Professor of Computer Science and Vision Science; Affiliate Professor of Optometry; Member of the Bioengineering Graduate Group
Corneal topography; Contact lens design and fabrication; Ocular image visualization; Blurring and deblurring; Vision realistic rendering; Vision correcting displays; Computational imaging; Computer graphics; Computer-aided geometric design and modeling; Computational photography
Prof. Barsky’s research interests include computational aesthetics, computational photography, methods for the design and fabrication of contact lenses, computer methods for optometry and ophthalmology, image synthesis, spline curve/surface representations, computer aided geometric design and modeling, CAD/CAM/CIM, interactive and realistic three-dimensional computer graphics, visualization in scientific computing, computer aided cornea modeling and visualization, videokeratography techniques, corneal topographic mapping, medical imaging, virtual environments for surgical simulation, and display technology.
Prof. Barsky’s research includes developing Vision-Realistic Rendering which uses three-dimensional rendering techniques for the computer generation of synthetic images to simulate the vision of specific individuals based on measuring the wavefront aberrations of their eyes. This led to developing a vision-correcting display to enable specific viewer to see it in sharp focus directly without using any corrective eyewear such as eyeglasses or contact lenses. This was selected by Scientific American as one of 2014’s ten “World Changing Ideas.”
Brian A. Barsky, “Rendering Depth of Field,” in Entertainment Technology (ET) Summit, Montreal, 23-27 Sept. 2017.
Jinkyu Kim, Xuaner Zhang, Laura Waller, Brian A. Barsky, and Ren Ng, “Free Your Eyes: Retinal Image Deblurring Display with Enlarged Viewing Zone”, Poster 57, International Conference on Computational Photography 2016, Evanston, Illinois, 13-15 May 2016.
Barsky, Brian A. (2015) “An Overview of Vision Realistic Rendering and Vision Correcting Displays”, Society for Information Display, Display Week 2015, May 31 – June 5, 2015, San Jose, California.
Yeh, Che-Hua; Barsky, Brian A.; and Ouhyoung, Ming, “Personalized Photograph Ranking and Selection System Considering Positive and Negative User Feedback”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Vol. 10, No. 4, June 2014, Article No. 36.
Barsky, Brian A.; Huang, Fu-Chung; Lanman, Douglas; Wetzstein, Gordon; and Raskar, Ramesh (2014) “Vision Correcting Displays Based on Inverse Blurring and Aberration Compensation”, Computer Vision — ECCV 2014 13th European Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, September 6-12, 2014, Proceedings , Tinne Tuytelaars, Bernt Schiel, Tomas Pajdla, and David Fleet (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2014.
Huang, Fu-Chung; Wetzstein, Gordon; Barsky, Brian A.; and Raskar, Ramesh (2014) “Eyeglasses-free Display: Towards Correcting Visual Aberrations with Computational Light Field Displays”, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2014, Vancouver, 10-14 August 2014, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 33, Issue 4, July 2014, Article No. 59.
Huang, Fu-Chung and Barsky, Brian A. (2014) “Computational Approaches to Aberration Compensation for Vision Correcting Displays”, Society for Information Display, Display Week 2014, June 1-6, 2014, San Diego, California.
Huang, Fu-Chung; Wetzstein, Gordon; Barsky, Brian A.; and Raskar, Ramesh (2013) “Computational Light Field Display for Correcting Visual Aberrations”, poster, ACM SIGGRAPH 2013, Anaheim, California, 21-25 July 2013.
Fu-Chung Huang, Douglas Lanman, Brian A. Barsky, and Ramesh Raskar, “Correcting for Optical Aberrations using Multilayer Displays”, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012, Singapore, 28 November – 1 December 2012, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 31, Issue 6, November 2012, Article No. 185.
Brian A. Barsky, “Vision-Realistic Rendering: Simulation of the Scanned Foveal Image with Elimination of Artifacts due to Occlusion and Discretization”, Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics: Theory and Applications, Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 229, Richard, Paul and Braz, José (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2011, pp. 3-27.
