This is a list of my academic publications. Downloadable
PDF and movie files are available for most of them.
SIGGRAPH Papers
B. M. Klingner, B. A. Feldman, N. Chentanez, and J. F. O'Brien, “Fluid
Animation with Dynamic Meshes,” in Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2006,
Annual Conference Series, (Boston, Massachusetts), pp. 820-825, July 2006.
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B. E. Feldman, J. F. O'Brien, and B. M. Klingner, “Animating Gases with Hybrid
Meshes,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2005, Annual Conference Series,
(Los Angeles, California), pp. 904-909, July 2005.
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O. Arikan, D. A. Forsyth, and J. F. O'Brien, “Fast and Detailed Approximate
Global Illumination by Irradiance Decomposition,” in Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 2005, Annual Conference Series, (Los Angeles, California),
pp. 1108-1114, July 2005.
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C. Shen, J. F. O'Brien, and J. R. Shewchuk, “Interpolating and Approximating
Implicit Surfaces from Polygon Soup,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2004,
Annual Conference Series, (Los Angeles, California), pp. 896-904, Aug. 2004.
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T. Goktekin, A. W. Bargteil, and J. F. O'Brien, “A Method for Animating
Viscoelastic Fluids,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2004, Annual
Conference Series, (Los Angeles, California), pp. 463-468, Aug. 2004.
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B. E. Feldman, J. F. O'Brien, and O. Arikan, “Animating Suspended Particle
Explosions,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2003, Annual Conference
Series, (San Diego, California), pp. 708-715, July 2003.
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O. Arikan, D. A. Forsyth, and J. F. O'Brien, “Motion Synthesis from
Annotations,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2003, Annual Conference
Series, (San Diego, California), pp. 402-408, July 2003.
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J. F. O'Brien, A. W. Bargteil, and J. K. Hodgins, “Graphical Modeling and
Animation of Ductile Fracture,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2002,
Annual Conference Series, (San Antonio, Texas), pp. 291-294, July 2002.
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J. F. O'Brien, P. R. Cook, and G. Essl, “Synthesizing Sounds from Physically
Based Motion,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2001, Annual Conference
Series, (Los Angeles, California), pp. 529-536, Aug. 2001.
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G. D. Yngve, J. F. O'Brien, and J. K. Hodgins, “Animating Explosions,” in
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2000, Annual Conference Series, (New Orleans,
Louisiana), pp. 29-36, July 2000.
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J. F. O'Brien and J. K. Hodgins, “Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle
Fracture,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 99, Annual Conference Series,
(Los Angeles, California), pp. 137-146, Aug. 1999.
Received the SIGGRAPH 99 Impact Paper Award.
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G. Turk and J. F. O'Brien, “Shape Transformation Using Variational Implicit
Functions,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 99, Annual Conference Series,
(Los Angeles, California), pp. 335-342, Aug. 1999.
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J. K. Hodgins, W. L. Wooten, D. C. Brogan, and J. F. O'Brien, “Animating Human
Athletics,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 95, Annual Conference Series,
(Los Angeles, California), pp. 71-78, Aug. 1995.
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Journal Papers
R. Alterovitz, E. Lessard, J. Pouliot, I.-C. J. Hsu, J. F. O'Brien, and
K. Goldberg, “Optimization of HDR Brachytherapy Dose Distributions using
Linear Programming with Penalty Costs,” Journal of Medical Physics,
vol. 33, pp. 4012-4019, Nov. 2006.
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A. W. Bargteil, T. Goktekin, J. F. O'Brien, and J. A. Strain,
“Semi-Lagrangian Contouring for Fluid Simulation,” ACM Transactions
on Graphics, vol. 25, pp. 19-38, Jan. 2006.
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G. Turk and J. F. O'Brien, “Modelling with Implicit Surfaces that
Interpolate,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 21, pp. 855-873,
Oct. 2002.
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J. F. O'Brien and J. K. Hodgins, “Animating Fracture,” Communications of
the ACM, vol. 43, pp. 68-75, July 2000.
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J. F. O'Brien, V. B. Zordan, and J. K. Hodgins, “Combining Active and Passive
Simulations for Secondary Motion,” IEEE Computer Graphics &
Applications, vol. 20, July/August 2000.
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R. Sumner, J. F. O'Brien, and J. K. Hodgins, “Animating Sand, Mud, and Snow,”
Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 18, pp. 17-26, Mar. 1999.
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J. K. Hodgins, J. F. O'Brien, and J. Tumblin, “Perception of Human Motion With
Different Geometric Models,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics, vol. 4, pp. 307-316, October/December 1998.
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S. A. Cover, N. F. Ezquerra, and J. F. O'Brien, “Inter-actively Deformable
Models for Surgery Simulation,” IEEE Computer Graphics &
Applications, vol. 13, pp. 68-75, Nov. 1993.
Other Conference Papers
N. Chentenez, B. E. Feldman, J. F. O'Brien, and J. R. Shewchuk, “Liquid
Simulation on Lattice-Based Tetrahedral Meshes,” in Proceedings of ACM
SIGGRAPH 2007 Symposium on Computer Animation, (San Diego), pp. 219-228,
Aug. 2007.
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A. M. Eden, A. W. Bargteil, T. G. Goktekin, S. B. Eisinger, and J. F. O'Brien,
“A Method for Cartoon-Style Rendering of Liquid Animations,” in
Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2007, (Montreal, Canada), pp. 51-55, May
2007.
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N. Chentenez, T. G. Goktekin, B. E. Feldman, and J. F. O'Brien, “Simultaneous
Coupling of Fluids and Deformable Bodies,” in Proceedings of ACM
SIGGRAPH 2006 Symposium on Computer Animation, (Vienna, Austria),
pp. 85-89, Sept. 2006.
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H. N. Iben and J. F. O'Brien, “Generating Surface Crack Patterns,” in
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Symposium on Computer Animation, (Vienna,
Austria), pp. 177-185, Sept. 2006.
Received Honorable Mention for Best Paper.
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A. W. Bargteil, F. Sin, J. E. Michaels, T. G. Goktekin, and J. F. O'Brien, “A
Texture Synthesis Method for Liquid Animations,” in Proceedings of ACM
SIGGRAPH 2006 Symposium on Computer Animation, (Vienna, Austria),
pp. 345-351, Sept. 2006.
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H. N. Iben, J. F. O'Brien, and E. D. Demaine, “Refolding Planar Polygons,” in
Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on Computational Geometry, (Sedona,
Arizona), pp. 71-79, June 2006.
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B. E. Feldman, J. F. O'Brien, and B. M. Klingner, “Fluids in Deforming
Meshes,” in Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Symposium on Computer
Animation, (Los Angeles, California), pp. 255-259, July 2005.
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O. Arikan, D. A. Forsyth, and J. F. O'Brien, “Pushing People Around,” in
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Symposium on Computer Animation, (Los
Angeles, California), pp. 56-66, July 2005.
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A. G. Kirk, J. F. O'Brien, and D. A. Forsyth, “Skeletal Parameter Estimation
from Optical Motion Capture Data,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conf. on
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2005, (San Deigo,
California), pp. 782-788, June 2005.
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R. Kolluri, J. R. Shewchuk, and J. F. O'Brien, “Spectral Surface
Reconstruction From Noisy Point Clouds,” in Proceedings of the 2004
Symposium on Geometry Processing, (Nice, France), pp. 12-21, July 2004.
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J. H. Cantarella, E. D. Demaine, H. N. Iben, and J. F. O'Brien, “An
Energy-Driven Approach to Linkage Unfolding,” in Proceedings of the
2004 Symposium on Computational Geometry, (Brooklyn, New York), pp. 134 -
143, June 2004.
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K. K. Hauser, C. Shen, and J. F. O'Brien, “Interactive Deformation Using Modal
Analysis with Constraints,” in Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2003,
(Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), pp. 247-256, Canadian Human-Computer
Communications Society, June 2003.
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J. F. O'Brien, C. Shen, and C. M. Gatchalian, “Synthesizing Sounds from
Rigid-Body Simulations,” in Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 Symposium
on Computer Animation, (San Antonio, Texas), pp. 175-181, July 2002.
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G. Turk, H. Q. Dinh, J. F. O'Brien, and G. Yngve, “Implicit Surfaces that
Interpolate,” in Proceedings Shape Modeling International 2001,
(Genova, Italy), pp. 62-71, May 2001.
J. F. O'Brien, R. E. Bodenheimer, G. D. Brostow, and J. K. Hodgins, “Automatic
Joint Parameter Estimation from Magnetic Motion Capture Data,” in
Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2000, (Montreal, Quebec, Canada),
pp. 53-60, Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, May 2000.
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R. W. Sumner, J. F. O'Brien, and J. K. Hodgins, “Animating Sand, Mud, and
Snow,” in Proceedings of Graphics Interface 98, (Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada), pp. 125-132, Canadian Human-Computer Communications
Society, June 1998.
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J. K. Hodgins, J. F. O'Brien, and J. Tumblin, “Do Geometric Models Affect
Judgments of Human Motion?,” in Proceedings of Graphics Interface 97,
(Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada), pp. 17-25, Canadian Human-Computer
Communications Society, May 1997.
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J. F. O'Brien and J. K. Hodgins, “Dynamic Simulation of Splashing Fluids,” in
Proceedings of Computer Animation 95, (Geneva Switzerland),
pp. 198-205, Apr. 1995.
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J. F. O'Brien and N. F. Ezquerra, “The Automated Segmentation of Coronary
Vessels in Angiographic Image Sequences,” in Proceedings of
Visualization in Biomedical Computing 94, (Rochester, Minnesota),
pp. 25-38, Oct. 1994.
Technical Sketches and Short Papers
N. Chentanez, T. G. Gokteken, B. E. Feldman, and J. F. O'Brien, “Simultaneous
Coupling of Fluids and Deformable Bodies,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH
2006, Annual Conference Series, Technical Sketch, (Boston, Massachusetts),
July 2006.
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A. W. Bargteil, F. Sin, J. Michaels, and J. F. O'Brien, “A Texture Synthesis
Method for Liquid Animations,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2006, Annual
Conference Series, Technical Sketch, (Boston, Massachusetts), July 2006.
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A. W. Bargteil, T. Goktekin, J. F. O'Brien, and J. A. Strain,
“Semi-Lagrangian Contouring for Fluid Simulation,” in Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 2005, Annual Conference Series, Technical Sketch, (Los Angeles,
California), July 2005.
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O. Arikan, D. A. Forsyth, and J. F. O'Brien, “Radiance Caching and Local
Geometry Correction,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2004, Annual
Conference Series, Technical Sketch, (Los Angeles, California), Aug. 2004.
A. Kirk, J. F.O'Brien, and D. A. Forsyth, “Skeletal Parameter Estimation From
Optical Motion Capture Data,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2004, Annual
Conference Series, Technical Sketch, (Los Angeles, California), Aug. 2004.
Access from B-CAM web pages.
H. N. Iben, J. F. O'Brien, and E. D. Demaine, “Refolding Planar Polygons,” in
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2004, Annual Conference Series, Technical
Sketch, (Los Angeles, California), Aug. 2004.
Access from B-CAM web pages.
R. Kolluri, J. R. Shewchuk, and J. F. O'Brien, “Spectral Watertight Surface
Reconstruction,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2003, Annual Conference
Series, Technical Sketch, (San Diego, California), July 2003.
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J. H. Cantarella, E. D. Demaine, H. N. Iben, and J. F. O'Brien, “An
Energy-Driven Approach to Linkage Unfolding,” in DIMACS 2002 Workshop
on Computational Geometry, Nov. 2002.
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C. Shen, K. K. Hauser, C. M. Gatchalian, and J. F. O'Brien, “Modal Analysis
for Real-Time Viscoelastic Deformation,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH
2002, Annual Conference Series, Technical Sketch, (San Antonio, Texas), July
2002.
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B. E. Feldman and J. F. O'Brien, “Modeling the Accumulation of Wind-Driven
Snow,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2002, Annual Conference Series,
Technical Sketch, (San Antonio, Texas), July 2002.
