Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Joined department in 2003
Education:
BS, Computer Science
Brown University (1991)
MS, Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993)
PhD, Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1999)
Dr. Aliaga joined the department in Fall 2003. His research activities are in the area of computer
graphics, in particular capturing and rendering large complex environments. Applications for his
research include telepresence, computer-aided design, and education. Dr. Aliaga's work into this
general problem overlaps with several fields, including:
- computer graphics
- computer vision
- robotics
- data compression
- system building
Over the years, Dr. Aliaga has developed and published several new algorithms for interactively
rendering massive geometrical models, recreating complex 3D environments, visibility culling,
reconstructing images, estimating camera pose, calibrating cameras, and compressing images. In
addition, he has designed several complete experimental research systems, in collaboration with
researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Princeton University, Johns Hopkins
University, and Bell Laboratories.
Selected Publications
Daniel Bekins and Daniel G. Aliaga, "Build-by-Number: Rearranging the Real World to Visualize Novel
Architectural Spaces", IEEE Visualization, October, 2005.
Daniel G. Aliaga and Ingrid Carlbom, "Build-by-Number: Finding Yourself: Fiducial Planning for
Error-Bounded Pose Estimation of a Panoramic Camera in Large Environments", Special Issue of IEEE
Robotics and Automation Magazine: Panoramic Robotics, December 2004.
Daniel G. Aliaga and Ingrid Carlbom, "Plenoptic Stitching: A Scalable Method for Reconstructing 3D
Interactive Walkthroughs", Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 443-450, 2001.
Funding Administered by Computer Science
Daniel Aliaga, Digital Inspection and Virtual Restoration of 3D Objects, Indiana University
School of Medicine, 2/1/2008-1/31/2009.
Daniel Aliaga, REU-MSPA-MCS: 3D Scene Digitization: A Novel Invariant Approach for Large-Scale
Environment Capture, National Science Foundation, 3/1/2006-7/31/2008.
Daniel Aliaga, Mireille Boutin, and Carl Cowen, MSPA-MCS: 3D Scene Digitization: A Novel
Invariant Approach for Large-Scale Environment Capture, National Science Foundation,
8/15/2004-7/31/2008.
