Neel Joshi

njoshi AT cs DOT ucsd DOT edu 		 

Welcome!

I'm in my 4th (and likely final) year as a Ph.D. student in sunny California in the CSE Department at UCSD. I've spent two summers and one fall during my Ph.D interning at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory in Cambridge, MA, and this past summer I interned at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, and I'm current spending a month at Adobe in Newton, MA. Before UCSD, I completed my Masters at Stanford University, where I was a research assistant in the Graphics Lab, and I got my undergradute degree at Brown University. My research is in computer graphics and computer vision. Below are some of my most recent projects and also some of my favorites, in no particular order.

Selected Projects

 		psf estimation using sharp edge prediction: this paper was just accepted to CVPR 2008!
ucsd/merl light field archive: a new web archive hosting several static and video 3d light fields.
synthetic aperture tracking: this paper appeared at ICCV 2007 and describes tracking through occlusions using a camera array.
shape from varying illumination and viewpoint: this paper appeared at ICCV 2007 and describes a high-quality, lightweight shape reconstruction method that merges multi-view and photometric stereo.
exploring defocus matting: this paper appeared in the March/April issue of IEEE CG&A and describes speed and resolution improvements for automatic defocus matting.
natural video matting using camera arrays: this paper appeared at SIGGRAPH 2006 and describes an automatic, real-time natural video matting method.
music blocks: an interactive sound sculpture that captures musical construction in a physical form -- the diatonic scale is mapped to the orientation of four wooden blocks.
high performance imaging using large camera arrays: this paper appeared at SIGGRAPH 2005 and describes the Stanford Multiple Camera Array. here's a video (60MB) showing the system and a number of applications.
post yuppie paint fountain: a dynamic LEGO sculpture that explores the simple visual of paint disolving in water -- an alternative to the dentist office-dwelling electric water fountain.
virtual winter wonderland: with the help of a little technology, viewers are transported into a magical Christmas world. our project was just one part of the complete third-floor package.
tetris on the scili: a building sized installation created by the members of technology house at brown university. in the new york times and time magazine.
haptic battle pong!: a explosive, gun-laden, force feedback game of pong. check out check out the /. action and this video.
kick-ass metal and lego robots…: sometimes you have grand plans for a project. and sometimes things don't work so well, but at least you have a cool video, with loud music.