| Dates: | Wednesday, January 5 |
| Topic: | No Meeting |
| Papers: |
None. |
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| Dates: | Wednesday, January 12 |
| Topic: | Surface Sampling and Approximation |
| Papers: |
Provably Good Surface Sampling and Approximation, J. D. Boissonnat and S. Oudot. Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), 2003: 9-19. PDF file for this paper. An Effective Condition for Sampling Surfaces with Guarantees, J. D. Boissonnat and S. Oudot. Solid Modeling 2004. PDF file for a tech. report based on this paper. |
| Speakers: | Nikola Milosavljevic and An Nguyen |
| Dates: | Wednesday, January 19 |
| Topic: | Bounding Volumes for Spline Surfaces |
| Papers: |
Optimized Refinable Surface Enclosures, J. Peters and X. Wu. Computer Aided Geometric Design 18(9): 851-863, 2001. PDF file for this paper. Efficient One-Sided Linearization of Spline Geometry, J. Peters. IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces 2003: 297-319. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Stefan Funke and Daniel Russel |
| Dates: | Wednesday, January 26 |
| Topic: | Modeling with Point Cloud Data |
| Papers: |
Defining Point Set Surfaces, N. Amenta and Y. J. Kil. SIGGRAPH 2004: 264-270. PDF file for this paper. Comparing Point Clouds, F. Memoli and G. Sapiro. Eurographics Symposium of Geometry Processing, 2004: 33-42. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Nikola Milosavljevic and Aneesh Sharma |
| Dates: | Wednesday, February 2 |
| Topic: | Implicit Surface Modeling and Registration |
| Papers: | Multi-Level Partition of
Unity Implicits, Y. Ohtake, A. Belyaev, M. Alexa, G.
Turk, and H. P. Seidel. SIGGRAPH 2003: 463-470. PDF
file for this paper.
Geometry and Convergence Analysis of Algorithms for Registration of 3D Shapes, H. Pottmann, Q. X. Huang, Y. L. Yang, and S. M. Hu. Technical Report 117, Geometry Preprint Series, Technische U. Wien, June 2004. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: |
Mark Pauly and NielFred Picciotto |
| Date: | Wednesday, February 9 |
| Topic: | Critical Point Filters |
| Papers: |
Topology Hierarchy for Functions on
Triangulated Surfaces, P. T. Bremer, H. Edelsbrunner,
B. Hamann, and V. Pascucci. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graphics
10 (2004): 385-396. PDF
file for this paper. Unconstrained Automatic Image Matching Using Multiresolutional Critical Point Filters, Y. Shinagawa and T. Kunii. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 20(9): 994-1010 (1998). PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Yusu Wang |
| Date: | Wednesday, February 16 |
| Topic: | Detection of Filamentary Structures |
| Papers: |
Adaptive Multiscale Detection of Filamentary Structures Embedded in a Background of Uniform Random Points, E. Arias-Castro, D. Donoho, and X. Huo. Stanford Statistics Technical Report, 2003. PDF file for this paper. Connect-The-Dots: How Many Points Can a Regular Curve Pass Through?, E. Arias-Castro, D. Donoho, X. Huo, and C. Tovey. Stanford Statistics Technical Report, 2004. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Niloy Mitra and Danny Yang |
| Date: | Wednesday, February 23 |
| Topic: | Landmarks and their Uses |
| Papers: |
Sparse Multidimensional Scaling Using Landmark Points, V. de Silva and J. B. Tenenbaum. Stanford Mathematics Technical Report, 2004. PDF file for this paper. Triangulation and Embedding Using Small Sets of Beacons, J. Kleinberg, A. Slivkins, and T. Wexler. IEEE Foundations of Computer Science Conerence, 2004: 444-453. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Qing Fang and Emilio Antunez |
| Date: | Wednesday, March 2 |
| Topic: | Distributed Scheduling and Spectral Analysis |
| Papers: |
Auction Protocols for Decentralied Scheduling, M. P. Wellman and W. E. Welsh. Games and Economic Behavior, 35, 271-303 (2001). PDF file for this paper. A Decentralized Algorithm for Spectral Analysis, D. Kempe and F. McSherry. ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 2004: 561-568. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Primoz Skraba and Stefan Funke |
| Date: | Wednesday, March 9 |
| Topic: | Information Aggregation in Sensor Networks |
| Papers: |
Medians and Beyond: New Aggregation Techniques for Sensor Networks, N. Shrivastava, C. Buragohain, D. Agrawal, and S. Suri. ACM Embedded Networked Systems (SenSys) 2004: 239-249. PDF file for this paper. Synopsis Diffusion for Robust Aggragation in Sesnor Networks, S. Nath, P. B. Gibbons, S. Seshan, and Z. R. Anderson. ACM Embedded Networked Systems (SenSys) 2004: 250-262. PDF file for this paper. |
| Speakers: | Qing Fang and Primoz Skraba |