News:
- [new] January 19, 2012: Our five-year NSERC CRD project in collaboration
with Object Raku Technology is starting officially this January. Raku specializes
in LIDAR data processing and analysis technologies. The project is on LIDAR data feature extraction and receives funding
from NSERC and Raku in the amount of $300,000 over five years.
- [new] January 15, 2012: Eric and Kevin, who visited the group
for two years each, have both become Assistant Professors in the National University of Defense Technologies, China.
Kevin also won a Best Thesis Award in his university on "Semantics-Driven 3D Shape Analysis and Modeling".
- [new] December 19, 2011: PPT slides
for two courses I gave at SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 in Hong Kong
are available from the right column: one on "Towards High-Level Geometry Processing" as part of the course on
"Elements of Geometry Processing" with Bruno Levy and one on
"Towards the First SIGGRAPH Paper" as part of the course on "How to Write a SIGGRAPH Paper".
- [new] December 16, 2011: Congrats to
Ibraheem on having his first paper accepted (to the Visual
Computer). See video and paper.
- [new] November 30, 2011:
Oliver van Kaick successfully defended his
Ph.D. thesis on "Matching Dissimilar Shapes". Congrats, Dr. van Kaick!
- [new] November 17, 2011:
Amy Li will start an MITACS Accelerate Internship with PDFTron on
intelligent PDF analysis and navigation.
- [new] October 31, 2011:
Eric concludes his visit at the
GrUVi lab and is returning to China. It was nice having you here to work with us!
- September 20, 2011:
Two of our papers "Unsupervised Co-Segmentation of a Set of Shapes via
Descriptor-Space Spectral Clustering" and "Structure-Preserving Retargeting of Irregular 3D
Architecture" have been accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2011. Online versions of
the papers are now available.
- August 23, 2011: I co-organized a five-day Banff
Workshop on "Geometry for Anatomy", August 28 - September 2. See
my talk on symmetry analysis for
shape processing (18 MB).
- August 17, 2011:
Check out some animation pieces submitted
for the final project of CMPT 466 (Computer Animation)
- August 16, 2011:
Oliver van Kaick receives an MITACS
Elevate Postdoc Fellowship valued at
$65,000 per year. He will take up the position with our industrial partner
PDFTron in Vancouver.
- August 12, 2011:
Check out some of the recent paper and invited talks in the right column, including
the SIGGRAPH 2011 talk on photo-inspired modeling and
the talk on Towards
High-Level Geometry Processing I have given several times this year.
- June 27, 2011:
Our VASE (volume-aware surface evolution) paper has been accepted to
SGP 2011. Congrats to
Andrea!
- June 22, 2011:
Slides for SMI 2011 talk on point cloud silhouettes is
available. In retrospect, the paper is really about how to find proper k-nearest neighbors (kNNs)!
- April 7, 2011:
Helmut Pottmann gives
a Distinguished Lecture on Geometric Computing for Freeform Architecture.
- April 6, 2011:
Matt Olson
successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on "A Plane View of Geometric
Silhouettes". Congrats, Matt!
- March 30, 2011: Congrats to
Andrea
who is awarded an Alexander Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship from NSERC;
the award is given to the most selective group of scholarship
applicants.
- February 11, 2011:
Congrats to Ibraheem
who successfully defended his MSc thesis on detail-replicating shape
stretching; see demo
video and code.
- December 4, 2010:
Upcoming talk by Steven (Shlomo) Gortler
on December 17. See talk
announcement.
- November 10, 2010:
Upcoming talk by Ligang Liu who will be visiting me between Nov. 21 and 24. See
talk announcement.
- September 13, 2010:
Final version of our three SIGGRAPH Asia papers are now available:
1. cone carving;
2. tree skeleton reconstruction;
3. style-content separation.
- August 20, 2010:
Visit from Johannes Kopf
(Microsoft Research) and Dani
Lischiski (Hebrew
University) and talk by Johannes on Street Slide and Automatic Generation
of Destination Maps.
- July 26, 2010: Our
SIGGRAPH 2010
course
on spectral mesh processing has concluded. See this
wiki from ALICEpedia for all the course-related information,
including presentation slides. A previous version of the
course was given at SIGGRAPH Asia 2009.
- May 12, 2010: Slides for my Eurographics 2010
State-of-the-Art
Report (STAR) talk on shape correspondence is available here.
- April 30, 2010: Andrea
Tagliassachi has received the MITACS Best
Student Paper Award for 2009. Congrats, Andrea!
- January 12, 2010: One
of our papers won the 2010 Most Cited Paper Award for
the journal Computer-Aided Design.
Papers for this distinction are determined solely based on the highest number
of cites, excluding self-citations, received for all journal articles published in
2007-2009.
- November 16, 2009: Due to popular demand, we are making the MATLAB code for
our earlier paper on
robust spectral shape correspondence available. Please download
this ZIP file. The code can be easily adapted to compute
the eigenvalue shape descriptors (EVD) from this paper. Instructions are
contained
in the README file. Note that this code does not contain a Nystrom approximation component,
hence only somewhat small meshes (up to 5K vertices) should be tried on. The code was
written by Varun Jain and last updated by Oliver van Kaick. If you have
any questions, please ask Oliver or myself.
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