Sing Bing Kang's Publications (by Year)

 

2008

Journal Papers

  1. X. Chen, S.B. Kang, Y.-Q. Xu, J. Dorsey, and H.-Y. Shum, “Sketching reality: Realistic interpretation of architectural designs,” ACM Trans. On Graphics, 27(2), Apr. 2008 (to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2008 TOG session).
  2. C. Liu, R. Szeliski, S.B. Kang, C.L. Zitnick, and W.T. Freeman, “Automatic estimation and removal of noise from a single image,” IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 30(2):299-314, Feb. 2008.

Conference/Workshop Paper

  1. Y. Zheng, J. Yu, S. Lin, S.B. Kang, and C. Khambamettu, “Single-image vignetting correction using radial gradient symmetry,” Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2008.

Patents

1.      S.B. Kang, M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, and R. Szeliski, System and process for generating high dynamic range video, U.S. Patent 7,382,931, granted June 3, 2008.

2.      C.L. Zitnick, S.B. Kang, M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, and R. Szeliski, Color segmentation-based stereo 3D reconstruction system and process employing overlapping images of a scene captured from viewpoints forming either a line or a grid, U.S. Patent 7,379,583, granted May 27, 2008.

3.      S. Marschner, B.K. Guenter, S. Raghupathy, K. Olynyk, and S.B. Kang, Facial image processing methods and systems, U.S. Patent No. 7,356,447, granted Apr. 8, 2008, also U.S. Patent No. 7,363,201, granted Apr. 22, 2008.

4.      X. Liu, S.B. Kang, H.-Y. Shum, System and process for generating representations of objects using a directional histogram model and matrix descriptor, U.S. Patent 7,343,039, granted Mar. 11, 2008.

 

2007

Book

  1. Y. Yagi, S.B. Kang, I.S. Kweon, and H. Zha (eds.), Proc. 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Tokyo Japan, Nov. 18-22, 2007, Parts I and II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer.

Journal Papers

  1. C.L. Zitnick and S.B. Kang, “Stereo for image-based rendering using image over-segmentation,” Int’l J.  of Computer Vision, 75(1):49-65, Oct. 2007.
  2. P. Tan, G. Zeng, J. Wang, S.B. Kang, and L. Quan, “Image-based tree modeling,” ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM Trans. on Graphics, San Diego, CA, Aug. 2007, article 87, 7 pp. PDF
  3. R. Hartley and S.B. Kang, “Parameter-free radial distortion correction with centre of distortion estimation,” IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 29(8):1309-1321, Aug. 2007.
  4. Z. Lin, L. Wang, Y. Wang, S.B. Kang, and T. Fang, “High resolution animated scenes from stills,” IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(3):562-568, May/June 2007.
  5. S.B. Kang, Y. Li, X. Tong, and H.-Y. Shum, “Image-based rendering,” Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, vol. 2, issue 3, Apr. 2007.

Conference/Workshop Papers

1.      S.B. Kang, “Vision for graphics,” IJARC/ACCV Joint Int’l Symp. on Computer Vision, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2007, pp. 23-34 (invited). PDF

2.      P. Bhat, C.L. Zitnick, N. Snavely, A. Agarwala, M. Agrawala, M. Cohen, B. Curless, and S.B. Kang, “Using photographs to enhance videos of a static scene,” Eurographics Symp. on Rendering, Grenoble, France, June 2007.

3.      S.B. Kang, “Automatic removal of chromatic aberration from a single image,” Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2007.

4.      G. Schindler, F. Dellaert, and S.B. Kang, “Inferring temporal order of images from 3D structure,” Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2007.

5.      J. Sun, J. Sun, S.B. Kang, Z. Xu, X. Tang, and H.-Y. Shum, “Flash cut: Foreground extraction with flash and no-flash image pairs,” Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2007.

6.      K.C. Zheng, S.B. Kang, M. Cohen, and R. Szeliski, “Layered depth panorama,” Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2007.

