Steve Bako
Scholar

Steve Bako

Google Scholar ID: gsv5xicAAAAJ
Aurora Innovation
Computer GraphicsComputational PhotographyMachine Learning
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Citations
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Publications
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Deep Appearance Prefiltering, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 42, No. 2, August 2023 (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2023)
  • Offline Deep Importance Sampling for Monte Carlo Path Tracing, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 38, No. 7, Oct 2019 (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2019)
  • Kernel-Predicting Convolutional Networks for Denoising Monte Carlo Renderings, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 36, No. 4, July 2017 (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2017)
  • Removing Shadows from Images of Documents, Proceedings of ACCV 2016
  • A Machine Learning Approach for Filtering Monte Carlo Noise, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 34, No. 4, August 2015 (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2015)
Research Experience
  • Working at UCSB MIRAGE Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Education
  • Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, supervised by Dr. Pradeep Sen.
Background
  • Main research interests include computer graphics, computational photography, and machine learning. Specifically, working on denoising Monte Carlo rendered images using neural networks.
Miscellany
  • Contact: stevebako [at] umail.ucsb.edu