1. Olga Sorkine Research interest: Computer Graphics
Geometric modeling – shape modeling, animation, expressive modeling
Image manipulation
color harmonization, tone mapping image warping, content-aware resizing

2. Some recent and ongoing projects
Editing and animating 3D shapes using intelligent curves
analyze a given 3D shape and extract some characteristic curves
manipulate curves (change shape, animate); the curves are aware of their mutual relationship and try to retain it
the surface of the shape follows the curves
Changing the aspect ratio of images and videos
resizing images/video by squeezing or stretching “uninteresting” areas
a global optimization process finds the local deformations that need to happen
naive resizing (bottom) squeezes the people; intelligent resizing squeezes the background