Patents

  1. C.L. Zitnick, S.B. Kang, M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, and R. Szeliski, Color segmentation-based stereo 3D reconstruction system and process, U.S. Patent 7,324,687, granted Jan. 29, 2008.
  2. S.B. Kang, C.L. Zitnick, M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, and R. Szeliski, Interactive viewpoint video system and process, U.S. Patent 7,292,257, granted Nov. 6, 2007.
  3. S.B. Kang, C.L. Zitnick, M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, and R. Szeliski, Interactive viewpoint video employing viewpoints forming an array, U.S. Patent 7,286,143, granted Oct. 23, 2007.
  4. S.B. Kang, M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, and R. Szeliski, System and process for generating high dynamic range video, U.S. Patent 7,239,757, granted July 3, 2007.
  5. S.B. Kang, Self-calibration for a catadioptric camera, U.S. Patent 7,224,386, granted May 29, 2007.
  6. M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, C.L. Zitnick, R. Szeliski, and S.B. Kang, Real-time rendering system and process for interactive viewpoint video, U.S. Patent 7,221,366, granted May 22, 2007.
  7. C.L. Zitnick, R. Szeliski, S.B. Kang, M. Uyttendaele, and S. Winder, System and process for generating a two-layer, 3D representation of a scene, U.S. Patent 7,206,000, granted Apr. 17, 2007.
  8. L. Wang,  S.B. Kang, R. Szeliski, H.-Y. Shum, and B. Guo, System and process for optimal texture map reconstruction from multiple views, U.S. Patent 7,205,998, granted Apr. 17, 2007.

 

2006

Book

  1. H.-Y. Shum, S.-C. Chan, and S.B. Kang, Image-Based Rendering, Springer, Sept. 2006.

Journal Papers

  1. J. Sun, Y. Li, S.B. Kang, and H.Y. Shum, “Flash matting,” ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM Trans. on Graphics, Boston, MA, Aug. 2006, 25(3):599-604.
  2. L. Quan, P. Tan, G. Zeng, L. Yuan, J. Wang, and S.B. Kang, “Image-based plant modeling,” ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM Trans. on Graphics, Boston, MA, Aug. 2006, 25(3):772-778.
  3. S.W. Hasinoff, S.B. Kang, and R. Szeliski, “Boundary matting for view synthesis,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 103, no. 1, July 2006, pp. 22-32.
  4. S. Xu, Y. Xu, S.B. Kang, D.H. Salesin, Y. Pan, and H.-Y. Shum, “Animating Chinese paintings through stroke-based decomposition,” ACM Trans. on Graphics, vol. 25, no.2, Apr. 2006, pp. 239-267.
  5. Y. Tsin, S.B. Kang, and R. Szeliski, “Stereo matching with linear superposition of layers,” IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 28, no. 2, Feb. 2006, pp. 290-301.

Conference/Workshop Papers

  1. L. Wang, Z. Lin, T. Fang, X. Yang, X. Yu, and S.B. Kang, “Real-time rendering of realistic rain,” ACM SIGGRAPH (Sketch), Boston, MA, Aug. 2006.
  2. Y. Zheng, S. Lin, and S.B. Kang, “Single-image vignetting correction,” Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2006, vol. 1, pp. 461-468. PDF
  3. C. Liu, W. Freeman, R. Szeliski, and S.B. Kang, “Noise estimation from a single image,” Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2006, vol. 1, pp. 901-908.
  4. T. Shiratori, Y. Matsushita, S.B. Kang, and X. Tang, “Video completion by motion field transfer,” Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2006, vol. 1, pp. 411-418.
  5. V. Vaish, R. Szeliski, C.L. Zitnick, S.B. Kang, and M. Levoy, “Reconstructing occluded surfaces using synthetic apertures: Shape from focus vs. shape from stereo,” Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2006, vol. 2, pp. 2331-2338.
  6. A. Troccoli, S.B. Kang, and S. Seitz, "Multi-view multi-exposure stereo," Symp. on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT), Chapel Hill, NC, June 2006.
  7. N. Snavely, C.L. Zitnick, S.B. Kang, and M. Cohen, “Stylizing 2.5-D video,” Int’l Symp. on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, June 2006, pp. 63-69.
  8. E. Bennett, M. Uyttendaele, L. Zitnick, R. Szeliski, and S.B. Kang, “Video and image Bayesian demosaicing with a two color image prior,” European Conf. on Computer Vision, Graz, Austria, May 2006, part I, pp. 508-521.

