James F. O’Brien

About James F. O’Brien

Affiliations

University of California, Berkeley

Georgia Institute of Technology, Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center and College of Computing

Location

California, United States of America

SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions

Committee Member

SIGGRAPH 2004: Panels

Jury Member

SIGGRAPH 2003: Technical Papers

Conference Contributions

Animations / Videos

Fluid Animation with Dynamic Meshes

SIGGRAPH 2006

Directed by:

• Bryan M. Klingner
• Bryan E. Feldman
• Nuttapong Chentanez
• James F. O’Brien

Studio(s):

• University of California, Berkeley

SVR Issue #154, Track #12

Gratuitous Goop

SIGGRAPH 2004

Directed by:

• James F. O’Brien

Studio(s):

• University of California, Berkeley

SVR Issue #147, Track #10

Graphical Modeling and Animation of Ductile Fracture

SIGGRAPH 2002

Directed by:

• James F. O’Brien

Studio(s):

• University of California, Berkeley

SVR Issue #141, Track #06

Synthesizing Sounds from Physically Based Motions

SIGGRAPH 2001

Directed by:

• James F. O’Brien

Studio(s):

• University of California, Berkeley

SVR Issue #140, Track #15

Presentations

Fast simulation of mass-spring systems

SIGGRAPH Asia 2013

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• TianTian Liu
• Adam W. Bargteil
• James F. O’Brien
• Ladislav Kavan

Adaptive anisotropic remeshing for cloth simulation

SIGGRAPH Asia 2012

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Rahul Narain
• Armin Samii
• James F. O’Brien

Multi-resolution isotropic strain limiting

SIGGRAPH Asia 2010

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Huamin Wang
• James F. O’Brien
• Ravi Ramamoorthi

Fast and deep facial deformations

SIGGRAPH 2020

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Stephen W. Bailey
• Dalton Omens
• Paul C. DiLorenzo
• James F. O’Brien

Fast and Deep Facial Deformations

SIGGRAPH 2020

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Stephen W. Bailey
• Dalton Omens
• Paul C. DiLorenzo
• James F. O’Brien

Optimal presentation of imagery with focus cues on multi-plane displays

SIGGRAPH 2015

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Rahul Narain
• Rachel Albert
• M. Abdullah Bulbul
• Martin (Marty) S. Banks
• James F. O’Brien

Adaptive tearing and cracking of thin sheets

SIGGRAPH 2014

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Tobias Pfaff
• Rahul Narain
• Juan Miguel de Joya
• James F. O’Brien

Exposing Photo Manipulation From Shading and Shadows

SIGGRAPH 2014

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Eric Kee
• James F. O’Brien
• Hany Farid

Self-refining games using player analytics

SIGGRAPH 2014

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Matt Stanton
• Ben Humberston
• Brandon Kase
• James F. O’Brien
• Kayvon Fatahalian
• Adrien Treuille

Exposing Photo Manipulation With Inconsistent Shadows

SIGGRAPH 2013

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Eric Kee
• James F. O’Brien
• Hany Farid

Folding and crumpling adaptive sheets

SIGGRAPH 2013

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Rahul Narain
• Tobias Pfaff
• James F. O’Brien

Near-exhaustive precomputation of secondary cloth effects

SIGGRAPH 2013

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Doyub Kim
• Woojong Koh
• Rahul Narain
• Kayvon Fatahalian
• Adrien Treuille
• James F. O’Brien

Simulating Liquids and Solid Liquid Interactions With Langragian Meshes

SIGGRAPH 2013

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Pascal Clausen
• Martin Wicke
• Jonathan Richard Shewchuk
• James F. O’Brien

Exposing Photo Manipulation With Inconsistent Reflections

SIGGRAPH 2012

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• James F. O’Brien
• Hany Farid

Updated Sparse Cholesky Factors for Corotational Elastodynamics

SIGGRAPH 2012

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Florian Hecht
• Yeon Jin Lee
• Jonathan Richard Shewchuk
• James F. O’Brien

Data-driven elastic models for cloth: modeling and measurement

SIGGRAPH 2011

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Huamin Wang
• James F. O’Brien
• Ravi Ramamoorthi

Perceptually based tone mapping for low-light conditions

SIGGRAPH 2011

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Adam G. Kirk
• James F. O’Brien

Dynamic local remeshing for elastoplastic simulation

SIGGRAPH 2010

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Martin Wicke
• Daniel Ritchie
• Bryan M. Klingner
• Sebastian Burke
• Jonathan Richard Shewchuk
• James F. O’Brien

Example-based wrinkle synthesis for clothing animation

SIGGRAPH 2010

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Huamin Wang
• Florian Hecht
• Ravi Ramamoorthi
• James F. O’Brien

Using Blur to Affect Perceived Distance and Size

SIGGRAPH 2010

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Robert T. Held
• Emily A. Cooper
• James F. O’Brien
• Martin (Marty) S. Banks

