Shrinath Shanbhag, Ph.D.

E-mail : shrinath.shanbhag [at] gmail.com

Site updated: July 9, 2011

About Me
I graduated from IIT in 2007, with a PhD in Computer Graphics. At present I work at Microsoft India Development Center.
I am academically inclined and would love to work on cutting edge research. If you are a research lab or software development unit working in the state of the art, and have a job to offer, do let me know. Here's my CV.

Research Interests
My interests lie in computer graphics in general and more specifically in :

Modeling and Rendering Techniques
Image Processing and Vision
Character Animation

Behavioral Animation
Mocap Reuse

Interactive Story Telling
Computer graphics is a young discipline. The first 50 years or so of research in this field has been geared towards understanding the process of drawing and painting pictures on the screen. A number of techniques have been developed for this purpose. Today we are able to simulate near photorealistic imagery in near real-time. However, the existing methods for describing virtual worlds filled with digital actors and digital scenes are very cumbersome. Much can be done to alleviate this problem. I foresee a blend of behavioral animation and digital story telling techniques to become important in the future. Similarly, the very process that takes scene descriptions from an artists mind to final rendering will also evolve. Needless to say, much work needs to be done in these areas before they become truly accessible to normal human beings who specialize in non conmputer science domains such as art and drama. It here that I plan to make my contribution.

Publications

Thesis

Mocap Resue, Synthesis and Scripting for Character Animation [ pdf ].

Papers

Grafting Locomotive Motions
Shrinath Shanbhag and Sharat Chandran
The 14-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision'2006 (WSCG'06), Plzen, Czech Republic, January 30 - February 3, 2006

Search and Transitioning for Motion Captured Sequences
Suddha Basu, Shrinath Shanbhag, Sharat Chandran
ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST'05), Monterey, California, November 7-9, 2005

Synthesizing New Walk and Climb Motions from a Single Motion Captured Walk Sequence
Shrinath Shanbhag, Sharat Chandran
Indian Conference in Vision Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP'04), Calcutta, 16-18 December 2004

Parallel Action Synthesis of Skeletally Driven Characters
Shrinath Shanbhag, Sharat Chandran, Workshop on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (WCVGIP'04), Gwalior, February, 21-22, 2004

A Motion Warping Scheme for Behavioral Animation
Shrinath Shanbhag, Sharat Chandran, International Conference of Multimedia and Design (ICMD'02), Mumbai, September 24-25, 2002

An Intelligent Multi-Layered Input Scheme for Phonetic Scripts
Shrinath Shanbhag, Durgesh Rao, Prof. R. K. Joshi, SmartGraphics'02 , Hawthorne, NewYork, June 11 - 13, 2002
[ view online ]

Behavioral Animation : A Report
Shrinath Shanbhag, IRISS'02 , IISc Banglore, March 28 - 29, 2002

An architecture for the shaping of Indic texts
S.P. Mudur, Niranjan Nayak, Shrinath Shanbhag, R.K. Joshi, Computers & Graphics Vol. 23, Number 1, February 1999
[Science Direct]

Misc. Papers

A Software Architecture for Virtual Walkthroughs for Complex Heritage Sites
S.P.Mudur, Shrinath Shanbhag, et. al., Internaltional Conference on Visual Computing ICVC 99, Goa - India

Graphics Research at National Centre for Software Technology in India
S. P. Mudur, S. Gopalsamy, Dinesh Shikhare, D. S. Dixit, B.S. Patwardhan, N. S. Nayak, S. V. Shanbhag,
SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Volume 33 Number 1 February 1999 [ view online ]

Academic Reports

A java based toolkit - RAD framework for Image Processing students [ view online ]

Misc.

Eurographics 2002 Conference Game Entry
Play Online. (Requires the Cortona VRML plug-in from Parallel Graphics.)