Patents

  1. S.B. Kang, M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, and R. Szeliski, System and process for generating high dynamic range images from multiple exposures of a moving scene, U.S. Patent 7,142,723, granted Nov. 28, 2006.
  2. M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, C.L. Zitnick, R. Szeliski, and S.B. Kang, Real-time rendering system and process for interactive viewpoint video that was generated using overlapping images of a scene captured from viewpoints forming a grid, U.S. Patent no. 7, 142,209, granted Nov. 28, 2006.
  3. S. Marscher, B.K. Guenter, S. Raghupathy, K. Olynyk, and S.B. Kang, Facial image processing methods and systems, U.S. Patent no. 7,124,066, granted Oct. 17, 2006, also U.S. Patent no. 7,152,024, granted Dec. 19, 2006.
  4. S. Marscher, B.K. Guenter, S. Raghupathy, K. Olynyk, and S.B. Kang, Methods and systems for animating facial features and methods and systems for expression transformation, U.S. Patent no. 7,098,920, granted Aug. 29, 2006, also U.S. Patent no. 7,129,949, granted Oct. 31, 2006.
  5. F. Dufaux, S.B. Kang, and R.A. Ulichney, Camera-based document scanning system using multiple-pass mosaicking, U.S. Patent no. 7,046,401, granted May 16, 2006.
  6. S.B. Kang and R.S. Weiss, Camera calibration using off-axis illumination and vignetting effects, U.S. Patent no. 7,023,472, granted Apr. 4, 2006.
  7. C.L. Zitnick, R. Szeliski, S.B. Kang, M. Uyttendaele, and S. Winder, System and process for generating a two-layer, 3D representation of a scene, U.S. Patent no. 7,015,926, granted Mar. 21, 2006.
  8. S.B. Kang, M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, and R. Szeliski, System and process for generating high dynamic range video, U.S. Patent no. 7,010,174, granted Mar. 7, 2006.
  9. S.B. Kang, R. Szeliski, and M. Uyttendaele, System and method deghosting mosaics using multiperspective plane sweep, U.S. Patent no. 7,006,709, granted Feb. 28, 2006.
  10. L. Wang, S.B. Kang, R. Szeliski, H.-Y. Shum, and B. Guo, System and process for optimal texture map reconstruction from multiple views, U.S. Patent no. 6,985,156, granted Jan. 10, 2006, also U.S. Patent no. 6,999,095, granted Feb. 14, 2006.

Technical Report

  1. C. Liu, R. Szeliski, S.B. Kang, C.L. Zitnick, and W.T. Freeman, Automatic Estimation and Removal of Noise from a Single Image, Tech. Rep. MSR-TR-2006-180, Dec. 2006.
  2. L. Wang, Z. Lin, T. Fang, X. Yang, X. Yu, and S.B. Kang, Real-Time Rendering of Realistic Rain, Tech. Rep. MSR-TR-2006-102, July 2006.
  3. S. Xu, Y. Xu, S..B. Kang, D. Salesin, Y. Pan, and H.-Y. Shum, Animating Chinese Paintings through Stroke-based Decomposition, Tech. Rep. MSR-TR-2006-33, March 2006.

 

2005

Journal Paper

  1. A. Criminisi, S.B. Kang, R. Swaminathan, R. Szeliski, and P. Anandan, “Extracting layers and analyzing their specular properties using epipolar-plane-image analysis,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 95, 2005, pp. 51-85.

Conference/Workshop Papers

  1. R.I. Hartley and S.B. Kang, “Parameter-free radial distortion correction with centre of distortion estimation,”  Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision, Beijing, Oct. 2005, pp. 1834-1841.
  2. L. Zitnick, N. Jojic, and S.B. Kang, “Consistent segmentation for optical flow estimation,” Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision, Beijing, Oct. 2005, pp. 1308-1315.
  3. H. Wang, S. Lin, X. Liu, and S.B. Kang, "Separating reflections in human iris images for illumination estimation," Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision, Beijing, Oct. 2005, pp. 1691-1698.
  4. N. Snavely, L. Zitnick, S.B. Kang, and M. Cohen, “Stylizing 2.5-D video,” ACM SIGGRAPH (Sketch), Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 2005.
  5. J. Sun, Y. Li, S.B. Kang, and H.-Y. Shum, “Symmetric stereo matching for occlusion handling,” Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2005, vol. 2, pp. 399-406.

