Taubin, Gabriel

Gabriel Taubin

Professor of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science

Overview

Gabriel Taubin is Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He earned a Licenciado en Ciencias Matemáticas degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University. In 1990 he joined IBM Research, where he held various positions at the T.J. Watson Research Center, including Research Staff Member and Research Manager, and in 2003 he joined Brown University as a Faculty member. Taubin was named IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the development of three-dimensional geometry compression technology and multimedia standards; he was named Fulbright Specialist by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA), and Council for International Exchange of Scholars; and during his tenure at IBM he was named IBM Master Inventor, and received various internal awards, such as the IBM Research 1998 Best Computer Science Paper Award.

Prof. Taubin has held various visiting appointments: during the 2000-2001 academic year he was Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology; during the Spring semester of 2010, he was Visiting Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab; during the month of April 2013 he was Visiting Professor of Computer Science at the School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; and during the month of October 2014, he was Visiting Professor of Engineering, at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Prof. Taubin served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Magazine for a total of four years starting in January 2010, he has served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Geometric Models journal, and as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Prof. Taubin's main research interests fall within the following disciplines: Applied Computational Geometry, Computer Graphics, Geometric Modeling, 3D Photography, and Computer Vision. Since his graduate student days his research has been related to the development of efficient, simple, and mathematically sound algorithms to capture and operate on 3D objects represented as polygonal meshes. During his tenure at IBM he emphasised technologies to enable the use of 3D models for Web-based applications. At Brown his research also spanned smart cameras, embedded systems, visual sensor networks, and digital archaeology. His current research projects emphasize low cost and precise 3D scanning systems, 3D scanning for 3D printing, and more generally digital fabrication.

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Pan, Rongjiang, Taubin, Gabriel. "Color adjustment in image-based texture maps." Graphical Models, vol. 79, 2015, pp. 39-48.

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Andaló, Fernanda A., Taubin, Gabriel, Goldenstein, Siome. "Efficient height measurements in single images based on the detection of vanishing points." Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 138, 2015, pp. 51-60.

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Bergou, Attila J., Swartz, Sharon M., Vejdani, Hamid, Riskin, Daniel K., Reimnitz, Lauren, Taubin, Gabriel, Breuer, Kenneth S. "Falling with Style: Bats Perform Complex Aerial Rotations by Adjusting Wing Inertia." PLOS Biology, vol. 13, no. 11, 2015, pp. e1002297.

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Taubin, Gabriel, Moreno, Daniel, Lanman, Douglas. "3D scanning for personal 3D printing." ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Studio on - SIGGRAPH '14, 2014.

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Casaca, Wallace, Nonato, Luis Gustavo, Taubin, Gabriel. "Laplacian Coordinates for Seeded Image Segmentation." 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2014.

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Berger, Matthew, Levine, Joshua A., Nonato, Luis Gustavo, Taubin, Gabriel, Silva, Claudio T. "A benchmark for surface reconstruction." TOG, vol. 32, no. 2, 2013, pp. 1-17.

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Arpa, Aydin, Ballan, Luca, Sukthankar, Rahul, Taubin, Gabriel, Pollefeys, Marc, Raskar, Ramesh. "CrowdCam: Instantaneous Navigation of Crowd Images Using Angled Graph." 2013 International Conference on 3D Vision, 2013.

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Akleman, Ergun, Xing, Qing, Garigipati, Pradeep, Taubin, Gabriel, Chen, Jianer, Hu, Shiyu. "Hamiltonian cycle art: Surface covering wire sculptures and duotone surfaces." Computers & Graphics, vol. 37, no. 5, 2013, pp. 316-332.

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Gomez-Nieto, Erick, Casaca, Wallace, Nonato, Luis Gustavo, Taubin, Gabriel. "Mixed Integer Optimization for Layout Arrangement." 2013 XXVI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, 2013.

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Taubin, Gabriel. "Non-convex hull surfaces." SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Technical Briefs on - SA '13, 2013.

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Escalante, Diego Alonso Chavez, Taubin, Gabriel, Nonato, Luis Gustavo, Goldenstein, Siome Klein. "Using Unsupervised Learning for Graph Construction in Semi-supervised Learning with Graphs." 2013 XXVI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, 2013.

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Crispell, Daniel, Mundy, Joseph, Taubin, Gabriel. "A Variable-Resolution Probabilistic Three-Dimensional Model for Change Detection." IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 50, no. 2, 2012, pp. 489-500.

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Calakli, Fatih, Ulusoy, Ali O., Restrepo, Maria I., Taubin, Gabriel, Mundy, Joseph L. "High Resolution Surface Reconstruction from Multi-view Aerial Imagery." 2012 Second International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization & Transmission, 2012.

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Taubin, Gabriel. "Introduction to Geometric Processing through Optimization." IEEE Comput. Grap. Appl., vol. 32, no. 4, 2012, pp. 88-94.

