Aaron Hertzmann


Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, May 2001.
New York University, New York, NY
Thesis: Algorithms for Rendering in Artistic Styles
Thesis advisors: Ken Perlin and Denis Zorin

M.S. Computer Science, January 1998
New York University, New York, NY

B.A. Computer Science and Art & Art History, May 1996
Rice University, Houston, TX


Current Position

Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems. San Francisco, CA. (Senior Research Scientist: October 2012-August 2016; Principal Scientist: Sep 2016-present).


Affiliate Position

Affiliate Professor, University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Department (September 2005-present)


Experience

Professor, University of Toronto Computer Science Department, Toronto, ON. (Assistant: Jan 2003-June 2007; Associate: July 2007-June 2012; Full: July 2012-October 2013; Status-Only: October 2013-August 2019)

Visiting Research Scientist, Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, CA. June 2009-February 2010.

Acting Assistant Professor, University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Department, Seattle, WA. Fall 2001 to December 2002.

Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA. Summer, 2000.

Research Assistant, Stanford Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA. Spring, 2000.

Summer Intern, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, Cambridge, MA. Summer, 1999

Summer Intern, Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, CA. Summer, 1998

Summer Intern, NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ. Summer, 1997

Software Engineer, Stellartech Research Corporation, Mountain View, CA. Summer and Winter Breaks, 1992-1996

Student Researcher, Rice University Computer Science Department, Houston, TX. Summer, 1996

Professional Societies

SIGGRAPH Academy (elected 2024)

IEEE Fellow (elected 2020)

ACM Fellow (elected 2018)

CIFAR Fellow (2010-2013)

Awards and Honors

SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, 2024

UIST Honorable Mention Paper Award, 2017

CHI Honorable Mention Paper Award, 2017

CHI Honorable Mention Paper Award, 2015

Canadian Conference on AI Best Paper Award, 2014

BMVC Best Science Paper Award, 2013

Rice Outstanding Young Engineering Alumnus, 2011

Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences, 2010

CACS/AIC Outstanding Young CS Researcher Award, 2009

University of Toronto Computer Science Student Union Teaching Award, 2008

Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship, 2006

Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 2006

Ontario Early Researcher Award, 2005

TR100: MIT Technology Review's 100 Top Young Innovators Under 35, 2004

Janet Fabri Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Computer Science, New York University, 2002

First Place, ACM/IBM Quest for Java '97

Departmental Fellowship, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 1996

Member of winning team, ACM Regional Programming Contest, 1993

Member of third place team, ACM Regional Programming Contest, 1995

Conferences and Journals

Editorial boards:
Editor-in-Chief, Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision (2019-present)
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Graphics (2009 to 2018)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2006 to 2009)
Associate Editor, Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision (2004 to 2019)

Conference and workshop co-chair:
SIGGRAPH 2022 Conference Papers Director
SIGGRAPH Frontiers Workshop, August 9, 2022. (Workshop organizer and speaker)
ICCV 2019 Workshop on Image and Video Synthesis
Pacific Graphics 2013, Singapore
Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR 2004), Annecy, France
NIPS 2004 Workshop on Learning in Graphics and Vision, Whistler, BC

Conference program committees:
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 (Area Coordinator), 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 (Papers sort), 2019 (COI coordinator), 2024
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, 2011
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2013
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2008, 2012
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2003, 2006, 2007
International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR) 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008
ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2005, 2006, 2007
Pacific Graphics 2002, 2004
Graphics Interface 2004

Guest Editor:
IEEE CG&A Special Issue on Art and Artificial Intelligence. Volume 44, Issue 2. Mar.-Apr. 2024 (co-editor)
IEEE CG&A Special Issue on Physics-Based Characters. vol. 31, no. 1, July/August 2011 (co-editor)

Advisory board:
"The Imitation Game: Visual Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" Exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery, 2020.

Juries:
SIGGRAPH Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2022-2024.
LDV Start-up Competition, 2017
Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2004, Internet films division


Scholarly Publications

Note: Most of my technical papers use the following convention for author order: student(s) first, then all other authors in alphabetical order.

Book

P. Bénard, A. Hertzmann. Line Drawings from 3D Models. Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision. 2019.


Refereed journal papers (Scientific journals)

Xi Wang, Zoya Bylinskii, Aaron Hertzmann, Robert Pepperell. A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. To appear.

Aaron Hertzmann. Toward a Theory of Perspective Perception in Pictures. Journal of Vision. April 2024, 24(4).

Ziv G. Epstein, Aaron Hertzmann, et al. Art and the science of generative AI. Science. 2023. Vol. 360, No. 6650.

Aaron Hertzmann. The Choices Hidden in Photography. Journal of Vision. October 2022, Vol.22, 10.

Aaron Hertzmann. The Role of Edges in Line Drawing Perception. Perception. Vol. 50, Issue 3, 2021.

Aaron Hertzmann. Why Do Line Drawings Work? A Realism Hypothesis. Perception. 2020.

Xi Wang, Zoya Bylinskii, Aaron Hertzmann, Robert Pepperell. Toward Quantifying Ambiguities in Artistic Images. ACM Trans. Applied Perception (TAP). 2020. (SAP Special Issue)


Refereed journal papers (Art journals)

Aaron Hertzmann. Visual Indeterminacy in GAN Art. Leonardo (SIGGRAPH Art Papers Issue), 2020

Aaron Hertzmann. Can Computers Create Art? Arts. 2018, 7, 18.


Refereed journal papers (Computer Science journals)

Vivien Nguyen, Matthew Fisher, Aaron Hertzmann, Szymon Rusinkiewicz. Region-Aware Simplification and Stylization of 3D Line Drawings. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics). 2024.

