james davis
davis@cs.ucsc.edu

2017		Crowd Research: Open and Scalable University Laboratories Vaish, R, Gaikwad, S, Kovacs, G, Veit, A, Krishna, R, Arrieta Ibarra, I, Simoiu, C, Wilber, M, Belongie, S, Goel, S, Davis, J, Bernstein, M. ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2017.  [Best Paper Honorable Mention]
2016		Single-Shot Time-of-Flight Phase Unwrapping Using Two Modulation Frequencies Changpeng Ti, Ruigang Yang, James Davis International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2016.
2015		Simulateous Time-of-flight Sensing and Photometric Stereo with a single ToF sensor Changpeng Ti, Ruigang Yang, James Davis, Zhigeng Pan IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015.
		On Optimizing Human-Machine Task Assignments (54 authors) Organizers: Andreas Veit, Michael Wilber, Rajan Vaish, Serge Belongie, James Davis Top researchers: Vishal Anand, Anshu Aviral, Prithvijit Chakrabarty, Yash Chandak, Sidharth Chaturvedi, Chinmaya Devaraj, Ankit Dhall, Utkarsh Dwivedi, Sanket Gupte, Sharath N. Sridhar, Karthik Paga, Anuj Pahuja, Aditya Raisinghani, Ayush Sharma, Shweta Sharma, Darpana Sinha, Nisarg Thakkar, K. Bala Vignesh, Utkarsh Verma Researchers: Kanniganti Abhishek, Amod Agrawal, Arya Aishwarya, Aurgho Bhattacharjee, Sarveshwaran Dhanasekar, Venkata Karthik Gullapalli, Shuchita Gupta, Chandana G, Kinjal Jain, Simran Kapur, Meghana Kasula, Shashi Kumar, Parth Kundaliya, Utkarsh Mathur, Alankrit Mishra, Aayush Mudgal, Aditya Nadimpalli, Munakala Sree Nihit, Akanksha Periwal, Ayush Sagar, Ayush Shah, Vikas Sharma, Yashovardhan Sharma, Faizal Siddiqui, Virender Singh, Abhinav S., Pradyumna Tambwekar, Rashida Taskin, Ankit Tripathi, Anurag. D. Yadav AAAI Confernce on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2015.
		Crowdsourcing the Research Process Rajan Vaish, James Davis, Michael Bernstein Collective Intelligence, 2015.
		Human Computation for Object Detection Rajan Vaish, Sascha T. Ishikawa, Sheng Lundquist, Reid Porter, James Davis Techinical Report UCSC-SOE-15-03, 2015.
		What I See Is What You Get: Eye Tracking Based Saliency for Automatic Content Aware Image Processing Steven Scher, Joshua Gaunt, Bruce Bridgeman, Sriram Swaminarayan, James Davis Technical Report UCSC-SOE-15-02, 2015.
		Humans Perceive Flicker Artifacts at 500Hz James Davis, Yi-Hsuan Hsieh, Hung-Chi Lee Scientific Reports, 5,7861; Nature Publishing Group, 2015.
		Dynamic Mapping for Multiview Autostereoscopic Displays Jing Liu, Tom Malzbender, Siyang Qin, Bipeng Zhang, Che-An Wu, James Davis IS&T/SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXVI, (poster), 2015. (video and paper in the tech report version below are more complete)
2014		Dynamic Mapping for Multiview Autostereoscopic Displays Jing Liu, Tom Malzbender, Siyang Qin, Bipeng Zhang, Che-An Wu, James Davis Technical Report UCSC-SOE-14-16, 2014. [video]
		Semantic Parametric Reshaping of Human Body Models Yipin Yang, Yao Yu, Yu Zhou, Sidan Du, James Davis, Ruigang Yang,   IEEE International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2014. [data]
		When does the hidden butterfly not flicker? Jing Liu, Soja-Marie Morgens, Robert Sumner, Luke Buschmann, Yu Zhang, James Davis, , SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Briefs, 2014
		RTI Compression for Mobile Devices Christopher Schuster, Bipeng Zhang, Rajan Vaish, Paulo Gomes, Jacob Thomas, James Davis IEEE ICIMu, 2014.
		Personal Photo Enhancement Using Internet Photo Collections Chenxi Zhang, Jizhou Gao, Oliver Wang, Pierre Georgel, Ruigang Yang, James Davis, J Frahm, Marc Pollefeys IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Feb 2014. [Selected as Spotlight Paper]
2013		Human-Powered Top-k Lists Vassilis Polychronopoulos, Luca de Alfaro, James Davis, Hector Garcia-Molina, Neoklis Polyzotis Int. Workshop on  the Web and Databases (WebDB), 2013.
