Contact Info
Wojciech Jarosz
Postdoctoral Researcher
Disney Research, Zürich
Walt Disney Studios Switzerland GmbH
Clausiusstrasse 49
Zürich, Switzerland CH-8092
phone: +41 44 632 92 84
email:
Latest News
- 2009.11.10 - Updated links to past SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia courses with course notes and videos. See publications.
- 2009.07.07 - I will be co-teaching Computer Graphics with Alexander Hornung at ETH in the Fall.
- 2009.06.02 - Our Scattering course has been accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2009. See the publications section.
- 2009.04.23 - Our Scattering course has been accepted to SIGGRAPH 2009. See the publications section.
- 2008.12.10 - Our paper on "Importance Sampling Spherical Harmonics" has been accepted to Eurographics 2009. See the publications section.
- 2008.12.20 - I've been invited to serve on the SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Sketches & Posters Committee.
- 2008.11.28 - I have accepted a position of Post-Doctoral Researcher at Disney Research, Zürich with Markus Gross.
- 2008.05.01 - Our Advanced Global Illumination Using Photon Mapping class has been accepted for SIGGRAPH 2008.
- 2008.03.29 - Two of our papers have been conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH 2008. See the publications section.
- 2007.11.27 - Our paper on "Radiance Caching for Participating Media." is accepted for publication at TOG 2008. See the publications section.
- 2007.10.16 - I've been invited to serve on the SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Sketches & Posters Committee.
Brief Bio
Since February 2009 I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Disney Research, Zürich — a joint venture between Walt Disney Studios and the Computer Graphics Laboratory at ETH Zürich. Before joining Disney Research, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Professor Henrik Wann Jensen in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego. In September 2008 I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science also at the University of California, San Diego, where I worked with Henrik Wann Jensen and Matthias Zwicker in the area of rendering. Prior to coming to UCSD, I completed my undergraduate work in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in May 2003, where I worked with John C. Hart and Michael Garland.
Research Interests
My current research interests are within high-quality rendering techniques, specifically global illumination and participating media, but also sampling and ray tracing. Key projects I have worked on have involved photon mapping, irradiance gradients, skin micro-structure generation, importance sampling BRDFs and environment maps, as well as software engineering of rendering systems. I have previously also worked in the area of complex implicit surface modeling in a team led by Prof. John C. Hart.
Hobbies
In my spare time I enjoy hiking, skiing, and photography. I also enjoy fiddling with 3D modeling and animation (mostly using Lightwave 3D) and working on my personal global illumination renderer.