Aaron Hertzmann. New Insights in Smooth Occluding Contours for Nonphotorealistic Rendering. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (CG&A). Jan.-Feb. 2024, pp. 76-85, vol. 44.

Aaron Hertzmann. The Curse of Performative User Studies. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (CG&A). Nov.-Dec. 2023, pp. 112-116, vol. 43.

Zoya Bylinskii, Laura Herman, Aaron Hertzmann, Stephanie Hutka, Yile Zhang. Towards Better User Studies in Computer Graphics and Vision. Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision. 2023. Vol. 15: No. 3, pp 201-252.

Chenxi Liu, Pierre Bénard, Aaron Hertzmann, Shayan Hoshyari. ConTesse: Accurate Occluding Contours for Subdivision Surfaces. ACM Trans. on Graphics (TOG). 2023.

Sean Liu, Maneesh Agrawala, Stephen DiVerdi, Aaron Hertzmann. ZoomShop: Depth-Aware Editing of Photographic Composition. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics). 2022.

Jianan Li, Jimei Yang, Aaron Hertzmann, Jianming Zhang, Tingfa Xu. LayoutGAN: Synthesizing Graphic Layouts with Vector-Wireframe Adversarial Networks. IEEE Trans. PAMI. July 2021. Vol. 43, No. 7.

Aaron Hertzmann. Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do. Communications of the ACM (CACM). May 2020 (Vol. 63, No. 5).

Ana Serrano, Incheol Kim, Zhili Chen, Stephen DiVerdi, Diego Gutierrez, Aaron Hertzmann, Belen Masia. Motion parallax for 360o RGBD video. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comp. Graph. (IEEE VR 2019 special issue).

Elena Balashova, Amit H. Bermano, Vladimir G. Kim, Stephen DiVerdi, Aaron Hertzmann, Thomas Funkhouser. Learning a Stroke-Based Representation for Fonts. Computer Graphics Forum. In press

Balazs Kovacs, Peter O'Donovan, Kavita Bala, Aaron Hertzmann. Context-Aware Asset Search for Graphic Design. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comp. Graph. In press

Li Yi, Leonidas Guibas, Aaron Hertzmann, Vladimir G. Kim, Hao Su, Ersin Yumer. Learning Hierarchical Shape Segmentation and Labeling from Online Repositories. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2017.

Elena Garces, Aseem Agarwala, Aaron Hertzmann, Diego Gutierrez. Style-Based Exploration of Illustration Datasets. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 2016.

Xiaoyong Shen, Aaron Hertzmann, Jiaya Jia, Sylvain Paris, Brian Price, Eli Shechtman, Ian Sachs. Automatic Portrait Segmentation for Image Stylization. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics). 2016.

Tianqiang Liu, Aaron Hertzmann, Wilmot Li, Thomas Funkhouser. Style Compatibility For 3D Furniture Models. ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2015).

Gerard Pons-Moll, Jonathan Taylor, Jamie Shotton, Aaron Hertzmann, Andrew Fitzgibbon. Metric Regression Forests for Correspondence Estimation. Int. J. Comp. Vision. 113 (3), 163-175. 2015.

Yanshuai Cao, Marcus Brubaker, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann. Efficient Optimization for Sparse Gaussian Process Regression IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).

Pierre Bénard, Aaron Hertzmann, Michael Kass. Computing Smooth Surface Contours with Accurate Topology, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2014. Volume 33, Issue 2.

Peter O'Donovan, Jānis Lībeks, Aseem Agarwala, Aaron Hertzmann. Exploratory Font Selection Using Crowdsourced Attributes. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2014. Vol. 33(4)

Elena Garces, Aseem Agarwala, Diego Gutierrez, Aaron Hertzmann. A Similarity Measure for Illustration Style. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2014. Vol. 33(4)

Peter O'Donovan, Aseem Agarwala, Aaron Hertzmann. Learning Layouts for Single-Page Graphic Designs, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Vol. 20(8), August 2014.

Mazen Al Borno, Eugene Fiume, Aaron Hertzmann, Martin de Lasa. Feedback Control for Rotational Movements in Feature Space. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics). 2014

Mazen Al Borno, Martin de Lasa, Aaron Hertzmann. Trajectory Optimization for Full-Body Movements with Complex Contacts, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Vol. 19, No. 8. Aug 2013.

Alex Colburn, Aseem Agarwala, Aaron Hertzmann, Brian Curless, Michael F. Cohen. Image-Based Remodeling. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics. Jan. 2013 (vol. 19 no. 1). pp. 56-66.

Evangelos Kalogerakis, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Simon Breslav, Aaron Hertzmann. Learning Hatching for Pen-and-Ink Illustration of Surfaces. ACM Trans. Graphics. Vol. 31, No. 1. 2012

Peter O'Donovan, Aseem Agarwala, Aaron Hertzmann. Color Compatibility From Large Datasets. ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2011.

Peter O'Donovan, Aaron Hertzmann. AniPaint: Interactive Painterly Animation from Video. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics. March 2012. Vol. 18, No. 3. pages 475-487.

Martin de Lasa, Igor Mordatch, Aaron Hertzmann. Feature-Based Locomotion Controllers. ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). July 2010.

Igor Mordatch, Martin de Lasa, Aaron Hertzmann. Robust Physics-Based Locomotion Using Low-Dimensional Planning. ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). July 2010.

Jack M. Wang, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann. Optimizing Walking Controllers for Uncertain Inputs and Environments. ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). July 2010.

Evangelos Kalogerakis, Aaron Hertzmann, Karan Singh. Learning 3D Mesh Segmentation and Labeling. ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). July 2010.

Dan B Goldman, Brian Curless, Aaron Hertzmann, Steven M. Seitz. Shape and Spatially-Varying BRDFs From Photometric Stereo. IEEE Trans. PAMI. June 2010.

