Richard (Rick) Skarbez

Graduate Student, Instructor, and Research Assistant

Department of Computer Science
Sitterson Hall 361
3175 University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-3175
United States

Phone: (919) 843-7435

Email: lastname at cs dot unc dot edu

Resume: pdf

Research Interests

My primary research interest is the development and evaluation of interaction techniques in collaborative applications, particularly those involving non-traditional computing devices, including personal and mobile computing devices as well as large-scale shared collaboration spaces. (i.e. display walls, domes, CAVE's, RENCI's Social Computing Room) In particular, I am interested in exploring how new devices can enable new collaborative applications, and how combining multiple classes of devices in a single application can improve usability and performance.

Other research interests and areas of prior work include multi-projector display systems (especially calibration techniques for such systems) (see UNC's Wide Area Visuals group), programming language development, and command and control of semi-autonomous device networks.

Teaching

• COMP 575 - Introduction to Computer Graphics, Fall 2007 (Instructor) link
• COMP 872 - Exploring Virtual Worlds, Fall 2006 (TA for Prof. Fuchs) link

Classes

• COMP 202 - Algorithmic Analysis (Prof. Anderson, Fall 2005)
• COMP 206 - Computer Architecture (Prof. Singh, Fall 2005)
• COMP 235 - Images, Graphics, and Vision (Prof. Pizer, Fall 2005)
• COMP 254 - Image Processing and Analysis (Prof. Gerig, Spring 2006)
• COMP 256 - Computer Vision of our 3D World (Prof. Pollefeys, Spring 2006)
• COMP 322 - Professional Practice (Prof. Brooks, Spring 2006)
• COMP 870 - Advanced Image Synthesis (Prof. Lastra, Fall 2006)
• COMP 872 - Exploring Virtual Worlds (Prof. Fuchs, Fall 2006)
• MATH 661 - Scientific Computation I (Prof. Adalsteinsson, Fall 2006)
• COMP 715 - Visualization in Science (Prof. Taylor, Spring 2007)
• COMP 790 - Topics in Computer Science -- Data Mining (Prof. Lin, Spring 2006)
• COMP 915 - Technical Communication (Profs. Brooks and Weiss, Spring 2006)
• COMP 790 - Topics in Computer Science -- Graphics Hardware (Prof. Lastra, Fall 2007)
• COMP 918 - Research Administration for Scientists (Prof. Quigg, Fall 2008)

Publications

• Richard Skarbez and Mary Whitton (2009). Enabling Distributed Collaboration among Heterogeneous Devices. ACM CHI 2009 Workshop on the Changing Face of Digital Science, Boston MA. (link)
• Tyler Johnson, Florian Gyarfas, Richard Skarbez, Herman Towles, and Henry Fuchs. A Personal Surround Environment: Projective Display with Correction for Display Surface Geometry and Extreme Lens Distortion. (2007) IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, Charlotte NC. (link)
• Tyler Johnson, Florian Gyarfas, Rick Skarbez, Patrick Quirk, Herman Towles, and Henry Fuchs. (2006) Multi-Projector Image Correction on the GPU. Workshop on Edge Computing, Chapel Hill NC. (link)
• Patrick Quirk, Tyler Johnson, Rick Skarbez, Herman Towles, Florian Gyarfas, and Henry Fuchs. (2006) RANSAC-Assisted Display Model Reconstruction for Projective Display. IEEE VR 2006 Workshop on Emerging Display Technologies, Alexandria VA. pp 26-29. (link)
• Mendel Schmiedekamp, Richard Skarbez, Shashi Phoha. (2006) Formal Methods for Verification and Validation of Distributed Interacting Devices. 10th Annual IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering Applications, Dallas TX.
• Richard Skarbez. (2004) A Presentation of the Semantics and Formal Properties of C3L, an Event-driven Distributed Control Language. Honors thesis, The Pennsylvania State University. (link)