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Maneesh Agrawala   Associate Professor University of California, Berkeley EECS Department Visualization Lab 535 Soda Hall, Mail Code #1776 Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 Phone: (510) 643-8220 maneesh (at) cs.berkeley.edu twitter: @magrawala

Travel Jan 23-25,  2013   TACT Workshop, Los Angles, CA   Jan 30-21,  2013   Computation + Journalism, Atlanta, GA   Feb 26-28,  2013   Tapestry, Nashville, TN   Mar 6-8,      2013   Univ. Waterloo CS Dept., Waterloo, ON   Apr 8-10,    2013   ISTC-VC Retreat, Napa, CA

Maneesh Agrawala is an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He works on visualization, computer graphics and human computer interaction. His focus is on investigating how cognitive design principles can be used to improve the effectiveness of visual displays. The goals of this work are to discover the design principles and then instantiate them in both interactive and automated design tools. He received an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2006, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and an NSF CAREER Award in 2007, a SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2008, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2009.

• Source code for our 3D Puppetry system is now available.
• We've released the source code for our Proton/Proton++ framework for declaratively specifying multitouch gestures as regular expressions.
• Check out the online demo of our UnderScore system for adding musical underlays to audio stories.
• Content-Preserving Projections available in Adobe Photoshop CS6 as Adaptive Wide Angle feature.
• Photo Manipulation Tutorials serve as the basis for Adobe's Photoshop Tutorial Builder.
• Destination Maps are available at Bing Maps if you are using Silverlight, Windows and Internet Explorer.
• LineDrive maps are no longer available at MSN Maps and Directions.

Teaching

Spring 2012	CS 160: User Interface Design, University of California, Berkeley     Sp 10, Sp 09, Sp 08, Fa 06
Fall 2011	CS 294-69: Image Manipulation and Computational Photography, University of California, Berkeley
Spring 2011	CS 294-10: Visualization, University of California, Berkeley   Sp 10, Fa 08, Fa 07, Sp 06, Wi 05, Sp 02
Fall 2010	CS 184: Computer Graphics, University of California, Berkeley
August 13, 2008	Computation and Journalism, SIGGRAPH Course
July 26-27, 2004	Automating the Design of Visualizations, AAAI Conference Tutorial
July 21, 2002	Perceptual and Artistic Principles for Effective Computer Depiction, SIGGRAPH Course #13

Publications   (in reverse chronological order)