		Practical 3D+2DTV Displays Jing Liu, James Davis ACM SIGGRAPH (poster), 2013.
		3D+2DTV: 3D Displays With no Ghosting for Viewers Without Glasses Steven Scher, Jing Liu, Rajan Vaish, Prabath Gunawardane, James Davis ACM Transaction on Graphics, 2013 (presented SIGGRAPH 2013).
		Using GPS and recall to understand water collection in Kenyan informal settlements Ben Crow, James Davis, Susan Paterson, Julio Miles Water International 38 (1), 43-60, 2013.
		Fusion of Median and Bilateral Filtering for Range Image Upsampling Yang Q, Ahuja N, Yang R, Tan KH, Davis J, Culbertson B, Apostolopoulos J, Wang G. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 22(12), Dec 2013.
		Digitization of Health Records in Rural Villages Vaish R, Ishikawa S, Liu J, Berkey S, Strong P, Davis J. IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2013.
2012		Time-of-Flight Imaging: Algorithms, Sensors and Applications (Dagstuhl Seminar 12431) James Davis, Bernd Jahne, Andreas Kolb, Ramesh Raskar, Christian Theobalt Dagstuhl Reports 2(10), pp 79-104, 2012.
		Field Experience with an Open Source Application for Gathering Health Assessment Data in Developing Countries That Saves Data in HL7 Continuity of Care Document Format Alex Gainer; Mary Roth; James Davis; Philip Strong American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium (poster) AMIA-0894-A2012, 2012
		Full-Body Motion Password Authentication through Kinect Brent Arata, Wesley Souza, Steven Scher, Prabath Gunawardane, Dustin Escoffery, Sasha Ishikawa, James Davis, and Arnav Jhala Advances in Computer Entertainment (poster), (ACE), 2012.
		Capturing Relightable Images using Computer Monitors Prabath Gunawardane, Steven Scher, and James Davis CVPR Workshop for Computational Cameras and Displays, 2012.
		A Standards-Based Open Source Application to Gather Health Assessment Data in Developing Countries Alex Gainer, Mary Roth, Philip Strong, James Davis IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2012.
		Exploring Employment Opportunities through Microtasks via Cybercafes Mrunal Gawade, Rajan Vaish, Mercy Nduta Waihumbu, James Davis IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2012.
		Wally - Crowd Powered Image Matching on Tablets Deepak Pai, James Davis Crowdsourcing and Data Mining Workshop at ACM KDD (CROWDKDD), 2012.
		Exploring microwork opportunities through cybercafes Mrunal Gawade, Rajan Vaish, Mercy Nduta Waihumbu, James Davis ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV), 2012. [poster]
		Measuring water collection times in Kenyan informal settlements Ben Crow, James Davis, Julio Miles Int. Conf. on Information and Comm. Tech. and Development (ICTD), 2012.
		Printing Reflectance Functions Tom Malzbender, Ramin Samadani, Steven Scher, Adam Crume, Douglas Dunn, James Davis ACM Transactions on Graphics 31(3), 2012. (presented SIGGRAPH 2012)
2011		Looking Around the corner using Transient Imaging Ahmed Kirmani, Tyler Hutchison, James Davis, Ramesh Raskar International Journal of Computer Vision 95(1), 2011
		CrowdSight: Rapidly Prototyping Intelligent Visual Processing Apps Mario Rodriguez, James Davis AAAI Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP), 2011.
		Gradient Domain HDR Compositing Oliver Wang, James Davis SIGGRAPH Poster, 2011.
		Paid Crowdsourcing as a Vehicle for Global Development William Thies, Aishwarya Ratan, James Davis ACM CHI Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation, 2011.
		Best Document Selection Based on Approximate Utility Optimization Hungyu Lin, Yi Zhang, James Davis ACM SIGIR, Poster, 2011. [UCSC-SOE-TR-11-05]
		Reliability Fusion of Time-of-Flight Depth and Stereo for High Quality Depth Maps Jiejie Zhu, Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang, James E. Davis, Zhigeng Pan IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), July 2011.
2010		Evaluating and Improving the Usability of Mechanical Turk for Low-Income Workers in India Shashank Khanna, Aishwarya Ratan, James Davis, William Thies ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV), 2010.
