Assistant Professor David Luebke

"Computer science, like astronomy, is done mainly at night."

David Luebke
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Department of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Virginia
151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4740

Phone: (434) 924-1021
Fax: (434) 982-2214
Email: luebke@cs.virginia.edu
Office: 219 Olsson Hall, UVa

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Areas of Interest

Computer graphics

Biographical Sketch

avid Luebke received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina in 1998. He joined the University of Virginia faculty in fall 1998 as an Assistant Professor. Dave received the UVA ACM Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1998, the UVA Faculty Senate Teaching Initiative Award in 1999, the UVA University Teaching Fellowship in 2000, UVA Teaching + Technology Initiative Fellowship in 2001, the Department of Energy Early Career PI Award in 2002, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2001, and the ACM SIGGRAPH Test of Time Award in 2005.

Research

uebke's research focuses on the field of computer graphics, especially the problem of rendering very complex scenes at interactive rates. Though graphics hardware continues to improve, the complexity of the scenes we would like to render seems to grow even faster. Software techniques such as polygonal simplification and occlusion culling help reduce the complexity to manageable levels. Luebke's work has centered on dynamic and view-dependent approaches to these techniques. The driving application for this work has been massive model rendering, the interactive walkthrough and inspection of extremely complex CAD models such as buildings, submarines, satellites, and power plants. A topic of great interest to government and industry, the graphics, database, and memory management challenges of rendering massive CAD models provide an exciting real-world research problem.

Selected Publications

Level of Detail for 3D Graphics, David Luebke, Martin Reddy, Jonathan Cohen, Amitabh Varshney, Benjamin Watson, and Robert Huebner. Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, July 2002.
The Ultimate Display: Where Will All The Pixels Come From?, Ben Watson and David Luebke, IEEE Computer 38(8), August 2005.
All-Frequency Interactive Relighting of Translucent Objects with Single and Multiple Scattering, Rui Wang, John Tran, and David Luebke, ACM Transactions on Graphics 24(3) (SIGGRAPH 2005), August 2005, Los Angeles, CA.
View-Dependent Particles for Interactive Non-Photorealistic Rendering, Derek Cornish, Andrea Rowan, and David Luebke, Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2001, June 2001.
A Developer's Survey of Polygonal Simplification Algorithms, David Luebke, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, May 2001, pp. 24-35.

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