Research Projects





Fluid in Video: Augmenting Real Video with Simulated Fluids ( Project Page | PDF )
Vivek Kwatra, Philippos Mordohai, Rahul Narain, Sashi Kumar Penta, Mark Carlson, Marc Pollefeys, and Ming Lin
To Appear in Eurographics 2008
synthetic liquid on real baby
Synthetic Liquid falling on Real Baby (Click Image for VIDEO)



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

Hose pouring water in a box



Texturing Fluids ( Project page )
Vivek Kwatra, David Adalsteinsson, Theodore Kim, Nipun Kwatra, Mark Carlson, and Ming Lin
To Appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2007
( PDF )
Technical Sketch, ACM SIGGRAPH 2006
( PDF )
UNC Technical Report
( PDF )
textured volcano



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



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



Texture Optimization for Example-based Synthesis ( Project page | PDF )
Vivek Kwatra, Irfan Essa, Aaron Bobick, and Nipun Kwatra 
Proc. ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2005
energy plot Keyboard flowing like smoke



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)



Graphcut Textures: Image and Video Synthesis Using Graph Cuts ( Project page | PDF )
Vivek Kwatra, Arno Schödl, Irfan Essa, Greg Turk, and Aaron Bobick
Proc. ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2003
Raft-River
fire river



2D Cel Animation Compression ( Project page )
Vivek Kwatra and Jarek Rossignac
International Journal on Shape Modeling, Volume8, Number 2, December 2002 ( PDF )
Proc. International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2002) ( PDF )
Cel Visualization Animation



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