| KARI PULLI | |
| NVIDIA Research Santa Clara, CA USA | +1 650 843 9878 (mobile) kari.pulli AT gmail.com.NOSPAMS http://people.csail.mit.edu/kapu/ |
PUBLICATIONS |
Jun Hu, Orazio Gallo, Kari Pulli Exposure Stacks for Live Scenes with Hand-held Cameras ECCV, Florence, Italy, Oct 7 - 13, 2012. Changyin Zhou, Alejandro Troccoli, Kari Pulli Robust Stereo with Flash No-Flash Image Pairs CVPR, Providence, Rhode Island, June 16 - 21, 2012. Kari Pulli, Anatoly Baksheev, Kirill Kornyakov, Victor Eruhimov Realtime Computer Vision with OpenCV ACM Queue, Vol. 10, No. 4, April 2012. Reprinted as Real-Time Computer Vision with OpenCV Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55, No. 6, pages 61--69, 2012. Orazio Gallo, Marius Tico, Roberto Manduchi, Natasha Gelfand, Kari Pulli Metering for Exposure Stacks Eurographics, Cagliari, Italy, May 13 - 18, 2012. Alejandro Troccoli, Dawid Pajak, Kari Pulli FCam for Multiple Cameras SPIE Electronic Imaging: Multimedia on Mobile Images 2012, Burlingame, CA, USA, Jan 22 - 26, 2012. Benjamin Watson, Vidya Setlur, Kari Pulli An introduction to mobile app development 3D Graphics and Cameras on Android SIGGRAPH ASIA, Hong Kong, Dec. 2011 and Mobile HCI, San Francisco, Sep 2012. Dingding Liu, Yingen Xiong, Kari Pulli, Linda Shapiro Estimating Segmentation Difficulty ( slides ) International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, New York, USA, Aug 30 - Sep 3, 2011. Daniel Vaquero, Natasha Gelfand, Marius Tico, Kari Pulli, Matthew Turk Generalized Autofocus ( slides, video ) IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Kona, Hawaii, January 5-6, 2011. Yingen Xiong, Kari Pulli Color Matching for High-Quality Panoramic Images on Mobile Phones IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 56, No. 4, Nov 2010. Yingen Xiong, Kari Pulli Color Matching of Image Sequences with Combined Gamma and Linear Corrections ( slides ) ACM Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 25-29, 2010. Natasha Gelfand, Andrew Adams, Sung Hee Park, Kari Pulli Multi-exposure Imaging on Mobile Devices (video ) ACM Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 25-29, 2010. Dingding Liu, Kari Pulli, Linda Shapiro, Yingen Xiong Fast Interactive Image Segmentation by Discriminative Clustering ( slides, video ) ACM Workshop on Cloud Media Computing (at ACM Multimedia), Florence, Italy, October 29, 2010. Dingding Liu, Yingen Xiong, Linda Shapiro, Kari Pulli Robust Interactive Image Segmentation with Automatic Boundary Refinement ( slides ) IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Hong Kong, September 26-29, 2010. Marius Tico, Natasha Gelfand, Kari Pulli Motion-Blur-Free Exposure Fusion ( slides ) IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Hong Kong, September 26-29, 2010. Daniel Vaquero, Matthew Turk, Kari Pulli, Marius Tico, Natasha Gelfand A survey of image retargeting techniques ( slides ) SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIII, San Diego, CA, August 2010. Andrew Adams, Eino-Ville Talvala, Sung Hee Park, David Jacobs, Boris Ajdin, Natasha Gelfand, Jennifer Dolson, Daniel Vaquero, Jongmin Baek, Marius Tico, Hendrik Lensch, Wojciech Matusik, Kari Pulli, Mark Horowitz, Marc Levoy The Frankencamera: An Experimental Platform for Computational Photography SIGGRAPH 2010, Los Angeles, USA, July 25-29, 2010. Reprinted as The Frankencamera: An Experimental Platform for Computational Photography Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55, No. 11, pages 90 -- 98, 2012. Yingen Xiong, Kari Pulli Fast Image Stitching and Editing for Panorama Painting on Mobile Phones IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Vision, in Conjunction with CVPR'2010 (IWMV2010), San Francisco, USA, Jun 18, 2010, pp. 298-306. Kari Pulli, Marius Tico, Yingen Xiong Mobile Panoramic Imaging System 6th IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision, in Conjunction with CVPR'2010 (ECVW2010), San Francisco, USA, Jun 13, 2010. 2-page earlier version was Kari Pulli, Marius Tico, Yingen Xiong, Xianglin Wang, Chia-Kai Liang Panoramic Imaging System for Camera Phones International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Las Vegas, USA, Jan 9-13, 2010. Yingen Xiong, Kari Pulli Fast Panorama Stitching for High-Quality Panoramic Images on Mobile Phones IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 56, No. 2, May 2010. 