My main academic interests are in computer science, especially computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning, and user interfaces. I also have a strong interest in physics, and in fact, my original field of study at Harvard was chemistry and physics (I switched to CS in my junior year). |
My current research area applies machine learning techniques to problems in computer vision and computer graphics. |
Though somewhat unrelated to my main fields of study, music also interests me greatly. I sing in the CMU Concert Choir, and I practice the violin and the piano whenever I can. (Alas, practice time becomes scarcer with each passing year, though.) I've also tried my hand at composing before, and from time to time, I still feel the itch to do more of it. |
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Jim Gemmell, Larry Zitnick, Thomas Kang, Kentaro Toyama, Steve Seitz, Gaze-awareness for Video Conferencing: A Software Approach, IEEE MultiMedia, Oct-Dec 2000, pp. 26-35. |
Thomas Kang, Jim Gemmell, Kentaro Toyama, Warp Tracker, Microsoft technical report MSR-TR-99-80, 1999. [www] |
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Geco Eagle, Schlumberger's state-of-the-art ocean floor survey vessel. [JPG, 34KB] |
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Light Galleries, a commercial 3D Studio Max plug-in implementation of Design Galleries applied to lighting configurations, marketed by Digimation and exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2000. [www] |
Thomas Kang, Joseph Marks, Joshua Seims, Stuart Shieber, System and Method for Exploring Light Spaces, U.S. patent 5,886,704, March, 1999. [www] |
Joe Marks, Brad Andalman, Paul Beardsley, William Freeman, Sarah Gibson, Jessica Hodgins, Tom Kang, Brian Mirtich, Hanspeter Pfister, Wheeler Ruml, Kathy Ryall, Josh Seims, Stuart Shieber, Design Galleries: A General Approach to Setting Parameters for Computer Graphics and Animation, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH, 1997. [gzipped Postscript, 1 MB] |
Tom Kang, Josh Seims, Joe Marks, Stuart Shieber, Exploring Lighting Spaces, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory technical report TR95-18, 1996. [gzipped Postscript, 700 KB] |
Designing a Semi-automated Light Specification System, Harvard senior thesis, 1996. [www] |
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Showoff, an image demonstrating some additional features of the raytracer. [JPG, 21KB] |
Grafish, the critically acclaimed surrealistic scene rendered by the raytracer. [www] |