Frédo Durand

E-mail: fredo@mit.edu
Associate Professor
Computer Graphics Group
CSAIL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Stata Center, office D426, 32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Phone : (617) 253 7223
Fax : (617) 253 4640

Assistant: Bryt Bradley (617.253.6583)

Short bio
	Frédo Durand is an associate professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He received his PhD from Grenoble University, France, in 1999, supervised by Claude Puech and George Drettakis. From 1999 till 2002, he was a post-doc in the MIT Computer Graphics Group with Julie Dorsey. He works both on synthetic image generation and computational photography, where new algorithms afford powerful image enhancement and the design of imaging system that can record richer information about a scene. His research interests span most aspects of picture generation and creation, with emphasis on mathematical analysis, signal processing, and inspiration from perceptual sciences. He co-organized the first Symposium on Computational Photography and Video in 2005 and was on the advisory board of the Image and Meaning 2 conference. He received an inaugural Eurographics Young Researcher Award in 2004, an NSF CAREER award in 2005, an inaugural Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship in 2005, a Sloan fellowship in 2006, and a Spira award for distinguished teaching in 2007.

Students and collaborators
	Soonmin Bae, Jiawen "Kevin" Chen, Paul Green, Tilke Judd, Sylvain Paris, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Sara Su, Emily Whiting Former students and collaborators: Wojciech Matusik, Tom Annen, Thouis Ray Jones, Elmar Eisemann,Florent Duguet, Xavier Décoret, Alexis Charignon, Max Chen, Mok Oh, Yann Semet, Eric Chan, Barb Cutler,Stéphane Grabli, Matthias Zwicker, Jan Kautz, Addy Ngan, Tom Mertens Resources for students (general resources about writing, career, being a sucessful graduate student). In particular see my draft of notes on writing. For my students: Policy, advices, rules, etc. If you want to work with me: FAQ for prospective students and post-docs.

Photos:
	Italy	Beijing	Tanzania	Everglades	Galapagos	Mandala	Everything else
Teaching:
		How to Write a Bad Article Endnote I gave at the MIT Student Oxygen Workshop, stealing inspiration from a number of useful resources.
		6.088 Digital and Computational Photography 6.882 Advanced Computational Photography (The above link does not have all ppt files. See here for the missing one.) see also 2006 offering and the 2007 version
		6.A44 Computational Photography Freshman seminar
		6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Recitation notes
		6.837 Intro to Computer Graphics Also: Fall 04, Fall 03, Fall 02
		6.839/SMA 5507 Advanced Computer Graphics
		The Art and Science of Depiction This class explores perceptual and technical aspect of pictures, and more precisely the depiction of reality on a 2D medium. The focus is on an in-breadth multidisciplinary approach. Here are the slides of a talk I gave at the University College of London to outline the class. And here is a more recent version given at Stanford (1 slide per page or 6 slides per page)
		Perceptual and Artistic Principles for Effective Computer Depiction SIGGRAPH 2002 Course, together with Maneesh Agrawala, Bruce Gooch, Victoria Interrante, Victor Ostromoukhov and Denis Zorin.
		A Gentle Introduction to Bilateral Filtering and its Applications SIGGRAPH 2007 Course, together with Sylvain Paris, Pierre Kornprobst, and Jack Tumblin. Monday morning (8:30am - 12:15pm)

