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 B.A. Computer Science and Art & Art
History, May 1996 |
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) |
Awards and Honors |
Adobe received a 2025 Technical Emmy award for Premiere VR editing features based on our research |
Conferences and Journals |
Editorial boards: Conference and workshop co-chair: Conference program committees: Guest Editor: Advisory board: Juries: |
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.
BookP. Bénard, A. Hertzmann. Line Drawings from 3D Models: A Tutorial. Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision. 2019. Vol. 11. No. 1-2 Refereed journal papers (Vision science/psychology)A. Hertzmann, J. E. Fan. Artists' Drawing Strategies Serve to Overcome Visual Processing Limitations. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 2026 (advance online publication) A. Hertzmann. Lossy processing principles in 2D and 3D vision. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2025 D. Martin, D. Gutierrez, B. Masia, S. DiVerdi, A. Hertzmann. Viewers perceive shape in pictures according to per-fixation perspective. Scientific Reports. 2025 A. Hertzmann. Comparing Perspective in Drawings, Photographs, and Perception. Art & Perception. 2025 A. Hertzmann. Generative Models for the Psychology of Art and Aesthetics. Empirical Studies of the Arts. 2025. Vol. 43. No. 1 X. Wang, Z. Bylinskii, A. Hertzmann, R. Pepperell. A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 2025. Vol. 19. No. 3 A. Hertzmann. Toward a Theory of Perspective Perception in Pictures. Journal of Vision. 2024. Vol. 24. No. 4 A. Hertzmann. The Choices Hidden in Photography. Journal of Vision. 2022. Vol. 22. No. 10 A. Hertzmann. The Role of Edges in Line Drawing Perception. Perception. 2021. Vol. 50. No. 3 A. Hertzmann. Why Do Line Drawings Work? A Realism Hypothesis. Perception. 2020. Vol. 49. No. 4 X. Wang, Z. Bylinskii, A. Hertzmann, R. Pepperell. Toward Quantifying Ambiguities in Artistic Images. ACM Trans. Applied Perception (TAP). 2020 Refereed journal papers (Art)Z. G. Epstein, A. Hertzmann, et al. Art and the science of generative AI. Science. 2023. Vol. 360. No. 6650 A. Hertzmann. Visual Indeterminacy in GAN Art. Leonardo (Special Issue: SIGGRAPH Art Papers). 2020. Vol. 53. No. 4. pp. 424-428 A. Hertzmann. Can Computers Create Art?. Arts. 2018. Vol. 7. No. 2 Refereed journal papers (Computer Science)A. Wang, A. Hertzmann, O. Russakovsky. Benchmark suites instead of leaderboards for evaluating AI fairness. Patterns. 2024 V. Nguyen, M. Fisher, A. Hertzmann, S. Rusinkiewicz. Region-Aware Simplification and Stylization of 3D Line Drawings. Computer Graphics Forum. 2024 A. Hertzmann. New Insights in Smooth Occluding Contours for Nonphotorealistic Rendering. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (CG&A). 2024. Vol. 44. pp. 76-85 A. Hertzmann. The Curse of Performative User Studies. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (CG&A). 2023. Vol. 43. pp. 112-116 Z. Bylinskii, L. Herman, A. Hertzmann, S. Hutka, Y. 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 C. Liu, P. Bénard, A. Hertzmann, S. Hoshyari. ConTesse: Accurate Occluding Contours for Subdivision Surfaces. ACM Trans. on Graphics (TOG). 2023 S. Liu, M. Agrawala, S. DiVerdi, A. Hertzmann. ZoomShop: Depth-Aware Editing of Photographic Composition. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics). 2022 J. Li, J. Yang, A. Hertzmann, J. Zhang, T. Xu. LayoutGAN: Synthesizing Graphic Layouts with Vector-Wireframe Adversarial Networks. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). 2020. Vol. 43. No. 7 A. Hertzmann. Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do. Communications of the ACM (CACM). 2020. Vol. 63. No. 5 A. Serrano, I. Kim, Z. Chen, S. DiVerdi, D. Gutierrez, A. Hertzmann, B. Masia. Motion parallax for 360o RGBD video. