Publications by Cheryl Shaulya Lau

Design Transformations for Rule-based Procedural Modeling

Mark Pauly, Stefan Lienhard, Cheryl Shaulya Lau

We introduce design transformations for rule-based procedural models, e.g., for buildings and plants. Given two or more procedural designs, each specified by a grammar, a design transformation combines elements of the existing designs to generate new desig ...

2017

Modeling the Importance of Faces in Natural Images

Sabine Süsstrunk, Appu Shaji, Cheryl Shaulya Lau, Gökhan Yildirim, Bin Jin

In this work we study the varying importance of faces in images. Face importance is found to be affected by the size and number of faces present. We collected a dataset of 152 face images with faces in different size and number of faces. We conducted a cro ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

An Interactive Tool for Gamut Masking

Sabine Süsstrunk, Cheryl Shaulya Lau, Ying Song

Artists often want to change the colors of an image to achieve a particular aesthetic goal. For example, they might limit colors to a warm or cool color scheme to create an image with a certain mood or feeling. Gamut masking is a technique that artists use ...

2014

Creating Personalized Jigsaw Puzzles

Sabine Süsstrunk, Appu Shaji, Zahra Sadeghipoor Kermani, Yuliy Gennadievich Schwartzburg, Cheryl Shaulya Lau

Designing aesthetically pleasing and challenging jigsaw puzzles is considered an art that requires considerable skill and expertise. We propose a tool that allows novice users to create customized jigsaw puzzles based on the image content and a user-define ...

2014