Patents

  1. M. Uyttendaele, S.B. Kang, R. Szeliski, and A. Criminisi, System and process for viewing and navigating through an interactive video tour, U.S. Patent no. 6,968,973, granted Nov. 29, 2005.
  2. S. Marschner, B.K. Guenter, S. Raghupathy, K. Olynyk, and S.B. Kang, Methods and systems for animating facial features, and methods and systems for expression transformation, U.S. Patent no. 6,950,104, granted Sept. 27, 2005.
  3. S.B. Kang, M.T. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, and R. Szeliski, System and process for generating high dynamic range video, U.S. Patent no. 6,879,731, granted Apr. 12, 2005.
  4. S.B. Kang, Self-calibration for a catadioptric camera, U.S. Patent no. 6,870,563, granted Mar. 22, 2005.
  5. S. Marschner, B.K. Guenter, S. Raghupathy, K. Olynyk, and S.B. Kang, Facial image processing methods and systems, U.S. Patent no. 6,850,872, granted Feb. 1, 2005.

Technical Report

  1. R. Hartley and S.B. Kang, Parameter-free RadialDistortion Correction with Centre of Distortion Estimation, Tech. Rep. MSR-TR-2005-42, April 2005.

 

2004

Journal Papers

  1. A. Criminisi, M. Kemp, and S.B. Kang, “Reflections of reality in Jan van Eyck and Robert Campin,” Historical Methods, vol. 37, no. 3, summer 2004, pp. 109-121.
  2. Y. Matsushita, S.B. Kang, S. Lin, H.-Y. Shum, and X. Tong, “Lighting and shadow interpolation using Intrinsic Lumigraphs,” Int’l J. of Image and Graphics, vol. 4, no. 4, Oct. 2004, pp. 585-604.
  3. C.L. Zitnick, S.B. Kang, M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, and R. Szeliski, “High-quality video view interpolation using a layered representation,” ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM Trans. on Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 2004, pp. 600-608.
  4. S.B. Kang and R. Szeliski, “Extracting view-dependent depth maps from a collection of images,” Int’l J.  of Computer Vision, vol. 58, no. 2, July 2004, pp. 139-163.
  5. M. Uyttendaele, A. Criminisi, S.B. Kang, S. Winder, R. Hartley, and R. Szeliski, “High-quality image-based interactive exploration of real-world environments,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 24, no. 3, May/June 2004, pp. 52-63.
  6. L. Wang, S.B. Kang, H.-Y. Shum, and G. Xu, “Error analysis of pure rotation-based self-calibration,” IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 26, no. 2, Feb. 2004, pp. 275-280.

Conference/Workshop Papers

  1. S.B. Kang, C.L. Zitnick, M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, and R. Szeliski, “Free-viewpoint video with stereo and matting”, Picture Coding Symp., San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2004 (invited).
  2. S.W. Hasinoff, S.B. Kang, and R. Szeliski, “Boundary matting for view synthesis,” 2nd IEEE Workshop on Image and Video Registration (in conjunction with CVPR’04), Washington DC, July 2004.
  3. Y. Matsushita, S. Lin, S.B. Kang, and H.-Y. Shum, “Estimating intrinsic images from image sequences with biased illumination,” European Conf. on Computer Vision, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2004, vol. 2, pp. 274-286.
  4. L. Wang, S.B. Kang, H.-Y. Shum, and G. Xu, "Cooperative segmentation and stereo using perspective space search," Asian Conf. on Computer Vision, Jeju Island, South Korea, Jan. 2004, vol. 1. pp. 366-371.

Book/Book Chapters

  1. G. Medioni and S.B. Kang (eds.), Emerging Topics in Computer Vision, Prentice Hall, July 2004.
  2. H.Y. Shum, Y. Li, and S.B. Kang, “An introduction to image-based rendering,” in Integrated Image and Graphics Technologies, D.D. Zhang, M. Kamel, and G. Baciu (Eds.), Kluwer, 2004, pp. 131-159.