Marcus A. Brubaker, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann. Physics-based Person Tracking Using the Anthropomorphic Walker. International Journal of Computer Vision. March 2010. Vol. 87, Nos 1-2.

Jack M. Wang, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann. Optimizing Walking Controllers. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2009). Vol. 28, No. 5. December 2009.

Evangelos Kalogerakis, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Patricio Simari, James McCrae, Aaron Hertzmann, Karan Singh. Data-driven curvature for real-time line drawing of dynamic scenes. ACM Trans. on Grahics. January 2009. Vol. 28, No. 1.

Lorenzo Torresani, Aaron Hertzmann, Christoph Bregler. Non-Rigid Structure-From-Motion: Estimating Shape and Motion with Hierarchical Priors. IEEE Trans. PAMI. May 2008. Vol. 30, No. 5. pp. 878-892.

Jack M. Wang, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann. Gaussian Process Dynamical Models for Human Motion. IEEE Trans. PAMI. February 2008. Vol. 30, No. 2. pp. 283-298.

Seth Cooper, Aaron Hertzmann, Zoran Popović. Active Learning for Real-Time Motion Controllers. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). July 2007.

Rob Fergus, Barun Singh, Aaron Hertzmann, Sam T. Roweis, William T. Freeman. Removing Camera Shake From A Single Photograph. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). July 2006. 25(3):787-794.

C. Karen Liu, Aaron Hertzmann, Zoran Popović. Learning Physics-Based Motion Style with Nonlinear Inverse Optimization ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2005. pp. 1071-1081.

Aaron Hertzmann, Steven M. Seitz. Example-Based Photometric Stereo: Shape Reconstruction with General, Varying BRDFs. IEEE Trans. PAMI, August 2005. Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 1254-1264.

Aseem Agarwala, Aaron Hertzmann, David H. Salesin, Steven M. Seitz. Keyframe-Based Tracking for Rotoscoping and Animation. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2004. pp. 584-591.

Keith Grochow, Steven L. Martin, Aaron Hertzmann, Zoran Popović. Style-Based Inverse Kinematics. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2004. pp. 522-531.


Reviewed conference papers

Ryan Capouellez, Jiacheng Dai, Aaron Hertzmann, Denis Zorin. Algebraic Smooth Occluding Contours. ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings. 2023.

Aaron Hertzmann. Toward Modeling Creative Processes for Algorithmic Painting. Proc. International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). 2022.

Davis Rempe, Tolga Birdal, Aaron Hertzmann, Jimei Yang, Srinath Sridhar, Leonidas Guibas. HuMoR: 3D Human Motion Model for Robust Pose Estimation Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2021.

Difan Liu, Matthew Fisher, Aaron Hertzmann, Evangelos Kalogerakis. Neural Strokes: Stylized Line Drawing of 3D Shapes Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2021.

Ruben Villegas, Duygu Ceylan, Aaron Hertzmann, Jimei Yang, Jun Saito. Contact-Aware Retargeting of Skinned Motion. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2021.

Eric Härkönen, Aaron Hertzmann, Jaakko Lehtinen, Sylvain Paris. GANSpace: Discovering Interpretable GAN Controls Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). 2020.

Camilo Fosco, Vincent Casser, Amish Kumar Bedi, Peter O'Donovan, Aaron Hertzmann, Zoya Bylinskii. Predicting Visual Importance Across Graphic Design Types. Proc. ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). 2020.

Davis Rempe, Leonidas Guibas, Aaron Hertzmann, Bryan C. Russell, Ruben Villegas, Jimei Yang. Contact and Human Dynamics from Monocular Video Proc. European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2020.

Minyoung Huh, Richard Zhang, Jun-Yan Zhu, Sylvain Paris, Aaron Hertzmann. Transforming and Projecting Images into Class-conditional Generative Networks. Proc. European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2020.

Difan Liu, Mohamed Nabail, Aaron Hertzmann, Evangelos Kalogerakis. Neural Contours: Learning to Draw Lines from 3D Shapes. Proc. CVPR 2020

Sean J. Liu, Maneesh Agrawala, Stephen DiVerdi, Aaron Hertzmann. View-Dependent Video Textures for 360o Video. Proc. UIST 2019.

Yijun Li, Chen Fang, Aaron Hertzmann, Eli Shechtman, Ming-Hsuan Yang. Im2Pencil: Controllable Pencil Illustration from Photographs. Proc. CVPR 2019.

Jianan Li, Tingfa Xu, Jianming Zhang, Aaron Hertzmann, Jimei Yang. LayoutGAN: Generating Graphic Layouts with Wireframe Discriminator. Proc. ICLR 2019

Cuong Nguyen, Feng Liu, Stephen DiVerdi, Aaron Hertzmann. Depth Conflict Reduction for Stereo VR Video Interfaces. Proc. CHI 2018

Michael J. Wilber, Chen Fang, Hailin Jin, Aaron Hertzmann, John Collomosse, Serge Belongie. BAM! The Behance Artistic Media Dataset for Recognition Beyond Photography. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2017.

Z. Bylinskii, N. W. Kim, P. O'Donovan, S. Alsheikh, S. Madan, H. Pfister, F. Durand, B. C. Russell, A. Hertzmann. Learning Visual Importance for Graphic Designs and Data Visualizations. Proc. User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). 2017.

Cuong Nguyen, Stephen DiVerdi, Aaron Hertzmann, Feng Liu. CollaVR: Collaborative In-Headset Review for VR Video. Proc. User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). 2017.

Leon Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker, Matthias Bethge, Aaron Hertzmann, Eli Shechtman. Controlling Perceptual Factors in Neural Style Transfer. Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2017.

