Yasutaka Furukawa

Software Engineer
E-mail: furukawa -atmark- google.com
URL: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/furukawa		 Google Inc.
651 N. 34th St. Seattle
WA 98103, USA
Phone: +1-206-876-1777

Academic Career

University of Washington
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Research associate under the supervision of Steven M. Seitz, Brian Curless, and Richard Szeliski		 2008.8 -- 2009.12
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science
Ph.D. in computer science under the supervision of Dr. Jean Ponce.
Committee members: Jean Ponce, David Forsyth, Marc Pollefeys, and Yizhou Yu.		 2002.8 -- 2008.5
University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
 2001.4 -- 2002.3
University of Tokyo
Department of Information Science
Bachelor of science in computer science under the supervision of Dr. Yoshihisa Shinagawa.		 1997.4 -- 2001.3

Work Experience

Google
 2010.1 -- Present
Industrial Light & Magic
Summer internship. Developing a facial motion capture software.		 2007.5 -- 2007.8
Industrial Light & Magic
Summer internship. Developing computer vision softwares.
Contributed to a project which won the 79th academy award (2007) for the design and development of the ILM Image-based Modeling System. 		2006.5 -- 2006.9
GSport
Building a tracking system for a software motion capture project.		 2002.5 -- 2002.7
Monolith Production
Developing Graphics Libraries and their application softwares.		 2001.5 -- 2001.8

Publications

Products

Journal Articles

Conference Papers

Textbook Chapters

  • Combining Multi-View Stereo and Bundle Adjustment for Accurate Camera Calibration
    Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce
    Image and Geometry Processing for 3D Cinematography, Springer
    Editors: Remi Ronfard and Gabriel Taubin, 2010

  • Dense 3D Motion Capture from Synchronized Video Streams
    Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce
    Image and Geometry Processing for 3D Cinematography, Springer
    Editors: Remi Ronfard and Gabriel Taubin, 2010

Technical Reports (significantly different from published papers)

Honors and Scholarships

Best Student Paper Award
European Conference on Computer Vision 2012		 2012.10
Outstanding Reviewer Award
IEEE Internatinal Conference on Computer Vision 2009		 2009.10
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
Japan regional contest: 2nd place (2000) and 9th place (1999).
Asia regional contest: 7th place at KAIST (2000), 6th place at Tsukuba (2000) and 7th place at Kyoto (1999).		 1999 -- 2000
Seminar of Mathematics
Won a silver medal in a mathematics contest, organized by Peter Francl. (Coach of the Japanese team of International Mathematical Olympiad)		 1996.8
Scholarships from Heiwa Nakajima Foudnation 2002.9 -- 2004.8
Conference Travel Grant
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2007		 2007.6
Conference Travel Grant
European Conference on Computer Vision 2006		 2006.5
Conference Travel Grant
European Conference on Computer Vision 2004		 2004.5

Students advised or co-advised

  • Ricardo da Silveira Cabral (CMU) at Google
  • Shan Qi at University of Washington with Steve Seitz and Brian Curless
  • Ricardo Martin at University of Washington with Steve Seitz and Brian Curless
  • Jianxiong Xiao (MIT) at Google
  • Avanish Kushal at University of Washington with Steve Seitz and Brian Curless
  • Ben Self at University of Washington with Steve Seitz and Brian Curless

Presentations and invited talks (Besides conferences)

  • 3D Reconstruction and Visualization Techniques
    Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan, May 2009

  • 3D Reconstruction and Visualization Techniques
    Toppan Printing, Japan, May 2009

  • 3D Reconstruction Technologies in Computer Vision
    ImageMovers Digital, California, USA, December 2008

  • Accurate Camera Calibration from Multi-View Stereo and Bundle Adjustment
    BIRS 2008 Workshop on Multi-View Image and Geometry Processing for 3D Cinematography, Canada, July 2008

  • Dense 3D Motion Capture from Synchronized Video Streams
    BIRS 2008 Workshop on Multi-View Image and Geometry Processing for 3D Cinematography, Canada, July 2008

  • Combining Multi-View Stereo and Bundle Adjustment, 3D Dense Motion Capture
    University of Cambridge, UK, February 2008

  • Combining Multi-View Stereo and Bundle Adjustment, 3D Dense Motion Capture
    CERTIS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, France, February 2008

  • High Fidelity Image-Based Modeling
    Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), JAPAN, December 2007

  • High Fidelity Image-Based Modeling
    Microsoft Research Redmond, USA, August 2007

  • High Fidelity Image-Based Modeling
    University of Washington, USA, August 2007

  • High Fidelity Image-Based Modeling
    Google, USA, August 2007

  • Accurate, Dense, and Robust Multi-View Stereopsis
    Industrial Light and Magic, USA, June 2007

  • Multi-View Stereo through Feature Matching and Expansion
    BIRS 2006 Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision, Canada, October 2006

  • Carved Visual Hulls for High Accuracy Image-based Modeling
    Symposium on Computational Photography and Video (SCPV2005), USA, May 2005

Tutorial

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant for Combinatorial algorithms at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Class Topics include dynamic programming, graph theories, approximation algorithms, sorting networks, union-find, network flow, randomized algorithms, number theory, NP-completeness, Fast Fourier Transform, and computational geometry.		 2002.8 -- 2003.5
Guest Lecture
Guest lecture on number theory and primality testing.		 2003.3

Research Interests

Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Geometry Processing

Professional Activities

Program co-chair for 3DV 2013 (the third joint 3Dim/3DPVT) conference.

Served as a reviewer for
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
  • Asian Conference on Computer Vision
  • ACM SIGGRAPH
  • ACM Eurographics
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • Image and Vision Computing
  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Consistently a program committee and a reviwer for
  • ICCV
  • ECCV
  • CVPR
  • 3DIMPVT


Last updated: October, 2012