Kyros Kutulakos

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto

Office: BA5264, Bahen Center (5th floor)
40 St. George Street, Toronto
Phone: (416) 946-8045
Fax: (416) 978-1455
Email: kyros AT cs.toronto.edu

Mailing address: 10 King's College Road,
Rm3302, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada

Affiliation: Computer Vision Group, DGP

Recent Projects

Shape from
Scatter-Trace Photography
(ICCV'07)

 Variable-Aperture Photography
(ICCV'07)		 Linear Single-View Modeling
(CVPR'07) 		Confocal Stereo
(ECCV'06)

Publication List Bio & Curriculum Vitae
   
Students [complete list] Courses [complete list]
Sam Hasinoff
Ady Ecker
 Nigel Morris
Adrian Stere		 CSC320 (S'07)
Intro to Visual Computing 		CSC2530 (S'07)
Computer Vision
for Digital Photography
   
Datasets & Software
Multi-view
datasets
 CVPR'03 Submission
Software		  

Representative Publications

    • Variable-aperture photography

    A Layer-Based Restoration Framework for Variable-Aperture Photography

    S. W. Hasinoff and K. N. Kutulakos
    Proc. 11th International Comference on Computer Vision, 2007. To appear
    Project page
     

    Confocal Stereo

    S. W. Hasinoff and K. N. Kutulakos
    Proc. 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, pp.620-634, 2006
    Winner, Best Paper Award Honorable Mention
    Project page
     

    3D photography of transparent & specular scenes (glass, liquids, fire)

    Reconstructing the Surface of Inhomogeneous Transparent Scenes by Scatter-Trace Photography

    N. J. W. Morris & K. N. Kutulakos
    Proc. 11th International Conference ofnComputer Vision, (ICCV), 2007 .To appear.
    Project page
     

    A Theory of Refractive and Specular 3D Shape by
    Light-Path Triangulation

    K. N. Kutulakos & E. Steger
    International Journal of Computer Vision, 2007. To appear.
    Proc. 10th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 1448-1455, 2005
    Winner, David Marr Prize Honorable Mention
    Project page
     

    Dynamic Refraction Stereo

    N. J. W. Morris  & K. N. Kutulakos
    Proc. 10th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 1573-1580, 2005
    Project page
    Photo-Consistent 3D Fire by Flame-Sheet Decomposition

    S. W. Hasinoff  & K. N. Kutulakos
    IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, v.29, n.5, pp. 870-885, 2007
    Proc. 9th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 1184-1191, 2003
    Project page

    Single-View Modeling

    Shape from Planar Curves: A Linear Escape from Flatland

    A. Ecker, K. N. Kutulakos and A. D. Jepson
    Proc. Computer  Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference. (CVPR), 2007.

    Computer vision & non-linear light transport 

    A Theory of Inverse Light Transport

    S. M. Seitz, Y. Matsushita & K. N. Kutulakos
    Proc. 10th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 1440-1447, 2005

    Analysis of multi-view video sequences

    Linear Sequence-to-Sequence Alignment

    R. L. Carceroni, F. L. C. Padua, G. A. M. R. Santos & K. N. Kutulakos
    Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), pp. 746-753, 2004
    Multi-View Scene Capture by Surfel Sampling

    R. L. Carceroni & K. N. Kutulakos
    International Journal of Computer Vision, v. 49, n. 2, pp. 175-214, 2002
    Proc. 8th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 60-67, 2001

    Theory & algorithms for multi-view stereo

    A Probabilistic Theory of Occupancy and Emptiness

    R. Bhotika , D. J. Fleet & K. N. Kutulakos
    Proc. 7th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp. III: 112-131, 2002
    Approximate N-View Stereo

    K. N. Kutulakos
    Proc. 6th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp. I: 67-83, 2000
    Nominated for Best Paper Award
    A Theory of Shape by Space Carving

    K. N. Kutulakos & S. M. Seitz
    International Journal of Computer Vision, v. 38, n. 3, pp. 199-218, 2002
    Proc. 7th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 307-314, 1999
    Winner, David Marr Prize in Computational Vision
    Shape from the Light Field Boundary

    K. N. Kutulakos
    Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), pp. 53-59, 1998

    Image-based modeling

    Plenoptic Image Editing

    S. M. Seitz  & K. N. Kutulakos
    International Journal of Computer Vision, v. 48, n. 2, pp. 115-129, 2002
    Proc. 7th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 17-24, 1998
    Nominated for David Marr Prize

    Augmented reality 

    Calibration-Free Augmented Reality

    K. N. Kutulakos & J. R. Vallino
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Graphics, v. 4, n. 1, pp. 1-20, 1998

    Active viewpoint control for computer vision

    Global surface reconstruction by purposive control of observer motion

    K. N. Kutulakos & C. R. Dyer
    Artificial Intelligence Journal, v. 78, n. 1-2, pp. 147-177, 1995
    Recovering Shape by Purposive Viewpoint Adjustment

    K. N. Kutulakos & C. R. Dyer
    International Journal of Computer Vision, v. 12, n. 1, pp. 113-136, 1994
    Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), pp. 16-22, 1992
    Occluding contour detection using affine invariants and purposive viewpoint control

    K. N. Kutulakos & C. R. Dyer
    Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), pp. 323-330, 1994
    Winner, Best Student Paper Award

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