YiChang Shih
http://people.csail.mit.edu/yichangshih/
yichangshih@gmail.com ● (617)758-9037 ● 70 Pacific St., RM812, Cambridge, MA 02139
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, Sep. 2010 – Jun. 2015 (expected)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Sep. 2010 – Jun. 2012, GPA:5.0/5.0
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
B.S., Major: Electrical Engineering / Minor: Physics, Sep. 2005 - Jun. 2009
Rank: Top 1% (1st / 191) GPA: 4.0/4.0
RESEARCH FIELD
Computational photography, computer vision, computer graphics, image enhancement
WORK EXPERIENCES
Software Engineer Intern, Google [x], Mountain View, CA
Jun. 2014 - Sep. 2014
- Undisclosed project supervised by Marc Levoy (the manager)
Research Intern, Adobe Research, Cambridge, MA
Jun. 2013 - Sep. 2013
- Prototyped a style transfer algorithm for portrait pictures
- The work is published at SIGGRAPH 2014 (see publications below and press)
Research Intern, Google Research, Mountain View, CA
Jun. 2012 - Sep. 2012
- Prototyped an image denoising algorithm for face pictures in Google+
- The work is published at ICCV 2013 (see publications below and project web)
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
Jun. 2011 - Sep. 2011
- Developed lens simulation, calibration, and image enhancement for mobile phone camera
- The works is published at ECCV 2012 (see publications below and project web)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
[1] YiChang Shih, Sylvain Paris, Connelly Barnes, William T. Freeman, Fredo Durand, “Style Transfer
for Headshot Portraits”, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2014
[2] L. Pickup, Z. Pan, D. Wei, Y. Shih, W. Freeman, A. Zisserman and B. Schölkopf, “Seeing Through
the Arrow of Time”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2014
[3] YiChang Shih, Sylvain Paris, Fredo Durand, William T. Freeman, “Data-driven Hallucination of
Different Times of Day from a Single Outdoor Photo”, ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2013
[4] YiChang Shih, Vivek Kwatra, Troy Chinen, Hui Fang, Sergey Ioffe, “Joint Noise Level Estimation
from Personal Photo Collections”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2013
[5] YiChang Shih, Brian Guenter, Neel Joshi, “Image Enhancement using Calibrated Lens Simulations”,
12th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2012
[6] YiChang Shih, Abe Davis, Samuel W. Hasinoff, Fredo Durand, William T. Freeman, “Laser Speckle
Photography for Surface Tampering Detection”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR) 2012
[7] Chia-Kai Liang, YiChang Shih, and Homer Chen, “Light field analysis for modeling image
formation”, IEEE Trans. Image Processing (TIP)
PROGRAMMING SKILLS
MatLab, C/C++, C#, Python, java, UNIX shell script, OpenCV, OpenGL, Eigen
REVELANT GRADUATE COURSES
Algorithm for Inference (A+) Intro. to Linear Programming (A) Computational Photography (A+)
Computer Vision (A) Algorithm (99/100) , Computer Graphics (A),
HONORS
1. Google Student Travel Awards for my paper in CVPR2012
2. Morris Joseph Levin Award for best master thesis presentation
3. 2010 The Presidential Graduate Fellowship Award at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4. 2004 Silver Medal, International Physics Olympiads (IPhO)
5. Presidential Award (amount to 6 semesters) (2005 ~2008)
ADVISORS
Fredo Durand, Ph.D. fredo@mit.edu 617-253-6583
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William T. Freeman, Ph.D. billf@mit.edu 617-253-8828
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology