Aaron Hertzmann

Principal Scientist

San Francisco

Aaron Hertzmann received a BA in computer science and art & art history from Rice University in 1996, and a PhD in computer science from New York University in 2001. He was a Professor at University of Toronto for 10 years, and has also worked at Pixar Animation Studios, University of Washington, Microsoft Research, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, and Interval Research Corporation. He has published over 100 papers on computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning, robotics, HCI, visual perception, and art.

He is an Affiliate Professor at University of Washington, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and the Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision.

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Publications

Toward Quantifying Ambiguities in Artistic Images

Wang, X., Bylinskii, Z., Hertzmann, A., Pepperell, R. (Nov. 6, 2020)

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)

Predicting Visual Importance Across Graphic Design Types

Fosco, C., Casser, V., Bedi, A., O'Donovan, P., Hertzmann, A., Bylinskii, Z. (Oct. 20, 2020)

ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)

Transforming and Projecting Images into Class-conditional Generative Networks

Huh, M., Zhang, R., Zhu, J., Paris, S., Hertzmann, A. (Aug. 23, 2020)

Oral

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

View-Dependent Video Textures for 360° Video

Liu, S., Agrawala, M., DiVerdi, S., Hertzmann, A. (Oct. 20, 2019)

User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)

Im2Pencil: Controllable Pencil Illustration from Photographs

Li, Y., Fang, C., Hertzmann, A., Shechtman, E., Yang, M. (Jun. 18, 2019)

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'19)

Motion parallax for 360° RGBD video

Serrano, A., Kim, I., Chen, Z., DiVerdi, S., Gutierrez, D., Hertzmann, A., Masia, B. (Mar. 6, 2019)

Best Journal Paper Nominee

IEEE Virtual Reality / Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

Learning A Stroke-Based Representation for Fonts

Balashova, E., Bermano, A., Kim, V., DiVerdi, S., Hertzmann, A., Funkhouser, T. (May. 31, 2018)

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF)

Depth Conflict Reduction for Stereo VR Video Interfaces

Nguyen, C., DiVerdi, S., Hertzmann, A., Liu, F. (Apr. 21, 2018)

ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (SIGCHI)

BAM! The Behance Artistic Media Dataset for Recognition Beyond Photography

Wilber, M., Fang, C., Jin, H., Hertzmann, A., Collomosse, J., Belongie, S. (Oct. 22, 2017)

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2017.

CollaVR: Collaborative In-Headset Review for VR Video

Nguyen, C., DiVerdi, S., Hertzmann, A., Liu, F. (Oct. 22, 2017)

User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)

Learning Hierarchical Shape Segmentation and Labeling from Online Repositories

Yi, L., Guibas, L., Hertzmann, A., Kim, V., Su, H., Yumer, E. (Aug. 30, 2017)

SIGGRAPH

Controlling Perceptual Factors in Neural Style Transfer

Gatys, L., Ecker, A., Bethge, M., Hertzmann, A., Shechtman, E. (Jul. 21, 2017)

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'17)

Vremiere: In-Headset Virtual Reality Video Editing

Nguyen, C., DiVerdi, S., Hertzmann, A., Liu, F. (May. 6, 2017)

Best Paper Honorable Mention

ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (SIGCHI)

Automatic Portrait Segmentation for Image Stylization

Shen, X., Sachs, I., Paris, S., Hertzmann, A., Shechtman, E., Price, B., Jia, J. (May. 1, 2016)

Eurographics 2016.

Learning style similarity for searching infographics

Saleh, B., Dontcheva, M., Hertzmann, A., Liu, L. (Jun. 3, 2015)

Proceedings of Graphics Interface Conference

MatrixWave: Visual comparison of event sequence data

Zhao, J., Liu, L., Dontcheva, M., Hertzmann, A., Wilson, A. (Apr. 18, 2015)

Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (SIGCHI)

Recognizing Image Style

Karayev, S., Hertzmann, A., Winnemöller, H., Agarwala, A., Darrell, T. (Sep. 1, 2014)

BMVC 2014

Feedback Control for Rotational Movements in Feature Space

Al Borno, M., Fiume, E., Hertzmann, A., de Lasa, M. (Apr. 1, 2014)

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics 2014), April 2014

Learning Layouts for Single-Page Graphic Designs

O'Donovan, P., Agarwala, A., Hertzmann, A. (Mar. 1, 2014)

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, March 2014 (preprint)

PortraitSketch: Face Sketching Assistance for Novices

Xie, J., Hertzmann, A., Li, W., Winnemoeller, H. (Jan. 1, 2014)

Proc. of UIST'14, pp. 407--417

Color Compatibility From Large Datasets

O’Donovan, P., Agarwala, A., Hertzmann, A. (Aug. 7, 2011)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2011), 30(4), 63:1--63:12

Keyframe-based tracking for rotoscoping and animation

Agarwala, A., Hertzmann, A., Salesin, D., Seitz, S. (Oct. 27, 2004)

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH) , 23(3), 584–591

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