	Parsing Sewing Patterns into 3D Garment Models Floraine Berthouzoz, Akash Garg, Danny Kaufman, Eitan Grinspun and Maneesh Agrawala SIGGRAPH 2013, July 2013. To Appear.
	Depicting Stylized Materials With Vector Shade Trees Jorge Lopez-Moreno, Stefan Popov, Adrien Bousseau, Maneesh Agrawala and George Drettakis SIGGRAPH 2013, July 2013. To Appear.
	Gloss Perception in Painterly and Cartoon Rendering Adrien Bousseau, James P. O'Shea, Fredo Durand, Ravi Ramamoorthi and Maneesh Agrawala ACM Transactions on Graphics 2013, April 2013. Volume 32, Issue 2, To Appear.
	Illustrating How Mechanical Assemblies Work Niloy J. Mitra, Yong-Liang Yang, Dong-Ming Yan, Wilmot Li and Maneesh Agrawala CACM Research Highlight 2013, January 2013. pp. 106-114.   • Technical Perspective by Doug DeCarlo and Matthew Stone
	Graphical Overlays: Using Layered Elements to Aid Chart Reading Nicholas Kong and Maneesh Agrawala IEEE Information Visualization 2012, October 2012. pp. 2631-2638.
	3D Puppetry: A Kinect-based Interface for 3D Animation Robert T. Held, Ankit Gupta, Brian Curless and Maneesh Agrawala UIST 2012, October 2012. pp. 423-434.   • Source code available.
	UnderScore: Musical Underlays for Audio Stories Steve Rubin, Floraine Berthouzoz, Gautham Mysore, Wilmot Li and Maneesh Agrawala UIST 2012, October 2012. pp. 359-366.   • Try our online demo of UnderScore
	Proton++: A Customizable Declarative Multitouch Framework Kenrick Kin, Björn Hartmann, Tony DeRose and Maneesh Agrawala UIST 2012, October 2012. pp. 477-486.   • Source code available.
	Tools for Placing Cuts and Transitions in Interview Video Floraine Berthouzoz, Wilmot Li and Maneesh Agrawala SIGGRAPH 2012, August 2012. pp. 67:1-67:8.
	Selectively De-Animating Video Jiamin Bai, Aseem Agarwala, Maneesh Agrawala and Ravi Ramamoorthi SIGGRAPH 2012, August 2012. pp. 66:1-66:10.
	Proton: Multitouch Gestures as Regular Expressions Kenrick Kin, Björn Hartmann, Tony DeRose and Maneesh Agrawala CHI 2012, May 2012. pp. 2885-2894.   • Source code available.
	Strategies for Crowdsourcing Social Data Analysis Wesley Willett Jeffrey Heer and Maneesh Agrawala CHI 2012, May 2012. pp. 227-236.
	Delta: A Tool For Representing and Comparing Workflows Nicholas Kong, Tovi Grossman, Björn Hartmann George Fitzmaurice and Maneesh Agrawala CHI 2012, May 2012. pp. 1027-1036.
	ReVision: Automated Classification, Analysis and Redesign of Chart Images Manolis Savva, Nicholas Kong, Arti Chhajta, Li Fei-Fei, Maneesh Agrawala and Jeffrey Heer UIST 2011, October 2011. pp. 393-402.   • Notable paper award
	ShowMeHow: Translating User Interface Instructions Between Similar Applications Vidya Ramesh, Charlie Hsu, Maneesh Agrawala and Björn Hartmann UIST 2011, October 2011. pp. 127-134.
	A Framework for Content-Adaptive Photo Manipulation Macros: Application to Face, Landscape, and Global Manipulations Floraine Berthouzoz, Wilmot Li Mira Dontcheva and Maneesh Agrawala ACM Transactions on Graphics 2011, October 2011, Volume 30, Issue 5, 120:1-120:14.
	Two-Handed Marking Menus for Multitouch Devices Kenrick Kin, Björn Hartmann and Maneesh Agrawala ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, July 2011. 18(3), pp. 16:1-16:23.
	Illumination Decomposition for Material Recoloring with Consistent Interreflections Robert Carroll, Ravi Ramamoorthi and Maneesh Agrawala SIGGRAPH 2011, August 2011. pp. 43:1-43:10.
	Interactive Furniture Layout Using Interior Design Guidelines Paul Merrell Eric Schkufza, Zeyang Li, Maneesh Agrawala and Vladlen Koltun SIGGRAPH 2011, August 2011. pp. 87:1-87:10.