Video

  1. C.L. Zitnick, S.B. Kang, M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, R. Szeliski, “Massive Arabesque” (directed by Jim Berry), Visual Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2004.

Technical Report

  1. S.B. Kang, R. Szeliski, and M. Uyttendaele, Seamless Stitching using Multi-Perspective Plane Sweep, Tech. Rep. MSR-TR-2004-48, June 2004.

Patent

  1. L. Wang, S.B. Kang, R. Szeliski, H.-Y. Shum, and B. Guo, System and process for optimal texture map reconstruction from multiple views, U.S. Patent no. 6,825,850, granted Nov. 30, 2004.

 

2003

Journal Papers

  1. S.B. Kang, M. Wu, Y. Li, and H.-Y. Shum, “Large environment rendering using plenoptic primitives,” IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 13, no. 11, Nov. 2003, pp. 1064-1073.
  2. H.-Y. Shum, S.B. Kang, and S.-C. Chan, “Survey of image-based representations and compression techniques,” IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 13, no. 11, Nov. 2003, pp. 1020-1037.
  3. S.B. Kang, M. Uyttendaele, S. Winder, and R. Szeliski, “High dynamic range video,” ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM Trans. on Graphics, San Diego, CA, July 2003, pp. 319-325.

Conference/Workshop Papers

  1. Y. Tsin, S.B. Kang, and R. Szeliski, “Stereo matching with reflections and translucency,” Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2003, vol. 1, pp. 702-709.
  2. X. Liu, B. Sun, S.B. Kang, and H.-Y. Shum, “Directional histogram model for three-dimensional shape similarity,” Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2003, vol. 1, pp. 813-820.
  3. A. Criminisi, M. Kemp, and S.B. Kang, “Reflections of reality in Jan van Eyck and Robert Campin,” Measuring Art: A Scientific Revolution in Art History, Paris, May-June 2003.

Technical Report

  1. M. Uyttendaele, A. Criminisi, S.B. Kang, S. Winder, R. Hartley, and R. Szeliski, High-quality Image-based Interactive Exploration of Real-World Environments, Tech. Rep. MSR-TR-2003-61, Oct. 2003.

Patent

  1. S.B. Kang, P.-P. J. Sloan, and S.M. Seitz, Method and system for obtaining visual information from an image sequence using visual tunnel analysis, U.S. Patent no. 6,642,924, granted Nov. 4, 2003.

 

2002

Journal Papers

  1. S.B. Kang and M. Jones, “Appearance-based structure from motion using linear classes of 3-D models,” Int’l J.  of Computer Vision, vol. 49, no. 1, Aug. 2002, pp. 5-22.
  2. L. Wang, H.-Y. Shum, and S.B. Kang, “Rendering with inverse concentric mosaics,” Int’l J. of Image and Graphics, 2002.

Conference/Workshop Papers

  1. Y. Matsushita, S.B. Kang, S. Lin, H.-Y. Shum, and X. Tong, “Lighting interpolation by shadow morphing using Intrinsic Lumigraphs,” Pacific Graphics, Beijing, Oct. 2002, pp. 58-65.
  2. Y. Li, S. Lin, S.B. Kang, H. Lu, and H.-Y. Shum, “Single-image reflectance estimation for relighting by iterative soft grouping,” Pacific Graphics, Beijing, Oct. 2002, pp. 483-486.
  3. Y. Li, S. Lin, H. Lu, S.B. Kang, and H-Y Shum, “Multibaseline stereo in the presence of specular reflections,” Int’l Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Aug. 2002, vol. 3, pp. 573-576.
  4. R. Swaminathan, S.B. Kang, R. Szeliski, A. Criminisi, and S.K. Nayar, “On the motion and appearance of specularities in image sequences,” European Conf. on Computer Vision, May/June 2002, part 1, pp. 508-523. PDF
  5. S. Lin, Y. Li, S.B. Kang, X. Tong, and H.-Y. Shum, “Simultaneous separation and depth recovery of specular reflections,” European