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
• Princeton Search Engine for 3D Models

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

• Raif Rustamov, Yaron Lipman, and Thomas Funkhouser,
  Interior Distance Using Barycentric Coordinates,
  Computer Graphics Forum (Symposium on Geometry Processing), 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.
• Aleksey Golovinskiy and Thomas Funkhouser
  Consistent Segmentation of 3D Models,
  Computers and Graphics (Shape Modeling International), June 2009.
• Aleksey Golovinskiy and Thomas Funkhouser
  Randomized Cuts for 3D Mesh Analysis,
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2008), December 2008
• 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

Current Professional Activities:

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

Teaching Activities:

• COS 426 (Spring 2009) -- Computer Graphics
• COS 126 (Fall 2008) -- General Computer Science (precept)
• 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

Postdocs:

• Yaron Lipman

Graduate Students:

• 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