Sam Hasinoff

I'm a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT in CSAIL. My research interests are in (computer) vision and graphics, and these days I'm especially interested computational photography. 
 
I recently received my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UToronto, under the supervision of Kyros Kutulakos. 
 
Age yr / Length 6'3" / Mass 200 lb
Office 32-D462 (Stata Center), (617) 253-7245
hasinoff@csail.mit.edu  

Ph.D. Thesis

Variable-Aperture Photography
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2008

Publications

Faster capture of in-focus photos [project page]

Light-Efficient Photography [preprint]  (oral)
Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
Proc. 10th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2008, pp. 45-59

High-resolution 3D reconstruction, by controlling aperture and focus [project page]

Confocal Stereo [preprint]
Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
International Journal of Computer Vision, accepted (invited paper)
Confocal Stereo  (oral)
Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
Proc. 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2006, pp. 620-634
Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention

Aperture bracketing for HDR and synthetic refocusing [project page]

A Layer-Based Restoration Framework for Variable-Aperture Photography
Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
Proc. 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2007, 8 pp.

3D reconstruction of semi-transparent scenes [project page]

Photo-Consistent Reconstruction of Semitransparent Scenes by Density-Sheet Decomposition
Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 29(5), pp. 870-885, 2007
Photo-Consistent 3D Fire by Flame-Sheet Decomposition  (oral)
Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
Proc. 9th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2003, pp. 1184-1191
Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Fire from Images
Samuel W. Hasinoff
MSc Thesis, University of Toronto, Dept. of Computer Science, 2002

Matting object boundaries, for better rendering from synthetic viewpoints [project page]

Boundary Matting for View Synthesis [preprint]
Samuel W. Hasinoff, Sing Bing Kang, and Richard Szeliski
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 103(1), pp. 22-32, 2006
Boundary Matting for View Synthesis  (oral)
Samuel W. Hasinoff, Sing Bing Kang, and Richard Szeliski
Second IEEE Workshop on Image and Video Registration (with CVPR 2004), 8 pp.

Miscellany, unpublished

Solving Substitution Ciphers
Samuel W. Hasinoff
Tech. Report, University of Toronto, Dept. of Computer Science, 2003
Code available at SourceForge
Reinforcement Learning for Problems with Hidden State
Samuel W. Hasinoff
Tech. Report, University of Toronto, Dept. of Computer Science, 2002

Non-publications