Andrew Adams

Publications

• Gaussian KD-Trees for Fast High-Dimensional Filtering
  Andrew Adams, Natasha Gelfand, Jennifer Dolson, Marc Levoy
  Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2009


• Viewfinder Alignment
  Andrew Adams, Natasha Gelfand, Kari Pulli
  Proc. Eurographics 2008


• General Linear Cameras with Finite Aperture
  Andrew Adams, Marc Levoy
  Proc. EGSR 2007


• Veiling Glare in High Dynamic Range Imaging
  Eino-Ville Talvala, Andrew Adams, Mark Horowitz, Marc Levoy
  Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2007


• Light Field Microscopy
  Marc Levoy, Ren Ng, Andrew Adams, Matthew Footer, Mark Horowitz
  Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2006


• High Performance Imaging Using Large Camera Arrays
  Bennett Wilburn, Neel Joshi, Vaibhav Vaish, Eino-Ville Talvala,
  Emilio Antunez, Adam Barth, Andrew Adams, Mark Horowitz, Marc Levoy
  Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2005

Research Interests

My research interests can largely be deduced from the paper titles above. I'm interested in:

• Image processing - particularly non-linear filters like the bilateral and non-local means.
• Computational cameras that do cool things.
• Light fields, from the theoretical aspects to the practical concerns of building light field capture devices.

Teaching Interests

For four years I was a tutor for Higher Computing 1A and Higher Computing 1B at UNSW, teaching Haskell and C respectively, to the advanced freshmen. My last class presented me with an award for Inconceivable Achievement for my efforts. I thrive on teaching. I've was a TA for CS248 here at Stanford in 2005, 2006, and 2007, co-taught CS448a in 2008, and was a TA for and co-designer of CS178 - Digital Photography in 2009.

This fall (2009 in case this page is woefully out-of-date) I'm going to teach a course on practical image processing for photography and vision with a focus on implementing recent cool stuff from SIGGRAPH. It will be called CS448f.

I have also tutored math on and off for many years, and retain an strong interest in it, from 6th grade through undergraduate levels. I come from a family of math tutors.

Academic Career

I did my undergraduate degree in Computer Science/Mathematics at the University of New South Wales in Australia, on a Science Faculty Scholarship. I graduated with first class honours and the University Medal in Computer Science. I then came to Stanford to do a Masters in Computer Science, became absorbed in graphics research, and have started a PhD here. I enjoy teaching and research in equal measure, so my long term plan is to become an academic.

Personal

I was born in Tarrytown, New York, to Australian parents who then moved back to Australia. I grew up there and have returned to the US for my graduate degree. I plan to stay here for the next few years at least.

I keep all my photos online, if you wish to trawl through my life since I've owned a digital camera.

The only remaining interests worthy of note are my wife Elena, who makes and sells silver jewelry online, and my dog, Belinda. You can read my wife's jewelry blog here.