Software Downloads

Disclaimer:
I am making the following software written by me available for download on an as is basis, with no warranties/guarantees whatsoever and without implying its fitness for any purpose at all. Infact I urge that you not use it at all.

About Me	I graduated from IIT in 2007, with a PhD in Computer Graphics. At present I work at Microsoft India Development Center. I am academically inclined and would love to work on cutting edge research. If you are a research lab or software development unit working in the state of the art, and have a job to offer, do let me know. Here's my CV.
Research Interests	My interests lie in computer graphics in general and more specifically in : Modeling and Rendering Techniques Image Processing and Vision Character Animation Behavioral Animation Mocap Reuse Interactive Story Telling Computer graphics is a young discipline. The first 50 years or so of research in this field has been geared towards understanding the process of drawing and painting pictures on the screen. A number of techniques have been developed for this purpose. Today we are able to simulate near photorealistic imagery in near real-time. However, the existing methods for describing virtual worlds filled with digital actors and digital scenes are very cumbersome. Much can be done to alleviate this problem. I foresee a blend of behavioral animation and digital story telling techniques to become important in the future. Similarly, the very process that takes scene descriptions from an artists mind to final rendering will also evolve. Needless to say, much work needs to be done in these areas before they become truly accessible to normal human beings who specialize in non conmputer science domains such as art and drama. It here that I plan to make my contribution.
Publications	Thesis Mocap Resue, Synthesis and Scripting for Character Animation [ pdf ]. Papers Grafting Locomotive Motions Shrinath Shanbhag and Sharat Chandran The 14-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision'2006 (WSCG'06), Plzen, Czech Republic, January 30 - February 3, 2006 Search and Transitioning for Motion Captured Sequences Suddha Basu, Shrinath Shanbhag, Sharat Chandran ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST'05), Monterey, California, November 7-9, 2005 Synthesizing New Walk and Climb Motions from a Single Motion Captured Walk Sequence Shrinath Shanbhag, Sharat Chandran Indian Conference in Vision Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP'04), Calcutta, 16-18 December 2004 Parallel Action Synthesis of Skeletally Driven Characters Shrinath Shanbhag, Sharat Chandran, Workshop on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (WCVGIP'04), Gwalior, February, 21-22, 2004 A Motion Warping Scheme for Behavioral Animation Shrinath Shanbhag, Sharat Chandran, International Conference of Multimedia and Design (ICMD'02), Mumbai, September 24-25, 2002 An Intelligent Multi-Layered Input Scheme for Phonetic Scripts Shrinath Shanbhag, Durgesh Rao, Prof. R. K. Joshi, SmartGraphics'02 , Hawthorne, NewYork, June 11 - 13, 2002 [ view online ] Behavioral Animation : A Report Shrinath Shanbhag, IRISS'02 , IISc Banglore, March 28 - 29, 2002 An architecture for the shaping of Indic texts S.P. Mudur, Niranjan Nayak, Shrinath Shanbhag, R.K. Joshi, Computers & Graphics Vol. 23, Number 1, February 1999 [Science Direct] Misc. Papers A Software Architecture for Virtual Walkthroughs for Complex Heritage Sites S.P.Mudur, Shrinath Shanbhag, et. al., Internaltional Conference on Visual Computing ICVC 99, Goa - India Graphics Research at National Centre for Software Technology in India S. P. Mudur, S. Gopalsamy, Dinesh Shikhare, D. S. Dixit, B.S. Patwardhan, N. S. Nayak, S. V. Shanbhag, SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Volume 33 Number 1 February 1999 [ view online ] Academic Reports A java based toolkit - RAD framework for Image Processing students [ view online ] Misc. Eurographics 2002 Conference Game Entry Play Online. (Requires the Cortona VRML plug-in from Parallel Graphics.)
Software Downloads	Disclaimer: I am making the following software written by me available for download on an as is basis, with no warranties/guarantees whatsoever and without implying its fitness for any purpose at all. Infact I urge that you not use it at all.