Sharon Lin

sharonl (at) cs (dot) stanford, CV/Resume

I graduated from the the Computer Science PhD program (2014) at Stanford, where I was advised by Pat Hanrahan. I did my undergrad at the University of Washington. My interests lie in computer graphics, visualization, and human-computer interaction. I'm particularly interested in computer-aided graphic design tools. Currently, I am working at Zazzle as a research engineer.

Publications

Generating Design Suggestions under Tight Constraints with Gradient-based Probabilistic Programming
Daniel Ritchie, Sharon Lin, Noah Goodman, Pat Hanrahan
Eurographics 2015, Best Paper Honorable Mention
[paper][project site] [bibtex] 
@inproceedings{2015-generating-design-suggestions,
  title={Generating Design Suggestions under Tight Constraints with Gradient-based Probabilistic Programming},
  author={Ritchie, Daniel and Lin, Sharon and Goodman, Noah D and Hanrahan, Pat},
  booktitle={Computer Graphics Forum},
  volume={34},
  number={2},
  pages={515--526},
  year={2015},
  organization={Wiley Online Library}
}
Probabilistic Color-by-Numbers: Suggesting Pattern Colorizations Using Factor Graphs
Sharon Lin, Daniel Ritchie, Matthew Fisher, Pat Hanrahan
SIGGRAPH 2013
[paper][project site] [bibtex] 
@inproceedings{2013-patternColoring, 
	title = {Probabilistic Color-by-Numbers: Suggesting Pattern Colorizations Using Factor Graphs}, 
	author = {Sharon Lin AND Daniel Ritchie AND Matthew Fisher AND Pat Hanrahan}, 
	booktitle = {ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Papers}, 
	year = {2013}
}
Selecting Semantically-Resonant Colors for Data Visualization
Sharon Lin, Julie Fortuna, Chinmay Kulkarni, Maureen Stone, Jeffrey Heer
EuroVis 2013, Best Paper Award
[paper] [bibtex] 
@article{2013-semantically-resonant-colors,
  title = {Selecting Semantically-Resonant Colors for Data Visualization},
  author = {Sharon Lin AND Julie Fortuna AND Chinmay Kulkarni AND Maureen Stone AND Jeffrey Heer},
  journal = {Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis)},
  year = {2013}
}
[code]
Modeling How People Extract Color Themes from Images
Sharon Lin, Pat Hanrahan
CHI 2013, Best Paper Honorable Mention
[paper] [bibtex] 
@inproceedings{2013-color-themes,
  title = {Modeling How People Extract Color Themes from Images},
  author = {Sharon Lin AND Pat Hanrahan},
  booktitle = {ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)},
  year = {2013}
}
[dataset]
Dataset 1 - is available with images and color themes from Turk and art students. Dataset 2 has some copyright restrictions with the images, so isn't available.
[code] [errata]
Changes from ACM version:
  • Bug in code fixed, which overestimated reference theme agreement (Turk and art student) with each other. Graphs and tables have been updated. Art student themes are not noticeably more consistent with each other than Turk themes. This does not affect the main findings of the paper [August 30, 2013]
Using Text N-Grams for Model Suggestions in 3D Scenes
Laureen Lam, Sharon Lin, Pat Hanrahan
SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Briefs 2012
[paper] [bibtex] 
@inproceedings{2012-ngrams-model-suggestion,
 title = {Using Text N-grams for Model Suggestions in 3D Scenes},
 author = {Laureen Lam AND Sharon Lin AND Pat Hanrahan},
 booktitle = {SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Technical Briefs},
 year = {2012}
}
An Extension of Wilkinson’s Algorithm for Positioning Tick Labels on Axes
Justin Talbot, Sharon Lin, Pat Hanrahan
InfoVis 2010
[paper] [bibtex] 
@article{2010-tick-labels,
  title = {An Extension of Wilkinson’s Algorithm for Positioning Tick Labels on Axes},
  author = {Justin Talbot AND Sharon Lin AND Pat Hanrahan},
  journal = {IEEE Trans. Visualization \& Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis)},
  year = {2010}
}
Experiences with Content Extraction from the Web
Mira Dontcheva, Sharon Lin, Steven Drucker, David Salesin, Michael Cohen
SIGCHI Workshop on Semantic Web User Interactions: Exploring HCI Challenges 2008
The Interactive Aquarium: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Interactive Interfaces in an Aquarium Visit
Sharon Lin
The Journal of Young Investigators 2007

Technical Reports

LayerBuilder: Layer Decomposition for Interactive Image and Video Color Editing
Sharon Lin, Matthew Fisher, Angela Dai, Pat Hanrahan
arXiv 2017
[paper][arXiv site] [bibtex] 
    @article{2017-layerbuilder,
      title={LayerBuilder: Layer Decomposition for Interactive Image and Video Color Editing},
      author={Lin, Sharon and Fisher, Matthew and Dai, Angela and Hanrahan, Pat},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.03754v2},
      year={2017}
    }

Fun

Rules of the Game

 is an animated short I made with Andrew Gawronski in CS458, one of the courses in the University of Washington's Animation Capstone series.