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 2019 E. Balashova, A. H. Bermano, V. G. Kim, S. DiVerdi, A. Hertzmann, T. Funkhouser. Learning A Stroke-Based Representation for Fonts. Computer Graphics Forum. 2019. Vol. 38. No. 1 B. Kovacs, P. O'Donovan, K. Bala, A. Hertzmann. Context-Aware Asset Search for Graphic Design. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 2019. Vol. 52. No. 7 L. Yi, L. Guibas, A. Hertzmann, V. G. Kim, H. Su, E. Yumer. Learning Hierarchical Shape Segmentation and Labeling from Online Repositories. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2017 E. Garces, A. Agarwala, A. Hertzmann, D. Gutierrez. Style-Based Exploration of Illustration Datasets. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 2016 X. Shen, A. Hertzmann, J. Jia, S. Paris, B. Price, E. Shechtman, I. Sachs. Automatic Portrait Segmentation for Image Stylization. Computer Graphics Forum. 2016 T. Liu, A. Hertzmann, W. Li, T. Funkhouser. Style Compatibility For 3D Furniture Models. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2015 G. Pons-Moll, J. Taylor, J. Shotton, A. Hertzmann, A. Fitzgibbon. Metric Regression Forests for Correspondence Estimation. Int. J. Computer Vision (IJCV). 2015. Vol. 113. pp. 163-175 Y. Cao, M. Brubaker, D. J. Fleet, A. Hertzmann. Efficient Optimization for Sparse Gaussian Process Regression. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). 2015. Vol. 37 P. Bénard, A. Hertzmann, M. Kass. Computing Smooth Surface Contours with Accurate Topology. ACM Trans. on Graphics (TOG). 2014. Vol. 33. No. 2 P. O'Donovan, J. Lībeks, A. Agarwala, A. Hertzmann. Exploratory Font Selection Using Crowdsourced Attributes. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2014. Vol. 33 E. Garces, A. Agarwala, D. Gutierrez, A. Hertzmann. A Similarity Measure for Illustration Style. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2014. Vol. 33 P. O'Donovan, A. Agarwala, A. Hertzmann. Learning Layouts for Single-Page Graphic Designs. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 2014. Vol. 20 M. Al Borno, E. Fiume, A. Hertzmann, M. de Lasa. Feedback Control for Rotational Movements in Feature Space. Computer Graphics Forum. 2014 M. Al Borno, M. de Lasa, A. Hertzmann. Trajectory Optimization for Full-Body Movements with Complex Contacts. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 2013. Vol. 19. No. 8 A. Colburn, A. Agarwala, A. Hertzmann, B. Curless, M. F. Cohen. Image-Based Remodeling. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 2013. Vol. 19. No. 1. pp. 56-66 E. Kalogerakis, D. Nowrouzezahrai, S. Breslav, A. Hertzmann. Learning Hatching for Pen-and-Ink Illustration of Surfaces. ACM Trans. on Graphics (TOG). 2012. Vol. 31. No. 1 P. O'Donovan, A. Agarwala, A. Hertzmann. Color Compatibility From Large Datasets. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2011. Aug. 2011 P. O'Donovan, A. Hertzmann. AniPaint: Interactive Painterly Animation from Video. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 2012. Vol. 18. No. 3 M. de Lasa, I. Mordatch, A. Hertzmann. Feature-Based Locomotion Controllers. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2010. July 2010 I. Mordatch, M. de Lasa, A. Hertzmann. Robust Physics-Based Locomotion Using Low-Dimensional Planning. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2010. July 2010 J. M. Wang, D. J. Fleet, A. Hertzmann. Optimizing Walking Controllers for Uncertain Inputs and Environments. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2010. July 2010 E. Kalogerakis, A. Hertzmann, K. Singh. Learning 3D Mesh Segmentation and Labeling. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2010. July 2010 D. B. Goldman, B. Curless, A. Hertzmann, S. M. Seitz. Shape and Spatially-Varying BRDFs from Photometric Stereo. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2005. pp. 341-348 M. Brubaker, D. J. Fleet, A. Hertzmann. Physics-Based Person Tracking Using the Anthropomorphic Walker. Int. J. Computer Vision (IJCV). 