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 appt

Current Research Projects:

• 3D Shape-Based Retrieval and Analysis
• 3D Mesh Segmentation Benchmark
• Princeton Shape Benchmark
• Structural Bioinformatics

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

• 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 2009), August 2009.
• Yaron Lipman and Thomas Funkhouser
  Mobius Voting for Surface Correspondence,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2009), 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 2009), 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:

• Papers chair, ACM SIGGRAPH 2009
• Advisory board, ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009

Graduate Students and Postdocs:

• Yaron Lipman
• Alex Golovinskiy
• Xiaobai Chen
• Vladimir Kim
• 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)

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

Miscellaneous:

• Curriculum vita (out of date)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