2-page earlier version was Yingen Xiong, Kari Pulli Fast Panorama Stitching on Mobile Devices International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Las Vegas, USA, Jan 9-13, 2010. Yingen Xiong, Kari Pulli Fast and High-Quality Image Blending on Mobile Phones 7th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada USA, Jan 9-12, 2010. Yingen Xiong, Kari Pulli Fast image labelling for producing high resolution panoramic images and its applications on mobile devices ISM 2009: Proceedings of The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, San Diego, California, USA, Dec 14-16, 2009. Yingen Xiong, Kari Pulli Sequential image stitching for mobile panorama ICICS 2009: Proceedings of The IEEE Seventh International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, Macau, Dec 8-10, 2009. Yingen Xiong, Kari Pulli Color correction for mobile panorama imaging ICIMCS 2009: Proceedings of The ACM First International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, Kunming, Yunnan, Nov 23-25, China, 2009. Marius Tico, Kari Pulli Image Enhancement Method via Blur and Noisy Image Fusion ( slides ) 2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'09), Cairo, Egypt, Nov 7-10, 2009. Yingen Xiong, Dingding Liu, Kari Pulli A gradient domain object editing approach and its applications in panorama stitching IEEE Forty-Third Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov 1-4, 2009. Yingen Xiong, Kari Pulli Gradient domain image blending and implementation on mobile devices MobiCase 09: Proceedings of The First Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, San Diego, California, USA, Oct 26-29, 2009. Yingen Xiong, Kari Pulli Mask based image blending approach and its applications on mobile devices Sixth International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Yichang, China, Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2009. Kari Pulli, Wei-Chao Chen, Natasha Gelfand, Radek Grzeszczuk, Marius Tico, Ramakrishna Vedantham, Xianglin Wang, Yingen Xiong Mobile Visual Computing International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality (ISUVR'09), GIST, Gwangju, South Korea, July 8-11, 2009. Duy-Nguyen Ta, Natasha Gelfand, Wei-Chao Chen, Kari Pulli SURFTrac: Efficient Tracking and Continuous Object Recognition using Local Feature Descriptors ( slides and videos [zip, 80GB] ) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'09), Miami, Florida, June 20-25 2009. Orazio Gallo, Wei-Chao Chen, Natasha Gelfand, Marius Tico, Kari Pulli Artifact-free High Dynamic Range Imaging ( slides ) IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP'09), San Francisco, CA, April 16-17, 2009. Gabriel Takacs, Vijay Chandrasekhar, Natasha Gelfand, Yingen Xiong, Wei-Chao Chen, Thanos Bismpigiannis, Radek Grzeszczuk, Kari Pulli, Bernd Girod Outdoor Augmented Reality on Mobile Phone using Loxel-Based Visual Feature Organization ( slides ) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR'08), Vancouver, Canada, October 2008. Tolga Capin, Kari Pulli, Tomas Akenine-Möller The State of the Art in Mobile Graphics Research IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 28, Issue 4, Jul.-Aug. 2008, pp. 74-84. Sami Kyöstilä, Kari J. Kangas, Kari Pulli Tracy: A Debugger and System Analyzer for Cross-Platform Graphics Development ( slides ) Graphics Hardware 2008, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, June 2008. Andrew Adams, Natasha Gelfand, Kari Pulli Viewfinder Alignment Eurographics 2008, Crete, Greece, April 2008, pp. 597-606. Kari Pulli, Tomi Aarnio, Ville Miettinen, Kimmo Roimela, Jani Vaarala Mobile 3D Graphics with OpenGL ES and M3G Morgan Kauffman, 2007. Robert Y. Wang, Kari Pulli, Jovan Popović Real-Time Enveloping with Rotational Regression ( slides ) SIGGRAPH 2007, Article No. 73, San Diego, USA, August 2007. Kari Pulli, Jani Vaarala, Ville Miettinen, Robert Simpson, Tomi Aarnio, Mark Callow The Mobile 3D Ecosystem Course 25 at SIGGRAPH 2007, San Diego, USA, August 2007. Kari