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Interests: Michael F. Cohen's research interests range from digital photography and video, to constraint based animation and shape design to image based rendering to realistic image synthesis. Click here for a short biography.
Michael F. Cohen was elected as a
2007 ACM Fellow.
He was awarded the
Computer Graphics Achievement Award at
in Orlando. 
Michael gave a talk titled Capturing the Moment
at the
Symposium on Computational Photography and Video
in Boston in May, 2005.
In a related talk titled Finding Magic In An Image Stack
Michael discussed more of the underlying technology.
Michael gave a Keynote
Visualization of Everyday Things (slides) at
Visualization 2000 in Salt Lake City.
You can download and try out the
Video Cube application and try it on your own AVI files. Have fun! (Please
excuse the legal mumbo jumbo). Michael also presented a talk covering shape and animation interpolation,
Everything By Example (slides). It was presented as the Keynote
at Chinagraphics 2000 (in abstentia by Zicheng Liu), at the
Human Modeling and Animation Workshop in Korea, and as a Distinguished
Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Here is a slide presentation introducing the panel,
Image Based Rendering, at SIGGRAPH 1997.
Michael served as chair for
papers for
,
co-chair for the
2002 Symposium on Computer Animation
,
and program co-chair for the
1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics.
Michael came to Microsoft from the
Computer Science Department at
Princeton University
and
previously from the
Computer Science Department at the
University of Utah,
and the
Program of Computer Graphics
at
Cornell University.
Free Downloads
GroupShot
Publications
Book
Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis, co-authored with
John Wallace, 1993
Papers
2007
Relations, Cards, and Search Templates: User-Guided Data Integration and Layout
(Web Page and Video)
Mira Dontcheva, Steven Drucker, David Salesin, Michael Cohen,
UIST 2007, October 2007
Capturing and Viewing Gigapixel Images
[Web Page]
[Corrections for Section 3.3]
Johannes Kopf, Matt Uyttendaele, Oliver Deussen, Michael Cohen, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 2007), August 2007
Joint Bilateral Upsampling
[Web Page]
Johannes Kopf, Michael Cohen, Matt Uyttendaele, Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 2007), August 2007
Soft Scissors: An Interactive Tool for Realtime High Quality Matting
Jue Wang, Maneesh Agrawala, Michael Cohen, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 2007), August 2007
Optimized Color Sampling for Robust Matting
Jue Wang, Michael Cohen, CVPR 2007, June 2007
Layered Depth Panoramas
[Web Page]
Ke Colin Zheng, Sing Bing Kang, Michael Cohen, Rick Szeliski,
CVPR 2007, June 2007
Simultaneous Matting and Compositing
Jue Wang, Michael Cohen, CVPR 2007, and also Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2006-63, May 2006
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene,
P. Bhat, C. L. Zitnick, N. Snavely, A. Agarwala, M. Agarwala, B. Curless, M. Cohen, S. B. Kang, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR), 2007 (webpage)
(video)
Head-Size Equalization for Improved Visual Perception in Video Conferencing,
Zicheng Liu, Michael Cohen, Deepti Bhatnagar, Ross Cutler, Zhengyou Zhang, (to appear) IEEE Transactions on Multimedia,2007.
