, Wilmot Li, Niloy Mitra, Daniel Ritchie, Manolis Savva, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Learning Probabilistic Models from Collections of 3D Meshes,
  SUNw: Scene Understanding Workshop, CVPR, June 2014.
   
• Thomas Funkhouser,
  Discovering Similarities in 3D Data,
  Research Workshop on Shape and Image Modeling and Analysis (SIMA), May 2014.

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

• Tianqiang Liu, Jim McCann, Wilmot Li, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Composition-Aware Scene Optimization for Product Images,
  Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics), 2015.
   
• Tianqiang Liu, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Vladimir G. Kim, Qi-Xing Huang, Niloy J. Mitra, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Creating Consistent Scene Graphs Using a Probabilistic Grammar,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), December 2014.
   
• Aleksey Boyko and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Cheaper by the Dozen: Group Annotation of 3D Data,
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), October 2014.
   
• Vladimir G. Kim, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Leonidas Guibas, and Thomas Funkhouser.
  Shape2Pose: Human-Centric Shape Analysis,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), August 2014.
   
• Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Stephen Giguere, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  AttribIt: Content Creation with Semantic Attributes,
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), October 2013.
   
• Vladimir G. Kim, Wilmot Li, Niloy J. Mitra, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Stephen DiVerdi, and Thomas Funkhouser.
  Learning Part-based Templates from Large Collections of 3D Shapes,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), July 2013.
   
• Matthew Fisher, Daniel Ritchie, Manolis Savva, Thomas Funkhouser, and Pat Hanrahan,
  Example-based Synthesis of 3D Object Arrangements,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 31(6), November 2012.
   
• Hijung Shin, Christos Doumas, Thomas Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz,
  Kenneth Steiglitz, Andreas Vlachopoulos, and Tim Weyrich,
  Analyzing and Simulating Fracture Patterns of Theran Wall Paintings,
  ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, 5(3), October 2012.
   
• Yaron Lipman, Vladimir G. Kim, Thomas Funkhouser,
  Simple Formulas For Quasiconformal Plane Deformations,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics, 31(5), August 2012.
   
• Xiaobai Chen, Abulhair Saparov, Bill Pang, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Schelling Points on 3D Surface Meshes,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), August 2012
   
• Vladimir G. Kim, Wilmot Li, Niloy Mitra, Stephen DiVerdi, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Exploring Collections of 3D Models using Fuzzy Correspondences,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), August 2012
   
• Tianqiang Liu, Vladimir G. Kim, Thomas Funkhouser,
  Finding Surface Correspondences Using Symmetry Axis Curves,
  Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Symposium on Geometry Processing), July 2012
   
• Vladimir G. Kim, Yaron Lipman, Thomas Funkhouser,
  Symmetry-Guided Texture Synthesis and Manipulation,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics, 31(3), May 2012.
   
• Forrester Cole, Aleksey Golovinskiy, Alex Limpaecher, Heather Stoddart Barros,
  Adam Finkelstein, Thomas Funkhouser, and Szymon Rusinkiewicz,
  Where Do People Draw Lines?,
  Communications of the ACM, 55(1):107-115, January 2012

Recent Professional Activities (here is a full list of activities):

• Papers chair, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2009
• Advisory board, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2008, A2009, 2011, 2014
• Program committee, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, A2008, 2009, 2011, 2013
• Papers chair, EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), 2014
• Program committee, EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
• Co-director, Intel Science and Technology Center on Visual Computing (ISTC-VC), 2012 - 2014

Recent Courses:

• COS 598A (Spring 2015) -- Advanced Topics in CS: Shape Analysis
• COS 526 (Fall 2014) -- Advanced Computer Graphics
• COS 426 (Spring 2014) -- Computer Graphics
• COS 429 (Fall 2013) -- Computer Vision
• COS 126 (Spring 2013) -- General Computer Science (precepts)
• COS 526 (Fall 2012) -- Advanced Computer Graphics
• COS 598A (Spring 2011) - Advanced Topics in CS: Geometric Modeling and Analysis

Graduate Students and Postdocs:

• Aleksey Boyko (Sixth year)
• Tianqian Liu (Fifth year)
• Fisher Yu (Fourth year)
• Elena Sizikova (Second year)
• Maciej Halber (Second year)
• Sid Chaudhuri (Postdoc 2011-2104 -> Lecturer at Cornell)
• Yaron Lipman (Postdoc 2008-2011 -> Asst Prof at Weismann Institute)
• Jian Sun (Postdoc, 2009-1010 -> Assoc Prof at Tsinghua)
• Daniel Aliaga (Postdoc, 2002-2003 -> Assoc Prof at Purdue)
• Xiaobai Chen (Ph.D. 2014 -> Citadel)
• Vladimir Kim (Ph.D. 2013 -> Postdoc at Stanford)
• Alex Golovinskiy (Ph.D. 2010 -> Google)
• Paul Calamia (Ph.D. 2009 -> MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
• Phil Shilane (Ph.D. 2008 -> EMC)
• Misha Kazhdan (Ph.D. 2004 -> Assoc Prof at John Hopkins)
• Patrick Min (Ph.D. 2004 -> Freelance programmer)
• Rudro Samanta (Ph.D. 2002 -> Pixar)