Jernej Barbic

I am an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. I do research in computer graphics, animation, interactive physics, haptics, sound and control. I was a post-doctoral researcher at MIT, and a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University.

Office: SAL 230, Phone: 213-740-1914

Author of

Students:

Yijing Li, Ph.D. cand.
Hongyi Xu, Ph.D. cand.
Yili Zhao, M.Sc., Ph.D. cand.
Weiwan Liu, M.Sc., now at Nvidia
Somya Sharma, M.Sc., now at Microsoft
Fun Shing Sin, M.Sc., Rhythm and Hues, now at Blizzard
Daniel Schroeder, USC REU summer student, now PhD cand. at Cornell

Teaching:

Spring 2013: CS-520 Computer Animation and Simulation
Spring 2013: CS-480 Computer Graphics
Spring 2012: CS-520 Computer Animation and Simulation
Spring 2012: CS-480 Computer Graphics
Spring 2011: CS-599 Physically Based Modeling for Interactive Simulation and Games
Spring 2011: CS-480 Computer Graphics
Spring 2010: CS-599 Physically Based Modeling for Interactive Simulation and Games

Funding and Awards:

Viterbi Early Career Chair, USC
MIT Technology Review, 35 Innovators Under 35, 2011
NSF CAREER Award, 2011-2016
James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund at the University of Southern California, 2010-2011

Publications:

Yili Zhao, Jernej Barbič: Interactive Authoring of Simulation-Ready Plants, ACM Transactions on Graphics 32(4) (SIGGRAPH 2013), Anaheim, CA, USA, July 2013
Fun Shing Sin, Daniel Schroeder, Jernej Barbič: Vega: Nonlinear FEM Deformable Object Simulator, Computer Graphics Forum, 32(1), 2013, p. 38-50
Jernej Barbič, Fun Shing Sin, Eitan Grinspun: Interactive Editing of Deformable Simulations, ACM Transactions on Graphics 31(4) (SIGGRAPH 2012), Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2012
Jernej Barbič, Yili Zhao: Real-time Large-deformation Substructuring, ACM Transactions on Graphics 30(4) (SIGGRAPH 2011), Vancouver, Canada, August 2011
Jernej Barbič, Doug L. James: Subspace Self-collision Culling, ACM Transactions on Graphics 29(4) (SIGGRAPH 2010), Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 2010
Jernej Barbič, Marco da Silva, Jovan Popović: Deformable Object Animation Using Reduced Optimal Control, ACM Transactions on Graphics 28(3) (SIGGRAPH 2009), New Orleans, LA, USA, August 2009
Jernej Barbič, Jovan Popović: Real-time Control of Physically Based Simulations using Gentle Forces, ACM Transactions on Graphics 27(5) (SIGGRAPH Asia 2008), Singapore, Dec 2008
Jernej Barbič, Doug L. James: Six-DoF Haptic Rendering of Contact Between Geometrically Complex Reduced Deformable Models, IEEE Trans. on Haptics, 1(1), 2008, p. 39-52
Jernej Barbič, Doug L. James: Time-critical Distributed Contact for 6-DoF Haptic Rendering of Adaptively Sampled Reduced Deformable Models, Best paper-and-presentation award, Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2007, p. 171-180, San Diego, CA, August 2007
Doug L. James, Jernej Barbič, Dinesh K. Pai: Precomputed Acoustic Transfer: Output-sensitive, Accurate Sound Generation for Geometrically Complex Vibration Sources, ACM Transactions on Graphics 25(3) (SIGGRAPH 2006), p. 987-995, Boston, MA, August 2006
Jernej Barbič, Doug L. James: Real-Time Subspace Integration for St.Venant-Kirchhoff Deformable Models, ACM Transactions on Graphics 24(3) (SIGGRAPH 2005), p. 982-990, Los Angeles, CA, August 2005
Jernej Barbič, Alla Safonova, Jia-Yu Pan, Christos Faloutsos, Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard: Segmenting Motion Capture Data into Distinct Behaviors, Graphics Interface, p. 185-194, London, ON, Canada, 2004

