What's new

I am a program co-chair for 3DV (the third joint 3DIM/3DPVT conference) in 2013. Please submit your papers!
Our ECCV 2012 paper won the Best Student Paper Award!.

Google Maps - Photo Tours launched! (2012/04)
Google MapsGL launched! (2011/10)
INTEL CEO talked about our internet-scale MVS work
PMVS is used for real production purposes by Industrial Light & Magic, Weta Digital, and Google Inc.

Who Am I ?

I am a software engineer at Google and developing exciting products for Google Maps users, while trying to prove that Computer Vision is interesting and useful. In the past, I was a post-doctoral research associate (or postdoc) in the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory at University of Washington. I worked with Prof. Seitz and Prof. Curless at University of Washington, and Rick Szeliski at Microsoft Research. I obtained a B.S. degree under the supervision of Dr. Yoshihisa Shinagawa at University of Tokyo in March 2001. I completed my Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Ponce at Computer Science Department of Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2008. My primary research interests are in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. The following is a list of projects I've worked on.

CV (and links to all the publications)

Research

	Reconstructing the World's Museums - (supplementary document) Jianxiong Xiao and Yasutaka Furukawa ECCV 2012 (oral). Best Student Paper Award. A project website with a bunch of movies and demos. This is a summer intern project at Google Seattle.
	Google Maps - Photo Tours, April, 2012 Designed and implemented a pipeline to compute scene geometries for rendering and "3D Ken Burns" motions. Examples (a few clicks away). Photo Tours Avanish Kushal, Ben Self, Yasutaka Furukawa, David Gallup, Carlos Hernandez, Brian Curless, and Steve Seitz 3DimPVT 2012 (Oral).
	MapsGL (Next generation Google Map), October, 2011 Designed and implemented a city-scale dense 3D reconstruction pipeline from aerial images, running in an unprecedented scale for hundreds of cities all over the world.
	Building Rome in a Day Sameer Agarwal, Yasutaka Furukawa, Noah Snavely, Brian Curless, Steven M. Seitz and Richard Szeliski Communications of the ACM, Vol. 54, No. 14, Pages 105-112, October 2011. Building Rome Sameer Agarwal, Yasutaka Furukawa, Noah Snavely, Brian Curless, Steven M. Seitz and Richard Szeliski IEEE Computer Society, June 2010.
	Towards Internet-scale Multi-view Stereo (supplementary material) Yasutaka Furukawa, Brian Curless, Steven M. Seitz and Richard Szeliski CVPR 2010. CMVS software available! Project website coming soon.
	Reconstructing Building Interiors from Images Yasutaka Furukawa, Brian Curless, Steven M. Seitz and Richard Szeliski ICCV 2009 (oral). Project website
	Dense 3D Motion Capture for Human Faces Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce CVPR 2009. Movie
	Manhattan-world Stereo Yasutaka Furukawa, Brian Curless, Steven M. Seitz and Richard Szeliski CVPR 2009. Movie
	Dense 3D Motion Capture from Synchronized Video Streams Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce CVPR 2008. (oral) Dense Patch Models for Motion Capture from Synchronized Video Streams Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce -- Willow Tech. Report 02-07 Movie (Also see our gallery for more movies)

	Accurate Camera Calibration from Multi-View Stereo and Bundle Adjustment Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce IJCV, 2009. Accurate Camera Calibration from Multi-View Stereo and Bundle Adjustment Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce CVPR 2008. Movie

	Accurate, Dense, and Robust Multi-View Stereopsis Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce PAMI, August 2010. Accurate, Dense, and Robust Multi-View Stereopsis Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce CVPR 2007. High-Fidelity Image Based Modeling Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce -- Technical Report 2006-02 Multi-View Stereo Software for download. See our gallery and 3D Photography Datasets. See the multi-view stereo evaluation project by Steve Seitz et al. for quantitative evaluations of our results. As of 9/25/2007, our algorithm achieves the best result in terms of both accuracy and completeness for 4 out of 6 datasets.

	Carved Visual Hulls for Image-Based Modeling Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce IJCV, March 2008 Special Issue: Best of the European Conference on Computer Vision 2006 Carved Visual Hulls for Image-Based Modeling Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce ECCV 2006. (oral) Carved Visual Hulls for High-Accuracy Image-Based Modeling Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce -- SIGGRAPH 2005 Technical Sketch See our 3D Photography Datasets and visual hull data sets.

	Projective Visual Hulls IJCV, August 2007 Svetlana Lazebnik, Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce See our visual hull data sets.

	Robust Structure and Motion from Outlines of Smooth Curved Surfaces Yasutaka Furukawa, Amit Sethi, Jean Ponce, and David Kriegman. PAMI, February 2006 (Vol. 28, No. 2) pp.302-315 Structure and Motion from Images of Smooth Textureless Objects Yasutaka Furukawa, Amit Sethi, Jean Ponce, and David Kriegman. ECCV 2004.

	Accurate and Robust Line Segment Extraction by Analyzing Distribution around Peaks in Hough Space Yasutaka Furukawa and Yoshihisa Shinagawa Computer Vision and Image Understanding Volume 92, Issue 1, Pages 1-25 (October 2003)