Billy Chen

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Selected Publications

Patents (11)

Professional Activities

Program Committee Member PROCAMS 2008

Reviewer, ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, 2007, 2008

Reviewer, Eurographics, 2008

Reviewer, IEEE Virtual Reality, 2008

Reviewer, TVCG 2007 2008;

Reviewer, 3DTV 2008

Reviewer, CVPR 2007

Reviewer, ICCV 2007

Reviewer, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2006

Reviewer, IEEE Visualization 2006

Products (Tech transfer)

Last updated: 11/12/08

I am a researcher in Virtual Earth Labs, the research arm of Microsoft Virtual Earth. Our lab focuses on solving applied research problems in modeling, image understanding, and visualization. My interests are in image-based modeling, computer vision, and visualization.

Prior to Microsoft, I was a member of the Stanford Graphics Lab. My doctoral dissertation was on Novel Methods for Manipulating and Combining Light Fields. Marc Levoy was my advisor.

Billy Chen, Ph.D.

Researcher

Virtual Earth

One Microsoft Way,

Redmond, WA 98052

Tel: (425) 421-7831

bill.chen@microsoft.com

http://research.microsoft.com/~bilchen

	Deep Photo: Model-Based Photograph Enhancement and Viewing Johannes Kopf, Boris Neubert, Billy Chen, Michael Cohen, Daniel Cohen-Or, Oliver Deussen, Matt Uyttendaele, Dani Lischinski SIGGRAPH Asia, 2008
	Interactive Techniques for Registering Images to Digital Terrain and Building Models Billy Chen, Gonzalos Ramos, Eyal Ofek, Michael Cohen, Steven Drucker, David Nister Microsoft Technical Report #MSR-TR-2008-115
	Video Carving (pdf) Billy Chen, Pradeep Sen Eurographics, 2008
	LightShop: Interactive Light Field Manipulation and Rendering Daniel Horn, Billy Chen ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2007
	Optical Splitting Trees for High-Precision Monocular Imaging (pdf) Morgan McGuire, Wojciech Matusik, Billy Chen, John F. Hughes, Hanspeter Pfister, Shree Nayar IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Special Issue on Computational Photography, 2007.
	Light Source Interpolation for Sparsely Sampled Reflectance Fields Billy Chen, Hendrik Lensch 10th International Fall Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization, 2005.
	Interactive Deformation of Light Fields Billy Chen, Eyal Ofek, Harry Shum, Marc Levoy ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2005.
	Dual Photography Pradeep Sen, Billy Chen, Gaurav Garg, Steve Marschner, Mark Horowitz, Marc Levoy, Hendrik Lensch ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2005), 2005.
	Synthetic Aperture Confocal Imaging Marc Levoy, Billy Chen, Vaibhav Vaish, Mark Horowitz, Ian McDowall, Mark Bolas ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2004), 2004.

Birds Eye Image Calibration in Virtual Earth

The fall 2007 release of Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D uses my camera calibration code for showing Birds Eye images in VE3D.

In the Virtual Earth Map Control SDK v6.1, the PixelToLatLong method uses my calibration and ray-poly intersection algorithms.

(Joe Schwartz helped immensely in the tech transfer)