About me

I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. My research interests are in computer vision and computer graphics, and in particular in recovering 3D structure from large community photo collections for use in graphics and visualization.

Teaching, Spring 2012: CS1114: Intro to Computing using Matlab and Robotics 
Office hours: 1:30-3pm Thursdays

News

TR35 AwardOct. 15
CVPR 2011 Best Paper Runner-upJune 23
New SfM Code and DataJune 20
Microsoft New Faculty FellowshipMay 20
ACM Thesis Honorable MentionJune 2010

Code

Structure from motion: Code and executables for my structure from motion system are online at the Bundler homepage.

Projects

Discrete-Continuous Optimization for
          Large-Scale Structure from Motion Discrete-Continuous Optimization for Large-Scale Structure from Motion
David Crandall, Andrew Owens, Noah Snavely, and Dan Huttenlocher
CVPR 2011, Best paper award runner-up
dualrough Estimating Dual-scale Properties of Glossy Surfaces from Step-edge Lighting
Chun-Po Wang, Noah Snavely, and Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH Asia 2011
Where's Waldo Where's Waldo: Matching People in Images of Crowds
Rahul Garg, Deva Ramanan Steven M. Seitz, and Noah Snavely
CVPR 2011
PhotoCity PhotoCity: Training Experts at Large-Scale Image Acquisition through a Competitive Game
Kathleen Tuite, Noah Snavely, Dun-Yu Hsaio, Nadine Tabing, and Zoran Popovic
CHI 2011
Location Recognition using
          Prioritized Feature Matching Location Recognition using Prioritized Feature Matching
Yunpeng Li, Noah Snavely, Daniel P. Huttenlocher
ECCV 2010
Bundle Adjustment in the Large Bundle Adjustment in the Large
Sameer Agarwal, Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, and Richard Szeliski
ECCV 2010
Building Rome in a Day Building Rome in a Day
Sameer Agarwal, Noah Snavely, Ian Simon, Steven M. Seitz, and Richard Szeliski
ICCV 2009
The Dimensionality of Scene Appearance The Dimensionality of Scene Appearance
Rahul Garg, Hao Du, Steven M. Seitz, and Noah Snavely
ICCV 2009
Finding Paths Through the World's Photos Finding Paths through the World's Photos
Noah Snavely, Rahul Garg, Steven M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski
SIGGRAPH 2008
Skeletal sets for efficient
                                  structure from motion Skeletal Sets for Efficient Structure from Motion
Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, and Richard Szeliski
CVPR 2008
Photo Tourism Photo Tourism: Exploring image collections in 3D
Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski
SIGGRAPH 2006
Scene summarization for online image
                                  collections Scene Summarization for Online Image Collections
Ian Simon, Noah Snavely, and Steven M. Seitz
ICCV 2007
Multi-view stereo for community photo collections Multi-View Stereo for Community Photo Collections
Michael Goesele, Noah Snavely, Brian Curless, Steven M. Seitz, Hugues Hoppe
ICCV 2007
Stylizing 2.5D video Stylizing 2.5D Video
Noah Snavely, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Sing Bing Kang, Michael Cohen
Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR) 2006
Spacetime Faces Spacetime Faces
Li Zhang, Noah Snavely, Brian Curless, and Steve Seitz
SIGGRAPH 2004
SOLAR project Itanium Binary Optimization and Reverse-Engineering
with Saumya Debray and Greg Andrews
Visit the SOLAR page at the University of Arizona

Selected Publications

(see a full list of publications)

Thesis

  • Noah Snavely. "Scene Reconstruction and Visualization from Internet Photo Collections." Doctoral thesis, University of Washington, 2008. [pdf]

Structure from motion and community photo collections

Visualization and interaction

Other work in vision and graphics


Handy shell tools.