Interactive simulation of surgical needle insertion and steering

SIGGRAPH 2009

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Nuttapong Chentanez
• Ron Alterovitz
• Daniel Ritchie
• Lita Cho
• Kris K. Hauser
• Ken Goldberg
• Jonathan Richard Shewchuk
• James F. O’Brien

A texture synthesis method for liquid animations

SIGGRAPH 2006

Presenter(s):

• Adam W. Bargteil
• FunShing Sin
• Jonathan E. Michaels
• Tolga G. Goktekin
• James F. O’Brien

Fluid animation with dynamic meshes

SIGGRAPH 2006

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Bryan M. Klingner
• Bryan E. Feldman
• Nuttapong Chentanez
• James F. O’Brien

Simultaneous coupling of fluids and deformable bodies

SIGGRAPH 2006

Presenter(s):

• Nuttapong Chentanez
• Tolga G. Goktekin
• Bryan E. Feldman
• James F. O’Brien

A Semi-Lagrangian Contouring Method for Fluid Simulation

SIGGRAPH 2005

Presenter(s):

• Adam W. Bargteil
• Tolga G. Goktekin
• James F. O’Brien
• John A. Strain

Animating gases with hybrid meshes

SIGGRAPH 2005

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Bryan E. Feldman
• James F. O’Brien
• Bryan M. Klingner

Fast and detailed approximate global illumination by irradiance decomposition

SIGGRAPH 2005

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Okan Arikan
• David A. Forsyth
• James F. O’Brien

A method for animating viscoelastic fluids

SIGGRAPH 2004

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Tolga G. Goktekin
• Adam W. Bargteil
• James F. O’Brien

Interpolating and approximating implicit surfaces from polygon soup

SIGGRAPH 2004

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Chen Shen
• James F. O’Brien
• Jonathan Richard Shewchuk

Refolding planar polygons

SIGGRAPH 2004

Presenter(s):

• Hayley N. Iben
• James F. O’Brien
• Erik D. Demaine

Skeletal Parameter Estimation from Optical Motion Capture Data

SIGGRAPH 2004

Presenter(s):

• Adam G. Kirk
• James F. O’Brien
• David A. Forsyth

Animating suspended particle explosions

SIGGRAPH 2003

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Bryan E. Feldman
• James F. O’Brien
• Okan Arikan

Motion synthesis from annotations

SIGGRAPH 2003

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Okan Arikan
• David A. Forsyth
• James F. O’Brien

Spectral watertight surface reconstruction

SIGGRAPH 2003

Presenter(s):

• Ravi Krishna Kolluri
• Jonathan Richard Shewchuk
• James F. O’Brien

Beyond Blobs: Recent Advances in Implicit Surfaces

SIGGRAPH 2002

[Courses]

Organizer(s):

• Terry S. Yoo
• Greg Turk

Presenter(s):

• Terry S. Yoo
• Greg Turk
• H. Quynh Dinh
• John C. Hart
• James F. O’Brien
• Ross T. Whitaker

Entry #: 29

Graphical modeling and animation of ductile fracture

SIGGRAPH 2002

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• James F. O’Brien
• Adam W. Bargteil
• Jessica K. Hodgins

Modal analysis for real-time viscoelastic deformation

SIGGRAPH 2002

[Talks-Sketches]

Presenter(s):

• Chen Shen
• Kris K. Hauser
• Christine M. Gatchalian
• James F. O’Brien

Modeling the accumulation of wind-driven snow

SIGGRAPH 2002

[Talks-Sketches]

Presenter(s):

• Bryan E. Feldman
• James F. O’Brien

Synthesizing sounds from physically based motion

SIGGRAPH 2001

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• James F. O’Brien
• Perry R. Cook
• Georg Essi

Animating explosions

SIGGRAPH 2000

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Gary Yngve
• James F. O’Brien
• Jessica K. Hodgins

Graphical modeling and animation of brittle fracture

SIGGRAPH 1999

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• James F. O’Brien
• Jessica K. Hodgins

Shape transformation using variational implicit functions

SIGGRAPH 1999

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Greg Turk
• James F. O’Brien

Combining active and passive simulations for secondary motion

SIGGRAPH 1997

[Talks-Sketches]

Presenter(s):

• Jessica K. Hodgins
• James F. O’Brien
• Victor Brian Zordan

Animating human athletics

SIGGRAPH 1995

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Jessica K. Hodgins
• Wayne L. Wooten
• David C. Brogan
• James F. O’Brien

Dynamic Simulation of Human Diving and Splashing Fluids

SIGGRAPH 1994

[Talks-Sketches]

Presenter(s):

• James F. O’Brien
• Wayne L. Wooten
• Jessica K. Hodgins

Sessions Moderated

“Stable inverse dynamic curves”

Courses Organized

“Modern Techniques for Implicit Modeling” by Du, Alexa and Hart

Other Information

Roles

Computer Animation Director

Course Organizer

Course Presenter

Panels Organizing Committee Member

Poster Presenter

Talk (Sketch) Presenter

Technical Paper Presenter

Technical Papers Jury Member

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