Jernej Barbic

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I am a tenure-track assistant professor of computer science at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. I do research in computer graphics, animation, interactive physics, haptics, sound and control. I was a post-doctoral researcher at MIT, and a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University.

Office: SAL 230

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I am looking to advise new PhD students. Highly qualified students are encouraged to apply to the doctoral (PhD) program in computer science at USC. If you are interested in working with me, please elaborate on it in the Statement of Purpose. Note that the application deadline is Jan 15. However, in order to be considered for a USC Graduate Fellowship (very beneficial to you), there is the early application deadline of Dec 1.

Teaching:

Spring 2010: CS-599 Physically Based Modeling for Interactive Simulation and Games

Publications:

Jernej Barbič, Marco da Silva, Jovan Popović: Deformable Object Animation Using Reduced Optimal Control, ACM Transactions on Graphics 28(3) (SIGGRAPH 2009), New Orleans, Aug 2009
Jernej Barbič, Jovan Popović: Real-time Control of Physically Based Simulations using Gentle Forces, ACM Transactions on Graphics 27(5) (SIGGRAPH Asia 2008), Singapore, Dec 2008
Jernej Barbič, Doug L. James: Six-DoF haptic rendering of contact between geometrically complex reduced deformable models, IEEE Trans. on Haptics, 1(1), 2008, p. 39-52
PhD thesis: Real-time Reduced Large-Deformation Models and Distributed Contact for Computer Graphics and Haptics (pdf; 22 Mb), Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Aug 2007 (note: text improved in June 2009)
Jernej Barbič, Doug L. James: Time-critical distributed contact for 6-DoF haptic rendering of adaptively sampled reduced deformable models, Best paper-and-presentation award, Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2007, p. 171-180, San Diego, CA, August 2007
Doug L. James, Jernej Barbič, Dinesh K. Pai: Precomputed Acoustic Transfer: Output-sensitive, accurate sound generation for geometrically complex vibration sources, ACM Transactions on Graphics 25(3) (SIGGRAPH 2006), p. 987-995, Boston, MA, August 2006
Jernej Barbič, Doug L. James: Real-Time Subspace Integration for St.Venant-Kirchhoff Deformable Models, ACM Transactions on Graphics 24(3) (SIGGRAPH 2005), p. 982-990, Los Angeles, CA, August 2005
Jernej Barbič, Alla Safonova, Jia-Yu Pan, Christos Faloutsos, Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard: Segmenting motion capture data into distinct behaviors, Graphics Interface, p. 185-194, London, ON, Canada, 2004
(Research Sketch) Doug L. James, Jernej Barbič, Christopher Twigg: Squashing Cubes: Automating Deformable Model Construction for Graphics, Sketches & Applications of SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Presentations (on my work and work of others) :

Project webpages have slides for my GI 2004, SIGGRAPH 2005, SIGGRAPH 2006, SCA 2007, SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, and SIGGRAPH 2009 papers.
Multi-core architectures (5 Mb; class lecture slides 15-213 Introduction to Computer Systems; I updated the slides in 2007)
Voxmap-pointshell algorithm for 6-DOF haptic rendering (2.5 Mb; CMU graphics lab seminar)
2D mesh generation, Delaunay triangulations, Ruppert's algorithm (3 Mb; overview presentation with some research results)

Demos and coding:

I made a part of my C/C++ research code publicly available here. New code provided in Aug 2009.
6-DoF haptic demo (SCA 2007 paper; large dynamic reduced deformations + collision detection + contact for complex geometry).
Real-time deformations demo ("StVK" SIGGRAPH 2005 paper; reduced geometrically nonlinear FEM).
Real-time sound demo ("PAT" SIGGRAPH 2006 paper).
How to compile, link and use ARPACK in Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio.

About me:

My name is pronounced like 'Yerney Barbeach'.
I was born in 1976 in Šempeter pri Gorici, Slovenia, EU (Yugoslavia at the time).
I spent my childhood in western Slovenia, near the border with Italy, and two hours away from Venice. My hometown is in the Alps, not far from the Adriatic Sea. Here is my favorite wild animal: capra ibex.
As an undergrad, I lived in Ljubljana (capital of Slovenia).
I then lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and Boston, Massachusetts, USA. I now live in Los Angeles, California.
My favorite sports are mountain biking and swimming.

I wrote a guide for new Carnegie Mellon students to help them settle into their life in Pittsburgh.
I wrote a guide on applying to grad school in US (in Slovenian): Kako uspeti pri prijavi na studij na ameriske univerze.