Pulli, Jani Vaarala, Ville Miettinen, Tomi Aarnio, Mark Callow Developing Mobile 3D Applications with OpenGL ES and M3G Course T3 at Eurographics 2006, Vienna, Austria, September 2006. Kari Pulli New APIs for Mobile Graphics SPIE Electronic Imaging 2006 Multimedia on Mobile Devices II, San Jose, USA, 2006, pp. 1-13. Albert Huang, Kari Pulli, Larry Rudolph Kimono: Kiosk-Mobile Phone Knowledge Sharing System ( slides ) MUM 2005, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2005, pp. 142-149. Kari Pulli, Tomi Aarnio, Kimmo Roimela, Jani Vaarala Designing Graphics Programming Interfaces for Mobile Devices IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 25, Issue 8, Nov.-Dec. 2005, pp. 66-75. Kari J. Kangas, Mika Qvist, Kari Pulli Synthetic content approach for benchmarking mobile 3D graphics ( slides ) SIGRAD 2005, Lund, Sweden, November 2005. Eugene Hsu, Kari Pulli, Jovan Popović Style Translation for Human Motion SIGGRAPH 2005, Los Angeles, USA, August 2005, pp. 1082-1089. Kari Pulli, Jani Vaarala, Ville Miettinen, Tomi Aarnio, Mark Callow Developing Mobile 3D Applications with OpenGL ES and M3G Course 35 at SIGGRAPH 2005, Los Angeles, USA, August 2005. Jiawen Chen, Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, Matthias Zwicker, Kari Pulli, Frédo Durand A Reconfigurable Architecture for Load-Balanced Rendering ( slides ) Graphics Hardware 2005, Los Angeles, USA, July 2005, pp. 71-80. Kari Pulli, Simo Piiroinen, Tom Duchamp, Werner Stuetzle Projective Surface Matching of Colored 3D Scans ( slides, slides with speaker notes ) Fifth International Conference on3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM'05), Ottawa, Canada, June 2005, pp. 531-538. Kari Pulli From a Researcher to a Manager: Transition and Learning Strategies Executive MBA thesis, University of Oulu, Finland, 2001. Marc Levoy, Kari Pulli, Brian Curless, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, David Koller, Lucas Pereira, Matt Ginzton, Sean Anderson, James Davis, Jeremy Ginsberg, Jonathan Shade, Duane Fulk The Digital Michelangelo Project: 3D Scanning of Large Statues SIGGRAPH 2000, New Orleans, USA, July 2000, pp. 131-144. Kari Pulli, Linda Shapiro Surface Reconstruction and Display from Range and Color Data Graphical Models and Image Processing, 62, 2000, pp. 165-201. Basically a condensed version of the dissertation. Kari Pulli Multiview Registration for Large Data Sets Second International Conference on 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM'99), Ottawa, Canada, October 1999, pp. 160-168. Kari Pulli, Habib Abi-Rached, Tom Duchamp, Linda G. Shapiro, and Werner Stuetzle Acquisition and Visualization of Colored 3D Objects International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Brisbane, Australia, August 1998, pp. 11-15. Kari Pulli Surface Reconstruction and Display from Range and Color Data Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 1997. Kari Pulli, Michael Cohen, Tom Duchamp, Hugues Hoppe, John McDonald, Linda Shapiro, and Werner Stuetzle Surface Modeling and Display from Range and Color Data Keynote address at ICIAP'97, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1310, Springer-Verlag , Florence, Italy, September 1997, pp. 385-397. Kari Pulli, Michael Cohen, Tom Duchamp, Hugues Hoppe, Linda Shapiro, and Werner Stuetzle View-based Rendering: Visualizing Real Objects from Scanned Range and Color Data 8th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, St. Etienne, France, June 1997, pp. 23-34. also Technical Report UW-CSE-97-04-01, University of Washington Kari Pulli, Tom Duchamp, Hugues Hoppe, John McDonald, Linda Shapiro, and Werner Stuetzle Robust Meshes from Range Maps Int. Conf. on Recent Advances in 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM'97), Ottawa, Canada, May 1997, pp. 205-211. Kari Pulli and Michael Lounsbery Hierarchical editing of subdivision surfaces Technical Report UW-CSE-97-04-07, University of Washington Kari Pulli and Mark Segal Fast rendering of subdivision surfaces 7th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Porto, Portugal, June 1996, pp. 61-70, 282. (Published by SpringerComputerScience as "Rendering Techniques '96") also