Paper Schedule
| Dates: | Wednesday, September 24 |
| Topic: | No meeting |
| Papers: |
None. |
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| Dates: | Wednesday, October 1 |
| Topic: | Point Cloud Geometry Representations |
| Papers: |
Surface Reconstruction from Unorganized Points, H. Hoppe, T. DeRose, T. Duchamp, J. McDonald, and W. Stuetzle. Computer Graphics (Siggraph), 26, pages 19-26, 1992. PDF file for this paper. Reconstruction and Representation of 3D Objects with Radial Basis Functions, J. C. Carr, R. K. Beatson, J. B. Cherrie, T. J. Mitchell, W. R. Fright, B. C. McCallum, and T. R. Evans. Computer Graphics (Siggraph), pages 67-76, 2001. PDF file for this paper. Statistical Point Geometry, A. Kalahia and A. Varshney. Symp. Geometry Processing, pages 107-115, 2003. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Mark Pauly (Slides) |
| Dates: | Wednesday, October 8 |
| Topic: | Meshless Surfaces |
| Papers: |
Mesh-Independent Surface Interpolation, D. Levin. To appear in Geometric Modeling for Scientific Visualization. Edited by Brunnett, Hamann and Mueller, Springer-Verlag, 2003. PDF file for this paper. Point Set Surfaces, M. Alexa, J. Behr, D. Cohen-Or, S. Fleishman, D. Levin, and C. T. Silva. Proc. IEEE Visualization Conf., pages 21-28, 2001. PDF file for this paper. Meshless Parametrization and Surface Reconstruction, M. S. Floater and M. Reimers. Computer-Aided Geometric Design, 18, pages 77-92, 2001. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Niloy Mitra (Slides), An Nguyen (Slides) |
| Dates: | Wednesday, October 15 |
| Topic: | Voronoi-Based Algorithms |
| Papers: |
A New Voronoi-Based Surface Reconstruction Algorithm, N. Amenta, M. Bern, and M. Kamvysselis. Computer Graphics (Siggraph), pages 415-421, 1998. PDF file for this paper. Surface Reconstruction by Voronoi Filtering, N. Amenta and M. Bern. Discr. Computational Geometry, 22, pages 481-504, 1999. PDF file for this paper. Detecting Undersampling in Surface Reconstruction, T. K. Dey and J. Giesen. Proc. 17th ACM Symp. Comput. Geometry (SoCG), pages 257-263, 2001. PDF file for this paper. Shape Dimension and Approximation from Samples, T. K. Dey, J. Giesen, S. Goswami, and W. Zhao. Proc. 13th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), pages 772-780, 2002. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Daniel Russel (Slides), Deepak Tolani (Slides) |
| Dates: | Wednesday, October 22 |
| Topic: | Distance Functions |
| Papers: | Geometry of the Squared
Distance Function to Curves and Surfaces, H. Pottmann,
M. Hofer. In Hege, H.-C. and Polthier, K., eds., Visualization and Mathematics III, Springer Verlag, pages 223-244, 2003. PDF file for this paper. The d2-Tree: A Hierarchical Representation of the Squared Distance Function, H. Pottmann, S. Leopoldseder, and H. Zhao. Manuscript, 2003. PDF file for this paper. Registration without ICP, H. Pottmann, S. Leopoldseder, and M. Hofer. Tech. Report Nr. 91, Institute of Geometry, Vienna University of Technology, 2003. PDF file for this paper. A Fast Sweeping Method for Eikonal Equations, H. Zhao. Manuscript, 2003. PDF file for this paper. |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 29 |
| Topic: | Sampled Distance Fields |
| Papers: |
Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields: A General Representation of Shape for Computer Graphics, S. F. Frisken, R. N. Perry, A. P. Rockwood, and T. R. Jones. Computer Graphics (Siggraph), pages 249-254, 2000. PDF file for this paper. A Complete Distance Field Representation, J. Huang, Y. Li, S-C. Lu, and S-Y Liou. Manuscript, 2003. PDF file for this paper. Hybrid Distance Field Computation, R. Satherley and M. W. Jones. In K. Mueller and A. Kaufman (eds.), Volume Graphics 2001, Springer Verlag, pages 195-209, 2001. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Natasha Gelfand, Danny Yang |
| Date: | Wednesday, November 5 |
| Topic: | The Flow Complex |
| Papers: | The Flow Complex: A Data
Structure for Geometric Modeling, J. Giesen and M. John.
