Dr. Benedict J. Brown University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science 3330 Walnut St., Rm 302 Philadelphia, PA 19104 E-mail: bjbrown@cis.upenn.edu Tel: +1-(215)-573-2815 Employment 2011 – 2008 – 2011 University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA Lecturer in Computer Science Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Leuven, Belgium FWO Post-Doctoral Fellow Worked with Prof Phil Dutré and Prof. Luc Van Gool 2001 – 2002 1999 – 2001 1997 – 1999 Adelante Technologies. Leuven, Belgium Software Developer Starlab. Brussels, Belgium Research Scientist Creative Products Unlimited. Seattle, WA Software Engineer Developed software for commercial photo development equipment Education 2002 – 2008 Ph.D. in Computer Science. Princeton University Ph.D. Computer Science received June 2008. Thesis Title: Registration and Matching of Large Geometric Datasets for Cultural Heritage Applications. M.A. Computer Science received November 2004. 1995 – 1999 A.B. Computer Science magna cum laude. Harvard University Research Work: Visual hull extraction for calibrated photographs, for use in the Silhouette Mapping project. (Adviser: Steven J. Gortler) Teaching Duties and Awards CIS 277: Introduction to Computer Graphics Techniques. University of Pennsylvania Spring 2014 (with Norman Badler), Spring 2015 (with Adam Mally) CIS 371: Computer Organization and Design. University of Pennsylvania Spring 2015 CIS 110: Introduction to Computer Programming. University of Pennsylvania Spring 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Summer 2013, Fall 2013 (with Eric Eaton), Spring 2014 (with Eric Eaton), Fall 2014 (with Arvind Bhusnurmath) G0P81 A/B: Gegevensstructuren en algoritmen. K.U. Leuven Fall 2009 (with Phil Dutré), Fall 2010 (with Prof. Phil Dutré) COS 429: Computer Vision. Princeton University (Teaching Assistant) Fall 2005 COS 126: General Computer Science. Princeton University (Teaching Assistant) Spring 2005, Received “Excellence in Teaching” award from the Undergraduate Engineering Council COS 217: Introduction to Computing Systems. Princeton University (Teaching Assistant) Fall 2003, Nominated for the Graduate School/Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni teaching award Publications Searching for matches in fragmentary Roman wall paintings: reassembling plaster fragments from the Vrijthof in Tongeren L. Laken and B. Brown Archaeological Contributions to Materials and Immateriality, ed. G. Creemers - Atuatuca 4 Publications of the Gallo-Roman Museum, 2013 Tools for Virtual Reassembly of Fresco Fragments B. Brown, L. Laken, P. Dutré, L. Van Gool, S. Rusinkiewicz, and T. Weyrich International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era, 1(2), July 2012 Learning How to Match Fresco Fragments T. Funkhouser, H. Shin, C. Toler-Franklin, A. García Castanñeda, B. Brown, D. Dobkin, S. Rusinkiewicz, and T. Weyrich Eurographics Area Paper, April 2011 Multi-Feature Matching of Fresco Fragments C. Toler-Franklin, B.J. Brown, T. Weyrich, T. Funkhouser, and S. Rusinkiewicz ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), December 2010 Tools for Virtual Reassembly of Fresco Fragments B. Brown, L. Laken, Ph. Dutreé, L. Van Gool, S. Ruskinkiewicz, and T. Weyrich 7th Int. Conf. on Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conservation, Petra, Jordan, December 2010 Fast Rendering and Estimation of Indirect Highlights J. Laurijssen, R. Wang, Ph. Dutré, and B.J. Brown Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering), 29(4), July 2010 Estimating the Laplace-Beltrami Operator by Restricting 3D Functions M. Chuang, L. Luo, B. Brown, S. Rusinkiewicz, and M. Kazhdan Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Symposium on Geometry Processing), 28(5), July 2009 System for High-Volume Acquisition and Matching of Fresco Fragments: Reassembling Theran Wall Paintings B. Brown, C. Toler-Franklin, D. Nehab, M. Burns, D. Dobkin, A. Vlachopoulos, C. Doumas, S. Rusinkiewicz, and T. Weyrich ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), August 2008 Global Non-Rigid Alignment of 3-D Scans B. Brown and S. Rusinkiewicz ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), August 2007 Non-Rigid Range-Scan Alignment Using Thin-Plate Splines B. Brown and S. Rusinkiewicz Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission, September 2004 Multiple Media Cues for MPEG-7 B. Brown, K. Derom, A. Lindsay, C. Saraceno 10th European Signal Processing Conference, Tampere, Finland, September 2000 Silhouette Mapping X. Gu, S. Gortler, H. Hoppe, L. Mcmillan, B. Brown, A. Stone Harvard Computer Science Technical Report: TR-1-99 Talks Reassembling Roman Plaster Fragments from Flanders Using Three-Dimensional Scanning and Automatic Matching L. Laken, B. Brown, M. Proesmans, A. Vanderhoeven, M. De Bie, L. Van Gool, and T. Weyrich 115th Annual Meeting of Archaeological Institute of America, 2 – 5 January, 2014. Quantitative Assessment of Articular Cartilage Degeneration of the Metacarpal Condyle Using a 3-D Scanning System J. Declercq, B. Brown, M. Oosterlinck, L. Van Gool, S. Hauspie, J. Saunders, A. Martens Proc. 20th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European College of Veterinary Surgeons, 7 – 9 July, 2011. Een computersysteem voor het scannen en puzzelen van frescofragmenten, in casu Kerkrade-Hozkuil B. Brown and L. Laken Mededeling, 13e dag van het Romeinse Aardewerk, Nijmegen, June 2009 Computation and Cultural Heritage K. Cain, T. Gill, G. Downing, P. Martinez, M. Eakle, P. Debevec, B.J. Brown, G. Ward, M. Glencross, and P. Cignoni ACM Siggraph 2009 Short Course, August 2009 3D Scan Matching and Alignment S. Rusinkiewicz, B. Brown, and M. Kazhdan ICCV 2005 Short Course, October 2005 Non-Rigid Global Alignment Using Thin-Plate Splines B. Brown and S. Ruszinkiewicz Sketch, ACM Siggraph, August 2005 Professional Activities Program Committee Member Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) 2009 – 2011 IEEE Internation Conference On 3D Imaging (IC3D) 2011 – 2014 Co-Organizer The Griphos Project: 2nd Summer Seminar at the Archaeological Site of Akrotiri Reviewer Numerous international conferences and journals including ACM Siggraph/ACM Transaction on Graphics, Eurographics/Computer Graphics Forum, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Patter Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Matching and Machine Intelligence, IEEE International Journal of Computer Vision, IEEE Journal on Computation and Cultural Heritage Languages English French Dutch Native Language Fluent Spoken: Very Good, Read: Excellent, Written: Fair