Students and Postdocs of Demetri Terzopoulos
I have had the privilege of advising and working with some
incomparable graduate students and postdocs.
Current Postdocs
Sung-Hee Lee
Jinho Park
Eftychios Sifakis
Current PhD Students
William R. Hewlett III
Kresimir Petrinec
Graduated Doctoral Students
Sung-Hee Lee -
"Biomechanical Modeling and Control of the Human Body for Computer
Animation" (2008) UCLA CS
Faisal
Z. Qureshi - "Intelligent perception in virtual sensor
networks and space robotics" (2007) UofT CS
Qinxin Yu - "A
decision network framework for the behavioral animation of virtual
humans" (2007) UofT CS (NSERC Postgraduate Scholar)
Wei Shao -
"Animating autonomous pedestrians" (2006) NYU CS
Sageev Oore -
"Digital Marionette: Augmenting kinematics with physics for
multi-track desktop performance animation" (2001) UofT CS
Petros Faloutsos -
"Composable controllers for physics-based character animation" (2001)
UofT CS
Tamer Rabie -
"Animat vision: Active vision in artificial animals" (1999) UofT ECE
David Tonnesen
- "Dynamically coupled particle systems for geometric modeling" (1998)
UofT CS
Radek
Grzeszczuk - "NeuroAnimator: Fast neural network emulation and
control of physics-based models" (1998) UofT CS
Timothy
McInerney - "Topologically adaptable deformable models for
medical image analysis" (1997) UofT CS (NSERC Postgraduate Scholar)
Xiaoyuan Tu -
"Artificial animals for computer animation: Biomechanics, locomotion,
perception, and behavior"
* (1996)
UofT CS
Hong Qin -
"D-NURBS: Dynamic non-uniform rational B-splines" (1995) UofT CS
Luiz Velho -
"Piecewise descriptions of implicit surfaces and solids" (1994) UofT
CS
Dimitris
N. Metaxas - "Physics based modeling of nonrigid objects for
vision and graphics" (1992) UofT CS
* ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
winner
Graduated Master Students
Sean Thompson - "Interactive image-source techniques for
virtual acoustics" (2002) UofT CS (NSERC Postgraduate Scholar)
Howard Zhang - "Physics-based muscle effects for real-time
character animation" (2002) UofT CS
Grigore Pintilie - "Interactive cutting of surface meshes for
computer-aided surgical planning" (2001) UofT CS (NSERC Postgraduate
Scholar)
Stewart
Andrews - "Interactive generation of feature curves on
surfaces: A minimal path approach" (2000) UofT CS
Faisal
Z. Qureshi - "Constructing anatomically accurate face models
using computed tomography and cyberware data" (2000) UofT CS
Qinxin Yu -
"Synthetic motion capture for real-time virtual worlds" (1998) UofT CS
(NSERC Postgraduate Scholar)
Petros Faloutsos -
"Physics-based animation and control of flexible characters" (1995)
UofT CS
Radek
Grzeszczuk - "Automatic learning of muscle-based
locomotion through control abstraction" (1994) UofT CS
Yuencheng Lee - "Construction and animation of functional
facial models from range/reflectance data" (1993) UofT CS
Timothy
McInerney - "Finite element techniques for fitting deformable
models to 3D data" (1992) UofT CS (NSERC Postgraduate Scholar)
Graduated Bachelor Students
Emily Whiting -
"Realism in 3D virtual spaces: Improving texture quality ... through
application of HDR imagery" (2004) UofT Eng. Sci.
Desmond Rivet - "Human animats and active vision systems in
realistic 3D virtual worlds" (2001) UofT Eng. Sci.
Daniel Horner - "A practical framework for the extraction and
visualization of slices from volumentric data" (1998) UofT Engineering
Science
Charlton Wang - "Implementation of the live wire technique for
the segmentation of medical images" (1998) UofT Eng. Sci.
Kristin Hofstee - "Simulation of diffusion in 3D virtual
worlds" (1997) UofT Eng. Sci.
Oliver Bengtsson - "Computational biological model of the
physiology and behavior of aquatic animals" (1995) UofT Eng. Sci.
Former Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Scientists
Tatsuo Yotsukura - Postdoctoral Fellow (2006–07) UCLA CS
Jinwook Kim - Postdoctoral Fellow (2005–06) UCLA CS, NYU CS
M. Alex O. Vasilescu - Research Scientist (01–05) NYU CS
Mauricio Plaza-Villegas - Research Scientist (03–04) NYU CS
Jared M. Silver -
Research Scientist (03–04) NYU CS
Yuencheng Lee - Research Scientist (01–03) NYU CS
Ghassan Hamarneh - Postgraduate Fellow (2000–01) UofT CS
Michel Pitermann - Postdoctoral Fellow (1998–00) UofT CS &
Queens U
Jacques-Olivier
Lachaud - Lavoiser Fellow (1998–99) UofT CS
Tamer Rabie - Postdoctoral Fellow (1999–99) UofT CS
Timothy McInerney - NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (1998–99) UofT CS
Jorge Lucero - Postdoctoral Fellow (1996–97) UofT CS & Queens U
Paul Fieguth - NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (1996–96) UofT CS
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