Dani Lischinski

School of Computer Science and Engineering

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

E-mail: danix at mail.huji.ac.il

URL: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~danix

Phone: +972-2-549-4549

Fax: +972-2-549-4549

Office: Room 73, Ross Building, Givat Ram

Personal Information

I am a Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, where I am running the Computer Graphics Lab. I received my PhD from the Department of Computer Science and the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University in 1994, and I was a post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington until 1996. In 2002/3, I spent a sabbatical year at Pixar Animation Studios. For more information about me see my cv.

Research

My areas of interest span a wide variety of topics in the fields of computer graphics, visualization, virtual reality, and image and video processing. In the past, I have worked on algorithms for photorealistic image synthesis, simulation of global illumination, interactive visualization of complex virtual scenes, computer-generated illustration, facial animation, image-based modeling and rendering, medical visualization, and physically-based animation. Most of my recent work falls in the area of Computational Photography. More specifically, I am intersted in various tasks related to editing of images and video (filtering, detail manipulation, shadow removal, matting, tonal adjustment), and in particular tone mapping of HDR images. Another ongoing area of interest is texture synthesis.

Students: I am always happy to supervise motivated MSc and PhD students. Take a look at my recent projects (below) and then come and talk to me. Ideally, you should have taken either computer graphics or image processing (or better yet, both). Machine learning and scientific computing are also very handy.

Links to selected recent publications and project pages:

	Convolution pyramids. Zeev Farbman, Raanan Fattal, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 30(5) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011), Dec. 2011.
	Depixelizing pixel art. Johannes Kopf and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 30(4) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2011), Aug. 2011. (This project page and paper were recently slashdotted...)
	Tonal stabilization of video. Zeev Farbman and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 30(4) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2011), Aug. 2011.
	Non-Rigid Dense Correspondence with Applications for Image Enhancement. Yoav HaCohen, Eli Shechtman, Dan B Goldman, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 30(4) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2011), Aug. 2011.
	Diffusion maps for edge-aware image editing. Zeev Farbman, Raanan Fattal, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 29(5) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2010), Dec. 2010.
	Layered Shape Synthesis: automatic generation of control maps for non-stationary textures. Amir Rosenberger, Daniel Cohen-Or, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 28(5) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009), Dec. 2009.
	Coordinates for instant image cloning. Zeev Farbman, Gil Hoffer, Yaron Lipman, Daniel Cohen-Or, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 28(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2009), Aug. 2009. New: cloning demo available (Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista)
	Locally adapted projections to reduce panorama distortions. Johannes Kopf, Dani Lischinski, Oliver Deussen, Daniel Cohen-Or, Michael Cohen, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2009, Computer Graphics Forum 28(4).
	Deep Photo: model-based photograph enhancement nd viewing. Johannes Kopf, Boris Neubert, Billy Chen, Michael F. Cohen, Daniel Cohen-Or, Oliver Deussen, Matt Uyttendaele, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 27(5) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008), Dec. 2008.
	Edge-preserving decompositions for multi-scale tone and detail manipulation. Zeev Farbman, Raanan Fattal, Dani Lischinski, and Richard Szeliski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 27(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2008), Aug. 2008.
	Data-driven enhancement of facial attractiveness. Tommer Leyvand, Daniel Cohen-Or, Gideon Dror, and Dani Lischinski; ACM Transactions on Graphics 27(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2008), Aug. 2008.
	The Shadow meets the Mask: Pyramid-based shadow removal. Yael Shor and Dani Lischinski; Computer Graphics Forum 27(2) (Proc. Eurographics 2008), April 2008.
	Solid texture synthesis from 2D exemplars. Johannes Kopf, Chi-Wing Fu, Daniel Cohen-Or, Oliver Deussen, Dani Lischinski, Tien-Tsin Wong; ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2007), Aug. 2007.
	Joint bilateral upsampling. Johannes Kopf, Michael F. Cohen, Dani Lischinski, Matt Uyttendaele; ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2007), Aug. 2007.
	Spectral matting. Anat Levin, Alex Rav-Acha, and Dani Lischinski; Proc. CVPR 2007.
	Interactive local manipulation of tonal values. Dani Lischinski, Zeev Farbman, Matt Uyttendaele, Richard Szeliski; ACM Transactions on Graphics, 25(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2006), July 2006.
	Recursive Wang tiles for real-time blue noise. Johannes Kopf, Daniel Cohen-Or, Oliver Deussen, and Dani Lischinski; ACM Transactions on Graphics, 25(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2006), July 2006.
	A closed-form solution to natural image matting. Anat Levin, Dani Lischinski, and Yair Weiss. IEEE Trans. PAMI, 30(2), February 2008. (earlier version: Proc. CVPR 2006)
	Target-driven smoke animation. Raanan Fattal and Dani Lischinski; ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2004), 23(3):441-448, Aug. 2004.
	Colorization using optimization. Anat Levin, Dani Lischinski, and Yair Weiss; ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2004), 23(3):689-694, Aug. 2004.
	Constrained synthesis of textural motion for articulated characters. Shmuel Moradoff and Dani Lischinski; The Visual Computer, 20:253-265, June 2004.
	Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression. Raanan Fattal, Dani Lischinski, and Michael Werman; ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2002), 21(3):249-256, July 2002.
	Other (older) online publications.

Courses

"Introduction to Computer Science" (67130): a mandatory first year course. Being taught in Fall 2011.
"Computational Photography" (67735): an advanced course covering a number of selected topics in computational photography. Last taught in Spring 2010.
"Computer Graphics" (67609): an introductory course in computer graphics. Last taught in Fall 2009.
"Seminar in Computer Graphics" (67857): Last taught in Spring 2010.
"Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics" (67535): an advanced course covering a number of topics selected from recent SIGGRAPH conferences. Last taught in Spring 2009.
"Advanced Topics in Photorealistic Computer Graphics" (67684): an advanced course covering topics such as global illumination algorithms (radiosity, Monte Carlo), as well as image-based rendering. Last taught in Spring 2004.
"Modeling Geometry and Appearance of 3D Objects" (67315): a semi-advanced course covering concepts and techniques in geometric and solid modeling, texturing, procedural shaders, and more. Last taught in Fall 2001.
"Data Structures" (67109): a mandatory first-year course. Last taught in Spring 2002.
"Computer Science in Practice" (67864): formerly a mandatory MSc course. Last taught in Spring 2007.

Clickworthy Links

CDT, a program for incremental Constrained Delaunay Triangulations in 2D
GRAIL (GRaphics And Imaging Lab) at UW
The OpenGL Home Page
New: my slides on "How to write a SIGGRAPH paper", from the SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 course.

Personal

Some photo albums.

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