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C. Shen, H.-Y. Shum, and J. F. O'Brien, “Image Based Rendering and
Illumination,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2001, Annual Conference
Series, Technical Sketch, (Los Angeles, California), Aug. 2001.
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J. F. O'Brien, J. K. Hodgins, and V. B. Zordan, “Combining Active and Passive
Simulations for Secondary Motion,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 97,
Annual Conference Series, Technical Sketch, (Los Angeles, California), Aug.
1997.
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J. F. O'Brien, W. L. Wooten, and J. K. Hodgins, “Dynamic Simulation of Human
Diving and Splashing Fluids,” in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 94, Annual
Conference Series, Technical Sketch, (Orlando, Florida), July 1994.
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Books
D. A. Forsyth, O. Arikan, L. Ikemoto, J. F. O'Brien, and D. Ramanan,
Computational Studies of Human Motion.
Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, Hanover,
Massachusetts: Now Publishers Inc., 2006.
Book Chapters
J. K. Hodgins et al., “Creating Realistic Motion,” in Motion
Picture Theory: Ecological Considerations (J. D. Anderson and B. F.
Anderson, eds.), pp. 52-60, Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.
J. F. O'Brien, “Modal Analysis for Fast, Stable Deformation,” in Game
Programming Gems 4 (A. Kirmse, ed.), pp. 287-298, Hingham, MA: Charles
River Media, 2004.
J. K. Hodgins and J. F. O'Brien, “Computer Animation,” in The
Encyclopedia of Computer Science (A. Ralston, E. Reilly, and
D. Hemmendinger, eds.), pp. 301-304, London: Nature Publishing Group,
fourth ed., 2000.
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J. K. Hodgins, J. F. O'Brien, and R. E. Bodenheimer, “Computer Animaiton,” in
The Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (J. G.
Webster, ed.), vol. 3, pp. 686-690, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1999.
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Animations/Videos
“Liquid Simulation on Lattice-Based Tetrahedral Meshes.” Animated
short film.
Shown in the SIGGRAPH 2007 Animation Theater.
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“Fluid Animation with Dynamic Meshes.” Animated short film.
Shown in the SIGGRAPH 2006 Animation Theater.
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“Semi-Lagrangian Contouring for Fluid Simulation.” Animated short
film.
Shown in the SIGGRAPH 2005 Electronic Theater.
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“Gratuitous Goop.” Animated short film.
Shown in the SIGGRAPH 2004 Electronic Theater.
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“Graphical Modeling and Animation of Ductile Fracture.” Animated
short film.
Shown in the SIGGRAPH 2002 Electronic Theater.
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“Synthesizing Sounds from Physically Based Motion.” Animated short
film.
Shown in the SIGGRAPH 2001 Animation Theater.
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“Breaking Objects.” Animated short film.
Shown in the SIGGRAPH 99 Electronic Theater and Imagina 2000.
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“Atlanta in Motion.” Animated short film.
Shown in the SIGGRAPH 96 Electronic Theater and the SIGGRAPH 95
Animation Theater.
Short Courses
J. F. O'Brien, “Implicit Surfaces,” in Modern Techniques for Implicit
Modeling (J. O'Brien and T. Yoo, eds.), ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Course notes, ACM
SIGGRAPH, 2005.
J. F. O'Brien, “Sound Synthesis,” in Physics-Based Sound Synthesis for
Graphics and Interactive Systems (P. Cook, ed.), ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Course
notes, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2003.
J. F. O'Brien, “Shape Interpolation,” in Beyond Blobs: Recent Advances
in Implicit Surfaces (G. Turk and T. S. Yoo, eds.), vol. 29 of ACM
SIGGRAPH 2002 Course notes, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2002.
J. F. O'Brien and J. K. Hodgins, “Secondary Motion,” in Dynamic
Behaviors for Real-Time Synthetic Humans (N. Badler, J. Hodgins, and
D. Metaxas, eds.), vol. 11 of ACM SIGGRAPH 95 Course notes, ACM
SIGGRAPH, 1995.
Thesis
J. F. O'Brien, Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture.
PhD thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, Aug.
2000.
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