Kalyan Sunkavalli

Graphics / Vision Group, MD 215
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
33 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02141


I am a second-year PhD student at the Graphics and Vision group at Harvard. My advisor is Hanspeter Pfister.

Before joining Harvard I was at MERL and worked with Hanspeter and Wojciech Matusik. Before that I graduated with a Masters in Computer Science from Columbia University where I was a Graduate Research Assistant advised by Ravi Ramamoorthi. Even before that I graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi with a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering.

I'm interested in data-driven / computational approaches to problems in graphics and vision. Some of my recent work has been on analysing video sequences and image collections to enable easy processing, editing and enhancement.

My CV [html, pdf]


Research

    

What do color changes reveal about an outdoor scene?
Kalyan Sunkavalli, Fabiano Romeiro, Wojciech Matusik, Todd Zickler, Hanspeter Pfister
Accepted to CVPR 2008 (oral presentation)
[Paper] | [Video]

 
    

Factored Time-Lapse Video
Kalyan Sunkavalli, Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), (Proc. SIGGRAPH), July 2007
[Paper] | [Video]

 
    

Time-Varying BRDFs
Bo Sun, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Peter Belhumeur, Shree Nayar
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Mar 2007
Eurographics 2006 Workshop on Natural Phenomena, Sep 2006
[Paper - TVCG] | [Paper - EGNP] | [Video]

 
    

First steps toward an electronic field guide for plants
Gaurav Agarwal, Peter Belhumeur, Steven Feiner, David Jacobs, W. John Kress, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Norman A. Bourg, Nandan Dixit, Haibin Ling, Dhruv Mahajan, Rusty Russell, Sameer Shirdhonkar, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Sean White
Taxon, Aug 2006
[Paper]