About

I am Ilya Baran, my email is "ibaran AT mit DOT edu". I am a Ph.D. student in the MIT Graphics Group working with Jovan Popović on making 3D modeling and animation more accessible to non-professionals. I used to be in the algorithms group, working with Erik Demaine. I was also one of the people responsible for Cosmic Blobs, a really fun 3D modeling program for kids. One day, I might even graduate!

Research Publications

Graphics

Daniel Vlasic, Pieter Peers, Ilya Baran, Paul Debevec, Jovan Popović, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Wojciech Matusik, "Dynamic Shape Capture using Multi-View Photometric Stereo", SIGGRAPH Asia 2009. [.pdf] [video (.avi, DivX)]

Ilya Baran, Daniel Vlasic, Eitan Grinspun, and Jovan Popović, "Semantic Deformation Transfer", SIGGRAPH 2009. [.pdf] [video (.avi, DivX)]

Daniel Vlasic, Ilya Baran, Wojciech Matusik, and Jovan Popović, "Articulated Mesh Animation from Multi-view Silhouettes", SIGGRAPH 2008. (Includes 3D data of Daniel and myself acting like idiots and Tilke dancing). [.pdf] [video (mp4)]

Ilya Baran, Jovan Popović, "Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters", SIGGRAPH 2007. [.pdf] [video (DivX)]

Algorithms

Ilya Baran, Erik Demaine, Dmitriy Katz, "Optimally Adaptive Integration of Univariate Lipschitz Functions", LATIN 2006.
Extended abstract: [.pdf]
Full version: (In special issue of Algorithmica, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2008) [.pdf]

Ilya Baran, Erik Demaine, Mihai Pătraşcu, "Subquadratic Algorithms for 3SUM", WADS 2005. (Also in special issue of Algorithmica, Volume 50, Issue 4, April 2008)
[.pdf]

My M.Eng. thesis (2004), "Adaptive Algorithms for Problems Involving Black Box Lipschitz Functions" [.pdf]

Ilya Baran, Erik Demaine, "Optimal Adaptive Algorithms for Finding the Nearest and Farthest Point on a Parametric Black Box Curve", SoCG 2004.
Extended abstract: [.pdf]
Full version: (In special issue of IJCGA, Volume 15, Issue 4, August 2005) [.pdf]

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