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I'm currently a postdoc at Disney Research in Zürich. My research interests span most areas of computer graphics, with a focus on geometry and applying discrete algorithms. I did my Ph.D. in the MIT Graphics Group, working with Jovan Popović on making 3D modeling and animation more accessible to non-professionals. My master's was in the algorithms group, working with Erik Demaine. My email is "baran37 AT gmail DOT com".

Research Publications

Graphics


Ilya Baran, Philipp Keller, Derek Bradley, Stelian Coros, Wojciech Jarosz, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Markus Gross, "Manufacturing Layered Attenuators for Multiple Prescribed Shadow Images", Eurographics 2012. [.pdf] [video(.mp4)] [bib]


Amit Bermano, Ilya Baran, Marc Alexa, Wojciech Matusik, "ShadowPIX: Multiple Images from Self-Shadowing", Eurographics 2012. [.pdf] [video(.mov)] [bib]


Ilya Baran, Johannes Schmid, Thomas Siegrist, Markus Gross, Robert W. Sumner, "Mixed-Order Compositing for 3D Painting", SIGGRAPH Asia 2011. [.pdf] [video(.mov)] [bib]
Supplemental proofs: [.pdf]


Michael Holroyd, Ilya Baran, Jason Lawrence, Wojciech Matusik, "Computing and Fabricating Multilayer Models", SIGGRAPH Asia 2011. [.pdf] [Vimeo] [.avi(115MB, use VLC)] [bib]


Alec Jacobson, Ilya Baran, Jovan Popović, Olga Sorkine, "Bounded Biharmonic Weights for Real-Time Deformation", SIGGRAPH 2011. [.pdf] [video(.mp4)] [bib]


Jiawen Chen, Ilya Baran, Frédo Durand, Wojciech Jarosz, "Real-Time Volumetric Shadows using 1D Min-Max Mipmaps", I3D 2011. [.pdf] [bib]


Ilya Baran, Jiawen Chen, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Frédo Durand, Jaakko Lehtinen, "A Hierarchical Volumetric Shadow Algorithm for Single Scattering", SIGGRAPH Asia 2010. [.pdf] [bib]


Ilya Baran, Jaakko Lehtinen, Jovan Popović, "Sketching Clothoid Splines Using Shortest Paths", Eurographics 2010. [.pdf] [bib]


Daniel Vlasic, Pieter Peers, Ilya Baran, Paul Debevec, Jovan Popović, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Wojciech Matusik, "Dynamic Shape Capture using Multi-View Photometric Stereo", SIGGRAPH Asia 2009. [.pdf] [video (.avi, DivX)] [bib]


Ilya Baran, Daniel Vlasic, Eitan Grinspun, and Jovan Popović, "Semantic Deformation Transfer", SIGGRAPH 2009. [.pdf] [video (.avi, DivX)] [bib]


Daniel Vlasic, Ilya Baran, Wojciech Matusik, and Jovan Popović, "Articulated Mesh Animation from Multi-view Silhouettes", SIGGRAPH 2008. (Includes 3D data of Daniel and myself acting like idiots and Tilke dancing). [.pdf] [video (mp4)] [bib]


Ilya Baran, Jovan Popović, "Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters", SIGGRAPH 2007. [.pdf] [video (DivX)] [bib]



Algorithms


Ilya Baran, Erik Demaine, Dmitriy Katz, "Optimally Adaptive Integration of Univariate Lipschitz Functions", LATIN 2006.
Extended abstract: [.pdf]
Full version: (In special issue of Algorithmica, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2008) [.pdf] [bib]


Ilya Baran, Erik Demaine, Mihai Pătraşcu, "Subquadratic Algorithms for 3SUM", WADS 2005. (Also in special issue of Algorithmica, Volume 50, Issue 4, April 2008)
[.pdf] [bib]


My M.Eng. thesis (2004), "Adaptive Algorithms for Problems Involving Black Box Lipschitz Functions" [.pdf] [bib]


Ilya Baran, Erik Demaine, "Optimal Adaptive Algorithms for Finding the Nearest and Farthest Point on a Parametric Black Box Curve", SoCG 2004.
Extended abstract: [.pdf] [bib]
Full version: (In special issue of IJCGA, Volume 15, Issue 4, August 2005) [.pdf]


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