	Optimizing Environment Maps for Material Depiction Adrien Bousseau Emmanuelle Chapoulie, Ravi Ramamoorthi and Maneesh Agrawala Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2011, June 2011. pp. 1171-1180.
	CommentSpace: Structured Support for Collaborative Visual Analysis Wesley Willett Jeffrey Heer, Joseph Hellerstein and Maneesh Agrawala CHI 2011, May 2011. pp. 3131-3140.   • Honorable mention for best paper
	Eden: A Professional Multitouch Tool for Constructing Virtual Organic Environments Kenrick Kin, Tom Miller, Björn Bollensdorff, Tony DeRose, Björn Hartmann and Maneesh Agrawala CHI 2011, May 2011. pp. 1343-1352.   • Honorable mention for best paper
	FingerGlass: Efficient Multiscale Interaction on Multitouch Screens Dominik Käser, Maneesh Agrawala and Mark Pauly CHI 2011, May 2011. pp. 1601-1610.
	Design Principles for Visual Communication Maneesh Agrawala, Wilmot Li and Floraine Berthouzoz Communications of the ACM, April 2011, 54(4), pp. 60-69.
	Automatic Generation of Destination Maps Johannes Kopf, Maneesh Agrawala, David Bargeron, David Salesin and Michael F. Cohen SIGGRAPH Asia 2010, December 2010. pp. 158:1-158:12.   • Try Destination Maps at Bing Maps. (Requires Silverlight, Windows and Internet Explorer)
	Perceptual Guidelines for Creating Rectangular Treemaps Nicholas Kong, Jeffrey Heer and Maneesh Agrawala IEEE Information Visualization 2010, October 2010. pp. 990-998. • Honorable mention for best paper
	Exploded View Diagrams of Mathematical Objects Olga Karpenko, Wilmot Li, Niloy J. Mitra and Maneesh Agrawala IEEE Visualization 2010, October 2010. pp. 1311-1318.
	The Influence of Shape Cues on the Perception of Lighting Direction James P. O'Shea, Maneesh Agrawala and Martin S. Banks Journal of Vision, October 2010. 10(12):21, pp. 1-20.
	Image Warps for Artistic Perspective Manipulation Robert Carroll Aseem Agarwala and Maneesh Agrawala SIGGRAPH 2010, July 2010. 127:1-127:9.
	Illustrating How Mechanical Assemblies Work Niloy J. Mitra, Yong-Liang Yang, Dong-Ming Yan, Wilmot Li and Maneesh Agrawala SIGGRAPH 2010, July 2010. 58:1-58:12.
	Edge-Based Image Coarsening Raanan Fattal, Robert Carroll and Maneesh Agrawala ACM Transactions on Graphics 2009, December 2009. Volume 29, Issue 1. 6:1-6:11.
	Perceptual Interpretation of Ink Annotations on Line Charts Nicholas Kong and Maneesh Agrawala UIST 2009, October 2009. pp. 233-236.
	Generating Photo Manipulation Tutorials by Demonstration Floraine Grabler, Maneesh Agrawala, Wilmot Li, Mira Dontcheva and Takeo Igarashi SIGGRAPH 2009, August 2009. 66:1-66:9.
	Optimizing Content-Preserving Projections for Wide-Angle Images Robert Carroll, Maneesh Agrawala and Aseem Agarwala SIGGRAPH 2009, August 2009. 43:1-43:9.
	Determining the Benefits of Direct-Touch, Bimanual, and Multifinger Input on a Multitouch Workstation Kenrick Kin, Maneesh Agrawala and Tony DeRose Graphics Interface 2009, May 2009. pp. 119-124.   • Michael AJ Sweeney best student paper award
	Parallax Photography: Creating 3D Cinematic Effects from Stills Ke Colin Zheng, Alex Colburn, Aseem Agarwala, Maneesh Agrawala, Brian Curless, David Salesin and Michael Cohen Graphics Interface 2009, May 2009. pp. 111-118.   • Michael AJ Sweeney best student paper award
	Sizing the Horizon: The Effects of Chart Size and Layering on the Graphical Perception of Time Series Visualizations Jeffrey Heer, Nicholas Kong and Maneesh Agrawala CHI 2009, April 2009. pp. 1303-1312.   • Best paper award
	Video Puppetry: A Performative Interface for Cutout Animation Connelly Barnes, David E. Jacobs, Jason Sanders, Dan B Goldman, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Adam Finkelstein and Maneesh Agrawala SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, December 2008. 124:1-124:9.