Code and data
		Fast Bilateral filter code (with Sylvain Paris) Matlab version by Jiawen Chen HDR images (with Mok Oh's help) Analytical BRDF parameters for a large class of real materials (with Addy Ngan & Wojciech Matusik) Measured data for anisotropic BRDFs (with Addy Ngan & Wojciech Matusik) Software for programmable NPR line drawing (with Stephane Grabli et al.) Flash/no-flash data (with Elmar Eisemann) Applet for automultiscopic 3D display resolution analysis (with Matthias Zwicker et al.) Light field data from our automultiscopic display project (with Matthias Zwicker et al.) Hybrid shadow algorthm: shadow valume & shadow map (with Eric Chan) Real-time soft shadow with smoothies code (with Eric Chan) Feature preserving mesh smoothing code and data (with Ray Jones and Mathieu Desbrun) Dynamic Canvas code: great animated paper/canvas effectsfor NPR (with Mathieu Cunzi et al.) Textured 3D Meshes (with Tom Mertens et al.) Deconvolution code and Code Aperture input images (with Levin et al.) Fast hierarchical mean shift segmentation (with Sylvain Paris). Translation of Lippmann's 1908 paper on integral photographs (essentially plenoptic cameras). Bilateral grid on the GPU (fastest bilateral filter) with Jiawen Chen and Sylvain Paris. BTFShop (material appearance editing) with Jan Kautz and Solomon Boulos.
Conference organization and journal
		IEEE CG&A special issue on Computational Photography guest editors: Richard Szeliski and Frédo Durand March/April 2007 (Vol. 27, No. 2)
		Symposium on Computational Photography and Video with Marc Levoy and Richard Szeliski May 2005, MIT Slides available on the symposium web page.
Publications
		Apparent Ridges for Line Drawing Tilke Judd, Frédo Durand, Edward H. Adelson ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc.Siggraph), July 2007
		Real-time Edge-Aware Image Processing with the Bilateral Grid Jiawen Chen, Sylvain Paris, Frédo Durand ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc.Siggraph), July 2007
		Multi-aperture Photography Paul Green, Wenyang Sun, Wojciech Matusik, Frédo Durand. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc.Siggraph), July 2007
		The Lightspeed Automatic Interactive Lighting Preview System Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Charlie Kilpatrick, Brian Smith, Doug Epps, Paul Green, Christophe Hery and Frédo Durand ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc.Siggraph), July 2007
		Implicit Visibility and Antiradiance for Interactive Global Illumination Carsten Dachsbacher, Marc Stamminger, George Drettakis, Frédo Durand ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc.Siggraph), July 2007
		Image and Depth from a Conventional Camera with a Coded Aperture Anat Levin, Rob Fergus, Frédo Durand, William Freeman ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc.Siggraph), July 2007
		Interactive Editing and Modeling of Bidirectional Texture Functions Jan Kautz, Solomon Boulos, Frédo Durand ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc.Siggraph), July 2007
		A Topological Approach to Hierarchical Segmentation using Mean Shift Sylvain Paris and Frédo Durand Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'07)
		Efficient Reflectance and Visibility Approximations for Environment Map Rendering Paul Green, Jan Kautz, and Frédo Durand Proceedings of Eurographics 2007
		Defocus Magnification Soonmin Bae and Frédo Durand Proceedings of Eurographics 2007
		Two-scale Tone Management for Photographic Look. Soonmin Bae, Sylvain Paris, and Frédo Durand. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH'06)
		Texture Transfer Using Geometry Correlation Tom Mertens, Jan Kautz, Jiawen Chen, Philippe Bekaert and Frédo Durand Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2006.
		Statistical Acquisition of Texture Appearance Addy Ngan and Frédo Durand. Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2006.
		Image-driven Navigation of Analytical BRDF Models Addy Ngan, Frédo Durand, Wojciech Matusik. Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2006.
		Antialiasing for Automultiscopic Displays M. Zwicker, W. Matusik, F. Durand, H. Pfister Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2006.
		View-Dependent Precomputed Light Transport Using Nonlinear Gaussian Function Approximations. Paul Green, Jan Kautz, Wojciech Matusik, Fredo Durand Symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games, 2006
		A Fast Approximation of the Bilateral Filter using a Signal Processing Approach Sylvain Paris and Frédo Durand European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'06) (Code provided!!) NEW: check out the extended Technical report
		A Frequency analysis of Light Transport Frédo Durand, Nicolas Holzschuch, Cyril Soler, Eric Chan & François Sillion SIGGRAPH 2005
		Texture Design Using a Simplicial Complex of Morphable Textures Wojciech Matusik, Matthias Zwicker and Frédo Durand SIGGRAPH 2005
		Motion Magnification Ce Liu, Antonio Torralba, William T. Freeman, Frédo Durand and Edward H. Adelson SIGGRAPH 2005 NEW: Motion magnification enables the discovery of a new hearing mechnism.
		Defocus Video Matting Morgan McGuire, Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, John F. Hughes, and Frédo Durand SIGGRAPH 2005
		De-Emphasis of Distracting Image Regions Using Texture Power Maps Sara L. Su, Frédo Durand, and Maneesh Agrawala Proc. of Texture 2005, Beijing, China, October 2005.
		A Reconfigurable Architecture for Load-Balanced Rendering Jiawen Chen, Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, Matthias Zwicker, Kari Pulli and Frédo Durand SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Graphics Hardware 2005
		Experimental Analysis of BRDF Models Addy Ngan, Frédo Durand and Wojciech Matusik Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2005
		Defining Pictorial Style: Lessons from Linguistics and Computer Graphics John Willats and Frédo Durand Axiomathes, Volume 15, Number 2, 2005
		Flash Photography Enhancement Via Intrinsic Relighting Elmar Eisemann and Frédo Durand SIGGRAPH 2004
		Experimental Validation of Analytical BRDF Models. Addy Ngan, Frédo Durand, Wojciech Matusik. Technical Sketch, SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, California, August 2004.