		Invisible Light: Using Infrared for Video Conference Relighting Prabath Gunawardane, Tom Malzbender, Ramin Samadani, Alan McReynolds, Dan Gelb, James Davis IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2010.
		The HPU James Davis, Joan Arderiu, Henry Lin, Zeb Nevins, Sebastian Schuon, Orazio Gallo, and Ming-Hsuan Yang IEEE CVPR Workshop on Advancing Computer Vision with Humans in the Loop, 2010.
		A Context-Aware Light Source Oliver Wang, Martin Fuchs, Christian Fuchs, James Davis, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hendrik P.A. Lensch IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2010.
2009		CS4GD should look like CS not do-goodery James Davis CCC Workshop on Computer Science and Global Development, Aug 2009.
		Optimized Image Sampling for View and Light Interpolation Prabath Gunawardane, Oliver Wang, Steve Scher, James Davis, Ian Rickard, Tom Malzbender Internat. Symp. on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST), 2009
		Looking Around the Corner using Transient Imaging Ahmed Kirmani, Tyler Hutchison, James Davis, Ramesh Raskar  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009 Marr Prize Honorable Mention  (2nd best paper at conference)
		LidarBoost: Depth Superresolution for ToF 3D Shape Scanning Sebastian Schuon, Christian Theobalt, James Davis, Sebastian Thrun IEEE Conf. on Comp. Vision and Pattern Rec. (CVPR), 2009
		Material Classification using BRDF Slices Oliver Wang, Prabath Gunawardane, Steve Scher, James Davis IEEE Conf. on Comp. Vision and Pattern Rec. (CVPR), 2009.
		Analyzing Statistical Relationships between Global Indicators through Visualization Prabath Gunawardane, Suresh Lodha, Erin Middleton, Ben Crow, James Davis  Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD), 2009
		Self-calibrating Optical Object Tracking using Wii Remotes  Ian Rickard, James Davis  Sensors, Cameras, and Sys. for Industrial/Sci. App. X, Proc. SPIE v.7249, Jan 2009.
2008		Video Conference Relighting Using Infrared Illumination  Oliver Wang, James Davis, Erika Chuang, Ian Rickard, Krystle de Mesa, Chirag Dave  Proceedings of Eurographics 2008
		Fusion of Time-of-Flight Depth and Stereo for High Accuracy Depth Maps Jiejie Zhu, Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang and James Davis    IEEE Conf. on Comp. Vision and Pattern Rec. (CVPR), 2008.
		Motion Capture Data Retrieval Using an Artist’s Doll Tien-Chieng Feng, Prabath Gunawardane, James Davis, Bolan Jiang  International Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008.
		Making Real Games Virtual: Tracking Board Game Pieces Steven Scher, Ryan Crabb, James Davis International Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008
		A Camera Based Pointing Interface for Mobile Devices Orazio Gallo, Sonia Arteaga, James Davis IEEE International Conference on Image Processing  (ICIP), 2008
		Real-time Foreground Segmentation via Range and Color Imaging Ryan Crabb, Colin Tracey, Akshaya Puranik, James Davis CVPR Workshop on Time of Flight Camera Based Comuter Vision, 2008
		High-quality Scanning using Time-Of-Flight Depth Superresolution Sebastian Schuon, Christian Theobalt, James Davis, Sebastian Thrun  CVPR Workshop on Time of Flight Camera Based Computer Vision, 2008
		Aerial Photography using a Nokia N95 Ilstrup, D., Lizarraga, M., Elkaim, G., and Davis, J. World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, WCECS 2008 Award: Certificate of Merit
		An Occlusion Metric for Selecting Robust Camera Configurations Xing Chen, James Davis Machine Vision and Applications Journal, 19(4), July 2008.
		Crowd Rendering with non-planar 3D imposters  Jerry Yee, James Davis ACM Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), Poster, 2008. (Conference had a 2 pg version, this is a longer 6 pg version)
2007		BRDF Invariant Stereo using Light Transport Constancy Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang, James Davis IEEE Trans. On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 29(9), Sep 2007.
		Automatic Natural Video Matting with Depth Oliver Wang, Jonathan Finger, QingXiong Yang, James Davis, Ruigang Yang  Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics),  Fall 2007.
		Using Comprehensive Analysis for Performance Debugging in Distributed Storage Systems Andrew Leung, Eric Lalonde, Jacob Telleen, James Davis, Carlos Maltzahn, Proceedings IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST), 2007.
