Publications:

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Journal Papers:

  • Fluid in Video: Augmenting Real Video with Simulated Fluids ( Project Page | PDF | BibTex )
    Vivek Kwatra, Philippos Mordohai, Rahul Narain, Sashi Kumar Penta, Mark Carlson, Marc Pollefeys, and Ming Lin
    Proc. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics) 2008

  • Texturing Fluids ( Project Page | PDF | BibTex )
    Vivek Kwatra, David Adalsteinsson, Theodore Kim, Nipun Kwatra, Mark Carlson, and Ming Lin
    Proc. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Volume 13, #5, pp. 939-952, September 2007

  • Semantic Photo Synthesis ( Project Page | BibTex )
    Matthew Johnson, Gabriel J. Brostow, Jamie Shotton, Ognjen Arandjelovic, Vivek Kwatra, Roberto Cipolla
    Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics) Volume 25, #3, 2006

  • Texture Optimization for Example-based Synthesis ( Project Page | PDF | BibTex )
    Vivek Kwatra, Irfan Essa, Aaron Bobick and Nipun Kwatra
    Proc. ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2005

  • Graphcut Textures: Image and Video Synthesis Using Graph Cuts ( PDF 23.2 MB | PDF 1.8 MB | Project page | BibTex )
    Vivek Kwatra, Arno Schödl, Irfan Essa, Greg Turk and Aaron Bobick
    Proc. ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2003

  • Space-Time Surface Simplification and Edgebreaker Compression for 2D Cel Animations ( PDF | Project page | BibTex )
    Vivek Kwatra and Jarek Rossignac
    International Journal on Shape Modeling, Volume8, Number 2, December 2002

Conference Papers and Sketches:

  • Example-based Image Compression ( Abstract | PDF )
    Jing-Yu Cui, Saurabh Mathur, Michele Covell, Vivek Kwatra, Mei Han
    International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010) (to appear)

  • Fast Covariance Computation and Dimensionality Reduction for Sub-Window Features in Images ( Abstract | PDF )
    Vivek Kwatra and Mei Han
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2010) (to appear)

  • Discontinuous Seam-Carving for Video Retargeting ( Abstract | Project Page | PDF )
    Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, Mei Han, Irfan Essa
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010)

  • Efficient Hierarchical Graph-Based Video Segmentation ( Abstract | Project Page | PDF )
    Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, Mei Han, Irfan Essa
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010)

  • State of the Art in Example-based Texture Synthesis ( URL | PDF | BibTex )
    Li-Yi Wei, Sylvain Lefebvre, Vivek Kwatra, Greg Turk
    Eurographics 2009, State of the Art Report, EG-STAR - 2009

  • Feature-Guided Dynamic Texture Synthesis on Continuous Flows ( Project Page | BibTex )
    Rahul Narain, Vivek Kwatra, Huai-Ping Lee, Theodore Kim, Mark Carlson, and Ming Lin
    Proc. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2007

  • Texturing Fluids ( Project Page | PDF )
    Vivek Kwatra, David Adalsteinsson, Nipun Kwatra, Mark Carlson, and Ming Lin
    Technical Sketches Program, ACM SIGGRAPH 2006

  • Quantitative Evaluation on Near Regular Texture Synthesis ( Project Page | PDF | BibTex )
    Wen-Chieh Lin, James H. Hays, Chenyu Wu, Vivek Kwatra, and Yanxi Liu
    Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2006)

  • Mixture Trees for Modeling and Fast Conditional Sampling with Applications in Vision and Graphics ( PDF | BibTex )
    Frank Dellaert, Vivek Kwatra and Sang Min Oh
    Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2005)

  • Novel Skeletal Representation For Articulated Creatures ( Project Page | PDF )
    Gabriel Brostow, Irfan Essa, Drew Steedly and Vivek Kwatra
    Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2004)

  • Surface Simplification and Edgebreaker Compression for 2D Cell Animations ( PDF | Project page | BibTex )
    Vivek Kwatra and Jarek Rossignac
    Proc. International Conference on Shape Modelling and Applications (SMI 2002)

  • Temporal Integration of Multiple Silhouette-based Body-part Hypotheses ( PDF | Project page | BibTex )
    Vivek Kwatra, Aaron F. Bobick and Amos Y. Johnson
    Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2001)

  • Using Separating Planes between Objects for Efficient Hidden Surface Removal( PostScript | BibTex )
    Alok Kumar, Vivek Kwatra, Balpreet Singh and Sanjiv Kapoor
    Proc. International Conference on Visual Computing ( ICVC 1999 )

  • Dynamic Binary Space Partitioning for Hidden Surface Removal ( PostScript | BibTex )
    Alok Kumar, Vivek Kwatra, Balpreet Singh and Sanjiv Kapoor
    Proc. Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing ( ICVGIP 1998 )

Theses:

  • Example-based Rendering of Textural Phenomena ( PDF | Single-spaced PDF )
     Ph.D. Thesis, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, August 2005

  • Algorithms for Efficient Dynamic Hidden Surface Removal for Curved Surfaces ( PostScript )
     Alok Kumar and Vivek Kwatra
    B.Tech Project Report. 1999, Deptt. of Computer Science, IIT Delhi

Tech Reports:

  • Texturing Fluids ( Project Page | PDF )
    Vivek Kwatra, David Adalsteinsson, Nipun Kwatra, Mark Carlson, and Ming Lin
    UNC Technical Report UNC-TR06-016, Department of Computer Science, UNC Chapel-Hill.

  • Semantic Photo Synthesis ( Download link )
    Matthew Johnson, Gabriel J. Brostow, Jamie Shotton, Ognjen Arandjelovic, Vivek Kwatra, Roberto Cipolla
    Technical Report 20060422MJ

  • A Comparison Study of Four Texture Synthesis Algorithms on Near-Regular Textures ( Download link )
    Wen-Chieh Lin, James H. Hays, Chenyu Wu, Vivek Kwatra, and Yanxi Liu
    Tech. Report CMU-RI-TR-04-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2004.
    Also appeared in Poster Session SIGGRAPH, August 2004.

  • Transforming Surfaces into Touch-Screens ( Abstract | PDF | Request harcopy )
    Claudio Pinhanez, Rick Kjeldsen,Tony Levas, Gopal Pingali, Jacob Hartman, Mark Podlaseck, Vivek Kwatra and Paul Chou
    IBM Research Report RC22273 (W0112-016), December 4, 2001