Yasutaka Furukawa
Research Associate
E-mail: yfurukaw -at- uiuc.edu
URL: http://www-cvr.ai.uiuc.edu/~yfurukaw		 1328 Siebel Center for Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
201 N. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL 61801-2302

Educational Background

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science
Ph.D. in computer science
Studied computer vision under the supervision of Dr. Jean Ponce.		 2002.8 -- 2008.5
University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
 2001.4 -- 2002.3
University of Tokyo
Department of Information Science
Bachelor of science in computer science.		 1997.4 -- 2001.3

Honors and Scholarships

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
Japan regional contest: 2nd place (2000) and 9th place (1999).
Asia regional contest: 7th place at KAIST (2000), 6th place at Tsukuba (2000) and 7th place at Kyoto (1999).		 1999 -- 2000
Seminar of Mathematics
Won a silver medal in a mathematics contest, organized by Peter Francl. (Coach of the Japanese team of International Mathematical Olympiad)		 1996.8
Scholarships from Heiwa Nakajima Foudnation 2002.9 -- 2004.8
Conference Travel Grant
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2007		 2007.6
Conference Travel Grant
European Conference on Computer Vision 2006
(Only 5 people awarded in the whole graduate college at UIUC) 		2006.5
Conference Travel Grant
European Conference on Computer Vision 2004		 2004.5

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant for Combinatorial algorithms at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Class Topics include dynamic programming, graph theories, approximation algorithms, sorting networks, union-find, network flow, randomized algorithms, number theory, NP-completeness, Fast Fourier Transform, and computational geometry.		 2002.8 -- 2003.5
Guest Lecture
Guest lecture on number theory and primality testing.		 2003.3

Working Experience

Industrial Light & Magic
Summer internship. Developping a facial motion capture software.		 2007.5 -- 2007.8
Industrial Light & Magic
Summer internship. Developping computer vision softwares.
Contributed to a project which won the 79th academy award (2007) for the design and development of the ILM Image-based Modeling System. 		2006.5 -- 2006.9
GSport
Building a tracking system for a software motion capture project.		 2002.5 -- 2002.7
Monolith Production
Developing Graphics Libraries and their application softwares.		 2001.5 -- 2001.8

Research Interests

Computer Vision, Motion Planning, Computer Graphics, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Robotics

Programming Language Skills

Proficient in C, C++, and Java.
Experienced in Matlab, Perl, Scheme, Ocaml, ML, Prolog, VHDL

Publications

Technical Reports
(significantly different from published papers)

Presentations (Besides conferences)

  • Accurate Camera Calibration from Multi-View Stereo and Bundle Adjustment
    BIRS 2008 Workshop on Multi-View Image and Geometry Processing for 3D Cinematography, Canada, July 2008

  • Dense 3D Motion Capture from Synchronized Video Streams
    BIRS 2008 Workshop on Multi-View Image and Geometry Processing for 3D Cinematography, Canada, July 2008

  • Combining Multi-View Stereo and Bundle Adjustment, 3D Dense Motion Capture
    University of Cambridge, UK, February 2008

  • Combining Multi-View Stereo and Bundle Adjustment, 3D Dense Motion Capture
    CERTIS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, France, February 2008

  • High Fidelity Image-Based Modeling
    Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), JAPAN, December 2007

  • High Fidelity Image-Based Modeling
    Microsoft Research Redmond, USA, August 2007

  • High Fidelity Image-Based Modeling
    University of Washington, USA, August 2007

  • High Fidelity Image-Based Modeling
    Google, USA, August 2007

  • Accurate, Dense, and Robust Multi-View Stereopsis
    Industrial Light and Magic, USA, June 2007

  • Multi-View Stereo through Feature Matching and Expansion
    BIRS 2006 Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision, Canada, October 2006

  • Carved Visual Hulls for High Accuracy Image-based Modeling
    Symposium on Computational Photography and Video (SCPV2005), USA, May 2005

    Professional Activities

    Served as a reviewer for
    • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
    • International Journal of Computer Vision
    • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
    • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
    • Asian Conference on Computer Vision
    • ACM SIGGRAPH
    • ACM Eurographics
    • ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
    • ACM Transactions on Graphics
    • Image and Vision Computing
    A program committee for
    • CVPR 2007


    Last updated: May 29, 2008