Seattle

David Salesin
Senior Principal Scientist

I am a Senior Principal Scientist and manager at Adobe Systems, where I have been since 2005. I am also a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where I have been on the faculty since 1992. I received my Sc.B. from Brown University in 1983, and my Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1991. From 1983-87, I worked at Lucasfilm and Pixar, where I contributed computer animation for the Academy Award-winning short film, "Tin Toy," and the feature-length film, Young Sherlock Holmes. I spent the 1991-92 year as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University. In 1996, I co-founded two companies, where I served as Chief Scientist: Inklination and Numinous Technologies. When the latter was acquired by Microsoft in 1999, I worked as a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research until 2005, while remaining on the UW faculty. Over the years, I have also worked as an intern or consultant at a number of production studios and research labs, including Sogitec Audiovisuel in (Paris), DEC Systems Research Center, DEC Paris Research Lab, Aldus (now part of Adobe), Xerox PARC, and Broderbund.

I received an NSF Young Investigator award in 1993; an ONR Young Investigator Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award in 1995; the University of Washington Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in the College of Engineering in 1996; the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997; The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education 1998-1999 Washington Professor of the Year Award in 1998; and the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2000. I was named a Guest Professor of Zhejiang University and an ACM Fellow in 2002.

My research interests are in computer graphics and include digital photography and video, automatic design & presentation of information, non-photorealistic rendering, visualization, image-based rendering, digital typography, and color. My outside interests include photography, Aikido (in which I hold a black belt), printmaking, piano, saxophone, flying, traveling, cooking, old films, backpacking, skiing, mountain biking, and chocolate.

projects

Collecting and Organizing Personal Web Content
Interactive Illustrations for Visualizing Complex 3D Models
Painting with Texture
Photographing long scenes with multi-viewpoint panoramas
Video Visualization and Interaction
Video Watercolorization

Publications

• Goldman, D. B, Gonterman, C., Curless, B., Salesin, D., and Seitz, S. M. 2008. Video Object Annotation, Navigation, and Composition. In UIST'08: Proceeedings of the 21st annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, to appear.
• Schrier, E., Dontcheva, M., Jacobs, C., Wade, G., and Salesin, D. 2008. Adaptive layout for dynamically aggregated documents. In IUI '08: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
• Dontcheva, M., Drucker, S. M., Salesin, D., and Cohen, M. F. 2007. Relations, cards, and search templates: user-guided web data integration and layout. In UIST '07: Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 61–70.
• Li, W., Ritter, L., Agrawala, M., Curless, B., and Salesin, D. 2007. Interactive cutaway illustrations of complex 3D models. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 26(3), 31:1–31:11.
• Bousseau, A., Neyret, F., Thollot, J., and Salesin, D. 2007. Video watercolorization using bidirectional texture advection. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 26(3), 104:1–104:7.
• Santella, A., Agrawala, M., DeCarlo, D., Salesin, D., and Cohen, M. 2006. Gaze-based interaction for semi-automatic photo cropping. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '06, Montréal, Canada), 771–780.
• Dontcheva, M., Drucker, S. M., Wade, G., Salesin, D., and Cohen, M. F. 2006. Summarizing personal web browsing sessions. In UIST '06: Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 115–124.
• Xu, S., Xu, Y., Kang, S. B., Salesin, D. H., Pan, Y., and Shum, H. 2006. Animating Chinese paintings through stroke-based decomposition. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 25(2), 239–267.
• Agarwala, A., Agrawala, M., Cohen, M., Salesin, D., and Szeliski, R. 2006. Photographing long scenes with multi-viewpoint panoramas. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 25(3), 853–861.
• Goldman, D. B., Curless, B., Salesin, D., and Seitz, S. M. 2006. Schematic storyboarding for video visualization and editing. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 25(3), 862–871.
• Ritter, L., Li, W., Curless, B., Agrawala, M., and Salesin, D. 2006. Painting with texture. In Rendering Techniques 2006: 17th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 371–376.
• Georgiev, T., Zheng, K. C., Curless, B., Salesin, D., Nayar, S., and Intwala, C. 2006. Spatio-angular resolution tradeoffs in integral photography. In Rendering Techniques 2006: 17th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 263–272.
• Agarwala, A., Zheng, K. C., Pal, C., Agrawala, M., Cohen, M., Curless, B., Salesin, D. H., and Szeliski, R. 2005. Panoramic video textures. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 24(3), 821–827.
• Chuang, Y., Goldman, D. B., Zheng, K. C., Curless, B., Salesin, D. H., and Szeliski, R. 2005. Animating pictures with stochastic motion textures. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 24(3), 853–860.