Soren Pirk

Recent Alum

Email: pirk@stanford.edu
Website: http://www.pirk.info

Research Statement

My research interests fall in the fields of Computer Graphics and Computational Geometry with an emphasis on Procedural Modelling, Shape Analysis and Simulation-based Modelling.

Recent Publications

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S. Pirk, O. Diamanti, B. Thibert, D. Xu, and L. J. Guibas, Shape-aware Spatio-temporal Descriptors for Interaction Classification, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2017.
@inproceedings{pdtxg-ssdfic-17,
author={S. {Pirk} and O. {Diamanti} and B. {Thibert} and D. {Xu} and L. {Guibas}}, 
booktitle={2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)}, 
title={Shape-aware spatio-temporal descriptors for interaction classification}, 
year={2017}
}
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T. Hädrich, B. Benes, O. Deussen, S. Pirk Interactive Modeling and Authoring of Climbing Plants Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics), 2017, Best Paper Honorable Mention
@inproceedings{hadrich2017interactive,
  title={Interactive modeling and authoring of climbing plants},
  author={Hädrich, Torsten and Benes, Bedrich and Deussen, Oliver and Pirk, Sören},
  booktitle={Computer Graphics Forum},
  volume={36},
  number={2},
  pages={49--61},
  year={2017},
  organization={Wiley Online Library}
}
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Y. Yoshiyasu, E. Yoshida, S. Pirk, and L. J. Guibas, 3D Convolutional Neural Networks by Modal Fusion, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2017.
@article{yypg-3cnnbmf-17,
  title={3D convolutional neural networks by modal fusion},
  author={Yusuke Yoshiyasu and Eiichi Yoshida and S{"o}ren Pirk and Leonidas J. Guibas},
  journal={2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  year={2017}
}
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S. Pirk, V. Krs, K. Hu, S. D. Rajasekaran, H. Kang, B. Benes, Y. Yoshiyasu, L. J. Guibas, Understanding and Exploiting Object Interaction Landscapes, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2017
@article{pkhrkbyg-ueoil-16,
 author = {Pirk, S"{o}ren and Krs, Vojtech and Hu, Kaimo and Rajasekaran, Suren Deepak and Kang, Hao and Yoshiyasu, Yusuke and Benes, Bedrich and Guibas, Leonidas J.},
 title = {Understanding and Exploiting Object Interaction Landscapes},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.},
 year = {2017},
} 
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Y. Li, S. Pirk, H. Su, C. R. Qi, L. J. Guibas, FPNN: Field Probing Neural Networks for 3D Data, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016)
@article{DBLP:journals/corr/LiPSQG16,
  author    = {Yangyan Li and
               S{"{o}}ren Pirk and
               Hao Su and
               Charles Ruizhongtai Qi and
               Leonidas J. Guibas},
  title     = {{FPNN:} Field Probing Neural Networks for 3D Data},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/1605.06240},
  year      = {2016},
  url       = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06240},
  timestamp = {Wed, 01 Jun 2016 15:51:07 +0200},
  biburl    = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/journals/corr/LiPSQG16},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}
}
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S. Pirk, B. Benes, T. Ijiri, Y. Li, O. Deussen, B. Chen, R. Měch, Modeling Plant Life in Computer Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2016 Courses
@inproceedings{pbildcm-mplcg-16,
 author = {Pirk, S"{o}ren and Benes, Bedrich and Ijiri, Takashi and 
           Li, Yangyan and Deussen, Oliver and Chen, Baoquan and  
           Mv{e}ch, Radomir},
 title = {Modeling Plant Life in Computer Graphics},
 booktitle = {ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Courses},
 series = {SIGGRAPH '16},
 year = {2016},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-4289-6},
 location = {Anaheim, California},
 pages = {18:1--18:180},
 articleno = {18},
 numpages = {180},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2897826.2927332},
 doi = {10.1145/2897826.2927332},
 acmid = {2927332},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
} 
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J. Kratt, M. Spicker, A. Guayaquil, M. Fiser, S. Pirk, O. Deussen, J. C. Hart, B. Benes, Woodification: User-Controlled Cambial Growth Modeling Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics), 2015
@article {10.1111:cgf.12566,
journal   = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title     = {{Woodification: User-Controlled Cambial Growth Modeling}},
author    = {Kratt, Julian and Spicker, Marc and Guayaquil, Alejandro 
             and Fiser, Marek and Pirk, S"{o}ren and Deussen, Oliver 
             and Hart, John C. and Benes, Bedrich},
year      = {2015},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
DOI       = {10.1111/cgf.12566}
}
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S. Pirk, T. Niese, T. Hädrich, B. Benes, O. Deussen, Windy Trees: Computing Stress Response for Developmental Tree Models, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 2014
@article{Pirk:2014:WTC:2661229.2661252,
 author     = {Pirk, S"{o}ren and Niese, Till and H"{a}drich, Torsten 
               and Benes, Bedrich and Deussen, Oliver},
 title      = {Windy Trees: Computing Stress Response for Developmental Tree Models},
 journal    = {ACM Trans. Graph.},
 issue_date = {November 2014},
 volume     = {33},
 number     = {6},
 month      = nov,
 year       = {2014},
 issn       = {0730-0301},
 pages      = {204:1--204:11},
 articleno  = {204},
 numpages   = {11},
 url        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2661229.2661252},
 doi        = {10.1145/2661229.2661252},
 acmid      = {2661252},
 publisher  = {ACM},
 address    = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords   = {animation, generative tree modeling, interactive 
               procedural modeling, plant growth, simulation, visual 
               models of trees},
} 
   