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Moreno, Daniel, Taubin, Gabriel. "Simple, Accurate, and Robust Projector-Camera Calibration." 2012 Second International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization & Transmission, 2012.

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Taubin, Gabriel. "Smooth Signed Distance Surface Reconstruction and Applications." Automata, Languages and Programming, 2012, pp. 38-45.

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Andaló, Fernanda A., Taubin, Gabriel, Goldenstein, Siome. "Vanishing Point Detection by Segment Clustering on the Projective Space." Automata, Languages and Programming, 2012, pp. 324-337.

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Bergou, Attila J., Swartz, Sharon, Breuer, Kenneth, Taubin, Gabriel. "3D reconstruction of bat flight kinematics from sparse multiple views." 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), 2011.

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Taubin, G. "3D Rotations." IEEE Comput. Grap. Appl., vol. 31, no. 6, 2011, pp. 84-89.

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Andalo, F.A., Calakli, F., Taubin, G., Goldenstein, S. "Accurate 3D footwear impression recovery from photographs." 4th International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention 2011 (ICDP 2011), 2011.

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Zhao, Yong, Taubin, Gabriel. "Real-time stereo on GPGPU using progressive multi-resolution adaptive windows." Image and Vision Computing, vol. 29, no. 6, 2011, pp. 420-432.

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Calakli, F., Taubin, G. "SSD: Smooth Signed Distance Surface Reconstruction." Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 30, no. 7, 2011, pp. 1993-2002.

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Andalo, Fernanda A., Taubin, Gabriel, Goldenstein, Siome. "Detecting vanishing points by segment clustering on the projective plane for single-view photogrammetry." 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, 2010.

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Gay, Eben, Cooper, David, Kimia, Benjamin, Taubin, Gabriel, Cabrini, Daniel, Karumuri, Suman, Doutre, Will, Liu, Shubao, Galor, Katarina, Sanders, Donald, Willis, Andrew. "REVEAL intermediate report." 2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Workshops, 2010.

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Ulusoy, Ali Osman, Calakli, Fatih, Taubin, Gabriel. "Robust one-shot 3D scanning using loopy belief propagation." 2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Workshops, 2010.

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Taubin, Gabriel, Demiralp, Çagatay. "Surface Deformations Driven by Vector-Valued 1-Forms." 2010 Shape Modeling International Conference, 2010.

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Lanman, Douglas, Taubin, Gabriel. "Build your own 3D scanner." ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Courses on - SIGGRAPH ASIA '09, 2009.

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Lanman, Douglas, Taubin, Gabriel. "Build your own 3D scanner." ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Courses on - SIGGRAPH '09, 2009.

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Ulusoy, Ali Osman, Calakli, Fatih, Taubin, Gabriel. "One-shot scanning using De Bruijn spaced grids." 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops, 2009.

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Taubin, Gabriel, Crispell, Daniel, Lanman, Douglas, Sibley, Peter, Zhao, Yong. "Shape from Depth Discontinuities." Automata, Languages and Programming, 2009, pp. 216-237.

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Lanman, Douglas, Hauagge, Daniel Cabrini, Taubin, Gabriel. "Shape from depth discontinuities under orthographic projection." 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops, 2009.

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Godin, Guy, Hébert, Patrick, Masuda, Takeshi, Taubin, Gabriel. "Special issue on new advances in 3D imaging and modeling." Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 113, no. 11, 2009, pp. 1105-1106.

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Lanman, Douglas, Crispell, Daniel, Taubin, Gabriel. "Surround structured lighting: 3-D scanning with orthographic illumination." Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 113, no. 11, 2009, pp. 1107-1117.

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Leotta, Matthew J., Vandergon, Austin, Taubin, Gabriel. "3D Slit Scanning with Planar Constraints ★." Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 27, no. 8, 2008, pp. 2066-2080.

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Akdere, Mert, Çetintemel, Uğur, Crispell, Daniel, Jannotti, John, Mao, Jie, Taubin, Gabriel. "Data-Centric Visual Sensor Networks for 3D Sensing." Automata, Languages and Programming, 2008, pp. 131-150.

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Crispell, D.E., Mundy, J.L., Taubin, G. "Parallax-Free Registration of Aerial Video." Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2008, 2008.

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Lanman, Douglas, Raskar, Ramesh, Agrawal, Amit, Taubin, Gabriel. "Shield fields." ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 papers on - SIGGRAPH Asia '08, 2008.

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Lanman, Douglas, Raskar, Ramesh, Agrawal, Amit, Taubin, Gabriel. "Shield fields." TOG, vol. 27, no. 5, 2008, pp. 1.

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Leotta, Matthew J., Vandergon, Austin, Taubin, Gabriel. "Interactive 3D ScanningWithout Tracking." XX Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI 2007), 2007.

