Brian A. Barsky

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Brian A. Barsky
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Thesis The Beta-spline: a local representation based on shape parameters and fundamental geometric measures  (1981)
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Brian A. Barsky is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, working in computer graphics and geometric modeling as well as in optometry and vision science. He is a Professor of Computer Science and Vision Science and an Affiliate Professor of Optometry. He is also a member of the Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, an inter-campus program, between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.

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Career

He is a UC Berkeley Presidential Chair Fellow, a Warren and Marjorie Minner Faculty Fellow in Engineering Ethics and Professional/Social Responsibility, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker. He is a UC Berkeley Presidential Chair Fellow, a Warren and Marjorie Minner Faculty Fellow in Engineering Ethics and Professional/Social Responsibility, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Barsky was a visiting professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, in the Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia in the Faculty of Information Technology at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, in the Machine Vision and Pattern Recognition Laboratory at the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland, at the Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL) of l'Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (USTL), at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong, at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, in the Modélisation Géométrique et Infographie Interactive group at l'Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes and l'Ecole Centrale de Nantes, in Nantes, at the University of Toronto, at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore, at the Laboratoire Image of l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, and he was a visiting researcher with the Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing Group at the Sentralinsitutt for Industriell Forskning (Central Institute for Industrial Research) in Oslo.

Education

Barsky holds a D.C.S. in engineering and a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from McGill University in Montreal, an M.S. in computer graphics and computer science from Cornell University in Ithaca, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Awards

Barsky won an IBM Faculty Development Award and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (F.A.A.O.)

Books

He is a co-author or author of several books: An Introduction to Splines for Use in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, [1] Making Them Move: Mechanics, Control, and Animation of Articulated Figures, [2] and Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling Using Beta-splines. [3] See List of books in computational geometry.

Conference Program Chairs

He was the Technical Program Committee Chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH '85 conference held in San Francisco on July 22-26, 1985 and Program Co-chair of Pacific Graphics 2000 held in Hong Kong on October 3–5, 2000. He was the Technical Program Committee Chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH '85 conference held in San Francisco on July 22-26, 1985 and Program Co-chair of Pacific Graphics 2000 held in Hong Kong on October 3–5, 2000.

Research

Along with You-Dong Liang, he was an author and namesake of the efficient “Liang-Barsky algorithm” for clipping in computer graphics. [4] [5] [6] [7]

Barsky created the Beta-spline [8] curve and surface representation which introduced the concept of geometric continuity [9] [10] [11] for smoothness and Gn notation to the fields of computer-aided geometric design and geometric modeling.

He introduced vision-realistic rendering [12] to simulate human vision based on ocular measurements of an individual. Using these measurements, synthetics images are generated.  This process modifies input images to simulate the appearance of the scene for the individual.

That work led to an investigation with Fu-Chung Huang [13] [14] of how to display images to compensate for the specific optical aberrations of the viewer, resulting in vision-correcting displays.  Given the measurements of the optical aberrations of a user’s eye, a vision correcting display produces a transformed image that when viewed by this individual will appear in sharp focus. This could impact computer monitors, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones. Vision correction could be provided in some cases where eyeglasses are ineffective.  This research was selected by Scientific American as one of 2014's ten annual "World Changing Ideas.”

Barsky developed a novel contact lens design to help restore vision to people with cornea problems. [15] [16] [17]

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References

  1. ↑ Bartels, Richard H. Barsky, Brian A. Beatty, John C. (2006). An introduction to splines for use in computer graphics and geometric modeling. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN   1-55860-400-6. OCLC   695822066.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ Badler, Norman I., editor. Barsky, Brian A., editor. Zeltzer, David, editor. (August 1990). Making them move : mechanics, control, and animation of articulated figures. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN   978-1-136-11062-7. OCLC   1003855251.{{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Barsky, Brian A. (2013). "Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling Using Beta-splines". Computer Science Workbench. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-72292-9. ISBN   978-3-642-72294-3. ISSN   1431-1488. S2CID   37345872.
  4. ↑ Liang, You-Dong; Barsky, B. A. (January 1984). "A New Concept and Method for Line Clipping". ACM Transactions on Graphics. 3 (1): 1–22. doi:10.1145/357332.357333. ISSN   0730-0301. S2CID   18021391.
  5. ↑ Liang, You-Dong; Barsky, Brian A. (1983-11-01). "An analysis and algorithm for polygon clipping". Communications of the ACM. 26 (11): 868–877. doi: 10.1145/182.358439 . ISSN   0001-0782. S2CID   16653424.
  6. ↑ Angel, Edward. (2000). Interactive computer graphics : a top-down approach with OpenGL. Addison-Wesley. ISBN   0-201-38597-X. OCLC   658216109.
  7. ↑ Hearn, Donald. (1997). Computer graphics, C version. Prentice Hall. ISBN   0-13-530924-7. OCLC   868986284.
  8. ↑ Barsky, Brian A. (2013). "Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling Using Beta-splines". Computer Science Workbench. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-72292-9. ISBN   978-3-642-72294-3. ISSN   1431-1488. S2CID   37345872.
  9. ↑ Brian A. Barsky and Tony D. DeRose, Geometric Continuity of Parametric Curves, Technical Report No. UCB/CSD 84/205, Computer Science Division, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, October, 1984.
  10. ↑ DeRose, Tony D.; Barsky, Brian A. (1985), "An Intuitive Approach to Geometric Continuity for Parametric Curves and Surfaces", Computer-Generated Images, Tokyo: Springer Japan, pp. 159–175, doi:10.1007/978-4-431-68033-8_15, ISBN   978-4-431-68035-2
  11. ↑ Barsky, Brian A., 1954- (1988). Three characterizations of geometric continuity for parametric curves. University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science Division. OCLC   18666153.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Barsky, Brian A. (2004). "Vision-realistic rendering". Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. p. 73. doi:10.1145/1012551.1012564. ISBN   1-58113-914-4. S2CID   7588826.
  13. ↑ Huang, Fu-Chung; Barsky, Brian A. (2011). "A Framework for Aberration Compensated Displays". Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2011-162, Computer Science Division, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
  14. ↑ Huang, Fu-Chung; Wetzstein, Gordon; Barsky, Brian A.; Raskar, Ramesh (2014-07-27). "Eyeglasses-free display". ACM Transactions on Graphics. 33 (4): 1–12. doi:10.1145/2601097.2601122. hdl: 1721.1/92749 . ISSN   0730-0301. S2CID   12347886.
  15. ↑ "Computer Aided Contact Lens Design and Fabrication Using Spline Surfaces," Inventor: Brian A. Barsky, Patent No. US 6,241,355, June 5, 2001.
  16. ↑ Weingarten, Marc (12 September 2002). "For an Irregular Lens, an Optical Blueprint". The New York Times.
  17. ↑ KLEIN, STANLEY A.; BARSKY, BRIAN A. (November 1995). "Method for Generating the Anterior Surface of an Aberration-Free Contact Lens for an Arbitrary Posterior Surface". Optometry and Vision Science. 72 (11): 816–820. doi:10.1097/00006324-199511000-00007. ISSN   1040-5488. PMID   8587770.
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