Che-Hua Yeh, Yuan-Chen Ho, Brian A. Barsky, and Ming Ouhyoung, “Personalized Photograph Ranking and Selection System”, ACM Multimedia 2010, Florence, Italy, 25-29 Oct. 2010, pp. 211-220.
Todd J. Kosloff and Brian A. Barsky, “Two New Approaches to Depth of Field Post-Processing: Pyramid Spreading and Tensor Filtering”, VISIGRAPP International Joint Conference, Angers, France, 17-21 May 2010, pp. IS-9 to IS-18.
Che-Hua Yeh, Wai-Seng Ng, Brian A. Barsky, and Ming Ouhyoung, “An Esthetics Rule Based Ranking System for Amateur Photos”, SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Sketches, Yokohama, Japan, 16- 19 December 2009, Article 24, pp. 1-1.
Todd J. Kosloff and Brian A. Barsky, “Three Techniques for Rendering Generalized Depth of Field Effects”, Proceedings of the Fourth SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry: Challenges and Frontiers (MI09), October 9-10, 2009, San Francisco, California, pp. 42-48.
Todd J. Kosloff, Michael W. Tao, and Brian A. Barsky, “Depth of Field Postprocessing For Layered Scenes Using Constant-Time Rectangle Spreading”, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 324, Graphics Interface 2009, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, 25-27, May 2009, pp. 39-46.
Todd J. Kosloff, Justin Hensley, and Brian A. Barsky, “Faster Filter Spreading and its Applications”, poster, I3D 2009: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, Boston, Massachusetts, 27 Feb. – 1 March 2009.
Todd J. Kosloff and Brian A. Barsky, “Algorithms for Rendering Depth of Field Effects in Computer Graphics”, 12th WSEAS International Conference. on Circuits, Systems, Communications, and Computers, Heraklion, Greece, July 23-25, 2008, pp. 999-1010.
Todd J. Kosloff and Brian A. Barsky, “An Algorithm for Rendering Generalized Depth of Field Effects Based on Simulated Heat Diffusion”, In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2007) Part III, Kuala Lumpur, 26-29 August 2007. Seventh International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications (CGA’07) Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) #4707, Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 1124-1140 (Invited paper).
Antoine Curan, Mathias Brieu, Brian A. Barsky, Patrick Dubois, Jean-Francois Rouland, “Stress-Strain Corneal Study For Biomechanical Contribution To Model And Simulate Corneal Suturing”, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 6-10 May 2007. Abstract in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Vol. 48, 2007, Abstract 3523.
Todd J. Kosloff and Brian A. Barsky, “A Constant-Time Forward-Mapped Blur Filter for Fast Depth of Field”, poster, Graphics Interface 2007, Montreal, Québec, Canada, 28-30 May 2007.
Brian A. Barsky and Jee Hong Kim, “Human Vision Based Detection of Non-Uniform Brightness on LCD Panels”, Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection XIV. Edited by Meriaudeau, Fabrice and Niel, Kurt S. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6070, pp. 232-237 (Jan. 2006). The International Society for Optical Engineering.
Brian A. Barsky, Michael J. Tobias, Derrick P. Chu, and Daniel R. Horn. “Elimination of Artifacts Due to Occlusion and Discretization Problems in Image Space Blurring Techniques”, Graphics Models, Vol. 67, No. 6, Nov. 2005, pp. 584-599.
Brian A. Barsky and Michael S. Downes, “Semi-Automated Ultrasound Interpretation System Using Anatomical Knowledge Representation”, Virtual Concept 2005, Biarritz, France, 8-10 November 2005.
Todd J. Kosloff and Brian A. Barsky, “Generalized Depth of Field”, poster, Symposium on Computational Photography and Video, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, May 23 – 25, 2005.