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Ronfard, Remi, Taubin, Gabriel. "Introducing 3D Cinematography." IEEE Comput. Grap. Appl., vol. 27, no. 3, 2007, pp. 18-20.

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Lanman, Douglas, Crispell, Daniel, Taubin, Gabriel. "Surround Structured Lighting for Full Object Scanning." Sixth International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM 2007), 2007.

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Crispell, Daniel, Lanman, Douglas, Sibley, Peter G., Zhao, Yong, Taubin, Gabriel. "Beyond Silhouettes: Surface Reconstruction Using Multi-Flash Photography." Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT'06), 2006.

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Taubin, Gabriel, Sibley, Peter G. "Extracting Boolean isosurfaces from tetrahedral meshes." ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches on - SIGGRAPH '06, 2006.

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Lanman, Douglas, Sibley, Peter G., Crispell, Daniel, Zhao, Yong, Taubin, Gabriel. "Multi-flash 3D photography." ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Research posters on - SIGGRAPH '06, 2006.

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Yong Zhao, None, Taubin, G. "Real-Time Median Filtering for Embedded Smart Cameras." Fourth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS'06), 2006.

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Lanman, Douglas, Wachs, Megan, Taubin, Gabriel, Cukierman, Fernando. "Reconstructing a 3D Line from a Single Catadioptric Image." Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT'06), 2006.

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Lanman, Douglas, Crispell, Daniel, Wachs, Megan, Taubin, Gabriel. "Spherical Catadioptric Arrays: Construction, Multi-View Geometry, and Calibration." Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT'06), 2006.

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Wachs, Megan A., Crispell, Daniel, Taubin, Gabriel. "Calibrating a catadioptric light field array." ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Posters on - SIGGRAPH '05, 2005.

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Taubin, Gabriel, Klug, William. "Hierarchical G 1 smooth surface interpolation with local control." ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Posters on - SIGGRAPH '05, 2005.

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Crispell, Daniel, Taubin, Gabriel. "Image-based rug patterns." ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Posters on - SIGGRAPH '05, 2005.

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Sibley, Peter G., Taubin, Gabriel. "Vectorfield isosurface-based reconstruction from oriented points." ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Sketches on - SIGGRAPH '05, 2005.

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Sibley, P.G., Taubin, G. "Atlas-Aware Laplacian Smoothing." IEEE Visualization 2004, 2004.

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Research

Research Overview

Professor of Engineering Gabriel Taubin main research interests fall at the intersection of the following disciplines: Applied Computational Geometry, Computer Graphics, Geometric Modeling, 3D Photography, and Computer Vision. His main line of research has been for many years related to the development of efficient, simple, and mathematically sound algorithms to operate on 3D objects represented as polygonal meshes, with an emphasis on technologies to enable the use of 3D models for Web-based applications. More recent research initiatives are related to visual sensor networks, real-time distributed audio/visual signal processing algorithms, and applications, low cost 3D scanning for 3D printing and industrial metrology, and digital fabrication.

Research Statement

Gabriel Taubin, a professor of engineering, is primarily interested in the development of efficient, simple, and mathematically sound algorithms to represent, store, transmit, operate on, and reason about 3D objects and scenes. He is actively pursuing research activities in 3D Photography, Geometry Processing, Multi-View camera Systems, and Visual Sensor Networks. 3D Photography refers to processes that use cameras and lights to capture the shape and appearance of 3D objects. These processes provide simple ways of creating graphical models for a number of applications, including computer animation, game development, electronic commerce, heritage preservation, reverse engineering, and virtual reality. Geometry Processing is concerned with 3D object representations and data structures, as well as methods to capture, smooth, denoise, edit, compress, transmit, simplify, and optimize these representations. Multi-view camera systems, composed of multiple synchronized video cameras or hybrid sysystems with multiple curved mirrors and lenses, are used to capture, or to make inferences about, the structure of 3D dynamic scenes. Visual Sensor Networks (VSNs) are wireless and wired networks of smart cameras, able to capture and process image data in a distributed collaborative fashion. VSNs have been very important in surveillance and security applications.

Background

Education and Training

Year	Degree	Institution
1991	PhD	Brown University
1981	MS	University of Buenos Aires

Postdoctoral/Other Training

Visiting Scientist

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Exploratory Computer Vision Group

1990-1992

Hawthorne, NY, USA

Honors and Awards

J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB), U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA), and Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Fulbright Specialist Grant to visit Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires Argentina. October 2014.
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Borad (FFSB), U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA), and Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Member of the Fulbright Specialist Roaster.
Jornadas de Definición Estratégica en Big Data, organized by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva and the Fundación Sadosky, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Agosto 2013, Keynote Speaker.
Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, XXVI SIBGRAPI, August 2013, Arequipa, Peru. Best paper award in the Graphics and Visualization category.
17^th Ibero-American Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2012, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sep 3-6 2012, Keynote Speaker.
4th. International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP-2011), Best Poster Award, November 2011.
Editor In Chief, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, from January 2010 to December 2013.
Eurographics 2002 Günter Enderle Best Paper Award, September 2002.
IEEE Fellow, “For contributions to the development of three-dimensional geometry compression technology and multimedia standards,” January 2001.
IBM Master Inventor, August 2001. Award granted each year to IBM Research inventors having top scores based on the value to IBM of their United States patents that issued during the last three years.

