Sam Hasinoff

Current Address
#301 - 1545 Bathurst St.
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5P 3H6 
hasinoff@cs.toronto.edu		 Permanent Address
1540 Mathers Bay West 
Winnipeg, Manitoba 
Canada, R3N 0T7 
sam.hasinoff@gmail.com

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

Honours and Awards

  • Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention, 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. Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Confocal Stereo, International Journal of Computer Vision, submitted (invited paper).
  2. 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.
  3. 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 and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Light-Efficient Photography, In Proc. 10th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2008, 14 pp.
  2. 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).
  3. Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Confocal Stereo, In Proc. 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2006, pp. 620-634.
  4. 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).
  5. 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. Samuel W. Hasinoff, Solving Substitution Ciphers, Technical Report, University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, 2003.
  2. 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, Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Fire from Images, MSc Thesis, University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, 2002.

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)

Work Experience

  • Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China [Sep-Dec 2004]
    • developed new 3D reconstruction methods for geometrically complex scenes, such as hair
    • devised improved camera calibration methods, suitable for high-resolution digital SLR cameras
  • Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington [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
  • Junior Technician, Great-West Life, Winnipeg [Jul-Aug 1996, May-Jul 1997]
    • collaborated in the design and implementation of a prototype for a web-based corporate intranet
    • developed custom tools for web site management and support for French

Other activities

  • backpacking & everything outdoors, photography, intramural ultimate
  • Iyengar yoga, Shotokan karate (6th kyu), swimming (Bronze Cross)
  • acoustic guitar, viola (Suzuki book 6)
  • CSGSBS executive, Graduate Student Union representative [2002-2003]
  • documentary filmmaker, SJR National Current Affairs Conference [1996]