Jeroen van Baar

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Principal Technical Staff
M.Sc., Delft University of Technology, 1998

Phone: (617) 621-7577
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Jeroen van Baar has a MSc in Computer Science from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. His interests are in the fields of Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, Computer Vision and HCI. He first came to MERL as an intern in 1997, and after finishing his Masters, he joined MERL full-time in 1999 as a Research Associate. The projects he has been working on include points as rendering primitives, automatic keystone correction for projectors, and multi-projector displays on both planar and curved surfaces.

Recent Projects:

Aerial Terrain Mapping
GPU for Surveillance

Recent Publications:

Raskar, R.; Beardsley, P.; van Baar, J.; Wang, Y.; Dietz, P.; Lee, J.; Leigh, D.; Willwacher, T., "RFIG Lamps: Interacting with a Self-Describing World via Photosensing Wireless Tags and Projectors", ACM SIGGRAPH, ISBN: 1-59593-364-6, Article 11, July 2006 (ACM Press, TR2006-108)

Raskar, R.; van Baar, J.; Beardsley, P.; Willwacher, T.; Rao, S.; Forlines, C., "iLamps: Geometrically Aware and Self-configuring Projectors", ACM SIGGRAPH, ISBN: 1-59593-364-6, Article 7, July 2006 (ACM Press, TR2006-103)

Raskar, R.; Beardsley, P.; Dietz, P.; van Baar, J., "Tags are Coming: Exploiting Photosensing Wireless Tags for Assisting Geometric Procedures", Computer Vision for Interactive and Intelligent Environment (CVIIE), pp. 145-150, November 2005 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-152)

Forlines, C.; Balakrishnan, R.; Beardsley, P.; van Baar, J.; Raskar, R., "Zoom-and-Pick: Facilitating Visual Zooming and Precision Pointing with Interactive Handheld Projectors", ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ISNB: 1-59593-271-2, pp. 73-82, October 2005 (ACM Press, TR2005-095)

Raskar, R.; Beardsley, P.; Deitz, P.; van Baar, J., "Photosensing Wireless Tags for Geometric Procedures", Communications of the ACM, ISSN: 0001-0782, Vol. 48, Issue9, pp. 46-51, September 2005 (ACM Press, TR2005-153)

Recent Technical Reports:

TR2004-149 Flexible Calibration of Multiple Projectors