Proc. 14th ACM-SIAM Symp. Discrete Algorithms (SODA), pages
285-294. 2003. PDF file for this paper. Computing the Weighted Flow Complex, J. Giesen and M. John. Proc. 8th Int. Fall Workshop Vision Modeling, and Visualization (VMV), 2003 (to appear). PDF file for this paper. Surface Reconstruction Based on a Dynamical System, J. Giesen. Proc. 23rd Eurographics Symp., Computer Graphics Forum, 21, pages 363-371, 2002. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Anthony Man Cho So, Feng Xie |
| Date: | Wednesday, November 12 |
| Topic: | Feature Estimation on Point Clouds |
| Papers: |
Estimating Surface Normals in Noisy Point Cloud Data, N. Mitra, A. Nguyen, L. Guibas. Proc. 19th ACM Symp. Comput. Geometry (SoCG), pages 322-328, 2003. PDF file for this paper. Estimating Differential Quantities Using Polynomial Fitting of Osculating Jets, F. Cazals and M. Pouget. Symp. Geometry Processing, pages 177-187, 2003. PDF file for this paper. Restricted Delaunay Triangulations and Normal Cycle, D. Cohen-Steiner and J-M Morvan,. Proc. 19th ACM Symp. Comput. Geometry (SoCG), pages 312-321, 2003. PDF file for this paper. Feature Extraction from Point Clouds, S. Gumhold, X. Wang, and R. MacLeod. Proc. 10th Int. Meshing Roundtable, pages 293-305, 2001. PDF file for this paper. Multi-Scale Feature Extraction on Point-Sampled Surfaces, M. Pauly, R. Keiser, M. Gross. Proc. 24th Eurographics Symp., Computer Graphics Forum, 23, 2003. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Yichi Gu, Inam-Ur-Rahman Malik, Patrick Perry |
| Date: | Wednesday, November 19 |
| Topic: | Simplification and Manipulation of Point Clouds |
| Papers: |
Efficient Simplification of Point-Sampled Surfaces, M. Pauly, M. Gross, and L. P. Kobbelt. Proc. 13th IEEE Visualization Conf. (VIS), pages 163-170, 2002. PDF file for this paper. Shape-Modeling with Point-Sampled Geometry,
M. Pauly, R. Keiser, L. P. Kobbelt, and M. Gross. ACM Trans.
Graphics (Siggraph), 22, pages 641-650, 2003. PDF file for this paper. Approximating and Intersecting Surfaces
from Points, A. Adamson and M. Alexa. Symp. Geometry
Processing, pages 177-187, 2003. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Chand John, Kjell Reutersward, Jaewon Shin |
| Date: | Wednesday, November 26 |
| Topic: | Approximate Voronoi Diagrams |
| Papers: |
Linear-Size Approximate Voronoi Diagrams, S. Arya and T. Malamatos. Proc. 13th ACM-SIAM Symp. Discr. Algorithms (SODA), pages 147-155, 2002. PDF file for this paper. Space-Efficient Approximate Voronoi Diagrams, S. Arya, T. Malamatos, and D. M. Mount. Proc. 34th ACM Symp. on Theory of Computing (STOC), pages 721-730, 2002. PDF file for this paper. A Replacement for Voronoi Diagrams of Near-Linear Size, S. Har-Peled. IEEE Symp. Foundations Comp. Sc. (FOCS), pages 94-103, 2001. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Rachael Kolodny, An Zhu |
| Date: | Wednesday, December 3 |
| Topic: | Morse Functions and Molecules |
| Papers: |
Molecular Surfaces: A Review, M. Connolly. Network Science, 1996. Link to the web site for this paper. On the Definition ad Construction of Pockets in Macromolecules, H. Edelsbrunner, M. Facello, and J. Liang. Discrete Appl. Math, 88, pages 83-102, 1998. PDF file for this paper. Molecular Shape Analysis Based upon the Morse-Smale Complex and the Connolly Function, F. Cazals, F. Chazal, and T. Lewiner. Proc. 19th ACM Symp. Computational Geometry (SoCG), pages 351-360, 2003. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Qing Fang, Jie Gao |