Cuong Nguyen, Stephen DiVerdi, Aaron Hertzmann, and Feng Liu. Vremiere: In-headset Virtual Reality Video Editing. Proc. CHI 2017

Maja Rudolph, Matthew D. Hoffman, Aaron Hertzmann. A Joint Model for Who-to-Follow and What-to-View Recommendations on Behance. Proc. MSM. 2016.

Hamid Izadinia, Bryan Russell, Ali Farhadi, Matthew D. Hoffman, Aaron Hertzmann. Deep Classifiers from Image Tags in the Wild. Proc. Multimedia Commons 2015

Peter O'Donovan, Aseem Agarwala, Aaron Hertzmann. DesignScape: Design with Interactive Layout Suggestions. Proc. CHI 2015

Jian Zhao, Zhicheng Liu, Mira Dontcheva, Aaron Hertzmann, Alan Wilson. MatrixWave: Visual Comparison of Event Sequence Data. Proc. CHI 2015

Ronnachai Jaroensri, Sylvain Paris, Aaron Hertzmann, Vladimiar Bychkovsky, Frédo Durand. Predicting Range of Acceptable Photographic Tonal Adjustments. Proc. ICCP 2015

Babak Saleh, Aaron Hertzmann, Mira Dontcheva, Zhicheng Liu. Learning Style Similarity for Searching Infographics. Proc. GI 2015

Sergey Karayev, Matthew Trentacoste, Helen Han, Aseem Agarwala, Trevor Darrell, Aaron Hertzmann, Holger Winnemöller. Recognizing Image Style. Proc. BMVC 2014.

Jun Xie, Aaron Hertzmann, Wilmot Li, Holger Winnemöller. PortraitSketch: Face Sketching Assistance for Novices. Proc. UIST 2014.

Peter O'Donovan, Aseem Agarwala, Aaron Hertzmann. Collaborative Filtering of Color Aesthetics. Proc. Computational Aesthetics (CAe). 2014.

Jonathan Taylor, Richard Stebbing, Varun Ramakrishna, Cem Keskin, Jamie Shotton, Shahram Izadi, Aaron Hertzmann, Andrew Fitzgibbon. User-Specific Hand Modeling from Monocular Depth Sequences. Proc. IEEE CVPR 2014.

Michael Guerzhoy and Aaron Hertzmann. Learning Latent Factor Models of Human Travel for Travel Prediction and Analysis. In Proc. of the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, May 2014, Montreal, Quebec.

Yanshuai Cao, Marcus Brubaker, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann. Efficient Optimization for Sparse Gaussian Process Regression. NIPS 2013.

Gerard Pons-Moll, Jonathan Taylor, Jamie Shotton, Aaron Hertzmann, Andrew Fitzgibbon. Metric Regression Forests for Human Pose Estimation. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2013.

Aaron Hertzmann. Non-Photorealistic Rendering and the Science of Art. Proc. NPAR 2010.

Martin de Lasa, Aaron Hertzmann. Prioritized Optimization for Task-Space Control. IROS 2009.

Evangelos Kalogerakis, Olga Vesselova, James Hays, Alexei A. Efros, Aaron Hertzmann. Image Sequence Geolocation with Human Travel Priors. Proc. IEEE ICCV 2009.

Ian Vollick, Daniel Vogel, Maneesh Agrawala, Aaron Hertzmann. Specifying Label Layout Styles by Example. UIST 2007. pp. 221-230.

Todd Goodwin, Ian Vollick, Aaron Hertzmann. Isophote Distance: A Shading Approach to Artistic Stroke Thickness. NPAR 2007. August 2007. pp. 53-62.

Marcus Brubaker, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann. Physics-Based Person Tracking Using Simplified Lower-Body Dynamics. Proc. IEEE CVPR 2007. June 2007. pp. 1-8.

Jack M. Wang, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann. Multifactor Gaussian Process Models for Style-Content Separation. ICML 2007. June 2007. pp. 975-982

C. Karen Liu, Aaron Hertzmann, Zoran Popović. Composition of Complex Optimal Multi-Character Motions. SCA 2006. pp. 215-222.

Brett Allen, Brian Curless, Zoran Popović, Aaron Hertzmann. Learning a correlated model of identity and pose-dependent body shape variation for real-time synthesis. SCA 2006. pp. 147-156.

Alexander Kolliopoulos, Jack M. Wang, Aaron Hertzmann. Segmentation-Based 3D Artistic Rendering. EGSR 2006. Nicosia, Cyprus. June 28, 2006. pp. 361-370.

Jack M. Wang, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann. Gaussian Process Dynamical Models. NIPS 18, 2006. pp. 1441-1448.

Aaron P. Shon, Keith Grochow, Aaron Hetzmann, Rajesh P. N. Rao. Learning Shared Latent Structure for Image Synthesis and Robotic Imitation, NIPS 18, 2006. pp. 1233-1240.

Raquel Urtasun, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann, Pascal Fua. Priors for People Tracking from Small Training Sets. Proc. IEEE ICCV 2005. Beijing, China. October 18. pp. 403-410.

Daniel B. Goldman, Brian Curless, Aaron Hertzmann, Steven M. Seitz. Shape and Spatially-Varying BRDFs from Photometric Stereo. Proc. IEEE ICCV 2005. Beijing, China. October 18. pp 341-348.

Kannan Achan, Sam Roweis, Aaron Hertzmann, Brendan Frey. A Segment-Based Probabilistic Generative Model of Speech. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2005). Philadelphia, PA. Vol.5, pages 221-224.

Lorenzo Torresani, Aaron Hertzmann. Automatic Non-Rigid 3D Modeling from Video. Proc. ECCV 2004. pp. 299-312. May, 2004. Prague, Czech Republic.

Adrien Treuille, Aaron Hertzmann, Steven M. Seitz. Example-Based Stereo with General BRDFs. Proc. ECCV 2004. pp. 457-469. May, 2004. Prague, Czech Republic.