	Interactive 3D Architectural Modeling from Unordered Photo Collections Sudipta Sinha, Drew Steedly, Rick Szeliski, Maneesh Agrawala and Marc Pollefeys SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, December 2008. 159:1-159:10.
	Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation Jeffrey Heer, Jock D. Mackinlay, Chris Stolte and Maneesh Agrawala IEEE TVCG (Proc. of InfoVis 2008), pp. 1189-1196.
	Automatic Generation of Tourist Maps Floraine Grabler, Maneesh Agrawala, Robert W. Sumner and Mark Pauly SIGGRAPH 2008, August 2008. 100:1-100:11.
	Automated Generation of Interactive 3D Exploded View Diagrams Wilmot Li, Maneesh Agrawala, Brian Curless and David Salesin SIGGRAPH 2008, August 2008. 101:1-101:7.
	The Assumed Light Direction for Perceiving Shape from Shading James P. O'Shea, Martin S. Banks and Maneesh Agrawala APGV 2008, August 2008. pp. 135-142.
	Generalized Selection via Interactive Query Relaxation Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala and Wesley Willett CHI 2008, April 2008. pp. 959-968.
	Navigation Techniques for Dual-Display E-Book Readers Nicholas Chen, François Guimbretière, Morgan Dixon, Cassandra Lewis and Maneesh Agrawala CHI 2008, April 2008. pp. 1779-1788.
	Design Considerations for Collaborative Visual Analytics Jeffrey Heer and Maneesh Agrawala VAST 2007, November 2007.
	Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer and Maneesh Agrawala IEEE TVCG (Proc. of InfoVis 2007), 13(6). Nov/Dec 2007. pp. 1129-1136.
	Specifying Label Layout Styles by Example Ian Vollick, Daniel Vogel, Maneesh Agrawala and Aaron Hertzmann UIST 2007, October 2007.
	Interactive Cutaway Illustrations of Complex 3D Models Wilmot Li, Lincoln Ritter, Maneesh Agrawala, Brian Curless and David Salesin SIGGRAPH 2007, August 2007. 31:1-31:11.
	Multiscale Shape and Detail Enhancement from Multi-light Image Collections Raanan Fattal, Maneesh Agrawala and Szymon Rusinkiewicz SIGGRAPH 2007, August 2007. 51:1-51:9.
	Soft Scissors : An Interactive Tool for Realtime High Quality Matting Jue Wang, Maneesh Agrawala and Michael Cohen SIGGRAPH 2007, August 2007. 9:1-9:6.
	Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene Pravin Bhat, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Noah Snavely, Aseem Agarwala, Maneesh Agrawala, Brian Curless Michael Cohen and Sing Bing Kang Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2007, June 2007.
	Multi-Scale Banking to 45 Degrees Jeffrey Heer and Maneesh Agrawala IEEE TVCG (Proc. of InfoVis 2006), 12(5). Sep/Oct 2006. pp. 701-708.
	Software Design Patterns for Information Visualization Jeffrey Heer and Maneesh Agrawala IEEE TVCG (Proc. of InfoVis 2006), 12(5). Sep/Oct 2006. pp. 853-860.
	Comparing and Managing Multiple Versions of Slide Presentations Steve Drucker, Georg Petschnigg and Maneesh Agrawala UIST 2006, October 2006. pp. 47-56.
	Phosphor: Explaining Transitions in the User Interface Using Afterglow Effects Patrick Baudisch, Desney Tan, Maxime Collomb, Dan Robbins, Ken Hinckley, Maneesh Agrawala, Shengdong Zhao and Gonzalo Ramos UIST 2006, October 2006. pp 169-178.
	Photographing Long Scenes with Multi-Viewpoint Panoramas Aseem Agarwala, Maneesh Agrawala, Michael Cohen, David Salesin and Rick Szeliski SIGGRAPH 2006, July 2006. pp. 853-861.
	The Cartoon Animation Filter Jue Wang, Steve Drucker, Maneesh Agrawala and Michael Cohen SIGGRAPH 2006, July 2006. pp. 1169-1173.
	Painting With Texture Lincoln Ritter, Wilmot Li, Maneesh Agrawala, Brian Curless and David Salesin Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2006, June 2006.
