Aaron Hertzmann Principal Scientist, Adobe Research San Francisco, CA ACM Fellow (About), IEEE Fellow Affiliate Professor, University of Washington Editor-in-Chief, FnTCG&V aaron.hertzmann at gmail

SIGGRAPH Award Talk: My journey in art and computing [Text/links]

• Generative Models for the Psychology of Art in Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2024 [Preprint] [Paper]
• Toward a Theory of Perspective in Journal of Vision, 2024 [Paper] [Short version] [Webpage] [Talk]
• Art and the Science of Generative AI in Science, 2023 [Paper] [Whitepaper]
• The Choices Hidden in Photography in Journal of Vision, 2022 [Paper]
• Why Does Line Drawing Work? in Perception, 2020, 2021 [Papers/Blog]
• Can Computers Create Art? in Arts, 2018 [Paper] [Talk]
• Indeterminate Aesthetics to appear in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts [Paper] [Preprint]

• ConTesse: Smooth Occluding Contours in ACM TOG, 2023
• Algebraic Smooth Occluding Contours at SIGGRAPH 2023
• New Insights in Occluding Contours in IEEE CG&A, 2024
• Region-based line drawing simplification at EG 2024
• Attribution for text-to-image at NeurIPS 2025

• Toward Better User Studies in FnTCG&V, 2023 [Preprint]
• The Curse of Performative User Studies in IEEE CG&A, 2023
• Benchmark Suites for AI Fairness in Patterns, 2024

Publications (by Area, Google Scholar)
Blog on art, computing, and academia
Talks on YouTube
Art (Paintings on Instagram)
CV

Old links: Teaching, Students, Software, Advice for Students