Professional Interests

Current Position

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1988.
• M.S., Computer Science, M.I.T., 1984.
• B.A., Artificial Intelligence (Independent Concentration), Princeton University, 1982.

Professional Honors and Awards

• Academy Award, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, 2005 for "pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures" with D. Baraff and A. Witkin.
• Golden Nica, Ars Electronica 1992 with A. Witkin for the image "Reaction Diffusion Texture Buttons," Linz, Austria.
• Grand Prix, Pixel INA, Imagina, 1991 for the animation "Splash Dance."
Marr Prize Honorable Mention for "Snakes: Active Contour Models," 1st International Conference on Computer Vision, London, 1987 with D. Terzopoulos and A. Witkin.
• Best paper in Perception-Vision, AAAI 1987 for "Energy Constraints on Deformable Models: Recovering Shape and Non-Rigid Motion," with D. Terzopoulos and A. Witkin.
• Nomination, Best paper prize, AAAI 1986 for "Linear Image Features in Stereopsis."

Publications

Siggraph publications:

1. M. Kass and J. Anderson, "Animating Oscillatory Motion With Overlap: Wiggly Splines," ACM Trans. Graph. 27(3): (2008).
2. David Baraff, A. Witkin and M. Kass, "Untangling cloth," ACM Trans. Graph. 22(3): 862-870 (2003).
3. T. DeRose, M. Kass and T. Truong, "Subdivision Surfaces in Character Animation," Siggraph 1998: 85-94.
4. N. Greene and M. Kass, "Error-bounded antialiased rendering of complex environments," Siggraph 1994: 59-66.
5. N. Greene, M. Kass and G. Miller, "Hierarchical Z-buffer visibility," Siggraph 1993: 231-238.
6. M. Halstead, M. Kass and T. DeRose, "Efficient, fair interpolation using Catmull-Clark surfaces," Siggraph 1993: 35-44.
7. M. Kass, "CONDOR: constraint-based dataflow," Siggraph 1992: 321-330.
8. A. Witkin and M. Kass, "Reaction-diffusion textures," Siggraph 1991: 299-308.
9. M. Kass, G. Miller, "Rapid, stable fluid dynamics for computer graphics," Siggraph 1990: 49-57.
10. A. Witkin, M. Kass, "Spacetime constraints," Siggraph 1988: 159-168.

Other Refereed Journals

1. M. Kass and A. P. Witkin and D. Terzopoulos, "Snakes: Active Contour Models," International Journal of Computer Vision, 1(4): 321-331, January 1988.
2. M. Kass, "Linear Image Features in Stereopsis," International Journal of Computer Vision, 1(4): 357-368, January 1988.
3. D. Terzopoulos, A. Witkin and M. Kass, ¡ÈConstraints on deformable models: Recovering 3d shape and nonrigid motion,¡É Artificial Intelligence, 35 1988.
4. A. P. Witkin, D. Terzopoulos and M. Kass, "Signal Matching Through Scale Space," International Journal of Computer Vision, 1(2): 133-144, 1987.
5. D. Terzopoulos, A. Witkin and M. Kass, "Symmetry-seeking models and 3D object reconstruction," International Journal of Computer Vision, 1(3): 211-221, 1987.
6. M. Kass and A. Witkin, "Analyzing oriented patterns," Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing 37(3): 362-385, 1987.

Refereed Conference Publications

1. M. Gleicher and M. Kass, "An interval refinement technique for surface intersection," Graphics Interface '92: 242-249, May 1992.
2. M. Kass, A. Witkin and D. Terzopoulos, "Snakes: Active Contour Models," International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), IEEE 1987: 259-268, London.
3. D. Terzopoulos, Andrew P. Witkin, M. Kass,"Energy Constraints on Deformable Models: Recovering Shape and Non-Rigid Motion," Proc. AAAI 1987: 755-760.
4. Andrew P. Witkin, D. Terzopoulos, M. Kass, "Signal Matching Through Scale Space," Proc. AAAI 1986: 714-719.
5. M. Kass, "Linear Image Features in Stereopsis," Proc. AAAI 1986: 707-713.
6. M. Kass, Andrew P. Witkin, "Analyzing Oriented Patterns," Proc. IJCAI 1985: 944-952.
7. M. Kass, "A Computational Framework for the Visual Correspondence Problem," Proc. IJCAI 1983: 1043-1045.

Book Chapters:

1. A. Witkin, M. Kass, D. Terzopoulos and Alan Barr, "Linking perception and graphics: modeling with dynamic constraints." In Images and Understanding, Barlow, H. and C. Blakemore and M. Weston-Smith, eds. Cambridge University Press, 1987.
2. M. Kass, "Computing visual correspondence," From Pixels to Predicates: 78-92, Ablex, 1986.

Other Conference Proceedings:

1. M. Kass, ¡ÈInverse Problems in Computer Graphics,¡É Creating and Animating the Virtual World (Computer Animation '92, Fourth Workshop on Computer Animation), Springer-Verlag Tokyo, May 1992.
2. David E. Breen, Jeffrey W. Eischen, M. Kass, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Maurizio Vecchione: ¡ÈCan we get there from here? Current challenges in cloth design, modeling and animation (panel).¡É Siggraph 1997: 437-439.
3. M. Kass: Height-field fluids for computer graphics. Winter Simulation Conference 1991: 1194-1198.
4. D. Terzopoulos, A. Witkin, and M. Kass. Symmetry-seeking elastic models in vision. Proc. ARVO 88, volume 29.

Patents

1. 7,355,600 Global intersection analysis for determining intersections of objects in computer animation
2. 6,970,171 Global intersection analysis for determining intesections of objects in computer animation
3. 6,489,960 Hybrid subdivision in computer graphics
4. 6,300,960 Realistic surface simulation in computer animation
5. 6,222,553 Hybrid subdivision in computer graphics
6. 6,037,949 Texture mapping and other uses of scalar fields on subdivision surfaces in computer graphics and animation
7. 5,600,763 Error-bounded antialiased rendering of complex scenes
8. 5,587,711 Method and system for reconstructing quantized signals
9. 5,579,455 Rendering of 3D scenes on a display using hierarchical z-buffer visibility
10. 4,745,550 Processing of oriented patterns