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J. Kratt, F. Eisenkeil, S. Pirk, A. Sharf, O. Deussen, Non-Realistic 3D Object Stylization, International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging 2014
@inproceedings{Kratt:2014:NOS:2630099.2630102,
 author = {Kratt, Julian and Eisenkeil, Ferdinand and Pirk, S"{o}ren 
           and Sharf, Andrei and Deussen, Oliver},
 title = {Non-realistic 3D Object Stylization},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Aesthetics},
 series = {CAe '14},
 year = {2014},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-3019-0},
 location = {Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada},
 pages = {67--75},
 numpages = {9},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2630099.2630102},
 doi = {10.1145/2630099.2630102},
 acmid = {2630102},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {digital surface processing, geometric modeling, 
             non-realistic rendering, solid modeling, 
             surface parametrization},
} 
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O. Stava, S. Pirk, J. Kratt, B. Chen, R. Měch, O Deussen, B. Benes, Inverse Procedural Modeling of Trees, Computer Graphics Forum, 2014 and Eurographics, 2015
@article {CGF:CGF12282,
author   = {Stava, O. and Pirk, S. and Kratt, J. and Chen, B. 
            and Mech, R. and Deussen, O. and Benes, B.},
title    = {Inverse Procedural Modelling of Trees},
journal  = {Computer Graphics Forum},
issn     = {1467-8659},
url      = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12282},
doi      = {10.1111/cgf.12282},
pages    = {n/a--n/a},
year     = {2014},
keywords = {mesh generation, biological modeling, natural phenomena, 
            I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and 
            Object Modelling; I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]: Methodology 
            and Techniques Interaction Techniques I.6.8 [Simulation and 
            Modelling]: Types of Simulation Visual},
}
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S. Pirk, M. F. Cohen, O. Deussen, M. Uyttendaele, J. Kopf, Video Enhanced Gigapixel Panoramas, Siggraph Asia 2012, Technical Brief
@inproceedings{Pirk:2012:VEG:2407746.2407753,
  author    = {Pirk, S"{o}ren and Cohen, Michael F. and 
              Deussen, Oliver and Uyttendaele, Matt and Kopf, Johannes},
  title     = {Video enhanced gigapixel panoramas},
  booktitle = {SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Technical Briefs},
  series    = {SA '12},
  year      = {2012},
  isbn      = {978-1-4503-1915-7},
  location  = {Singapore, Singapore},
  pages     = {7:1--7:4},
  articleno = {7},
  numpages  = {4},
  url       = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2407746.2407753},
  doi       = {10.1145/2407746.2407753},
  acmid     = {2407753},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address   = {New York, NY, USA},
  keywords  = {embedded video, gigapixel panorama, 
               interactive exploration},
} 
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S. Pirk, T. Niese, O. Deussen, B. Neubert, Capturing and Animating the Morphogenesis of Polygonal Tree Models, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of Siggraph Asia), 2012
@article{pirk2012capturing,
  title={Capturing and animating the morphogenesis of polygonal tree models},
  author={Pirk, S{\"o}ren and Niese, Till and Deussen, Oliver and Neubert, Boris},
