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  • 2006 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Steve Marschner is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans primarily across computer science and engineering, with an emphasis on computer vision, computer graphics, and computational mechanics. The scientist's work also engages with human-computer interaction and biomedical engineering as subfields of study.

The main topics covered in their research include computer graphics and visualization techniques, 3D shape modeling and analysis, image enhancement techniques, optical measurement and interference techniques, interactive and immersive displays, textile materials and evaluations, and advanced vision and imaging.

The scientist has contributed numerous papers, notably published in prominent venues such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, arXiv (Cornell University), Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, and Computer Graphics Forum.

  • Weavecraft (2020, ACM Transactions on Graphics)
  • Automatic structure synthesis for 3D woven relief (2020, ACM Transactions on Graphics)
  • Gas-liquid flow in small channels: Artificial neural network classifiers for flow regime prediction (2021, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification)
  • A wave optics based fiber scattering model (2020, ACM Transactions on Graphics)
  • Path graphs (2021, ACM Transactions on Graphics)

The scientist has worked frequently with several co-authors including Bruce Walter, Joy Xiaoji Zhang, Mengqi Xia, Brooks Hagan, and Eric Michielssen.

In terms of publication locations, the most common outlet has been ACM Transactions on Graphics, with eight publications, followed by seven papers on arXiv affiliated with Cornell University.

Steve Marschner was awarded the title of Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2006.

Best Publications

  • A practical model for subsurface light transport

    Henrik Wann Jensen;Stephen R. Marschner;Marc Levoy;Pat Hanrahan

  • Animation and rendering of complex water surfaces

    Douglas Enright;Stephen Marschner;Ronald Fedkiw

  • Fundamentals of Computer Graphics

    Peter Shirley;Michael Ashikhmin;Steve Marschner

  • Filling holes in complex surfaces using volumetric diffusion

    J. Davis;S.R. Marschner;M. Garr;M. Levoy

  • Matching Real Fabrics with Micro-Appearance Models

    Pramook Khungurn;Daniel Schroeder;Shuang Zhao;Kavita Bala

  • Microstructures to control elasticity in 3D printing

    Christian Schumacher;Bernd Bickel;Jan Rys;Steve Marschner

  • Image-based BRDF measurement including human skin

    Stephen R. Marschner;Stephen H. Westin;Eric P. F. Lafortune;Kenneth E. Torrance

  • Dual photography

    Pradeep Sen;Billy Chen;Gaurav Garg;Stephen R. Marschner

  • Light scattering from human hair fibers

    Stephen R. Marschner;Henrik Wann Jensen;Mike Cammarano;Steve Worley

  • An evaluation of reconstruction filters for volume rendering

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  • A Survey on Hair Modeling: Styling, Simulation, and Rendering

    K. Ward;F. Bertails;Tae-Yong Kim;S.R. Marschner

  • Simulating knitted cloth at the yarn level

    Jonathan M. Kaldor;Doug L. James;Steve Marschner

  • Stitch meshes for modeling knitted clothing with yarn-level detail

    Cem Yuksel;Jonathan M. Kaldor;Doug L. James;Steve Marschner

  • Manifold exploration: a Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique for rendering scenes with difficult specular transport

    Wenzel Jakob;Steve Marschner

  • A radiative transfer framework for rendering materials with anisotropic structure

    Wenzel Jakob;Adam Arbree;Jonathan T. Moon;Kavita Bala

  • Data-Driven Estimation of Cloth Simulation Models

    E. Miguel;D. Bradley;B. Thomaszewski;B. Bickel

  • Efficient yarn-based cloth with adaptive contact linearization

    Jonathan M. Kaldor;Doug L. James;Steve Marschner

  • A comprehensive framework for rendering layered materials

    Wenzel Jakob;Eugene d'Eon;Otto Jakob;Steve Marschner

  • Building volumetric appearance models of fabric using micro CT imaging

    Shuang Zhao;Wenzel Jakob;Steve Marschner;Kavita Bala

  • Fundamentals of Computer Graphics

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  • On-The-Fly Print: Incremental Printing While Modelling

    Huaishu Peng;Rundong Wu;Steve Marschner;François Guimbretière

  • Printing arbitrary meshes with a 5DOF wireframe printer

    Rundong Wu;Huaishu Peng;François Guimbretière;Steve Marschner

  • Rendering glints on high-resolution normal-mapped specular surfaces

    Ling-Qi Yan;Miloš Hašan;Wenzel Jakob;Jason Lawrence

  • Coupled 3D reconstruction of sparse facial hair and skin

    Thabo Beeler;Bernd Bickel;Gioacchino Noris;Paul Beardsley

  • Simulating knitted cloth at the yarn level

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  • Discrete stochastic microfacet models

    Wenzel Jakob;Miloš Hašan;Ling-Qi Yan;Jason Lawrence

  • A radiative transfer framework for rendering materials with anisotropic structure: Expanded Technical Report

    Wenzel Jakob;Adam Arbree;Jonathan T. Moon;Kavita Bala

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernd Bickel
Bernd Bickel ETH Zurich
Kavita Bala
Kavita Bala Cornell University
Bruce Walter
Bruce Walter Cornell University
Doug L. James
Doug L. James Stanford University
Peter Shirley
Peter Shirley Nvidia (United States)
Markus Gross
Markus Gross ETH Zurich
Ravi Ramamoorthi
Ravi Ramamoorthi University of California, San Diego
Marie-Paule Cani
Marie-Paule Cani École Polytechnique
Wojciech Jarosz
Wojciech Jarosz Dartmouth College

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