	Piecewise Image Registration in the Presence of Multiple Large Motions Pravin Bhat, Ke Colin Zheng, Noah Snavely, Aseem Agarwala, Maneesh Agrawala, Michael Cohen and Brian Curless CVPR 2006, June 2006. pp. 2491-2497.
	Phrasing Techniques for Multi-Stroke Selection Gestures Ken Hinckley, François Guimbretière, Georg Apitz, Nicholas Chen and Maneesh Agrawala Graphics Interface 2006, June 2006. pp. 147-154.
	Tumble! Splat! Helping Users Access and Manipulate Occluded Content in 2D Drawings Gonzalo Ramos, George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Desney Tan, Patrick Baudisch, Ken Hinckley and Maneesh Agrawala Advanced Visual Interfaces 2006, May 2006. pp. 428-435.
	Gaze-Based Interaction for Semi-Automatic Photo Cropping Anthony Santella, Maneesh Agrawala, Doug DeCarlo, David Salesin and Michael Cohen CHI 2006, April 2006. pp. 771-780.
	Zone and Polygon Menus: Using Relative Position to Increase the Breadth of Multi-Stroke Marking Menus Shengdong Zhao, Maneesh Agrawala and Ken Hinckley CHI 2006, April 2006. pp. 1077-1086.
	Text Entry Using a Dual Joystick Game Controller Andrew D. Wilson and Maneesh Agrawala CHI 2006, April 2006. pp. 475-478.
	The Springboard: Multiple Modes in One Spring-loaded Control Ken Hinckley, François Guimbretière, Patrick Baudisch, Raman Sarin, Maneesh Agrawala and Ed Cutrell CHI 2006, April 2006. pp. 181-190.
	Hover Widgets: Using the Tracking State to Extend the Capabilities of Pen-Operated Devices Tovi Grossman, Ken Hinckley, Patrick Baudisch, Maneesh Agrawala and Ravin Balakrishnan CHI 2006, April 2006. pp. 861-870.
	De-Emphasis of Distracting Image Regions Using Texture Power Maps Sara L. Su, Fredo Durand and Maneesh Agrawala Proc. of Texture 2005 (at ICCV), October 2005. pp. 119-124.
	Efficient Shadows from Sampled Environment Maps Aner Ben-Artzi, Ravi Ramamoorthi and Maneesh Agrawala Journal of Graphics Tools, 11(1). 2006. pp. 13-36.
	DIZI: A Digital Ink Zooming Interface for Document Annotation Maneesh Agrawala and Michael Shilman INTERACT 2005, September 2005. pp. 69-79.
	Audio Analogies: Creating New Music from an Existing Performance by Concatenative Synthesis Ian Simon, Sumit Basu, David Salesin and Maneesh Agrawala International Computer Music Conference 2005, September 2005.
	Ink Normalization and Beautification Patrice Y. Simard, Dave Steinkraus and Maneesh Agrawala ICDAR 2005, September 2005. pp. 1182-1187.
	Interactive Video Cutout Jue Wang, Pravin Bhat, Alex Colburn, Maneesh Agrawala and Michael Cohen SIGGRAPH 2005, August 2005. pp. 585-594.
	Panoramic Video Textures Aseem Agarwala, Ke Colin Zheng, Chris Pal, Maneesh Agrawala , Michael Cohen, Brian Curless, David Salesin and Rick Szeliski SIGGRAPH 2005, August 2005. pp. 821-827.
	Toward Universal Mobile Interaction for Shared Displays Tim Paek, Maneesh Agrawala, Sumit Basu, Steve Drucker, Trausti Kristjansson, Ron Logan, Kentaro Toyama and Andy Wilson CSCW 2004, November 2004. pp. 266-269.
	Video-Based Document Tracking: Unifying Your Physical and Electronic Desktops Jiwon Kim, Steven M. Seitz and Maneesh Agrawala UIST 2004, October 2004. pp. 99-107.
	Visualizing Competitive Behaviors in Multi-User Virtual Environments Nathan Hoobler, Greg Humphreys and Maneesh Agrawala IEEE Visualization 2004, October 2004. pp. 163-170.
	Digital Photography With Flash and No-Flash Image Pairs Georg Petschnigg, Maneesh Agrawala , Hugues Hoppe, Rick Szeliski, Michael Cohen and Kentaro Toyama SIGGRAPH 2004, August 2004. pp. 664-672.