Posters, Tech Reports, Courses, Thesis:

I co-organized a workshop on Computer Animation: Physically Based Methods in Barbados, 2013.
Jernej Barbič: Model reduction for deformable object simulations, Part 2 of ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Course by Eftychios Sifakis and Jernej Barbič: FEM Simulation of 3D Deformable Solids: A practitioner's guide to theory, discretization and model reduction, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2012.
Jernej Barbič: Exact Corotational Linear FEM Stiffness Matrix, Technical Report, Computer Science Department, USC, 2012.
Jernej Barbič, Gary Miller: A Quadratic Running Time Example for Ruppert's Refinement Algorithm, Technical Report, Computer Science Department, USC, 2012.
Funshing Sin, Yufeng Zhu, Yongqiang Li, Daniel Schroeder, Jernej Barbič: Invertible Isotropic Hyperelasticity using SVD Gradients, Poster, Symposium on Computer Animation 2011, Vancouver, Canada. Poster video.
PhD thesis: Jernej Barbič: Real-time Reduced Large-Deformation Models and Distributed Contact for Computer Graphics and Haptics (pdf; 22 Mb), Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2007 (note: text improved (errata incorporated) in June 2009)
Doug L. James, Jernej Barbič, Christopher Twigg: Squashing Cubes: Automating Deformable Model Construction for Graphics, Sketches & Applications of SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Presentations (on my work and work of others) :

Project webpages have slides for my GI 2004, SIGGRAPH 2005, SIGGRAPH 2006, SCA 2007, SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, SIGGRAPH 2009, SIGGRAPH 2010, SIGGRAPH 2011, and SIGGRAPH 2012 papers.
Multi-core architectures (5 Mb; class lecture slides 15-213 Introduction to Computer Systems; I updated the slides in 2007)
Voxmap-pointshell algorithm for 6-DOF haptic rendering (2.5 Mb; CMU graphics lab seminar)
2D mesh generation, Delaunay triangulations, Ruppert's algorithm (3 Mb; overview presentation with some research results)

Demos and coding:

Vega FEM Library (a physics library for 3D deformable object simulation).
The rest of my code (including model reduction) is available here.
6-DoF haptic demo (SCA 2007 paper; large dynamic reduced deformations + collision detection + contact for complex geometry).
Real-time deformations demo ("StVK" SIGGRAPH 2005 paper; reduced geometrically nonlinear FEM).
Real-time sound demo ("PAT" SIGGRAPH 2006 paper).
How to compile, link and use ARPACK in Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio.
Motion capture player for ASF/AMC motion capture sequences from the CMU motion capture database.

About me:

My name is pronounced like 'Yerney Barbeach'. Jernej is the Slovenian equivalent of Bartholomew. Sanctus Bartolomaeus => Shem-Bertelemej => Shem-ernej => Jernej.
I was born in 1976 in Šempeter pri Gorici, Slovenia, EU (Yugoslavia at the time).
I spent my childhood in western Slovenia, near the border with Italy, and two hours away from Venice. My hometown is in the Alps, not far from the Adriatic Sea. Here is my favorite wild animal: capra ibex.
As an undergrad, I lived in Ljubljana (capital of Slovenia).
I then lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and Boston, Massachusetts, USA. I now live in Los Angeles, California.
I like sports. My favorite ones are (mountain) biking, swimming, running and triathlon.

I wrote a guide for new Carnegie Mellon students to help them settle into their life in Pittsburgh.
I wrote a guide on applying to grad school in US (in Slovenian): Kako uspeti pri prijavi na studij na ameriske univerze.
(for Slovenian readers, interested in US higher education) Analiza visokega solstva v ZDA in Sloveniji, s stalisca mladega profesorja na zacetku kariere.
(for Slovenian readers, interested in intellectual property and creativity) Ali so ustvarjalci dovolj nagrajeni za svoje delo? (esej)