Lorenzo Torresani, Aaron Hertzmann, Christoph Bregler. Learning Non-Rigid 3D Shape from 2D Motion. Proc. NIPS 2003. Vancouver, BC. pp. 1555-1562

Li Zhang, Brian Curless, Aaron Hertzmann, Steven M. Seitz. Shape and Motion under Varying Illumination: Unifying Structure from Motion, Photometric Stereo, and Multi-view Stereo. Proc. IEEE ICCV 2003. Nice, France. October 2003. pp. 618-625.

Aaron Hertzmann, Steven M. Seitz. Shape and Materials by Example: A Photometric Stereo Approach. Proc. IEEE CVPR 2003. Madison, WI. June 2003. Vol. 1. pp. 533-540.

Aaron Hertzmann, Nuria Oliver, Brian Curless, Steven M. Seitz. Curve Analogies. Proc. 13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Pisa, Italy. June 26-28, 2002. pp. 233-245.

Aaron Hertzmann. Fast Paint Texture. NPAR 2002: Second International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering. Annecy, France. June 3-5, 2002. pp. 91-96, 161.

Chee Yap, Henning Biermann, Aaron Hertzmann, Chen Li, Jon Meyer, Hsing-Kuo Pao, Salvatore Paxia. A Different Manhattan Project: Automatic Statistical Model Generation. Proc. SPIE Visualization and Data Analysis 2002.

Aaron Hertzmann, Charles E. Jacobs, Nuria Oliver, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin. Image Analogies. SIGGRAPH 2001 Conference Proceedings. August 12-17, 2001. pp. 327-340.

Lexing Ying, Aaron Hertzmann, Henning Biermann, Denis Zorin. Texture and Shape Synthesis on Surfaces. Proc. 12th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering. June 25-27, 2001. pp. 301-312.

Aaron Hertzmann. Paint By Relaxation. Proc. Computer Graphics International 2001. July 3-6, 2001. pp. 47-54.

Aaron Hertzmann, Denis Zorin. Illustrating smooth surfaces. SIGGRAPH 2000 Conference Proceedings. New Orleans, Louisiana. July 2000. pp. 517-526.

Matthew Brand, Aaron Hertzmann. Style machines. SIGGRAPH 2000 Conference Proceedings. New Orleans, Louisiana. July 2000. pp. 183-192.

Christoph Bregler, Aaron Hertzmann, Henning Biermann. Recovering Non-Rigid 3D Shape from Image Streams Proc. IEEE CVPR 2000. June 13-15, 2000. pp. 690-696.

Aaron Hertzmann, Ken Perlin. Painterly Rendering for Video and Interaction. Proc. First International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering. June 5-7, 2000. pp. 7-12, 121.

Aaron Hertzmann. Painterly Rendering with Curved Brush Strokes of Multiple Sizes. SIGGRAPH 98 Conference Proceedings. July, 1998. pp. 453-460.


Reviewed workshop papers

Maja R. Rudolph, Matthew Hoffman, Aaron Hertzmann. A Joint Model for Who-to-Follow and What-to-View Recommendations on Behance. Proc. MSM 2016

Michael Guerzhoy, Aaron Hertzmann. Learning Latent Factor Models of Human Travel. NIPS 2012 Workshop on Social Network and Social Media Analysis.

Azeem Lakdawalla, Aaron Hertzmann. Shape from Video: Dense Shape, Texture, Motion and Lighting from Monocular Image Streams.. Workshop on Photometric Analysis for Computer Vision 2007. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2007.

Marcus Brubaker, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann. Physics-Based Human Pose Tracking. EHuM: Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion and Pose Estimation. Whistler, BC. December, 2006.

Andrew Wright, Suresh Jagannathan, Cristian Ungureanu, Aaron Hertzmann. Compiling Java to a Typed Lambda-Calculus: A Preliminary Report. Proc. Second Intl. Workshop on Types in Compilation. Springer-Verlag LNCS 1473. March 1998. pp. 9-27.


Other publications

Alexei A. Efros, Aaron Hertzmann. Technical perspective: When the adversary is your friend. Communications of the ACM. 63 (11), 138-138

Leon A. Gatys, Matthias Bethge, Aaron Hertzmann, Eli Shechtman Preserving Color in Neural Artistic Style Transfer. arXiv:1606.05897. 2016

A. Hertzmann, V. Zordan. Introduction to CG&A Special Issue on Physics-Based Characters. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications. vol. 31, no. 1, July/August 2011

Aaron Hertzmann. Introduction to Bayesian Learning. SIGGRAPH 2004 Course notes. 78 pages.

Aaron Hertzmann. A Survey of Stroke-Based Rendering. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Special Issue on Non-Photorealistic Rendering. July/August, 2003 (Vol. 23, No. 4) pp. 70-81.

Aaron Hertzmann. Machine Learning for Computer Graphics: A Manifesto and Tutorial. Proc. Pacific Graphics 2003. Invited Paper. Banff, Alberta. October, 2003. pp. 22-36.

Aaron Hertzmann. Introduction to 3D Non-Photorealistic Rendering: Silhouettes and Outlines. SIGGRAPH 99 Course Notes (Course on Non-Photorealistic Rendering). August 9, 1999.


Technical reports

A. Hertzmann. Data Synthesis with Expectation-Maximization. University of Toronto Tech Report DGP-TR-2004-001. June 30, 2004.

Aaron Hertzmann. Paint by Relaxation. NYU CS Technical Report 2000-801. May, 2000

Aaron Hertzmann. Interactive 3D Scene Reconstruction from Images. NYU CS Technical Report 1999-783. April 22, 1999.

