My research and teaching are in computer graphics and vision, centered around how optics and mechanics determine the appearance of materials. I got my Ph.D. from Cornell in 1998, and held research positions at HP Laboratories, Microsoft Research, and Stanford University before I rejoined Cornell in 2002. I work part-time in the Real-Time Graphics Research group at NVIDIA Research.
Recent publications
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Self-calibrating gaussian splatting for large field of view reconstruction
Youming Deng, Wenqi Xian, Guandao Yang, Leonidas Guibas, Gordon Wetzstein, Steve Marschner, Paul Debevec
ICCV 2025
Quadric-based silhouette sampling for differentiable rendering
Mariia Soroka, Christoph Peters, Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH 2025
Accurate differential operators for hybrid neural fields
Aditya Chetan, Guandao Yang, Zichen Wang, Steve Marschner, Bharath Hariharan
CVPR 2025
Appearance modeling of iridescent feathers with diverse nanostructures
Yunchen Yu, Andrea Weidlich, Bruce Walter, Eugene d'Eon, Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
A simple approach to differentiable rendering of SDFs
Zichen Wang, Xi Deng, Ziyi Zhang, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
Selected publications
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A wave optics based fiber scattering model
Mengqi (Mandy) Xia, Bruce Walter, Eric Michielssen, David Bindel, and Steve Marschner.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
Manifold Exploration: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique for rendering scenes with difficult specular transport
Wenzel Jakob and Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH 2012
Simulating Knitted Cloth at the Yarn Level
Jonathan M. Kaldor, Doug L. James, and Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH 2008
Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers
Stephen R. Marschner, Henrik Wann Jensen, Mike Cammarano, Steve Worley, and
Pat Hanrahan
SIGGRAPH 2003
A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport
Henrik Wann Jensen, Stephen R. Marschner, Marc Levoy, and Pat Hanrahan
SIGGRAPH 2001
Awards
2004: NSF CAREER Award
2004: Technical Achievement Award, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Recent Teaching
CS5625: Interactive Computer Graphics, Spring 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020
CS4620: Introduction to Computer Graphics, Spring 2017, 2018; Fall 2018, 2019
CS6630: Realistic Image Synthesis, Fall 2015
Funding
National Science Foundation
Autodesk; Google; Adobe
Professional activities
Technical Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2015
Papers co-chair for EGSR 2008
SIGGRAPH papers committee 2018, 2017, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2002
CVPR program committee 2010, 2006, 2005, 2003
EGSR program committee 2011, 2009, 2007, 2006