Computer Graphics

Prof. O'Brien quoted in New York Times Article on Inappropriate Duplication of Images in Biomedical Research.
March 8, 2017

Findings of fraud in biomedical research have surged in recent years, whether from an actual increase in misconduct or from heightened caution ... [more] Findings of fraud in biomedical research have surged in recent years, whether from an actual increase in misconduct or from heightened caution.
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Berkeley Graphics Alums, Hayley Iben and Sarah Beth Eisinger have been featured in Khan Acedemy's Pixar in a Box series of tutorials.
December 12, 2016

Pixar in a Box is a behind-the-scenes look at how Pixar artists do their jobs. You will be able to animate bouncing balls, build a swarm of robots ... [more] Pixar in a Box is a behind-the-scenes look at how Pixar artists do their jobs. You will be able to animate bouncing balls, build a swarm of robots, and make virtual fireworks explode. The subjects you learn in school — math, science, computer science, and humanities — are used every day to create amazing movies at Pixar. This collaboration between Pixar Animation Studios and Khan Academy is sponsored by Disney.
Hair Simulation 101
Introduction to Particle Systems
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Prof. O'Brien receives Technical Achievement award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Finite Element Destruction Modeling
January 12, 2015

Prof. James O'Brien will be receiving a Technical Achievement award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Finite Element ... [more] Prof. James O'Brien will be receiving a Technical Achievement award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Finite Element Destruction Modeling. The software he developed has been used in over 60 Feature films during the last five years, including Harry Potter, Man of Steel, 300: Rise of an Empire, Godzilla, Life of Pi, Maleficent, and Guardians of the Galaxy.
DMM Software
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Scientific American selected Brian Barsky and Fu-Chung Huang's research on vision correcting displays as one of 2014s ten World Changing Ideas
December 1, 2014

Research by Brian Barsky and Fu-Chung and their colleagues at MIT on displays that correct for the viewer's vision problems has been selected ... [more] Research by Brian Barsky and Fu-Chung and their colleagues at MIT on displays that correct for the viewer's vision problems has been selected as one of 2014's ten "World Changing Ideas" by Scientific American.
Scientific American article
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To be presented at the SIGGRAPH 2014 conference in Vancouver
August 10, 2014

Adaptive Tearing and Cracking of Thin Sheets
Tobias Pfaff, Rahul Narain, Juan Miguel de Joya, and James O'Brien

Exposing Photo Manipulation from ... [more] Adaptive Tearing and Cracking of Thin Sheets
Tobias Pfaff, Rahul Narain, Juan Miguel de Joya, and James O'Brien

Exposing Photo Manipulation from Shading and Shadows
Eric Kee, James O'Brien, and Hany Farid

Self-Refining Games using Player Analytics
Matt Stanton, Ben Humberston, Brandon Kase, James O'Brien, Kayvon Fatahalian, and Adrien Treuille

Factored Axis-Aligned Filtering for Rendering Multiple Distribution Effects
Soham Mehta, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Fredo Durand

Eyeglasses-free Display: Towards Correcting Visual Aberrations with Computational Light Field Displays
Fu-Chung Huang, Gordon Wetzstein, Brian A. Barsky, and Ramesh Raskar

High-Order Similarity Relations in Radiative Transfer
Shuang Zhao, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Kavita Bala

Discrete Stochastic Microfacet Models
Wenzel Jakob, Milos Hasan, Ling-Qi Yan, Jason Lawrence, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Steve Marschner

Rendering Glints on High-Resolution Normal-Mapped Specular Surfaces
Ling-Qi Yan, Milos Hasan, Wenzel Jakob, Jason Lawrence, Steve Marschner, and Ravi Ramamoorthi

3D Object Manipulation in a Single Image using Stock 3D Models
Natasha Kholgade, Tomas Simon, Alexei Efros, and Yaser Sheikh


2014 Papers
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KBody: Balanced monocular whole-body estimation
Nikolaos Zioulis, James F. O'Brien
CVFAD 2023

KBody: Towards general, robust, and aligned monocular whole-body estimation
Nikolaos Zioulis, James F. O'Brien
RHOBIN 2023

Monocular Facial Performance Capture Via Deep Expression Matching
Stephen Bailey, Jérémy Riviere, Morten Mikkelsen, James F. O'Brien
SCA 2022

This photograph has been altered: Testing the effectiveness of image forensic labeling on news image credibility
Cuihua Shen, Mona Kasra, James F. O'Brien
Misinformation Review

Fast and Deep Facial Deformations
Stephen Bailey, Dalton Omens, Paul Dilorenzo, James F. O'Brien
SIGGRAPH 2020

Fake images: The effects of source, intermediary, and digital media literacy on contextual assessment of imag credibility online
Cuihua Shen, Mona Kasra, Wenjing Pan, Grace A. Bassett, Yining Malloch, James F. O'Brien
New Media and Society

Fast and Deep Deformation Approximations
Stephen Bailey, Dave Otte, Paul Dilorenzo, James F. O'Brien
SIGGRAPH 2018

Approximate svBRDF Estimation From Mobile Phone Video
Rachel A. Albert, Dorian Yao Chan, Dan B Goldman, James F. O'Brien
EGSR 2018

Seeing Is Believing: How People Fail to Identify Fake Images on the Web
Mona Kasra, Cuihua Shen, James F. O'Brien
CHI 2018

Simulation of Subseismic Joint and Fault Networks Using a Heuristic Mechanical Model
Paul Gillespie, Giulio Casini, Hayley Iben, James F. O'Brien
SSRD 2017