2010. Vol. 87. No. 1-2 J. M. Wang, D. J. Fleet, A. Hertzmann. Optimizing Walking Controllers. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia). 2009. Vol. 28. No. 5 E. Kalogerakis, D. Nowrouzezahrai, P. Simari, J. McCrae, A. Hertzmann, K. Singh. Data-driven curvature for real-time line drawing of dynamic scenes. ACM Trans. on Graphics (TOG). 2009. Vol. 28. No. 1 L. Torresani, A. Hertzmann, C. Bregler. Non-Rigid Structure-From-Motion: Estimating Shape and Motion with Hierarchical Priors. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). 2008. Vol. 30. No. 5. pp. 878-892 J. M. Wang, D. J. Fleet, A. Hertzmann. Gaussian Process Dynamical Models for Human Motion. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). 2008. Vol. 30. No. 2. pp. 283-298 S. Cooper, A. Hertzmann, Z. Popović. Active Learning for Real-Time Motion Controllers. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2007 R. Fergus, B. Singh, A. Hertzmann, S. T. Roweis, W. T. Freeman. Removing Camera Shake From A Single Photograph. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2006. Vol. 25. No. 3 C. K. Liu, A. Hertzmann, Z. Popović. Learning Physics-Based Motion Style with Nonlinear Inverse Optimization. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2005. pp. 1071-1081 A. Hertzmann, S. M. Seitz. Example-Based Photometric Stereo: Shape Reconstruction with General, Varying BRDFs. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). 2005. Vol. 27. No. 8. pp. 1254-1264 A. Agarwala, A. Hertzmann, D. H. Salesin, S. M. Seitz. Keyframe-Based Tracking for Rotoscoping and Animation. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2004. pp. 584-591 K. Grochow, S. L. Martin, A. Hertzmann, Z. Popović. Style-Based Inverse Kinematics. ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH). 2004. pp. 552-531 Reviewed conference papersS. Wang, A. Hertzmann, A. A. Efros, R. Zhang, J. Zhu. Fast Data Attribution for Text-to-Image Models. Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). 2025 K. Zhang, J. Huang, J. Echevarria, S. DiVerdi, A. Hertzmann. MaDCoW: Marginal Distortion Correction for Wide-Angle Photography with Arbitrary Objects. Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2025 S. Wang, A. Hertzmann, A. A. Efros, J. Zhu, R. Zhang. Data Attribution for Text-to-Image Models by Unlearning Synthesized Images. Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). 2024 R. Capouellez, J. Dai, A. Hertzmann, D. Zorin. Algebraic Smooth Occluding Contours. ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings. 2023 A. Hertzmann. Toward Modeling Creative Processes for Algorithmic Painting. Proc. International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). 2022 D. Rempe, T. Birdal, A. Hertzmann, J. Yang, S. Sridhar, L. Guibas. HuMoR: 3D Human Motion Model for Robust Pose Estimation. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2021 D. Liu, M. Fisher, A. Hertzmann, E. Kalogerakis. Neural Strokes: Stylized Line Drawing of 3D Shapes. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2021 R. Villegas, D. Ceylan, A. Hertzmann, J. Yang, J. Saito. Contact-Aware Retargeting of Skinned Motion. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2021 E. Härkönen, A. Hertzmann, J. Lehtinen, S. Paris. GANSpace: Discovering Interpretable GAN Controls. Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). 2020 C. Fosco, V. Casser, A. K. Bedi, P. O'Donovan, A. Hertzmann, Z. Bylinskii. Predicting Visual Importance Across Graphic Design Types. Proc. ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). 2020 D. Rempe, L. Guibas, A. Hertzmann, B. C. Russell, R. Villegas, J. Yang. Contact and Human Dynamics from Monocular Video. Proc. European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2020 M. Huh, R. Zhang, J. Zhu, S. Paris, A. Hertzmann. Transforming and Projecting Images into Class-conditional Generative Networks. Proc. European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2020 D. Liu, M. Nabail, A. Hertzmann, E. Kalogerakis. Neural Contours: Learning to Draw Lines from 3D Shapes. Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2020 S. Liu, M. Agrawala, S. DiVerdi, A. Hertzmann. View-Dependent Video Textures for 360o Video. Proc. ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). 2019 Y. Li, C. Fang, A. Hertzmann, E. Shechtman, M. Yang. Im2Pencil: Controllable Pencil Illustration from Photographs. Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2019 J. Li, J. Yang, A. Hertzmann, J. Zhang, T. Xu. LayoutGAN: Generating Graphic Layouts with Wireframe Discriminators. Proc. Int. Conf. Learning Representations (ICLR). 2019 C. Nguyen, S. DiVerdi, A. Hertzmann, F. Liu. Depth Conflict Reduction for Stereo VR Video Interfaces. Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2018 M. J. Wilber, C. Fang, H. Jin, A. Hertzmann, J. Collomosse, S. Belongie. BAM! The Behance Artistic Media Dataset for Recognition Beyond Photography. Proc. Int. Conf. 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. ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). 2017 C. Nguyen, S. DiVerdi, A. Hertzmann, F. Liu. CollaVR: Collaborative In-Headset Review for VR Video. Proc. ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). 2017 L. Gatys, A. S. Ecker, M. Bethge, A. Hertzmann, E. Shechtman. Controlling Perceptual Factors in Neural Style Transfer. Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2017 C. Nguyen, S. DiVerdi, A. Hertzmann, F. Liu. Vremiere: In-headset Virtual Reality Video Editing. Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2017 M. Rudolph, M. D. Hoffman, A. Hertzmann. A Joint Model for Who-to-Follow and What-to-View Recommendations on Behance. Proc. MSM. 2016 H. Izadinia, B. C. Russell, A. Farhadi, M. D. Hoffman, A. Hertzmann. Deep Classifiers from Image Tags in the Wild. Proc. Multimedia COMMONS. 2015 P. O'Donovan, A. Agarwala, A. Hertzmann. DesignScape: Design with Interactive Layout Suggestions. Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2015 J. Zhao, Z. Liu, M. Dontcheva, A. Hertzmann, A. Wilson. MatrixWave: Visual Comparison of Event Sequence Data. Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2015 R. Jaroensri, S. Paris, A. Hertzmann, V. Bychkovsky, F. Durand. Predicting Range of Acceptable Photographic Tonal Adjustments. Proc. Int. Conf. Computational Photography (ICCP). 2015 B. Saleh, A. Hertzmann, M. Dontcheva, Z. Liu. Learning Style Similarity for Searching Infographics. Proc. Graphics Interface (GI). 2015 S. Karayev, M. Trentacoste, H. Han, A. Agarwala, T. Darrell, A. Hertzmann, H. Winnemöller. Recognizing Image Style. Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). 2014 J. Xie, A. Hertzmann, W. Li, H. Winnemöller. PortraitSketch: Face Sketching Assistance for Novices. Proc. ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). 2014 P. O'Donovan, A. Agarwala, A. Hertzmann. Collaborative Filtering of Color Aesthetics. Proc. Computational Aesthetics (CAe). 2014 J. Taylor, R. Stebbing, V. Ramakrishna, C. Keskin, J. Shotton, S. Izadi, A. Hertzmann, A. Fitzgibbon. User-Specific Hand Modeling from Monocular Depth Sequences. Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2014 M. Guerzhoy, A. Hertzmann. Learning Latent Factor Models of Human Travel. Proc. Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI). 2014 Y. Cao, M. Brubaker, D. J. Fleet, A. Hertzmann. Efficient Optimization for Sparse Gaussian Process Regression. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). 2015. Vol. 37 G. Pons-Moll, J. Taylor, J. Shotton, A. Hertzmann, A. Fitzgibbon. Metric Regression Forests for Human Pose Estimation. Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). 2013. Sep 2013 A. Hertzmann. Non-Photorealistic Rendering and the Science of Art. Proc. ACM Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR). 2010 M. de Lasa, A. Hertzmann. Prioritized Optimization for Task-Space Control. Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 2009 E. Kalogerakis, O. Vesselova, J. Hays, A. A. Efros, A. Hertzmann. Image Sequence Geolocation with Human Travel Priors. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2009 I. Vollick, D. Vogel, M. Agrawala, A. Hertzmann. Specifying Label Layout Styles by Example. Proc. ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). 2007. pp. 221-230 T. Goodwin, I. Vollick, A. Hertzmann. Isophote Distance: A Shading Approach to Artistic Stroke Thickness. Proc. ACM Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR). 2007. pp. 53-62 M. Brubaker, D. J. Fleet, A. Hertzmann. Physics-Based Person Tracking Using Simplified Lower-Body Dynamics. Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2007. pp. 1-8 J. M. Wang, D. J. Fleet, A. Hertzmann. Multifactor Gaussian Process Models for Style-Content Separation. Proc. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). 2007. pp. 975-982 C. K. Liu, A. Hertzmann, Z. Popović. Composition of Complex Optimal Multi-Character Motions. Proc. ACM Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA). 2006. pp. 215-222 B. Allen, B. Curless, Z. Popović. Learning a correlated model of identity and pose-dependent body shape variation for real-time synthesis. Proc. ACM Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA). 2006. pp. 147-156 A. Kolliopoulos, J. M. Wang, A. Hertzmann. Segmentation-Based 3D Artistic Rendering. Proc. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR). 2006. pp. 381-370 A. P. Shon, K. Grochow, A. Hertzmann, R. P. N. Rao. Learning Shared Latent Structure for Image Synthesis and Robotic Imitation. Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). 2006. pp. 1233-1240 R. Urtasun, D. J. Fleet, A. Hertzmann, P. Fua. Priors for People Tracking from Small Training Sets. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2005. pp. 403-410 D. B. Goldman, B. Curless, A. Hertzmann, S. M. Seitz. Shape and Spatially-Varying BRDFs from Photometric Stereo. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2005. pp. 341-348 K. Achan, S. T. Roweis, A. Hertzmann, B. Frey. A Segment-Based Probabilistic Generative Model of Speech. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 2005. Vol. 5. pp. 221-224 L. Torresani, A. Hertzmann. Automatic Non-Rigid 3D Modeling from Video. Proc. European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2004. Vol. 2. pp. 299-312 A. Treuille, A. Hertzmann, S. M. Seitz. Example-Based Stereo with General BRDFs. Proc. European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2004. Vol. 2. pp. 457-469 L. Torresani, A. Hertzmann, C. Bregler. Learning Non-Rigid 3D Shape from 2D Motion. Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). 2003. pp. 1555-1562 L. Zhang, B. Curless, A. Hertzmann, S. M. Seitz. Shape and Motion under Varying Illumination: Unifying Structure from Motion, Photometric Stereo, and Multi-view Stereo. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2003. pp. 618-625 A. Hertzmann, S. M. Seitz. Shape and Materials by Example: A Photometric Stereo Approach. Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2003. Vol. 1. pp. 533-540 A. Hertzmann, N. Oliver, S. M. Seitz, B. Curless. Curve Analogies. Proc. Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGWR). 2002. pp. 233-245 A. Hertzmann. Fast Paint Texture. Proc. ACM Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR). 2002. pp. 91-96 C. Yap, H. Biermann, A. Hertzmann, C. Li, J. Meyer, H. Pao, S. Paxia. A Different Manhattan Project: Automatic Statistical Model Generation. Proc. SPIE Visualization and Data Analysis. 2002 A. Hertzmann, C. E. Jacobs, N. Oliver, B. Curless, D. H. Salesin. Image Analogies. ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings. 2001. pp. 327-340 L. Ying, A. Hertzmann, H. Biermann, D. Zorin. Texture and Shape Synthesis on Surfaces. Proc. Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGWR). 2001. pp. 301-312 A. Hertzmann. Paint By Relaxation. Proc. Computer Grahics International (CGI). 