Monocular Video Foreground/Background Segmentation by Tracking Spatial-Color Gaussian Mixture Models
Ting Yu, Cha Zhang,, Michael Cohen, Yong Rui, Ying Wu,
Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC 2007), February 2007
2006
Summarizing Personal Web Browsing Sessions
(Web Page and Video)
Mira Dontcheva, Steven Drucker, Geraldine Wade, David Salesin, Michael Cohen,
UIST 2006, October 2006
The Moment Camera
Michael Cohen, Richard Szeliski, IEEE Computer, August 2006
The Cartoon Animation Filter
Jue Wang, Steven Drucker, Maneesh Agrawala, Michael Cohen, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 2006), July 2006
Photographing Long Scenes with Multi-viewpoint Panoramas
Aseem Agarwala, Maneesh Agrawala, Michael Cohen, David Salesin, Rick Szeliski, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 2006), July 2006
Piecewise Object Registration in the Presence of Multiple Large Motions
Pravin Bhat, Noah Snavely, Ke Zheng, Aseem Argarwala, Maneesh Agrawala, Michael Cohen, Brian Curless, CVPR 2006 (Proceedings of CVPR 2006), June 2006
Gaze-Based Interaction for Semi-Automatic Photo Cropping
Anthony Santella, Maneesh Agrawala, Doug DeCarlo, David Salesin and Michael Cohen, CHI 2006, April 2006
2005
An Iterative Optimization Approach for Unified Image Segmentation and Matting
Jue Wang, Michael F. Cohen, ICCV 2005 (Proceedings of
ICCV 2005), October 2005
Video Cutout
Jue Wang, Pravin Bhat, R. Alex Colburn, Maneesh Agrawala, Michael F. Cohen, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 2005), July 2005
Panoramic Video Textures
Aseem Agarwala, Colin Zheng, Chris Pal, Maneesh Agrawala, Michael F. Cohen, Brian Curless, Davis Salesin, Richard Szeliski, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 2005), July 2005
Very Low Frame-rate Video Streaming for Face-to-face Teleconferencing
Jue Wang and Michael F. Cohen, Proceedings of DCC 2005, Sept. 2005
Head-Size Equalization for Better Visual Perception of Video Conferencing
Zicheng Liu and Michael F. Cohen, Proceedings of ICME 2005, July 2005
2004
Video Tooning
Jue Wang, Yingqing Xu, Heung-Yeung Shum, Michael F. Cohen, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2004), August 2004
Interactive Digital Photomontage
Aseem Agarwala, Mira Dontcheva, Maneesh Agrawala, Steven Drucker, Alex Colburn, Brian Curless, David Salesin, Michael Cohen, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2004), August 2004 See GroupShot
Digital Photography with Flash and No-Flash Pairs
Georg Petschnigg, Maneesh Agrawala, Hughes Hoppe, Richard Szeliski, Michael F. Cohen, Kentaro Toyama, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 2004), August 2004
Image and Video Segmentation by Anisotropic Mean Shift
Jue Wang, Bo Thiesson, Yingqing Xu, Michael F. Cohen,
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 2004,
(c) Springer-Verlag
Robust and Rapid Generation of Animated Faces from Video Images: A Model-Based Modeling Approach
Zhengyou Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Dennis Adler, Michael F. Cohen, Erik Hanson, Ying Shan, International Journal of Computer Vision, Volume 58 (2), July, 2004
Low Bit-rate Video Streaming for Face-to-face Teleconference
Zhen Wen, Zicheng Liu, Michael Cohen Jin Li, Ke Zheng, Tomas Huang,
The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo,
July, 2004
2003 and before
Wang Tiles for Image and Texture Generation
Michael F. Cohen, Jonathan Shade, Stefan Hiller, Oliver Deussen, SIGGRAPH
2003, July, 2003
Image Stacks
Michael F. Cohen, R. Alex Colburn, Steven Drucker, MSR-TR-2003-40, July, 2003
Stylized Video Cubes
Allison Klein, Peter-Pike Sloan, Adam Finkelstein, Michael F. Cohen, SCA 2002,
July, 2002
Minimal Surfaces for Stereo Vision
Chris Buehler, Steven J. Gortler, Michael F. Cohen, Leonard McMillan, ECCV
2002, May, 2002
Video Mosaics and a
short video
Allison Klein, Tyler Grant, Adam Finkelstein, Michael F. Cohen, NPAR 2002,
June, 2002
Unstructured Lumigraph Rendering ,
Chris Buehler, Michael Bosse, Leonard McMillan, Steven Gortler, Michael F.
Cohen, SIGGRAPH 2001, August, 2001
Shape by Example ,
Peter-Pike Sloan, Charles Rose, Michael F. Cohen, 2001 Symposium on
Interactive 3D Graphics, March, 2001
Graphical Enhancement For Voice Only Conference Calls,
Alex Colburn, Michael F. Cohen, Steven Drucker, Scott Lee-Tiernan, Anoop
Gupta, MSR-TR-2001-95, 2001
Robust and Rapid Generation of Animated Faces From Video Images,
Zhengyou Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Dennis Adler, Michael F. Cohen, Erik Hanson, Ying
Shan, MSR-TR-2001-101, 2001
Video Cubism
Allison Klein, Peter-Pike Sloan, Alex Colburn, Adam Finkelstein, Michael F.