Technical Report UW-CSE-96-03-02, University of Washington also Technical Sketch in SIGGRAPH '96 Visual Proceedings Kari Pulli and Tony DeRose Effective Removal of Detail for a Multiresolution Viewer a Technical Sketch in SIGGRAPH '96 Visual Proceedings Kari Pulli and Linda Shapiro Triplet-Based Object Recognition Using Synthetic and Real Probability Models International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Wien, Austria, August 1996, pp. 75-79. a longer version is in Kari Pulli TRIBORS: A Triplet-Based Object Recognition System Technical Report UW-CSE-95-01-01, University of Washington Hubert Jin, Tom Duchamp, Hugues Hoppe, John McDonald, Kari Pulli, and Werner Stuetzle Surface reconstruction from misregistered data SPIE vol. 2573, 1995, pp. 324-328. Kari Pulli Vision Methods for an Autonomous Machine Based on Range Imaging Licentiate thesis, ACTA Universitatis Ouluensis, C 72, 1993. Kari Pulli and Matti Pietikäinen Range Image Segmentation Based on Decomposition of Surface Normals Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA), Norway, 1993. Jukka Riekki, Kari Pulli, and Juha Röning A Goal Oriented and Reactive Autonomous Machine Finnish Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1992. Kari Pulli 3D Graphics on the Multiprocessor System DAMP Diploma thesis, University of Oulu and University of Paderborn, 1991. |
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Senior Director of Research, NVIDIA Research, Santa Clara, CA, since 4/11. Mobile Visual Computing. Building a research team, the first focus area mobile computational photography. Nokia Fellow, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, 6/10 -- 3/11 Mobile Visual Computing. Sixth Nokia Fellow ever, as I was there, there were three of us. Member of CEO Technology Council, Nokia, 1/09 -- 3/11 Research Fellow, Distinguished Research Leader, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA 8/06 -- 6/10 Mobile Computational Photography, Augmented Reality, and Graphics. Research Fellow, Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, MA 6/04 -- 8/06 Visiting Scientist, MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA 6/04 -- 8/06 Graphics and ubicom research.Docent (adjunct faculty), University of Oulu, Finland since 5/00 Teaching computer graphics and supervising M.Sc. theses. NMP Fellow (first as Principal Scientist), Nokia Mobile Phones, Oulu, Finland 7/99 -- 5/04 Figuring out how mobile phones can use graphics and vice versa.Research associate, Stanford University, 1/98 -- 6/99 Technical lead, Digital Michelangelo Project. Intern, Alias|Wavefront, Seattle, WA, 6/96 -- 9/96 Research: hierarchical editing of subdivision surfaces. Intern, Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA, 6/95 -- 9/95 Fast rendering of subdivision surfaces on Onyx Reality Engine. Included microcoding of the graphics engines and writing an interactive subdivision surface editor using Inventor and Motif libraries. Intern, Microsoft, Seattle, WA, 6/94 -- 9/94 3D graphics, porting SoftImage's Creative Environment into NT, building an emulator for running programs written for SGI and old GL on OpenGL and Windows. Research assistant, University of Washington, 9/93 -- 12/97 Research in model-based vision using probabilistic models; surface reconstruction from a set of unregistered range and color views. Research scientist, Radiology Clinic, University hospital in Oulu, Finland, 8/93 -- 9/93 Design and partial implementation of a system that tracks movement of a tumor as patient breathes. Research scientist, University of Oulu, Finland, 9/91 -- 7/93 Developing of range vision software for a robotic paper roll manipulator. (Licentiate thesis) Research assistant University of Paderborn, Germany, 12/90 -- 8/91 Implementing a 3D computer graphics rendering system for a transputer based system. (Master's thesis) Internships, Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany, summers '88, '89, and '90 User interface programming for data base applications. |
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Roughly in the order of proficiency: Finnish, English, German, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, French. |