Committee Member

ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (2009), IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2009)

Reviewer:

ACM SIGGRAPH Conference, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, ACM Transaction on Graphics, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE Visualization, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Computer Graphics International Conference (IEEE/ACM), Pacific Graphics (Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications), Eurographics

JOURNAL & CONFERENCE PAPERS

Duy-Nguyen Ta, Wei-Chao Chen, Natasha Gelfand, Kari Pulli. “SURFTrac: Efficient Tracking and Continuous Object Recognition using Local Feature Descriptors”, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (oral, 4% acceptance rate), June 2009. (PDF)

Orazio Gallo, Natasha Gelfand, Wei-Chao Chen, Marius Tico, Kari Pulli. “Artifact-free High Dynamic Range Imaging“, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography, April 2009. (PDF)

Gabriel Takacs, Vijay Chandrasekhar, Natasha Gelfand, Yingen Xiong, Wei-Chao Chen, Thanos Bismpigiannis, Radek Grzeszczuk, Kari Pulli and Bernd Girod. “Outdoors Augmented Reality on Mobile Phone using Loxel-Based Visual Feature Organization”, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Oct. 2008. (PDF)

Wei-Chao Chen, Yingen Xiong, Jiang Gao, Natasha Gelfand and Radek Grzeszczuk. “Efficient Extraction of Robust Image Features on Mobile Devices”, International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Nov. 2007 (PDF)

Tianli Yu, Hongcheng Wang, Narendra Ahuja, Wei-Chao Chen. “Sparse Lumigraph Relighting by Illumination and Reflectance Estimation from Multi-View Images”, in Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR 2006), June 2006. (PDF)(Project Page)

Tianli Yu, Narendra Ahuja, Wei-Chao Chen. “3D Reconstruction of Non-lambertian Objects Using Graph Cuts on Surface Distance Grid”, to appear in IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2006. (PDF)

Herman Towles, Wei-Chao Chen, Ruigang Yang, Sang-Uok Kum, Henry Fuchs, Nikhil Kelshikar, Jane Mulligan, Kostas Daniilidis, Loring Holden, Bob Zeleznik, Amela Sadagic and Jaron Lanier. "3D Tele-Immersion Over Internet2", in International Workshop on Immersive Telepresence (ITP2002), Dec. 2002. (PDF)

Wei-Chao Chen, Jean-Yves Bouguet, Michael Chu and Radek Grzeszczuk. “Light Field Mapping: Efficient Representation and Hardware Rendering of Surface Light Field”, in ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 (also in ACM Transactions on Graphics, 21:3, July 2002). (PDF)

Wei-Chao Chen, Herman Towles, Lars Nyland, Greg Welch and Henry Fuchs. "Toward a Compelling Sensation of Telepresence: Demonstrating a Portal to a Distant (Static) Office", IEEE Visualization, Oct 2000. (PDF)

Ramesh Raskar, Greg Welch and Wei-Chao Chen. "Table-top Spatially Augmented Reality: Bringing Physical Models to Life using Projected Imagery", Second Int. Workshop on Augmented Reality (IWAR '99), Oct. 1999. (PDF)

Ramesh Raskar, Michael Brown, Ruigang Yang, Wei-Chao Chen, Greg Welch, Herman Towles, Brent Seales and Henry Fuchs. "Multiprojector Displays using Camera-based Registration", IEEE Visualization, Oct. 1999. (PDF)

Meng-Chou Chang, Feipei Lai and Wei-Chao Chen. "Image Shading Taking into Account Relativistic Effects", in ACM Transactions on Graphics, 15:4, Oct. 1996. (PDF)

OTHERS

Panel member, “Business Opportunities in Multi-Camera and Embedded Vision”, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Camera, Sept. 2008.

Tianli Yu, Hongcheng Wang, Narendra Ahuja, Wei-Chao Chen. “Sparse Lumigraph Relighting by Illumination and Reflectance Estimation from Multi-View Images”, Technical Sketch, SIGGRAPH 2006.

Wei-Chao Chen, L. Nyland, A. Lastra, H. Fuchs, “Acquisition of Large-Scale Surface Light Fields”, Technical Sketch, SIGGRAPH 2003.

Wei-Chao Chen, “Light Field Mapping: Efficient Representation of Surface Light Fields”, book chapter in “Energy, Simulation-Training, Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation: Research Papers of the Link Foundation Fellows, Vol. 3”, pp 89-121, editor Brian J. Thompson, University of Rochester Press.

Wei-Chao Chen, R. Grzeszczuk, “Image-Based Rendering for Computer Games”, course at Game Developer Conference, San Jose, March 2002.

“Shared Eraser: Smart Photo Editing by Leveraging Large Online Photo Collections“,with Natasha Gelfand and Kari Pulli, USA Patent Pending, 2008

“An Interface for Viewing Photo Bursts and Stacks“,with Natasha Gelfand, Kari Pulli and Marc Levoy, USA Patent Pending, 2008

“Fast and Efficient Mobile Visual Search”, with Yingen Xiong, Xianglin Wang, Jiang Gao, Radek Grzeszczuk, Natasha Gelfand, Philipp Schloter, Kari Pulli and Matthias Jacob, USA Patent Pending, 2007

“Visual Search Interface“,with Natasha Gelfand, Radek Grzeszczuk, Yingen Xiong, USA Patent Pending, 2007

”A Method and System for Processing Texture Samples with Programmable Filter Weights”, with Li-Yi Wei, USA Patent Pending, USA Patent Pending, 2007

” Graphical Shader by Using Delay”, with Emmett Kilgariff, Rui Bastos and Douglas Hahn, USA Patent 7,486,290, issued Feb 2009 (USPTO database)

“Divergent and Non-Divergent Texture Fetches”, with Christian Rouet, Emmett Kilgariff, Rui Bastos, USA Patent Pending (P001560), 2005

”Compaction of Z-only Samples”, with Jonah Alben, Anjana Rajendran, USA Patent Pending (P001561), 2005

”Dynamic Texture Fetch Cancellation”, with Mark Kilgard, Rui Bastos, Johnny Rhodes, Cass Everitt, USA Patent Pending (P001664), 2005

Wei-Chao Chen, R. Grzeszczuk, J.-Y. Bouguet, “Compression of Surface Light Fields”, U.S.A. Patent 7,053,894, issued May 2006. (USPTO Database)

Wei-Chao Chen, R. Grzeszczuk, J.-Y. Bouguet, “Hardware-Accelerated Visualization of Surface Light Fields”, U.S.A. Patent 6,677,957, issued January 2004. (USPTO Database)

Wei-Chao Chen, R. Grzeszczuk, S. Molinov, A. Smirnov, “Standard Support for Progressive Encoding, Compression and Interactive Visualization of Surface Light Fields”, MPEG4 Standard Proposal (accepted), 2002.