Modeling 3D Meshes with Planar Faces

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              ***Joint Seminar***
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The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
HKUST Center of Visual Computing and Image Science
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Speaker:        Professor Craig GOTSMAN
                Computer Science Department
                Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Title:          "Modeling 3D Meshes with Planar Faces"

Date:           Monday, 5 March 2012

Time:           2:00pm - 3:00pm

Venue:          Room 1511 (near lifts 27/28), HKUST

Abstract:

Polyhedral meshes - those having planar faces - are very important in
architectural and industrial design, but also notoriously difficult to
generate in interactive 3D modeling systems. We describe an interactive
system for producing and editing polyhedral meshes based on a control mesh
paradigm. The interactivity is achieved thanks to a novel numerical
procedure capable of solving the relevant optimization problem very
efficiently, even for large data sets.


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Biography:

Craig Gotsman is the Hewlett-Packard Professor of Computer Engineering at
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He works in
computer graphics, geometric modeling and animation, and is a co-founder
of the Technion Center for Graphics and Geometric Computing (CGGC), which
houses four faculty and dozens of graduate students.

Prof. Gotsman has published over 150 papers in the professional literature
and has been awarded five US patents. He has been awarded a number of best
paper awards, and has served on the Editorial Boards of ACM Transactions
on Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, The
Visual Computer and Computer-Aided Geometric Design. He is also a frequent
member of the leading graphics and geometry conference program committees
(e.g. SIGGRAPH, Eurographics) and a frequent invited speaker at these
conferences.

During 2003-2005, Gotsman was a visiting professor at Harvard University's
computer science department and research scientist at MIT's CSAIL. During
the summer of 2006 he was a visiting professor at INRIA Sophia Antipolis
in France. During 2010, he was a visiting professor at ETH Zurich, while
also working closely with the new Disney Research lab located on the ETH
campus.