He is a UC Berkeley Presidential Chair Fellow, a Warren and Marjorie Minner Faculty Fellow in Engineering Ethics and Professional/Social Responsibility, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker. He is a UC Berkeley Presidential Chair Fellow, a Warren and Marjorie Minner Faculty Fellow in Engineering Ethics and Professional/Social Responsibility, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Barsky was a visiting professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, in the Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia in the Faculty of Information Technology at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, in the Machine Vision and Pattern Recognition Laboratory at the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland, at the Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL) of l'Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (USTL), at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong, at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, in the Modélisation Géométrique et Infographie Interactive group at l'Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes and l'Ecole Centrale de Nantes, in Nantes, at the University of Toronto, at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore, at the Laboratoire Image of l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, and he was a visiting researcher with the Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing Group at the Sentralinsitutt for Industriell Forskning (Central Institute for Industrial Research) in Oslo.
Barsky won an IBM Faculty Development Award and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (F.A.A.O.)
He is a co-author or author of several books: An Introduction to Splines for Use in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling,[1]Making Them Move: Mechanics, Control, and Animation of Articulated Figures,[2] and Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling Using Beta-splines.[3] See List of books in computational geometry.
He was the Technical Program Committee Chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH '85 conference held in San Francisco on July 22-26, 1985 and Program Co-chair of Pacific Graphics 2000 held in Hong Kong on October 3–5, 2000.
He was the Technical Program Committee Chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH '85 conference held in San Francisco on July 22-26, 1985 and Program Co-chair of Pacific Graphics 2000 held in Hong Kong on October 3–5, 2000.
He introduced vision-realistic rendering[12] to simulate human vision based on ocular measurements of an individual. Using these measurements, synthetics images are generated. This process modifies input images to simulate the appearance of the scene for the individual.
That work led to an investigation with Fu-Chung Huang[13][14] of how to display images to compensate for the specific optical aberrations of the viewer, resulting in vision-correcting displays. Given the measurements of the optical aberrations of a user’s eye, a vision correcting display produces a transformed image that when viewed by this individual will appear in sharp focus. This could impact computer monitors, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones. Vision correction could be provided in some cases where eyeglasses are ineffective. This research was selected by Scientific American as one of 2014's ten annual "World Changing Ideas.”
^Bartels, Richard H. Barsky, Brian A. Beatty, John C. (2006). An introduction to splines for use in computer graphics and geometric modeling. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN1-55860-400-6. OCLC695822066.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Badler, Norman I., editor. Barsky, Brian A., editor. Zeltzer, David, editor. (August 1990). Making them move : mechanics, control, and animation of articulated figures. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN978-1-136-11062-7. OCLC1003855251. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Brian A. Barsky and Tony D. DeRose, Geometric Continuity of Parametric Curves, Technical Report No. UCB/CSD 84/205, Computer Science Division, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, October, 1984.
^DeRose, Tony D.; Barsky, Brian A. (1985), "An Intuitive Approach to Geometric Continuity for Parametric Curves and Surfaces", Computer-Generated Images, Tokyo: Springer Japan, pp. 159–175, doi:10.1007/978-4-431-68033-8_15, ISBN978-4-431-68035-2
^Barsky, Brian A., 1954- (1988). Three characterizations of geometric continuity for parametric curves. University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science Division. OCLC18666153.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Barsky, Brian A. (2004). "Vision-realistic rendering". Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. p. 73. doi:10.1145/1012551.1012564. ISBN1-58113-914-4. S2CID7588826.
^Huang, Fu-Chung; Barsky, Brian A. (2011). "A Framework for Aberration Compensated Displays". Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2011-162, Computer Science Division, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
^KLEIN, STANLEY A.; BARSKY, BRIAN A. (November 1995). "Method for Generating the Anterior Surface of an Aberration-Free Contact Lens for an Arbitrary Posterior Surface". Optometry and Vision Science. 72 (11): 816–820. doi:10.1097/00006324-199511000-00007. ISSN1040-5488. PMID8587770.
