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Kavita Bala

Associate Professor

Primary Research Areas

  • computer graphics

Graduate Fields

Research Focus

  • Scalable graphics for high-complexity scenes
  • Feature-based graphics
  • Real-time global illumination
  • Perceptually-based rendering
  • Image-based rendering and texturing

Educational Background

  • S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Bombay).

Research Grants

  • CGI-FOR -FILM - CONTROLLABLE GLOBAL ILLUMINATION FOR FILM PRODUCTION: INTERNATIONAL OUTGOING FELLOWSHIP FOR JAROSLAV KRIVANEK
  • CPA-G&V: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: VISUAL EQUIVALENCE: A NEW FOUNDATION FOR PERCEPTUALLY-BASED RENDERING OF COMPLEX SCENES
  • CAREER: SCALABLE RENDERING FOR VISUAL REALISM IN SCALE-COMPLEX SCENES

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings

Perception of Complex Aggregates
ACM SIGGRAPH '08
Visual Equivalence: An object-based approach to image quality
IS&T 16th Color Imaging Conference (CIC16) '08
Fast Agglomerative Clustering for Rendering
IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing (IRT) '08
Tensor Sampling for Rendering Many-Light Animations
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) '08
Scheduling Strategies for Optimistic Parallel Execution of Irregular Programs
ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) '08
Single-pass Scalable Subsurface Rendering with Lightcuts
Eurographics '08
Dimensionality of Visual Complexity in Computer Graphics Scenes
SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (HVEI) '08
Optimistic Parallelism Benefits from Data Partitioning
Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) '08
Advanced Global Illumination, 2nd edition
Publisher A. K. Peters