Henning Biermann, Aaron Hertzmann, Jon Meyer, Ken Perlin. Stateless Remote Environment Navigation with View Compression. NYU CS Technical Report 1999-784. April 22, 1999.

Aaron Hertzmann, Trevor Darrell. Hybrid rigid and non-rigid image-based modeling of articulated figures. Interval Research Corporation Technical Report 1998-045.

News Articles

Aaron Hertzmann. Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image — but is it art? The Conversation. June 10, 2022. Republished on Fast Company, The Daily Beast, World Economic Forum, Salon, and others.

Aaron Hertzmann. Why would anyone buy crypto art — let alone spend millions on what’s essentially a link to a JPEG file?. The Conversation. March 15, 2021. Republished on The Daily Beast, Fast Company, Salon, and others.

Aaron Hertzmann. New AI art has artists, collaborators wondering: Who gets the credit?. The Conversation, March 7, 2019. Republished on Huffington Post, CNN.com, FastCompany, Salon and others.


Patents

(I'm no longer keeping this list up-to-date with patents since 2020)

DiVerdi et al. Collaborative Interaction with Virtual Reality Video. US Patent No. 10,613,703. April 7, 2020.

Song et al. Automatically classifying and presenting digital fonts. US Patent No. 10,489,489. November 26, 2019.

Kim et al. Segmenting three-dimensional shapes into labeled component shapes. US Patent No. 10,467,760. November 5, 2019.

H. Winnemoeller, J. Xie, W. Li, A. Hertzmann. Providing drawing assistance using feature detection and semantic labeling. US Patent No. 10,235,897. March 19, 2019

Aaron P Hertzmann, Saining Xie, Bryan C Russell. Improved Training Data to Increase Pixel Labeling Accuracy. US Patent No. 10,032,092. July 24, 2018.

Lubomira Dontcheva, Jian Zhao, Aaron Hertzmann, Alan Wilson, Zhicheng Liu. Providing visualizations of event sequence data. US Patent No 10,021,001. July 10, 2018.

Ian Sachs, Xiaoyong Shen, Sylvain Paris, Aaron Hertzmann, Elya Shechtman, Brian Price. Utilizing deep learning for automatic digital image segmentation and stylization. US Patent No. 9,978,003. May 22, 2018

Aseem Agarwala, Mohammad Amin Sadeghi, Aaron Hertzmann. Automated decomposition of graphic designs. US Patent No. 9,972,107. May 15, 2018

Ian Sachs, Xiaoyong Shen, Sylvain Paris, Aaron Hertzmann, Elya Shechtman, Brian Price. Utilizing deep learning for automatic digital image segmentation and stylization. US Patent No. 9,773,196. September 26, 2017

Lubomira Dontcheva, Jian Zhao, Aaron Hertzmann, Alan Wilson, Zhicheng Liu. Providing visualizations of event sequence data. US Patent No. 9,577,897. February 21, 2017.

Holger Winnemoeller, Jun Xie, Wilmot Li, Aaron Hertzmann. Providing drawing assistatnce using feature detection and semantic labeling. US Patent No. 9,495,581. November 15, 2016.

Holger Winnemoeller, Jun Xie, Wilmot Li, Aaron Hertzmann. Geometrically and parametrically modifying user input to assist drawing. US Patent No. 9,305,382. April 5, 2016.

Mohammad Rastegari, Aaron Hertzmann, Elya Shechtman. Image prior as a shared basis mixture model. US Patent No. 9,159,123. Oct 13, 2015.

William T. Freeman, Robert Fergus, Barun Singh, Aaron Hertzmann, Sam T. Roweis. Removing camera shake from a single photograph using statistics of a natural image. US Patent No. 7,616,826. Nov 10, 2009.

Aaron Hertzmann, Henning Biermann, Jon Meyer, Kenneth Perlin. Stateless remote environment navigation. US Patent No. 6,628,282. Sep 30, 2003.

Aaron Hertzmann, Ken Perlin. Method and system for generating an image having a hand-painted appearance. US Patent No. 6,011,536. Jan. 2000.


Art

Illustrations for Modeling Trust Context in Networks, by Sibel Adali. Springer, 2013.

Painterly animation for "The Spine" (2009), directed by Chris Landreth, produced by National Film Board of Canada and Copperheart Entertainment. Credit: "Rendering R&D"

Erik Friedlander's Topaz. "Skin." DVD and VHS. Released February 14, 2000, on SIAM Records.

"Paint on Canvas." Digital Arts & Culture 2001 art gallery. Providence, RI. April 26-28, 2001.
Analogic Sensations: Festival for Expanded Media. New York, July 13, 2002.

"END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA)." Digital Arts & Culture 2001 art gallery. Providence, RI. April 26-28, 2001.

Painterly animation for "Nickellennium," broadcast worldwide on Nickelodeon, Jan 1, 2000.

Contributed to "Mass Hallucinations," work led by Trevor Darrell. Exhibitions: SIGGRAPH 98 Emerging Technologies; The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA, Oct 1998-Mar 1999.

Teaching

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Students

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Presentations

Public Events

Cooper Union Workshop on Generative Art, Architecture, and Engineering, April 20, 2024.
DigitalFUTURES Discussion, Oct 1, 2023. (discussion with Morgan Frank) [video]
Schwartz-Reisman Institute, University of Toronto, Sep 20, 2023. [video]
OpenRICE Webinars, Rice University, Sep 8. [link]
SFJAZZ Panel on Generative AI, May 20, 2023.
Aalto University, Creative Technologies Seminar, May 4, 2023.
SF SIGGRAPH Chapter, Oct 5, 2022. [video].
DigitalFUTURES Panel, November 20, 2022. (discussion with Lev Manovich) [video]
DigitalFUTURES Panel, August 20, 2022. [video]
Northwestern University HCI Center Event on AI Art, April 21, 2022.
Futures Symposium, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA. December 6, 2019.
DigitalFUTURES Panel, November 7, 2020. [video]
Whitehead Lecture on Cognition, Computation and Culture, Goldsmiths University, October 2, 2019.
TEDx Beacon Street, November 23, 2019. [video]
Moody Art Center, Rice University. 2019 (discussion with Jason Salavon)
Distinguished Lecture, Boston University. May 30, 2018.

