Maneesh Agrawala

Associate Professor

Research Areas

• Graphics (GR)
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Research Centers

• Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM)
• Visual Computing Lab (VCL)

Biography

Maneesh Agrawala is an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He works on visualization, computer graphics and human computer interaction. His focus is on investigating how cognitive design principles can be used to improve the effectiveness of visual displays. The goals of this work are to discover the design principles and then instantiate them in both interactive and automated design tools. He received an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2006, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and an NSF CAREER Award in 2007, a SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2008, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2009. He was chosen to attend the National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in 2011.

Selected Publications

• R. Carroll, M. Agrawala, and A. Agarwala, "Optimizing content-preserving projections for wide-angle images," ACM Trans. Graph., vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 1--9, Aug. 2009.
• W. J. Willett, J. M. Heer, and M. Agrawala, "Scented widgets: Improving navigation cues with embedded visualizations," IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1129-1136, Nov. 2007.
• I. Vollick, D. Vogel, M. Agrawala, and A. Hertzmann, "Specifying label layout styles by example," in Proc. 20th Annual ACM Symp. on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2007), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2007, pp. 221-230.
• J. Wang, M. Agrawala, and M. Cohen, "Soft scissors: An interactive tool for realtime high quality matting," ACM Trans. Graphics, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. Art. 9:1-6, July 2007.
• R. Fattal, M. Agrawala, and S. Rusinkiewicz, "Multiscale shape and detail enhancement from multi-light image collections," ACM Trans. Graphics, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. Art. 51:1-9, July 2007.
• W. Li, L. Ritter, M. Agrawala, B. Curless, and D. Salesin, "Interactive cutaway illustrations of complex 3D Models," ACM Trans. Graphics, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. Art. 31:1-11, July 2007.
• P. Bhat, C. L. Zitnick, N. Snavely, A. Agarwala, M. Agrawala, B. Curless, M. Cohen, and S. B. Kang, "Using photographs to enhance videos of a static scene," in Proc. 18th Eurographics Symp. on Rendering (EGSR 2007), J. Kautz and S. Pattanaik, Eds., Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland: The Eurographics Association, 2007, pp. 12 pg.
• P. Baudisch, D. Tan, M. Collomb, D. Robbins, K. Hinckley, M. Agrawala, S. Zhao, and G. Ramos, "Phosphor: Explaining transitions in the user interface using afterglow effects," in Proc. 19th Annual ACM Symp. on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006, pp. 169-178.
• S. M. Drucker, G. Petschnigg, and M. Agrawala, "Comparing and managing multiple versions of slide presentations," in Proc. 19th Annual ACM Symp. on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006, pp. 47-56.
• J. M. Heer and M. Agrawala, "Software design patterns for information visualization," IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 853-860, Sep. 2006.
• J. M. Heer and M. Agrawala, "Multi-scale banking to 45 degrees," IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 701-708, Sep. 2006.
• J. Wang, S. M. Drucker, M. Agrawala, and M. Cohen, "The cartoon animation filter," ACM Trans. Graphics, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1169-1173, July 2006.
• A. Agarwala, M. Agrawala, M. Cohen, D. Salesin, and R. Szeliski, "Photographing long scenes with multi-viewpoint panoramas," ACM Trans. Graphics, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 853-861, July 2006.
• K. Hinckley, F. Guimbretiere, G. Apitz, N. Chen, and M. Agrawala, "Phrasing techniques for multi-stroke selection gestures," in Proc. of Graphics Interface 2006, Vol. 137, Toronto, Ont., Canada: Canadian Information Processing Society, 2006, pp. 147-154.
• P. Bhat, K. C. Zheng, N. Snavely, A. Agarwala, M. Agrawala, M. F. Cohen, and B. Curless, "Piecewise image registration in the presence of multiple large motions," in Proc. IEEE Computer Society Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vol. 2, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 2006, pp. 2491-2497.
• L. Ritter, W. Li, M. Agrawala, B. Curless, and D. Salesin, "Painting with texture," in Proc. of the 17th Eurographics Symp. on Rendering 2006, Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland: The Eurographics Association, 2006.
• G. Ramos, G. Robertson, M. Czerwinski, D. Tan, P. Baudisch, K. Hinckley, and M. Agrawala, "Tumble! Splat! Helping users access and manipulate occluded content in 2D drawings," in Proc. of the Working Conf. on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2006, A. Celentano and P. Mussio, Eds., New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006, pp. 428-435.
• T. Grossman, K. Hinckley, P. Baudisch, M. Agrawala, and R. Balakrishnan, "Hover widgets: Using the tracking state to extend the capabilities of pen-operated devices," in Proc. of the SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006), R. Grinter, T. Rodden, P. Aoki, E. Cutrell, R. Jeffries, and G. Olson, Eds., New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006, pp. 861-870.
• K. Hinckley, F. Guimbretiere, P. Baudisch, R. Sarin, M. Agrawala, and E. Cutrell, "The Springboard: Multiple modes in one spring-loaded control," in Proc. of the SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006), R. Grinter, T. Rodden, P. Aoki, E. Cutrell, R. Jeffries, and G. Olson, Eds., New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006, pp. 181-190.
• A. D. Wilson and M. Agrawala, "Text entry using a dual joystick game controller," in Proc. of the SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006), R. Grinter, T. Rodden, P. Aoki, E. Cutrell, R. Jeffries, and G. Olson, Eds., New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006, pp. 475-478.