Pradeep Sen


Assistant Professor
Advanced Graphics Lab
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
MSC01 1100
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
psen at ece unm edu
 Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006
M.S., Stanford University, 1998
B.S., Purdue University, 1996

Welcome to my homepage. I am an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM) with a joint appointment in Computer Science. I am one of the founders of the Advanced Graphics Lab (AGL) which is dedicated to research in computer graphics, visualization, imaging and computer vision. AGL is works alongside the ARTS Lab, an interdisciplinary center here at UNM which focuses on interdisciplinary research on digital media. I recently graduated with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Graphics Lab at Stanford University.

Graduate student opportunities

I am looking for a few more PhD students who are interested in research in computer graphics, computer vision, and image processing. Students should be good at mathematics and programming. Please contact me if you are interested. Applications for our graduate program here at UNM can be found here.

Research interests

In general, my research interests are in the area of rendering and image synthesis. I study novel rendering algorithms to accelerate global illumination, as well as image-based techniques for capturing light transport. I am also interested in real-time rendering and graphics hardware.

Students

I currently work with a great group of graduate students:

There are also some alumni from my group that are now working at some cool places: If you want to work in this area of research, I am in the process of looking for a few more PhD students who are interested in computer graphics, computer vision and image processing. Applications can be found here.

Teaching

Spring 2009: ECE 516 / CS 532 Computer Vision

Previous Semesters:

Fall 2008: ECE/CS 412 Introduction to Computer Graphics
Fall 2008: ECE/CS 512 Advanced Image Synthesis

Spring 2008: ECE 516 / CS 532 Computer Vision

Fall 2007: ECE 537 Foundations of Computing
Fall 2007: ECE/CS 433 Introduction to Computer Graphics

Spring 2007: ECE 595 Real-Time Rendering & Graphics Hardware

Selected Journal Publications

"Compressive Dual Photography"
Pradeep Sen and Soheil Darabi
Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 28, No. 2, March 2009, (Proceedings of Eurographics 2009) [pdf] [bibtex]
"iStar: A Raster Representation for Scalable Image and Volume Data"
Joe Kniss, Warrent Hunt, Kristin Potter, Pradeep Sen
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2007, (Proceedings of IEEE Vis 2007) [pdf] [bibtex]
"Dual Photography"
Pradeep Sen, Billy Chen, Gaurav Garg, Stephen Marschner, Mark Horowitz, Marc Levoy, Hendrik Lensch
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 24, No. 3, July 2005, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005) [pdf] [bibtex]
"Shadow Silhouette Maps"
Pradeep Sen, Mike Cammarano, Pat Hanrahan
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 22, No. 3, July 2003, (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2003) [pdf] [bibtex]

Selected Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

Compressed Mapping of Communication Signal Strength
Yasamin Mostofi and Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of MILCOM, San Diego, California, November 2008 [pdf] [bibtex]
Accelerating Active Contour Algorithms with the Gradient Diffusion Field
Chris Kiser, Chris Musial, Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tampa, Florida, December 2008 [pdf]
Video Carving
Billy Chen, Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of Eurographics 2008, Short Papers, Crete, Greece, April 2008 [pdf]
"2½D Texture Mapping: real-time perceptual surface roughening"
Sylvia Pont, Pradeep Sen, Pat Hanrahan
Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, Tubingen, Germany, July 2007 [pdf] [bibtex]
"Silhouette Maps for Improved Texture Magnification"
Pradeep Sen
Proceedings of Eurographics Graphics Hardware, Grenoble, France, August 2004 [pdf] [bibtex]
Best paper award
"Efficient Partitioning of Fragment Shaders for Multipass Rendering on Programmable Graphics Hardware"
Eric Chan, Ren Ng, Pradeep Sen, Kekoa Proudfoot, and Pat Hanrahan
Proceedings of Eurographics Graphics Hardware, Saarbrucken, Germany, September 2002 [pdf] [bibtex]
Best paper award

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