  journal={ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
  volume={31},
  number={6},
  pages={1--10},
  year={2012},
  publisher={ACM New York, NY, USA}
}
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O. Deussen, T. Lindemeier, S. Pirk, M. Tautzenberger, Feedback-guided Stroke Placement for a Painting Machine, Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, 2012
@inproceedings{COMPAESTH12:25-33:2012,
crossref = {COMPAESTH12-proc},
author   = {Oliver Deussen and Thomas Lindemeier and Sören Pirk 
            and Mark Tautzenberger},
title    = {Feedback-guided Stroke Placement for a Painting Machine},
pages    = {25-33},
URL      = {http://diglib.eg.org/EG/DL/WS/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH12/025-033.pdf},
DOI      = {10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH12/025-033},
}
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S. Pirk, O. Stava, J. Kratt, M. Abdul-Massih, B. Neubert, R. Měch, B. Benes, O. Deusse, Plastic Trees: Interactive Self-Adapting Botanical Tree Models, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2012
@article{pirk2012plastic,
  title={Plastic trees: interactive self-adapting botanical tree models},
  author={Pirk, S{\"o}ren and Stava, Ondrej and Kratt, Julian and Said, Michel Abdul Massih and Neubert, Boris and M{\v{e}}ch, Radom{\'\i}r and Benes, Bedrich and Deussen, Oliver},
  journal={ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
  volume={31},
  number={4},
  pages={1--10},
  year={2012},
  publisher={ACM New York, NY, USA}
}
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Y. Livny, S. Pirk, F. Yan, Z. Cheng, O. Deussen, D. Cohen-Or, B. Chen Texture-Lobes for Tree Modeling, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2011
@inproceedings{Livny:2011:TTM:1964921.1964948,
 author    = {Livny, Yotam and Pirk, Soeren and Cheng, Zhanglin 
              and Yan, Feilong and Deussen, Oliver 
              and Cohen-Or, Daniel and Chen, Baoquan},
 title     = {Texture-lobes for tree modelling},
 booktitle = {ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 papers},
 series    = {SIGGRAPH '11},
 year      = {2011},
 isbn      = {978-1-4503-0943-1},
 location  = {Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada},
 pages     = {53:1--53:10},
 articleno = {53},
 numpages  = {10},
 url       = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1964921.1964948},
 doi       = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1964921.1964948},
 acmid     = {1964948},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address   = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords  = {natural phenomena, plants synthesis and reconstruction, 
              point-based modeling, rule-based tree modeling},
} 
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B. Neubert, S. Pirk, O. Deussen, C. Dachsbacher, Improved Model- and View-Dependent Pruning of Large Botanical Scenes, Computer Graphics Forum, 2011 and EGSR 2011
@inproceedings{neubert2011improved,
  title={Improved model-and view-dependent pruning of large botanical scenes},
  author={Neubert, Boris and Pirk, S{\"o}ren and Deussen, Oliver and Dachsbacher, Carsten},
  booktitle={Computer Graphics Forum},
  volume={30},
  number={6},
  pages={1708--1718},
  year={2011},
  organization={Wiley Online Library}
}
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