Hanspeter Pfister
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Research Scientist
Other Affiliation(s):
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Graphics Hardware Workshop Chairs
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 2002
Hanspeter Pfister is Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist at MERL – Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories – in Cambridge, MA. He is the chief architect of VolumePro, Mitsubishi Electric’s real-time volume rendering hardware for PCs. His research interests include computer graphics. scientific visualization, and computer architecture. His work spans a range of topics, including point-based rendering and modeling, 3D scanning and 3D photography, and computer graphics hardware. Hanspeter Plister received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1996 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, in 1991, Dr. Pfister has taught courses at major graphics conferences including SIGGRAPH, IEEE Visualization, and Eurographics. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Technical Committee on Graphics and Visualization (TCVG), and has served as a member of international program committees of major graphics conferences. Dr. Pfister is the general chair of the IEEE Visualization 2002 conference in Boston. He is a member of the ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and the Eurographics Association.
SIGGRAPH 1999
Hanspeter Pfister is a Research Scientist at MERL – A Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab in Cambridge, MA. His research interests include computer graphics, scientific visualization, computer architecture, and VLSI design. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in January 1991. He then joined the Integrated Systems Laboratory where he worked on the VLSI implementation of a high-speed token ring controller for a distributed memory parallel processor. Hanspeter received his PhD. in Computer Science in 1996 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His dissertation is concerned with Cube-4: A Real-Time Architecture for Volume Visualization.
Learning Organizing Committee Chair:
Course Organizer:
- SIGGRAPH 2001, "New Directions in Shape Representations"
- SIGGRAPH 2004, "Point-Based Computer Graphics"
Experience Organizing Committee Member:
Experience(s):
Experience Collaboration(s):
Learning Presentation(s):

Type: [Courses]
Point-Based Computer Graphics
Organizer(s): [Gross] [Pfister] [Zwicker]
Presenter(s): [Gross] [Pfister] [Zwicker] [Alexa] [Pauly] [Stamminger]
Entry No.: [06]
[SIGGRAPH 2004]

Type: [Courses]
Image-Based Modeling
Organizer(s): [Grzeszczuk]
Presenter(s): [Grzeszczuk] [Nishino] [Bouguet] [Pfister] [McMillan] [Pollefeys]
Entry No.: [44]
[SIGGRAPH 2002]

Type: [Courses]
Acquisition and Visualization of Surface Light Fields
Organizer(s): [Grzeszczuk]
Presenter(s): [Grzeszczuk] [Bouguet] [McMillan] [Pfister] [Pollefeys] [Sato] [Wood] [Yu]
Entry No.: [46]
[SIGGRAPH 2001]

Type: [Panels]
Computer Games and Viz: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them
Presenter(s): [Doenges] [Hecker] [Hibbard] [Pfister] [Rhyne] [Robins]
Entry No.: [04]
[SIGGRAPH 2001]

Type: [Courses]
Interactive Ray-Tracing
Organizer(s): [Slusallek]
Presenter(s): [Slusallek] [Parker] [Reinhard] [Pfister] [Purcell]
Entry No.: [13]
[SIGGRAPH 2001]

Type: [Courses]
New Directions in Shape Representations
Organizer(s): [Pfister] [Rockwood]
Presenter(s): [Pfister] [Rockwood] [Frisken] [Perry] [Gross] [McMillan] [Moreton] [Sweldens]
Entry No.: [33]
[SIGGRAPH 2001]

Type: [Panels]
Hot Topics in Graphics Hardware
Presenter(s): [Molnar] [Schneider] [Knittel] [Pfister]
Entry No.: [01]
[SIGGRAPH 1999]

Type: [Courses]
Volume Graphics
Organizer(s): [Kaufman]
Presenter(s): [Kaufman] [Avila] [Lorensen] [Gibson] [Pfister] [Sramek] [Swan]
Entry No.: [41]
[SIGGRAPH 1999]

Type: [Courses]
Advances in Volume Visualization
Organizer(s): [Kaufman]
Presenter(s): [Kaufman] [Lorensen] [Pfister] [Silva] [Sobierajski]
Entry No.: [24]
[SIGGRAPH 1998]