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