		Density Measure for Line-Drawing Simplification Stéphane Grabli, Frédo Durand, François Sillion Proceedings of Pacific Graphics - 2004
		Programmable Style for NPR Line Drawing Stéphane Grabli, Emmanuel Turquin, Frédo Durand, François Sillion Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2004 (The software is available online)
		An Efficient Hybrid Shadow Rendering Algorithm Eric Chan and Frédo Durand Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2004
		Normal Improvement for Point Rendering Thouis Jones, Frédo Durand, Matthias Zwicker IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, July/August 2004, pages 53-56.
		An Interactive Artificial Ant Approach to Non-Photorealistic Rendering Yann Semet, Una-May O'Reilly, Frédo Durand GECCO'04: Genetic and Evolutionary COmputation Conference also in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3102, Jan 2004, Pages 188 - 200
		Spherical Harmonic Gradients for Mid-Range Illumination T. Annen, J. Kautz, F. Durand, H.-P. Seidel Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2004
		Rendering Fake Soft Shadows with Smoothies Eric Chan and Frédo Durand Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2003
		Non-Iterative, Feature-Preserving Mesh Smoothing Thouis R. Jones, Frédo Durand, Mathieu Desbrun SIGGRAPH 2003
		Billboard Clouds for Extreme Model Simplification Xavier Décoret, Frédo Durand, François Sillion, Julie Dorsey SIGGRAPH 2003
		Dynamic Canvas for Non-Photorealistic Walkthroughs Matthieu Cunzi, Joëlle Thollot, Sylvain Paris, Gilles Debunne, Jean-Dominique Gascuel, Frédo Durand Graphics Interface 2003
		Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High-Dynamic-Range Images Frédo Durand and Julie Dorsey SIGGRAPH 2002
		An Invitation to Discuss Computer Depiction Frédo Durand ACM/Eurographics Symp. NPAR'02.
		The 3D Visibility Complex Frédo Durand, George Drettakis and Claude Puech. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 21(2), April 2002.
		A Survey of Visibility for Walkthrough Applications Daniel Cohen-Or, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Cláudio T. Silva and Frédo Durand IEEE TVCG, accepted for publication.
		Decoupling Strokes and High-Level Attributes for Interactive Traditional Drawing Frédo Durand, Victor Ostromoukhov, Mathieu Miller, François Duranleau, and Julie Dorsey in the Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, June 2001.
		Image-Based Modeling and Photo Editing Byong Mok Oh, Max Chen, Julie Dorsey and Frédo Durand in the Proceedings of Siggraph'2001.
		A Physically-Based Nightsky Model Henrik Wann Jensen, Frédo Durand, Michael Stark, Simon Premoze, Julie Dorsey and Peter Shirley in the Proceedings of Siggraph'2001.
		The Art and Science of Depiction Frédo Durand Unpublished manuscript, 2000. French version
		Some Thoughts on Visibility Frédo Durand. Introductory talk, Workshop on Visibility, Bonifacio, France, September 2000.
		A multidisciplinary survey of visibility Frédo Durand. in ACM Siggraph course notes Visibility, Problems, Techniques, and Applications, July 2000.
		Interactive Tone Mapping Frédo Durand and Julie Dorsey. Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 2000
		Conservative Visibility Preprocessing using Extended Projections. Frédo Durand, George Drettakis, Joëlle Thollot and Claude Puech. in the Proceedings of Siggraph'2000
		3D Visibility: Analytical study and Applications Frédo Durand PhD thesis, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, July 1999.
		Fast and Accurate Hierarchical Radiosity Using Global Visibility Frédo Durand, George Drettakis and Claude Puech. ACM Transactions on Graphics, April 99. (preliminary version available as INRIA tech report 3446.)
		Visibility Driven Hierarchical Radiosity Frédo Durand, George Drettakis and Claude Puech. Siggraph'98 technical sketch
		The Visibility Skeleton: A Powerful and Efficient Multi-Purpose Global Visibility Tool. Frédo Durand, George Drettakis and Claude Puech. in the Proceedings of Siggraph'97
		The 3D Visibility Complex: a unified data-structure for global visibility of scenes of polygons and smooth objects Frédo Durand, George Drettakis and Claude Puech. 9th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, August 97.
		3D Visibility made Visibly Simple Frédo Durand, George Drettakis and Claude Puech. Video of the 13th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, Nice (France), June 1997.
		The 3D Visibility Complex, a new approach to the problems of accurate visibility. Frédo Durand, George Drettakis and Claude Puech. 7th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Porto, June 1996
		Radiosity in Flatland made Visibly Simple. Frédo Durand, Rachel Orti, Stéphane Rivière and Claude Puech. Video of the 12th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, Philadelphia, May 1996. avi version (189 MB)
		Radiosity for dynamic scenes in flatland with the visibility complex. Rachel Orti, Stéphane Rivière, Frédo Durand and Claude Puech. In Proc. Eurographics, Poitier, August 1996.
		Using the visibility complex for radiosity computation. Rachel Orti, Frédo Durand, Stéphane Rivière and Claude Puech. In Proc. ACM Workshop on Applied Computational Geometry, Philadelphia, May 1996.
		The visibility complex made visibly simple. Frédo Durand and Claude Puech. Video of the 11th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, Vancouver, June 1995. avi version (158 MB)
		When I was young I played with: ray-tracing taking relativity into account, a multimedia CD database, recursive quadtrees and fractal compression


Job application material and career proposal
	English version CV Research statement Teaching statement En français CV Projet de recherche Projet d'enseignement NSF CAREER proposal

Links
	My Computer Graphics links: Researchers, labs, publications, images, companies, code, models, etc.
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Frédo Durand

Short bio

Students and collaborators

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Teaching:

Code and data

Conference organization and journal

Publications

Job application material and career proposal

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