	Interactive Digital Photomontage Aseem Agarwala, Mira Dontcheva, Maneesh Agrawala , Steven Drucker, Alex Colburn, Brian Curless, David Salesin and Michael Cohen SIGGRAPH 2004, August 2004. pp. 294-302.   • Source code and executable now available • Groupshot from Microsoft is based on this idea
	Interactive Image-Based Exploded View Diagrams Wilmot Li, Maneesh Agrawala and David Salesin Graphics Interface 2004, May 2004. pp. 203-212.   • Michael AJ Sweeney best student paper award
	Identification and Validation of Cognitive Design Principles for Automated Generation of Assembly Instructions Julie Heiser, Doantam Phan, Maneesh Agrawala, Barbara Tversky and Pat Hanrahan Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004, May 2004. pp. 311-319.
	Conveying Shape and Features with Image-Based Relighting David Akers, Frank Losasso, Jeff Klingner, Maneesh Agrawala, John Rick and Pat Hanrahan IEEE Visualization 2003, October 2003. pp. 349-354.
	Designing Effective Step-By-Step Assembly Instructions Maneesh Agrawala, Doantam Phan, Julie Heiser, John Haymaker, Jeff Klingner, Pat Hanrahan and Barbara Tversky SIGGRAPH 2003, July 2003. pp. 828-837.
	A Sketching Interface for Articulated Figure Animation James Davis, Maneesh Agrawala, Erika Chuang, Zoran Popović and David Salesin Symposium on Computer Animation, July 2003. pp. 320-328.
	Non-Invasive Interactive Visualization of Dynamic Architectural Environments Chris Niederauer, Mike Houston, Maneesh Agrawala and Greg Humphreys ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, April 2003. pp. 55-58.   • Invited for presentation at SIGGRAPH 2003 • Revised version Visualizing Dynamic Architectural Environments in CACM 2004.
	Rendering Effective Route Maps: Improving Usability Through Generalization Maneesh Agrawala and Chris Stolte SIGGRAPH 2001, August 2001. pp. 241-250.
	Efficient Image-Based Methods for Rendering Soft Shadows Maneesh Agrawala, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Alan Heirich and Laurent Moll SIGGRAPH 2000, July 2000. pp. 375-384.
	Artistic Multiprojection Rendering Maneesh Agrawala, Denis Zorin and Tamara Munzner Eurographics Rendering Workshop 2000, June 2000. pp. 125-136.
	A Design and Implementation for Effective Computer-Generated Route Maps Maneesh Agrawala and Chris Stolte AAAI Symposium on Smart Graphics, March 2000. pp. 61-65.
	Physically-Based Manipulation on the Responsive Workbench Bernd Froehlich, Henrik Tramberend, Andrew Beers, Maneesh Agrawala and David Baraff IEEE Virtual Reality 2000, March 2000. pp. 5-11.
	The Two-User Responsive Workbench: Support for Collaboration Through Individual Views of a Shared Space Maneesh Agrawala, Andrew Beers, Bernd Froehlich, Pat Hanrahan, Ian MacDowall and Mark Bolas SIGGRAPH 1997, July 1997. pp. 27-332.
	Rendering from Compressed Textures Andrew Beers, Maneesh Agrawala and Navin Chaddha SIGGRAPH 1996, July 1996. pp. 373-378.
	Model-Based Motion Estimation for Synthetic Images Maneesh Agrawala, Andrew Beers and Navin Chaddha ACM Multimedia 1995, November 1995. pp. 477-488.
	3D Painting on Scanned Surfaces Maneesh Agrawala, Andrew Beers and Marc Levoy Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics 1995, April 1995. pp. 145-150.

Thesis

Visualizing Route Maps Maneesh Agrawala Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, January 2002.

Other Projects

	Distribution Ray Tracer Apostolos Lerios and I designed and implemented a distribution ray tracer for the class, CS 348B: Image Synthesis Techniques. The images we created won us a trip to SIGGRAPH 94.
	Fast Volume Rendering As an undergraduate research assistant I helped Phil Lacroute parallelize his shear-warp volume renderer.

Teaching • Publications • Thesis • Other Projects