Conference Keynotes and Invited Talks

CVPR Plenary Panel, June 21, 2023.
ICCP Keynote, Madison, Wisconsin, July 29, 2023.
SIGGRAPH Frontiers talk, August 10, 2022.
ICCC Keynote, Bolzano, Italy, June 27, 2022.
ICMV 2020. Nov 2, 2020.
ACM Motion, Interaction, Games. Oct 17, 2020.
ISVC, Oct 5 2020
Expressive 2019.
Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing. Chennai, India. December 13, 2010.
Pacific Graphics 2003. Banff, AB. October 9, 2003.
CAD/CG conference. Kunming, China. August 24, 2001.

Workshop/Symposium Keynotes and Invited Talks

INRIA Alumni event, Paris, Nov 23, 2023
CSIG International Webinar on Image & Graphics Technologies, April 26, 2023
AAAI Workshop Keynote. Feb 13, 2023
CVPR CVFAD Workshop Keynote, June 18, 2023
NeurIPS Workshop Keynote, ML for creativity and design, Dec 9, 2022
ICRA Workshop on Robotics and Art, panel May 23, 2022.
KAIST AI+ART Forum, Dec 20, 2021.
AAAI 2021 Workshop on Content Authoring and Design.
The Skin of Things workshop on art and perception 2020.
ICCV 2021 Workshop on Sketching for Human Expression.
NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design.
ISEA Workshop on Measuring Creative AI. October 18, 2020.
ECCV VISART V Workshop. August 23, 2020.
CVPR Workshop on AI for Content Creation. June 15, 2020.
New England Symposium on Graphics. Keynote. MIT. May 29, 2018.
Koenderink Workshop on Science and Art of Vision. Berkeley. October 24, 2018.
ECCV Workshop on Fashion, Art, and Design. September 14, 2018.
ECCV Workshop on 360-degree Video and Interaction. September 9, 2018
New England Symposium on Graphics. Keynote. MIT. May 29, 2018.
International Workshop on Computer Vision. Lecce, Italy. May 2016
Tri-State Workshop on Graphics. Princeton University. Princeton, NJ. March 22, 2014.
CVPR 2013 Workshop on Visual Analysis Beyond Semantics. Invited Talk. June 28, 2013. ICCV AC Workshop, Oxford, England. August 29, 2013. Snowbird Learning Workshop. Keynote. Snowbird, Utah. April 6, 2012.
Bellairs Workshop on Computer Animation. St. James, Barbados. February 20, 2011.
Workshop on Vision, Video, and Graphics. Invited Talk. Warwick, England. September 14, 2007.
Workshop on Convergence of Graphics and Vision. Keynote Talk. Informatikzentrum Schloss Dagstuhl. Wadern, Germany. April 26, 2007.
Current Trends in Computer Vision 2006. Lhasa, Tibet. August 9, 2006.
Symposium on Computational Photography and Video, Invited Talk. Cambridge, MA. May 24, 2005.
CIAR Workshop on Extracting Human Motion from Video, Toronto, ON, July 10, 2005.
Gaussian Processes in Practice Workshop. Invited Talk. Bletchley Park, UK. June 13, 2006
CMU Robotics Institute VASC Retreat. Invited Talk. Hidden Valley Resort, PA. January 29, 2002. NIPS 2001 Workshop on Machine Learning Methods for Images and Text. Whistler/Blackcomb Resort, BC. December 8, 2001.

SIGGRAPH Course Presentations

SIGGRAPH 2017 Course on Video for Virtual Reality. Los Angeles, CA, 2017.
SIGGRAPH 2009 Course on Realistic Human Body Movement for Emotional Expressiveness, New Orleans, LA. 2009.
SIGGRAPH 2004 Course on Introduction to Bayesian Learning, Los Angeles, CA. August 9, 2004. (Course organizer and speaker)
SIGGRAPH 2002 Course on Recent Advances in Non-Photorealistic Rendering for Art and Visualization, San Antonio, TX. July 22, 2002.
SIGGRAPH 1999 Course on Non-Photorealistic Rendering, Los Angeles, CA. 1999.

