Marc Levoy is the VMware Founders Professor of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering, Emeritus. He received a Bachelor's and Master's in Architecture from
Cornell University in 1976 and 1978, and a PhD in Computer Science from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. In the 1970's Levoy worked on
computer animation, developing a cartoon animation system that was used by
Hanna-Barbera Productions to make The Flintstones, Scooby Doo, and other shows. In
the 1980's Levoy worked on volume rendering, a technique for displaying
three-dimensional functions such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance
(MR) data. In the 1990's he worked on 3D laser scanning, culminating in the Digital
Michelangelo Project, in which he and his students spent a year in Italy digitizing
the statues of Michelangelo. In the 2000's he worked on computational photography and
microscopy, including light field imaging as commercialized by Lytro and other
companies. At Stanford he taught computer graphics and the science of art, and
digital photography. Outside of academia, Levoy co-designed the Google book scanner,
launched Google's Street View project, and currently leads a team in Google Research
that has worked on Project Glass and the Nexus 6 HDR+ mode. Awards: Charles Goodwin
Sands Medal for best undergraduate thesis (1976), National Science Foundation
Presidential Young Investigator (1991), ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement
Award (1996), ACM Fellow (2007). Click here for Marc Levoy's
home page at Stanford.
Previous Publications
-
Dual photography
Pradeep Sen, Billy Chen, Gaurav Garg, Stephen R. Marschner, Mark Horowitz,
Marc Levoy, Hendrik P. A. Lensch
ACM Trans. Graph., vol. 24 (2005), pp. 745-755
-
Protected interactive 3D graphics via remote rendering
David Koller, Michael Turitzin, Marc Levoy,
Marco Tarini, Giuseppe Croccia, Paolo Cignoni, Roberto Scopigno
ACM Trans. Graph., vol. 23 (2004), pp. 695-703
-
The digital Michelangelo project: 3D scanning of large statues
Marc Levoy, Kari Pulli, Brian Curless, Szymon
Rusinkiewicz, David Koller, Lucas Pereira, Matt Ginzton, Sean E. Anderson, James
Davis, Jeremy Ginsberg, Jonathan Shade,
Duane Fulk
SIGGRAPH, ACM Press (2000), pp. 131-144