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Overview

Greg Turk is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States and has a research focus spanning computer science and engineering. Their work primarily contributes to areas such as computer vision and pattern recognition, control and systems engineering, and artificial intelligence. Turk's research also includes computational mechanics and biomedical engineering as notable subfields of study.

The main topics addressed in their research include human pose and action recognition, human motion and animation, and robot manipulation and learning. Additional themes include computer graphics and visualization techniques, reinforcement learning in robotics, muscle activation and electromyography studies, and machine learning algorithms.

Greg Turk has collaborated frequently with several coauthors throughout their career. The most frequent collaborators include Charles C. Kemp, C. Karen Liu, Wenhao Yu, Henry Clever, and Yunbo Zhang.

Their recent papers highlight a broad range of interests and publication venues. Notable papers include:

  • Robot Learning From Randomized Simulations: A Review, 2022, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • BodyPressure - Inferring Body Pose and Contact Pressure From a Depth Image, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Learning to manipulate amorphous materials, 2020, ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • Characterizing Multidimensional Capacitive Servoing for Physical Human-Robot Interaction, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • Auditing Gender Presentation Differences in Text-to-Image Models, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Greg Turk's publications are spread across several venues that include arXiv (Cornell University), ACM Transactions on Graphics, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Among these, arXiv represents the venue with the highest number of their publications.

Best Publications

  • Zippered polygon meshes from range images

    Greg Turk;Marc Levoy

  • Graphcut textures: image and video synthesis using graph cuts

    Vivek Kwatra;Arno Schödl;Irfan Essa;Greg Turk

  • Re-tiling polygonal surfaces

    Greg Turk

  • Multi-level partition of unity implicits

    Yutaka Ohtake;Alexander Belyaev;Marc Alexa;Greg Turk

  • Simplification envelopes

    Jonathan Cohen;Amitabh Varshney;Dinesh Manocha;Greg Turk

  • Modelling with implicit surfaces that interpolate

    Greg Turk;James F. O'Brien

  • Generating textures on arbitrary surfaces using reaction-diffusion

    Greg Turk

  • Shape transformation using variational implicit functions

    Greg Turk;James F. O'Brien

  • Simplification and repair of polygonal models using volumetric techniques

    F.S. Nooruddin;G. Turk

  • LCIS: a boundary hierarchy for detail-preserving contrast reduction

    Jack Tumblin;Greg Turk

  • Pixel-planes 5: a heterogeneous multiprocessor graphics system using processor-enhanced memories

    Henry Fuchs;John Poulton;John Eyles;Trey Greer

  • Fast and memory efficient polygonal simplification

    Peter Lindstrom;Greg Turk

  • State of the Art in Example-based Texture Synthesis

    Li-Yi Wei;Sylvain Lefebvre;Vivek Kwatra;Greg Turk

  • Texture synthesis on surfaces

    Greg Turk

  • Image-guided streamline placement

    Greg Turk;David Banks

  • Rigid fluid: animating the interplay between rigid bodies and fluid

    Mark Carlson;Peter J. Mucha;Greg Turk

  • Reconstructing surfaces of particle-based fluids using anisotropic kernels

    Jihun Yu;Greg Turk

  • Feature-based surface parameterization and texture mapping

    Eugene Zhang;Konstantin Mischaikow;Greg Turk

  • Image-driven simplification

    Peter Lindstrom;Greg Turk

  • Terrain Synthesis from Digital Elevation Models

    H. Zhou;J. Sun;G. Turk;J.M. Rehg

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Karen Liu
C. Karen Liu Stanford University
Peter J. Mucha
Peter J. Mucha Dartmouth College
James F. O'Brien
James F. O'Brien University of California, Berkeley
Peter Lindstrom
Peter Lindstrom Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Henry Fuchs
Henry Fuchs University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Charles C. Kemp
Charles C. Kemp Georgia Institute of Technology
Marc Stieglitz
Marc Stieglitz Georgia Institute of Technology
Hans-Peter Seidel
Hans-Peter Seidel Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Irfan Essa
Irfan Essa Georgia Institute of Technology
Blair MacIntyre
Blair MacIntyre Georgia Institute of Technology

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