Departmental Colloquia and Other Talks

Stanford Vision Brunch, Feb 21, 2024
Stanford Graphics Cafe, Feb 8, 2024
Columbia University, April 17, 2024
Oxford VGG, November 30, 2023
INRIA Grenoble, November 22, 2023
University College London, November 27, 2023
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, October 12, 2023
Amazon, September 25, 2023
Stochastic Labs, Sep 11, 2023
MIT, May 9, 2023
Google Research, Jan 18, 2023
Meta AI, Oct 20, 2022.
University of Washington GRAIL, September 2, 2022.
MIT Summer Geometry Initiative, August 4, 2022.
National Research Council, Dec 2, 2021
KAIST, November 24, 2021.
Berkeley VCL, June 15, 2021.
Princeton PIXL Lab, Feb 1, 2021.
MIT. January 29, 2021.
UW GRAIL Retreat, October 19, 2020.
Berkeley Computer Vision Group, April 8, 2020.
Stanford SVL, March 13, 2020.
York CVR/VISTA, October 9, 2020.
Harvard IACS, October 16, 2020.
University of Utah CS Department Colloquium. Salt Lake City, Utah. November 14, 2008.
UC Berkeley Computer Vision, April 8, 2020.
Stanford Vision Lab, March 30, 2020.
Oxford Department of Engineering Science, Sep 19, 2019.
UC Berkeley Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. June 12, 2019. University College London CS. October 1, 2019.
INRIA Bordeaux, France. September 17, 2019.
INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, May 2, 2019. UC Berkeley CS Department, Feb 13, 2019.
INRIA Paris. France. June 4, 2018. Machine Learning @ Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. October 26, 2017
New York University Computer Science. May 26, 2017.
San Francisco ML Meetup. January 26, 2017.
Rice University. November 26, 2014.
University of Oxford. September 17, 2014.
University College London. September 16, 2014.
UT Austin Computer Science Department. Austin, TX. April 18, 2014.
NYU CS Department Colloquium. New York City, NY. March 14, 2014.
Rice University CS Department. Houston, Texas. November 27, 2013.
UC Berkeley CS Department. Berkeley, California. November 15, 2013.
Stanford University Technical Training. Stanford, California. October 18, 2013.
MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 10, 2013. Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. March 1, 2013.
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK. June 28, 2012.
Department of Engineering. University of Cambridge, UK. June 26, 2012. DreamWorks Animation, Redwood City, CA, December 13, 2012.
Rice University, Houston, Texas, November 21, 2012.
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. August 31, 2012.
GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. February 4, 2012.
University College London, England. July 13, 2011.
Microsoft Research. Cambridge, England. July, 12, 2011.
INRIA, Grenoble, France. July 7, 2011.
Sony Computer Entertainment America R&D, Foster City, CA. May 12, 2011.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. November 4, 2010.
Stanford University, Stanford, CA. August 31, 2001.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheba, Israel. July 6, 2010.
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, March 22, 2010. Microsoft Research Bangalore. India. December 16, 2010.
Telefónica I+D, Barcelona, Spain, June 3, 2010. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, March 18, 2010.
Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, CA, November 19, 2009.
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. April 27, 2010.
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel. March 25, 2010
Adobe Research, San Francisco, CA. December 4, 2009.
ICCV, Kyoto, Japan, October 1, 2009.
UC Berkeley, September 17, 2009.
New York University, April 9, 2009.
Telefónica I+D, Barcelona, Spain, January 19, 2009.
Department of Engineering. University of Oxford, UK. June 5, 2008.
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, England, September 11, 2007.
Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, CA, April 18, 2006.
Adobe Research, Seattle, WA. July 20, 2007
Kodak Research Laboratory, Rochester, NY, May 22, 2007.
Rice University Computer Science Department, Houston, TX, March 11, 2005.
CORE Feature Animation, Toronto, ON, March 1, 2005.
MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA. September 27, 2004.
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. August 24, 2004.
Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China. August 23, 2004.
INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble, France. June 1, 2004.
ETH, Zürich, Switzerland. May 28, 2004.
Georgia Institute of Technology. Feburary 23, 2009.
École Normal Supérieure. Paris, France. June 13, 2008.
University of Washington CSE Department. Seattle, WA. July 18, 2003.
Microsoft Research. Redmond, WA. July 3, 2003. Telefónica I+D, Barcelona, Spain, June 2, 2008.
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, July 18, 2007. [video]
Rice University CS Department, Houston, TX, November 20, 2006.
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, June 14, 2006.
Stanford Graphics Lunch, Stanford, CA, April 20, 2006.
UC Berkeley CS Department, Berkeley, CA, April 19, 2006. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research NCAP Summer School 2005. Toronto, ON. July 16, 2005.
Rensselaer Joint ECSE/CS Colloquium. Troy, NY. Februrary 21, 2003.
New York University, New York, NY. July, 2004.
NYU Computer Science Vision Talk. New York, NY. May 11, 2003. Microsoft Research. Redmond, WA. August 8, 2001. Zhejiang University. Hangzhou, China. September 11, 2001.
Microsoft Research. Beijing, China. August 29, 2001.
Microsoft Research. Redmond, WA. June 11, 2001.
University of Pennsylvania. Philadelpha, PA. April 19, 2001.
University of California at San Diego. La Jolla, CA. April 11, 2001.
Massachussetts Institute of Technology EECS Dept. Cambridge, MA. April 5, 2001.
University of Wisconsin at Madison. Madison, WI. April 2, 2001.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CS Department. Urbana, IL. March 26, 2001.
Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing. Atlanta, GA. March 15, 2001.
University of Michigan EECS Department. Ann Arbor, MI. March 12, 2001.
Johns Hopkins University CS Department. Baltimore, MD. March 9, 2001.
Carnegie Mellon University SCS. Pittsburgh, PA. March 5, 2001.
University of Toronto CS Department. Toronto, ON. February 28, 2001.
Columbia University CS Department. New York, NY. Feburary 26, 2001.
Purdue Univeristy CSE Department. West Lafayette, IN. February 22, 2001.
Northwestern University CS Departmnent. Evanston, IL. Feburary 20, 2001.
University of British Columbia CS Department. Vancouver, BC. February 15, 2001. Harvard CS Departmental Colloquium. Cambridge, MA. November 20,2000.
NYU CS Student Seminar. New York, NY. October 16, 2000.
Princeton Graphics and Geometry Lunch. Princeton, NJ. October 2,2000.
Microsoft Research. Redmond, WA. May 23, 2000. Microsoft NetDocs Media group. Redmond, WA. August 10, 2000.
Graphics Cafe, Stanford Computer Science Department. Stanford, CA. March 2, 2000.
Rice University Computer Science Department, Houston, TX. Nov 29, 1999.
IMPA Visgraf, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 17, 1999.
Walt Disney Feature Animation. Burbank, CA. July 14, 1999.
Interval Research Corporation, June 1998.
Fifth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design. Nashville, Nov. 1997