		Synthetic Shutter Speed Imaging Jacob Telleen, Anne Sullivan, Jerry Yee, Prabath Gunawardane, Oliver Wang, Ian Collins, James Davis Computer Graphics Forum 26(3), Eurographics 2007.
		Spatial-Depth Super Resolution for Range Images Qingxiong Yang, Ruigang Yang, James Davis, and David Nister IEEE Conf. on Comp. Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007.
		Viewpoint-Coded Structured Light Mark Young, Erik Beeson, James Davis, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and Ravi Ramamoorthi IEEE Conf. on Comp. Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007.
		Detailed Human Shape and Pose from Images Alexandru Balan, Leonid Sigal, Michael Black, James Davis, and Horst Haussecker IEEE Conf. on Comp. Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007.
2005		SCAPE: Shape Completion and Animation of People Dragomir Anguelov, Praveen Srinivasan, Daphne Koller, Sebastian Thrun, Jim Rodgers, James Davis ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 24(3), 2005.
		Efficiently Combining Positions and Normals for Precise 3D Geometry Diego Nehab, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, James Davis, Ravi Ramamoothi, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 24(3), 2005.
		RoboTalk: controlling arms, bases and androids through a single motion interface Allen Y. Yang, Hector Gonzalez-Banos, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, James Davis IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2005.
		Improved Sub-pixel Stereo Correspondences through Symmetric Refinement Diego Nehab, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, James Davis IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2005.
		BRDF Invariant Stereo using Light Transport Constancy James Davis, Ruigang Yang, Liang Wang IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2005.
		Spacetime Stereo : A Unifying Framework for Depth from Triangulation James Davis, Diego Nehab, Ravi Ramamoothi, Szymon Rusinkiewicz IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), vol. 27, no. 2, 2005.
2004		The Correlated Correspondence Algorithm for Unsupervised Registration of Nonrigid Surfaces Dragomir Anguelov, Praveen Srinivasan, Daphne Koller, Sebastian Thrun, Hoi-Cheung Pang, James Davis Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2004.
		Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Active Stereo Vision James Diebel, Kjell Reutersward, Sebastian Thrun, James Davis, Rakesh Gupta IEEE/RSJ Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2004.
		A method for computing depth under ambient illumination using multi-shuttered light Hector Gonzalez-Banos, James Davis IEEE Comp. Soc. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2004.
2003		Foveated observation of shape and motion James Davis, Xing Chen IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2003.  ICRA 2003 Best Vision Paper Award Winner
		A Sketching Interface for Articulated Figure Animation James Davis, Maneesh Agrawala, Erika Chuang, Zoran Popovic, David Salesin Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2003.  Nominated among the five best papers at the symposium
		Spacetime Stereo : A Unifying Framework for Depth from Triangulation James Davis, Ravi Ramamoothi, Szymon Rusinkiewicz IEEE Comp. Soc. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2003.
		Enhanced Shape Recovery with Shuttered Pulses of Light James Davis, Hector Gonzalez-Banos IEEE International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS), 2003.
		Calibrating Pan-tilt Cameras in Wide-area Surveillance Networks James Davis, Xing Chen IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2003.
2002		Filling Holes in Complex Surfaces Using Volumetric Diffusion James Davis, Stephen Marschner, Matt Garr, Marc Levoy Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission, June 2002.
		LumiPoint: Multi-User Laser-Based Interaction on Large Tiled Displays James Davis, Xing Chen Displays, Vol. 23-5,  Elsevier Science 2002.
2001		A Laser Range Scanner Designed for Minimum Calibration Complexity James Davis, Xing Chen 3D Imaging and Modeling (3DIM), 2001.
2000		The Digital Michelangelo Project: 3D scanning of large statues Levoy, Pulli, Curless, Rusinkiewicz, Koller, Pereira, Ginzton, Anderson, Davis, Ginsberg, Shade, Fulk ACM Siggraph 2000.
		Wide Area Camera Calibration Using Virtual Calibration Objects Xing Chen, James Davis, Philipp Slusallek IEEE Comp. Soc. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2000
1998		Mosaics of Scenes with Moving Objects James Davis IEEE Comp. Soc. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 1998.
1995		Copy Detection Mechanisms for Digital Documents Sergey Brin, James Davis, Hector Garcia-Molina Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference,  May 1995.

Other Reports

	Mixed Scale Motion Recovery Davis, J. Ph. D. dissertation, Stanford University, June 2002.
	[technical reports superceded by later publication]