2001. pp. 47-54 A. Hertzmann, D. Zorin. Illustrating smooth surfaces. ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings. 2000. pp. 517-526 M. Brand, A. Hertzmann. Style machines. ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings. 2000. pp. 183-192 C. Bregler, A. Hertzmann, H. Biermann. Recovering Non-Rigid 3D Shape from Image Streams. Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2000. pp. 690-696 A. Hertzmann, K. Perlin. Painterly Rendering for Video and Interaction. Proc. ACM Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR). 2000. pp. 7-12 A. Hertzmann. Painterly Rendering with Curved Brush Strokes of Multiple Sizes. ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings. 1998. pp. 453-460 Reviewed workshop papersM. Rudolph, M. D. Hoffman, A. Hertzmann. A Joint Model for Who-to-Follow and What-to-View Recommendations on Behance. Proc. MSM. 2016 M. Guerzhoy, A. Hertzmann. Learning Latent Factor Models of Human Travel. Proc. Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI). 2014 A. Lakdawalla, A. Hertzmann. Shape from Video: Dense Shape, Texture, Motion and Lighting from Monocular Image Streams. Proc. Workshop on Photometric Analysis on Computer Vision (WACV). 2007 M. Brubaker, D. J. Fleet, A. Hertzmann. Physics-Based Human Pose Tracking. EHuM workshop on articulated human motion and pose estimation. 2006. Whistler, BC A. K. Wright, S. Jagannathan, C. Ungureanu, A. Hertzmann. Compiling Java to a Typed Lambda-Calculus: A Preliminary Report. Proc. Second Intl. Workshop on Types in Compilation (TIC); Springer LNCS 1473. 1998. pp. 9-27 Other publicationsA. A. Efros, A. Hertzmann. Technical perspective: When the adversary is your friend. Communications of the ACM (CACM). 2020. Vol. 63. No. 11. pp. 138-138 L. Gatys, M. Bethge, A. Hertzmann, E. Shechtman. Preserving Color in Neural Artistic Style Transfer. arXiv. 2016. arXiv:1606.05897 A. Hertzmann, V. Zordan. Introduction to CG&A Special Issue on Physics-Based Characters. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (CG&A). 2011. Vol. 31. No. 1 A. Hertzmann. Introduction to Bayesian Learning. SIGGRAPH Course Notes. 2004 A. Hertzmann. A Survey of Stroke-Based Rendering. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (CG&A). 2003. Vol. 23. No. 4. pp. 70-81 A. Hertzmann. Machine Learning for Computer Graphics: A Manifesto and Tutorial. Proc. Pacific Graphics (PG). 2003. pp. 22-36 A. Hertzmann. Introduction to 3D Non-Photorealistic Rendering: Silhouettes and Outlines. In S. Green, editor, Non-Photorealistic Rendering. SIGGRAPH 99 Course Notes. 1999 Technical reportsA. Hertzmann. Data Synthesis with Expectation-Maximization. University of Toronto Tech Report (DGP-TR-2004-001). 2004 A. Hertzmann. Paint By Relaxation. Proc. Computer Grahics International (CGI). 2001. pp. 47-54 A. Hertzmann. Interactive 3D Scene Reconstruction from Images. NYU CS Technical Report. 1999. 1999-783 H. Biermann, A. Hertzmann, J. Meyer, K. Perlin. Stateless Remote Environment Navigation with View Compression. NYU CS Technical Report. 1998. 1999-784 A. Hertzmann, T. Darrell. Hybrid rigid and non-rigid image-based modeling of articulated figures. Interval Research Corporation Technical Report (1998-045). 1998 |
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. "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
Distinguished Lecture, New York University Computer Science, November 14, 2025 Conference Keynotes and Invited TalksVision Science of Art Conference (VSAC), Wiesbaden, Germany (opening keynote), 2025SIGGRAPH, Vancouver, Canada (opening keynote), 2025 IEEE MIPR & IRI, San Jose, CA, 2025. 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
SIGGRAPH 2025 Lines & Minds workshop invited talk, 2025 SIGGRAPH Course Presentations
SIGGRAPH 2017 Course on Video for Virtual Reality. Los Angeles, CA, 2017. Departmental Colloquia and Other Talks
Columbia University Computer Vision, Nov 13, 2025 |