Sam Hasinoff

Office
32 Vassar Street, 32-D462 
Cambridge, MA  02139
(617) 253-7245
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10 Agassiz St, Apt. 17
Cambridge MA  02140
(617) 959-2047

Summary

  • natural problem-solving ability and ingenuity
  • proven communication, teamwork, and leadership skills
  • quick to learn and readily productive in new situations
  • extensive programming experience in Matlab, C, C++, Java, OpenGL, etc.

Education

Honors and Awards

  • Alain Fournier Ph.D. Thesis Annual Award, top Canadian thesis in computer graphics [2008]
  • Honorable Mention, Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award, European Conference on Computer Vision [2006]
  • NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship [2008-2010]
  • NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Doctoral [2004-2006]
  • NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship A [2000-2002]
  • NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award [1999]
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology [2003-2004, 2006]
  • UBC Hugh M. Brock National Entrance Scholarship [1996-2000]
  • UBC J. Fred Muir Memorial Scholarship in Science [1999]
  • UBC Charles and Jane Banks Scholarship [1998]
  • Governor General's Bronze Medal [1996]

Publications

Journal papers

  1. Anat Levin, Samuel W. Hasinoff, Paul Green, Frédo Durand, and William T. Freeman, 4D Frequency Analysis of Computational Cameras for Depth of Field Extension, ACM Transactions of Graphics 28(3), 2009 (SIGGRAPH 2009).
  2. Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Confocal Stereo, International Journal of Computer Vision, 81(1), pp. 82-104, 2009. Special Issue on Best Papers from ECCV 2006.
  3. Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Photo-Consistent Reconstruction of Semitransparent Scenes by Density-Sheet Decomposition, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 29(5), pp. 870-885, 2007.
  4. Samuel W. Hasinoff, Sing Bing Kang, and Richard Szeliski, Boundary Matting for View Synthesis, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 103(1), pp. 22-32, 2006.

Conference and workshop papers

  1. Samuel W. Hasinoff, Martyna Jóźwiak, Frédo Durand, and William T. Freeman, Search-and-Replace Editing for Personal Photo Collections, In Proc. 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography, ICCP 2010, 8 pp.
  2. Samuel W. Hasinoff, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Frédo Durand, and William T. Freeman, Time-Constrained Photography, In Proc. 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2009, pp. 333-340.
  3. Kiriakos N. Kutulakos and Samuel W. Hasinoff, Focal Stack Photography: High-Performance Photography with a Conventional Camera In Proc. 11th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2009 (invited paper).
  4. Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Light-Efficient Photography, In Proc. 10th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2008, 14 pp.
  5. Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, A Layer-Based Restoration Framework for Variable-Aperture Photography, In Proc. 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2007, 8 pp. (DVD proceedings).
  6. Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Confocal Stereo, In Proc. 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2006, pp. 620-634.
  7. Samuel W. Hasinoff, Sing Bing Kang, and Richard Szeliski, Boundary Matting for View Synthesis, Second IEEE Workshop on Image and Video Registration (with CVPR 2004), 8 pp. (DVD proceedings).
  8. Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Photo-Consistent 3D Fire by Flame-Sheet Decomposition, In Proc. 9th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2003, pp. 1184-1191.

Technical reports

  1. Anat Levin, Samuel W. Hasinoff, Paul Green, Frédo Durand, and William T. Freeman, 4D Frequency Analysis of Computational Cameras for Depth of Field Extension, Technical Report, MIT CSAIL TR 2009-019, 2009.
  2. Samuel W. Hasinoff, Solving Substitution Ciphers, Technical Report, University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, 2003.
  3. Samuel W. Hasinoff, Reinforcement Learning for Problems with Hidden State, Technical Report, University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, 2002.

Theses

  1. Samuel W. Hasinoff, Variable-Aperture Photography, PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, 2008.
  2. Samuel W. Hasinoff, Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Fire from Images, MSc Thesis, University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, 2002.

Professional Experience

  • NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA [Sep 2008-present]
    • postdoctoral research in computational photography
  • Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China [Sep-Dec 2004]
    • developed new 3D reconstruction methods for geometrically complex scenes, such as hair
  • Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA [May-Aug 2003]
    • developed new methods to analyze pixels at object boundaries, for improved view synthesis
  • Research Assistant, Laboratory for Computational Intelligence, UBC [May 1999-Apr 2000]
    • developed software in Java3D to model and render deformable objects as multiresolution "subdivision" surfaces
    • created interfaces to exotic hardware, like the Virtex CyberGlove, and developed interactive demos for presentation at SIGGRAPH 1999
  • Research Assistant, Dept. Chemistry, University of Manitoba [May-Aug 1998]
    • developed Fortran software to analyse the results of ab initio quantum chemistry calculations

Teaching Experience

  • Guest Lecturer, Dept. Computer Science, University of Toronto [2006]
    • prepared and delivered several lectures
      • Introduction to Visual Computing (CSC320)
      • Visual Modeling (CSC2530)
  • Teaching Assistant, Dept. Computer Science, University of Toronto [Sep 2000-present]
    • delivered tutorial lectures to classes of 20-35 students, developed new tutorial material, held office hours, and graded assignments and exams
      • Introduction to Visual Computing (CSC320)
      • Computer Graphics (CSC2504/418)
      • Numerical Methods (CSC336)
      • Data Structures (CSC270)
      • Programming Languages (CSC324)
  • Lab Instructor, Dept. Computer Science, UBC [Sep 1998-May 1999]
    • led undergraduate computer science labs of 25-30 students, and graded assignments and exams
      • Software Development (CPSC152)
      • Data Structures (CPSC216)

Other Interests

  • backpacking and everything outdoors, photography
  • Iyengar yoga, Shotokan karate (6th kyu), swimming (Bronze Cross)
  • acoustic guitar, viola (Suzuki book 6)