510 Rice Hall
85 Engineer's Way, Box 400740
Charlottesville, VA 22904
connelly AT cs.virginia.edu
Bio
My research interests are in computer graphics. My research focuses on creation and manipulation of image and video, and I am now also interested in 3D printing. I am particularly interested in by-example algorithms, machine learning in graphics, and making new creative tools that are inspired by the ways artists work.

I am currently recruiting Ph.D. students (but not M.S. or interns) so let me know if you are interested in changing the world with new graphics technologies (see admissions). Charlottesville has great hiking, live music, is two hours from D.C., and has been rated a top place to live. The University of Virginia is ranked as #28 in Computer Science and #2 in public Universities.

I received my Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2011. See my C.V. for more information.
Classes
Computer Science 6501 - 2D/3D Shape Manipulation, 3D Printing (Spring 2014)
Computer Science 6501 - Computational Photography (Fall 2013)
Impact and Press Coverage
The PatchMatch technology that I researched for my Ph.D. was incorporated into Adobe Photoshop CS5 as content-aware fill. This received 8 million views on YouTube [1] [2]. This was featured in press such as Popular Science and PC Magazine. The feature received an award from PC Magazine for Technical Excellence alongside new products such as the iPad. In later Photoshop versions, Content-aware Move, Patch Tool, and Color Adapatation were built on this technology [3].

My collaboration on camouflage has been featured on Wired and Gizmodo, with 160,000 views on YouTube, and my collaboration on selfies has some press coverage recently also [4] [5].
Graphics Publications (Google Scholar)
RealPigment: Paint Compositing by Example
Jingwan Lu, Stephen DiVerdi, Willa Chen, Connelly Barnes, Adam Finkelstein
NPAR 2014: Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Stylized Keyframe Animation of Fluid Simulations
Mark Browning, Connelly Barnes, Samantha Ritter, Adam Finkelstein
NPAR 2014: Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
[Project Page] [PDF] [Video] [BibTeX]
Synthesis of Complex Image Appearance from Limited Exemplars
Olga Diamanti, Connelly Barnes, Sylvain Paris, Eli Shechtman, Olga Sorkine-Hornung
ACM Transactions on Graphics 2014, conditionally accepted
Style Transfer for Headshot Portraits
YiChang Shih, Sylvain Paris, Connelly Barnes, Frédo Durand, William Freeman
ACM SIGGRAPH 2014
[Project Page] [PDF – 12 MB] [PDF – 116 MB] [BibTeX]
DecoBrush: Drawing Structured Decorative Patterns by Example
Jingwan Lu, Connelly Barnes, Connie Wan, Adam Finkelstein, Paul Asente, Radomír Měch
ACM SIGGRAPH 2014
[Project Page] [PDF] [Video] [BibTeX]
Camouflaging an Object from Many Viewpoints
Andrew Owens, Connelly Barnes, Alex Flint, Hanumant Singh, Bill Freeman
CVPR 2014 (oral presentation)
[Project Page] [PDF – 6 MB] [PDF – 25 MB] [BibTeX]
Patch-based High Dynamic Range Video
Nima Khademi Kalantari, Eli Shechtman, Connelly Barnes, Soheil Darabi, Dan B Goldman, Pradeep Sen
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013
[Project Page] [PDF – 4 MB] [PDF – 53 MB] [BibTeX]
RealBrush: Painting with Examples of Physical Media
Jingwan Lu, Connelly Barnes, Stephen DiVerdi, Adam Finkelstein
ACM SIGGRAPH 2013
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Halide: A Language and Compiler for Optimizing Parallelism, Locality and Recomputation in Image Processing Pipelines
Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Connelly Barnes, Andrew Adams, Sylvain Paris, Frédo Durand, Saman Amarasinghe
ACM PLDI 2013
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Image Melding: Combining Inconsistent Images using Patch-based Synthesis
Soheil Darabi, Eli Shechtman, Connelly Barnes, Dan B Goldman, Pradeep Sen
ACM SIGGRAPH 2012
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
The PatchMatch Randomized Matching Algorithm for Image Manipulation
Connelly Barnes, Dan B Goldman, Eli Shechtman, Adam Finkelstein
Communications of the ACM, 2011
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
PatchMatch: A Fast Randomized Matching Algorithm with Application to Image and Video
Connelly Barnes
Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University, 2011
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
The Generalized PatchMatch Correspondence Algorithm
Connelly Barnes, Eli Shechtman, Dan B Goldman, Adam Finkelstein
ECCV 2010
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Video Tapestries with Continuous Temporal Zoom
Connelly Barnes, Dan B Goldman, Eli Shechtman, Adam Finkelstein
ACM SIGGRAPH 2010
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
PatchMatch: A Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing
Connelly Barnes, Eli Shechtman, Adam Finkelstein, Dan B Goldman
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Video Puppetry: A Performative Interface for Cutout Animation
Connelly Barnes, David E. Jacobs, Jason Sanders, Dan B Goldman, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Adam Finkelstein, Maneesh Agrawala
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Digital Bas-Relief from 3D Scenes
Tim Weyrich, Jia Deng, Connelly Barnes, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Adam Finkelstein
ACM SIGGRAPH 2007
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Education Publications
Enhancement of Student Learning in Experimental Design Using a Virtual Laboratory
Milo Koretsky, Danielle Amatore, Connelly Barnes, Sho Kimura
IEEE Transactions on Education, 2008
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Experiential Learning of Design of Experiments Using a Virtual CVD Reactor
Milo Koretsky, Sho Kimura, Connelly Barnes, Danielle Amatore, Derek Meyers-Graham
American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 2006. Award for best paper in Chemical Engineering.
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
The Virtual CVD Learning Platform
Milo Koretsky, Danielle Amatore, Connelly Barnes, Sho Kimura
Frontiers in Education Conference, 2006.
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX]
ThermoSolver: An Integrated Educational Thermodynamics Software Program
Connelly Barnes
Undergraduate honors thesis, 2006. Oregon State University Library
[Project Page] [PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides]
Other Resources
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