IBM Research Invention Achievement Award, Top 5% Value, July 2001. Award granted each year to particular patents based on their estimated licensing value.
IBM Research Invention Achievement Award, Fourth Plateau, May 2000.
IBM Research Division 1999 Accomplishment, Software, “HotMedia.”
IBM Research Division Award "MPEG-4 3D Mesh Coding", 1999.
IBM Research Division Award "3D Scanning Michelangelo’s Pieta", 1999.
IBM Research 1998 Best Computer Science Paper Award, August 1999.
IBM Research Invention Achievement Award, Third Plateau, May 1999.
IBM Research Division 1998 Accomplishment, Solutions, “3D Capturing and Presenting of Michelangelo’s Pieta.”
IBM Research Division 1998 Accomplishment, Science and Exploratory, “MPEG-4 Standard.”
IBM Research Invention Achievement Award, Second Plateau, March 1998.
IBM Research Invention Achievement Award, First Plateau, September 1996.
IBM Research Division Award "for developing and implementing key shape-matching algorithms for QBIC", 1994.
IBM First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award for "Produce Recognition System", 1994.
IBM Research Accomplishment Award, 1993.

Teaching

Teaching Overview

ACADEMIC TEACHING

Brown University, ENGN 1610 - Image Understanding - Fall 2009, Fall 2012, Spring 2021.
Brown University, ENGN 2501 - Digital Geometry Processing - Fall 2010, Fall 2013, Fall 2016, Spring 2019.
Brown University, ENGN 2502 - 3D Photography - Spring 2012, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2021.
Brown University, ENGN 2912B - Scientific Programming in C++ - Fall 2012, Fall 2015, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021.
Brown University, ENGN 1931M - Industrial Machine Vision - Spring 2018,Spring 2020.
Brown University, ENGN 2911I, "3D Photography and Geometry Processing," Spring 2008, Spring 2009.
Brown University, ENGN 2920s34, "3D Photography and Geometry Processing," Spring 2007.
Brown University, ENGN 1570, "Linear System Analysis," Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2010, Fall 2011.
Brown University, ENGN 1930s05, "High-Performance Sensors and Multimedia," Fall 2004.
Brown University, ENGN 0520, "Electrical Circuits and Systems," Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2014, Spring 2015.
Brown University, ENGN 1930s08 "3D Photography," Fall 2003.
California Institute of Technology, EE-148 "3D Photography," 2000-2001 academic year.
California Institute of Technology, EE-191 "Smart Appliances with Sensory Systems," 2000-2001 academic year.

TEACHING AT CONFERENCES

Course title "3D scanning for personal 3D printing: build your own desktop 3D scanner," at ACM Sigraph 2014 Studio, organizer and speaker.
Course titled "Build Your Own 3D Scanner: Optical Triangulation for Beginners," at ACM Siggraph Asia 2009, organizer and speaker.
Course titled "Build Your Own 3D Scanner: Optical Triangulation for Beginners," at ACM Siggraph 2009, organizer and speaker.
Course on the "MPEG-4 Standard," at ACM Siggraph'2002, speaker.
Course on "3D Photography," at the 1st Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission, Padova, Italy, June 2002, speaker.
Course on "Geometric Signal Processing on Large Polygonal Meshes," at ACM Siggraph'2001, organizer and speaker.
Course on "3D Geometry Compression," at ACM Solid Modeling 2001, organizer and speaker. Enrollment.
Course on "3D Geometry Compression," at ACM Siggraph'2000, organizer and speaker.
Course on "3D Geometry Compression," at ACM Siggraph'1999, organizer and speaker.
Course on "3D Geometry Compression," at ACM Siggraph'1998, organizer and speaker.
Course on "VRML Compressed Binary Format, VRML'97," organizer and speaker.
Course on "Object Recognition with Algebraic Geometry, Invariants, and Bayesian Methods," at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'93), New York, June 1993, organizer and speaker.

Teaching

ENGN 1610 - Image Understanding

ENGN 1931M - Industrial Machine Vision

ENGN 2501 - Digital Geometry Processing

ENGN 2502 - 3D Photography

ENGN 2530 - Digital Signal Processing

ENGN 2912B - Scientific Programming in C++

Researchers@Brown

Researchers@Brown

Gabriel Taubin

Professor of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science

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