Cohen, MSR-TR-2001-45, 2001
(and try out the
Video Cube application)
Shape and Animation by Example
Peter-Pike Sloan, Charles Rose, Michael F. Cohen, MSR-TR-2000-79, July, 2000
The Role of Eye Gaze in Avatar Mediated Conversational Interfaces ,
Alex Colburn, Michael F. Cohen, Steven Drucker, MSR-TR-2000-81, July, 2000
Rapid Modeling of Animated Faces from Video,
Zicheng Liu, Zhengyou Zhang, Charles Jacobs, Michael F. Cohen, MSR-TR-2000-11,
February, 2000
Interactive Horizon Mapping,
Peter-Pike Sloan, Michael F. Cohen, Eurographics Rendering Workshop 2000,
June, 2000
Imagination Amplification,
Michael F. Cohen, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 20, 1,
January-February, 2000
Image Precision Silhouette Edges,
Ramesh Raskar, Michael F. Cohen, 1999 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics,
pp: 135-140, 1999
Verbs and Adverbs: multidimensional motion interpolation,
Charles Rose, Michael F. Cohen, Bobby Bodenheimer, IEEE Computer Graphics and
Applications , Volume: 18 Issue: 5 , Sept.-Oct. 1998 Page(s): 32 -40
Rendering Layered Depth Images,
(abstract)
Steven J. Gortler, Li-wei He, Michael F. Cohen, MSR-Tech-Report, 1997
View-based Rendering: Visualizing Real Objects from Scanned Range and Color
Data
Kari Pulli, Michael Cohen, Tom Duchamp, Hugues Hoppe, Linda Shapiro, and
Werner Stuetzle
Proceedings of 8th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, St. Etienne,
France, June 1997
also
Technical Report UW-CSE-97-04-01, University of Washington
The Lumigraph,
(color page 11)
(color page 12),
Steven J. Gortler, Radek Grzeszczuk, Richard Szeliski, and Michael F. Cohen,
SIGGRAPH 96
The Virtual Cinematographer: A Paradigm for Automatic Real-Time Camera Control
and Directing,
Li-wei He, Michael F. Cohen, and David Salesin,
SIGGRAPH 96
Powerpoint slides from SIGGRAPH Presentation (2 screen presentation)
Left Slides (2.2Mb) and
Right Slides (22Mb!)
Efficient Generation of Motion Transitions using Spacetime Constraints,
Brian Guenter, Charles Rose, Bobby Bodenheimer, and Michael F. Cohen,
SIGGRAPH 96
Declarative Camera Control for Automatic Cinematography
David B. Christianson, Sean E. Anderson, Li-wei He,
David H. Salesin, Daniel S. Weld, and Michael F. Cohen, AAAI 96
Hierarchical and Variational Geometric Modeling with Wavelets,
Steven J. Gortler and Michael F. Cohen, 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D
Graphics, (Monterey CA)
Keyframe Motion Optimization by Relaxing Speed and Timing,
Zicheng Liu and Michael F. Cohen, 6th EuroGraphics Workshop on Animation and
Simulation (Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1995)
An Efficient Symbolic Interface to Constraint Based Animation Systems,
Zicheng Liu and Michael F. Cohen, 6th EuroGraphics Workshop on Animation and
Simulation (Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1995)
Hierarchical Spacetime Control,
Zicheng Liu, Steve Gortler, and Michael F. Cohen, SIGGRAPH 94 (Orlando,
Florida, July 24-29, 1994)
(MPEG movie)
Accelerated MPEG Compression of Dynamic Polygonal Scenes
Dan S. Wallach, Sharma Kunapalli, and Michael F. Cohen. SIGGRAPH 94 (Orlando,
Florida, July 24-29, 1994).
Decomposition of Linked Figure Motion: Diving,
Zicheng Liu, Michael F Cohen, 5th EuroGraphics Workshop on Animation and
Simulation (Oslo, Norway, 1994)
(MPEG movie)