Okan Arikan's Homepage

Okan Arikan
Assistant Professor

Office: 2.110 ACES
Phone: 512-232-7406

E-mail: okan 'at' cs.utexas.edu
(most effective way of reaching me)

Department of Computer Sciences
1 University Station C0500
Taylor Hall 2.124
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1188

Short Bio

I joined the University of Texas, Computer Sciences department in Fall 2005. Before that, I was at University of California, Berkeley where I got my Masters and Ph.D.

I'm on leave

I am on leave from UT for fall 2007 and Spring 2008 semesters. I will still be monitoring my e-mail, but I will not be in my office.

Research	Teaching	Projects
Service	Software	Links

Research

My research interests include cool things related to computer graphics and animation.
Here's a list of such cool things:

Data driven and physically based methods for character motion synthesis
Approximate global illumination / visibility
Image based modeling/rendering
Physically based simulation
Human perception

If you are interested in working with me, let me know.

Scroll below to see my projects and associated publications.

Teaching

Fall 2005: CS 395T - Computer Animation for Synthetic Characters
Spring 2006: CS 378 - Game Technology
Fall 2006: CS 395T - Computer Animation
Spring 2007: CS 378 - Game Technology (current)

Projects

		Real-Time Ambient Occlusion for Dynamic Character Skins Adam Kirk Okan Arikan Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2007

		Quick Transitions With Cached Multi-Way Blends Leslie Ikemoto Okan Arikan David Forsyth Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2007

		Hardware Accelerated Ambient Occlusion on GPUs Perumaal Shanmugam Okan Arikan Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2007

		Compression of Motion Capture Databases Okan Arikan ACM Transactions on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH 2006)

		Knowing When to Put Your Foot Down Leslie Ikemoto Okan Arikan David Forsyth Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2006

		Pushing People Around Okan Arikan David Forsyth James O'Brien Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2005

		Fast and Detailed Approximate Global Illumination by Irradiance Decomposition Okan Arikan David Forsyth James O'Brien ACM Transactions on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH 2005)

		Motion Synthesis from Annotations Okan Arikan David Forsyth James O'Brien ACM Transactions on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH 2003)

		Animating Suspended Particle Explosions Bryan Feldman James O'Brien Okan Arikan ACM Transactions on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH 2003)

		Motion Synthesis & Retargeting Okan Arikan David Forsyth ACM Transactions on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH 2002)

		Scalable Simulation Stephen Chenney Okan Arikan David Forsyth Proxy Simulations for Efficient Dynamics Eurographics 2001 Okan Arikan Stephen Chenney David Forsyth Efficient Multi-Agent Path Planning Eurographics 2001