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Szymon Rusinkiewicz

Szymon Rusinkiewicz

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Computer Science

D-Index
69
Citations
28471
World Ranking
1934
National Ranking
979

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Szymon Rusinkiewicz is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a particular emphasis on several subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Control and Systems Engineering, and Geology.

Their scholarly contributions span multiple main topics, including:

  • 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
  • Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
  • Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
  • Optical measurement and interference techniques

Szymon Rusinkiewicz has published extensively, with a total of 44 publications primarily in the field of Computer Science and 27 in Engineering. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 12 publications
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics with 4 publications
  • Computer Graphics Forum with 3 publications
  • Automation in Construction with 2 publications
  • Autonomous Robots with 1 publication

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Rusinkiewicz include:

  • "TidyBot: personalized robot assistance with large language models," 2023, Autonomous Robots
  • "Poisson Surface Reconstruction with Envelope Constraints," 2020, Computer Graphics Forum
  • "Learned feature embeddings for non-line-of-sight imaging and recognition," 2020, ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • "Closed-loop control of direct ink writing via reinforcement learning," 2022, ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • "Self-supervised Neural Articulated Shape and Appearance Models," 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Thomas Funkhouser, Fangyin Wei, Jimmy Wu, Shuran Song, and Andy Zeng.

Szymon Rusinkiewicz was awarded the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Efficient variants of the ICP algorithm

    S. Rusinkiewicz;M. Levoy

  • The digital Michelangelo project: 3D scanning of large statues

    Marc Levoy;Kari Pulli;Brian Curless;Szymon Rusinkiewicz

  • Rotation invariant spherical harmonic representation of 3D shape descriptors

    Michael Kazhdan;Thomas Funkhouser;Szymon Rusinkiewicz

  • QSplat: a multiresolution point rendering system for large meshes

    Szymon Rusinkiewicz;Marc Levoy

  • Real-time 3D model acquisition

    Szymon Rusinkiewicz;Olaf Hall-Holt;Marc Levoy

  • Suggestive contours for conveying shape

    Doug DeCarlo;Adam Finkelstein;Szymon Rusinkiewicz;Anthony Santella

  • Modeling by example

    Thomas Funkhouser;Michael Kazhdan;Philip Shilane;Patrick Min

  • Estimating curvatures and their derivatives on triangle meshes

    S. Rusinkiewicz

  • Spacetime stereo: a unifying framework for depth from triangulation

    J. Davis;R. Ramamoorthi;S. Rusinkiewicz

  • Spacetime stereo: a unifying framework for depth from triangulation

    J. Davis;D. Nehab;R. Ramamoorthi;S. Rusinkiewicz

  • Efficiently combining positions and normals for precise 3D geometry

    Diego Nehab;Szymon Rusinkiewicz;James Davis;Ravi Ramamoorthi

  • Geometrically stable sampling for the ICP algorithm

    N. Gelfand;L. Ikemoto;S. Rusinkiewicz;M. Levoy

  • A planar-reflective symmetry transform for 3D shapes

    Joshua Podolak;Philip Shilane;Aleksey Golovinskiy;Szymon Rusinkiewicz

  • Multiscale shape and detail enhancement from multi-light image collections

    Raanan Fattal;Maneesh Agrawala;Szymon Rusinkiewicz

  • Stripe boundary codes for real-time structured-light range scanning of moving objects

    O. Hall-Holt;S. Rusinkiewicz

  • A New Change of Variables for Efficient BRDF Representation

    Szymon M. Rusinkiewicz

  • Chopper: partitioning models into 3D-printable parts

    Linjie Luo;Ilya Baran;Szymon Rusinkiewicz;Wojciech Matusik

  • A Reflective Symmetry Descriptor for 3D Models

    Michael Kazhdan;Bernard Chazelle;David Dobkin;Thomas Funkhouser

  • Dynamic shape capture using multi-view photometric stereo

    Daniel Vlasic;Pieter Peers;Ilya Baran;Paul Debevec

  • Global non-rigid alignment of 3-D scans

    Benedict J. Brown;Szymon Rusinkiewicz

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Funkhouser
Thomas Funkhouser Google (United States)
Tim Weyrich
Tim Weyrich University College London
Adam Finkelstein
Adam Finkelstein Princeton University
Ravi Ramamoorthi
Ravi Ramamoorthi University of California, San Diego
Marc Levoy
Marc Levoy Google (United States)
Doug DeCarlo
Doug DeCarlo Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael Kazhdan
Michael Kazhdan Johns Hopkins University
Hanspeter Pfister
Hanspeter Pfister Harvard University
James Davis
James Davis University of California, Santa Cruz

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