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

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?,
  Communications of the ACM, 55(1):107-115, January 2012
  (Original version appeared at SIGGRAPH 2008).
• Aleksey Boyko and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Extracting roads from dense point clouds in large scale urban environment,
  ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
  Themed Issue on "Advances in LiDAR data processing and applications", 66(6):S2-S12, December 2011.
• Doug M. Boyer, Yaron Lipman, Elizabeth St. Clair, Jesus Puente,
  Biren A. Patel, Thomas Funkhouser, Jukka Jernvall, and Ingrid Daubechies,
  Algorithms to Automatically Quantify the Geometric Similarity of Anatomical Surfaces,
  PNAS, October 2011.
• Antonio García Castañeda, Benedict Brown, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Thomas Funkhouser, and Tim Weyrich,
  Global Consistency in the Automatic Assembly of Fragmented Artefacts,
  Intl. Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST), Prato Italy, October 2011.
• Vladimir G. Kim, Yaron Lipman, and Thomas Funkhouser
  Blended Intrinsic Maps,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), August 2011.
• Thomas Funkhouser, Hijung Shin, Corey Toler-Franklin, Antonio García Castañeda,
  Benedict Brown, David Dobkin, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and Tim Weyrich
  Learning How to Match Fresco Fragments,
  ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, 4(2), November 2011.
  (Original version appeared as an area paper at Eurographics, April 2011).
• Corey Toler-Franklin, Benedict Brown, Tim Weyrich, Thomas Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
  Multi-Feature Matching of Fresco Fragments,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), December 2010.
• Hijung Shin, Christos Doumas, Thomas Funkhouser,
  Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Ken Steiglitz, Andreas Vlachopoulos, and Tim Weyrich
  Analyzing Fracture Patterns in Theran Wall Paintings,
  The 11th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST), September 2010.
• Yaron Lipman, Xiaobai Chen, Ingrid Daubechies, and Thomas Funkhouser
  Symmetry Factored Embedding and Distance,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), August 2010.
• Vladimir Kim, Yaron Lipman, Xiaobai Chen, and Thomas Funkhouser
  Mobius Transformations For Global Intrinsic Symmetry Analysis,
  Computer Graphics Forum (Symposium on Geometry Processing), July 2010.
• Jian Sun, Xiaobai Chen, and Thomas Funkhouser
  Fuzzy Geodesics and Consistent Sparse Correspondences For Deformable Shapes,
  Computer Graphics Forum (Symposium on Geometry Processing), July 2010.
• Yaron Lipman, Raif Rustamov, and Thomas Funkhouser
  Biharmonic Distance,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics, 29(3), June, 2010.
• John Capra, Roman Laskowski, Janet Thornton, Mona Singh, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Predicting Protein Ligand Binding Sites by Combining Evolutionary Sequence Conservation and 3D Structure,
  PLoS Computational Biology, 5(12): e1000585, December 2009.
• Aleksey Golovinskiy, Vladimir Kim, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Shape-based Recognition of 3D Point Clouds in Urban Environments
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), September 2009.
• Aleksey Golovinskiy, Joshua Podolak, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Symmetry-Aware Mesh Processing
  Mathematics of Surfaces 2009 (invited paper), LNCS 5654, September 2009.
• Xiaobai Chen, Aleksey Golovinskiy, and Thomas Funkhouser
  A Benchmark for 3D Mesh Segmentation,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), August 2009.
• Yaron Lipman and Thomas Funkhouser
  Mobius Voting for Surface Correspondence,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), August 2009.
• Forrester Cole, Kevin Sanik, Doug DeCarlo, Adam Finkelstein, Thomas Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and Manish Singh
  How Well Do Line Drawings Depict Shape?,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), August 2009.
• Raif Rustamov, Yaron Lipman, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Interior Distance Using Barycentric Coordinates,
  Computer Graphics Forum (Symposium on Geometry Processing), July 2009.
• Aleksey Golovinskiy and Thomas Funkhouser
  Consistent Segmentation of 3D Models,
  Computers and Graphics (Shape Modeling International), June 2009.

Recent Professional Activities:

• Advisory board, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2011
• Program committee, Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), 2011
• Program committee, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2011
• Program committee, Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), 2010
• Program committee, Shape Modeling International (SMI), 2010
• Program committee, Workshop on Non-Rigid Shape Analysis and Deformable Image Alignment (NORDIA), 2010
• Program committee, Sketch Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM), 2010
• Papers chair, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2009
• Advisory board, ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2009

Recemt Research Projects:

• 3D Shape-Based Retrieval and Analysis
• 3D Mesh Segmentation Benchmark
• Princeton Shape Benchmark
• Reassembling Theran Wall Paintings
• Line Drawings of 3D Shapes
• Structural Bioinformatics

Past Research Projects:

• Princeton Search Engine for 3D Models
• 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

Graduate Students and Postdocs:

• Xiaobai Chen (Fifth year)
• Vladimir Kim (Fourth year)
• Aleksey Boyko (Fourth year)
• Tianqian Liu (Second year)
• Yaron Lipman (Postdoc 2008-2011)
• Jian Sun (Postdoc, 2009-1010)
• Daniel Aliaga (Postdoc, 2002-2003)
• Alex Golovinskiy (Ph.D. 2010)
• Paul Calamia (Ph.D. 2009)
• Phil Shilane (Ph.D. 2008)
• Misha Kazhdan (Ph.D. 2004)
• Patrick Min (Ph.D. 2004)
• Rudro Samanta (Ph.D. 2002)

Miscellaneous:

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