Brian Barsky

Research Interests

Vision-realistic rendering, computer aided cornea modeling and visualization; OPTICAL: optics and topography involving the cornea and lens; medical imaging; virtual environments for surgical simulation; medical visualization.

Research Summary

OPTICAL is an acronym for OPtics Topography Involving Cornea and Lens. This research is a collaborative effort between the Computer Science Division and the School of Optometry at Berkeley.The project is studying the cornea , the front part of the eye that is responsible for three quarters of the light refraction in the eye. Visual sorrection through contact lenses or recently developed corneal surgeries require precise information about the shape of the cornea. Through the use of geometric modeling and scientific visualization, this project is developing sophisticated techniques to provide improved shape representations of patients' corneas.

Selected Publications

Halsread, Mark A.; Barsky, Brain, A: Klein, Stanley A.; and Mandell, Robert B., "Reconstructing Curved Surfaces From Speccular Patterns Using Spline Surface Fitting of Normals", ACM/SIGGRAPH '96, New Orleans, 4-9 August 1996, pp. 335-342

Garcia, Daniel D. and Barsky, Brian A., "The OPTICAL Project at UC Berkeley: Computer Aided Cornea Modeling and Visualization, Video in the Electronic Theatre, ACM/SIGGRAPH '96, New Orleans, 4-9 August 1996. Nominated for an Award in the Research category at the London Effects & Animation Festival, 19-21 November 1996. Being shown in a self-repeating videotape in a theater at Fujita Corporation, Tokyo.