SurfLab Seminar Schedule

Schedule

Time and Place: Wednesday 3:00~4:00pm, E344

Spring 2013

Date	Speaker	Topic
Apr. 17
Apr. 10	Martin	Analytic Visibility on the GPU
Apr. 3
Mar. 27	Shayan	Path-Based Occlusion Culling for Hardware Tessellation
Mar. 20		Matlab Parallelization talk
Mar. 13	Graphics Qualifier prep
Feb. 27	Ruijin	Pixel-Correct Shadow Maps with Temporal Reprojection and Shadow Test Confidence
Feb. 20	Saleh	Volumentric modeling and interactive cutting of deformable bodies
Feb. 13	Thien	Continuous Penalty Forces. SIGGRAPH 2012
Feb. 6	Martin	High-Quality Curve Rendering using Line Sampled Visibility
Jan. 30	Shayan	Tessellation-Independent Smooth Shadow Boundaries
Jan. 23	Ruijin	Fast Percentage Closer Soft Shadows Using Temporal Coherence.
Jan. 16	Saleh	Deformable Objects Alive! ACM Transactions on Graphics 2012.

Fall 2012

Date	Speaker	Topic
Nov. 21	Martin	Decoupled Deferred Shading for Hardware Rasterization (i3D 2012)
Nov. 14	Shayan	Rasterized Bounding Volume Hierarchies . Eurographics 2012
Nov. 7	Thien	Total Langrangian Explicit Dynamics
Oct. 31	Sagar's Master's defense
Oct. 24	Thien	Total Langrangian Explicit Dynamics
Oct. 17		Graphics Qualifying Exam discussion
Oct. 10	Sagar	Continued from last time
Oct. 3	Sagar	Real-time bidirectional path tracing via rasterization
Sep. 26
Sep. 19	Saleh	Manifold Exploration: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique for rendering scenes with difficult specular transport
Sep. 12	Ruijin	" Stochastic Rasterization for Motion Blur and Depth Of Field.
Sep. 5		SIGGRAPH 2012: The technology behind the "Unreal Engine 4 Elemental Demo"
Aug. 29	Shayan	Feature Adaptive GPU Rendering of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2012.

Spring 2012

Date	Speaker	Topic
April. 26
April. 19
April. 12
April. 5	Young In	Defense rehearsal
Mar. 29	Shayan	WebGL based BezierView
Mar. 22	Shayan	WebGL based BezierView
Mar. 15 1:30pm @ CSE 404	William	A Computer-Based Simulation for Training Dental Preparation
Mar. 8		Graphics Qualifying Exam Discussion
Mar. 1	Young In	Efficient Pixel-Accurate Rendering of Curved Surfaces
Feb. 23	Saleh	Jos Stam & Ryan Schmidt. (2011), On the Velocity of an Implicit Surface
Feb. 16	Young In	Z-Buffer Optimizations
Feb. 9	Ruijin	Bivariate Spline
Feb. 2	Shayan	Surface Based Anti-Aliasing
Jan. 26	Saleh	Sch, H., Prus, M., and Stamminger, M., Multiresolution Attributes for Tessellated Meshes. ACM Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2010.

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker	Topic
Dec. 8 Thu. 2pm	Will	The state of the dental simulator
Nov. 16	Usame	LR: compact connectiviy representation for triangle meshes
Oct. 28 Fri. 4pm	Dr. Wenping Wang CISE Colloquium Rinker Hall 0110	Computation and Application of Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation
Oct. 27 Thu. 6pm	Dr. Ashish Myles CAP5705 Lecture E222	Global Parameterization by Incremental Flattening
Oct. 12		Graphics Qualifying Exam Discussion
Oct. 5	Young In(Contd.)	Displacement Mapping on the GPU paper
Sep. 28	Young In	Displacement Mapping on the GPU paper
Sep. 21	Shayan	Evaluating bicubic Bezier patches using (py)opencl
Sep. 14	Ruijin	Geometric Embeddings and Rigidity Structural rigidity Laman graph
Aug. 24	SurfLab members	General discussion

Summer 2011

Date	Speaker	Topic
Aug. 3	Young In	Proposal rehearsal: Accurate Rendering of Curved Higher-Order Surfaces on the GPU
July. 13	Sagar	Mesh Colors paper
June. 29	Ruijin	Wavelet Rasterization paper
June. 22	Young In	High-Performance Software Rasterization on GPUs paper
June. 15	Shayan	Editable Polycube Map for GPU-based Subdivision Surfaces paper
June. 8	Saleh	Contouring Discrete Indicator Functions
May. 11	SurfLab members	Surface Reconstruction slide
May. 4	SurfLab members	General discussion (Show & tell).

Spring 2011

Date	Speaker	Topic
Apr. 20	Ruijin	RenderAnts: Interactive REYES Rendering on GPUs paper
Apr. 13	Young In	Subpixel Reconstruction Antialiasing paper
Apr. 6	Shayan	Fast and Scalable CPU/GPU Collision Detection for Rigid and Deformabel Surfaces paper
Mar. 23	Saleh	Polygonisation of Non-Manifold Implicit Surfaces Using a Dual Grid and Points paper
Mar. 2		Graphics Qualifying Exam Discussion
Feb. 23	Usame	Collision-Streams: Fast GPU-based Collision Detection for Deformable Models paper
Feb. 16	Ruijin	Inner Sphere Trees for Proximity and Penetration Queries paper
Feb. 2	Young In (Contd.)	OptiX: A General Purpose Ray Tracing Engine paper
Jan. 26	Young In	OptiX: A General Purpose Ray Tracing Engine paper
Jan. 19	Shayan	GPU Surface Curvature Estimation on Deformable Meshes paper

Fall 2010

Date	Speaker	Topic
Nov. 23	Saleh	Approximate μ-Bases of Rational Curves and Surfaces paper
Nov. 16	Dr. Michael J. Gouray	Fluid Simulation for Video games web site
Nov. 9	Usame	Practical quad mesh simplification paper
Oct. 26	Ruijin	Analysis, Reconstruction and Manipulation using Arteiral Snakes paper
Oct. 5	Shayan	gProximity: Hierarchical GPU-based Operations for Collision and Distance Queries paper
Sep. 21	Young In Saleh	SIGGRAPH2010 review II
Sep. 7	Young In Saleh	SIGGRAPH2010 review I
Aug. 31	SurfLab members	General Discussion

Spring 2010

Date	Speaker	Topic
Apr. 14	Usame	Parallel Prefix Sum (Scan)
Mar. 31	Young In	Alternative Rendering Pipelines on NVIDIA CUDA slides
Mar. 24	Young In	Understanding the Efficiency of Ray Traversal on GPUs paper Fast Ray Sorting and Breadth-First Packet Traversal for GPU Ray Tracing paper
Mar. 17	Jianhua	Defense rehearsal
Mar. 3		Graphics Qualifying Exam Discussion
Feb. 24	Jianhua	Defense rehearsal
Feb. 10	Shayan	Sketching Clothoid Splines Using Shortest Paths paper
Feb. 3	Dr. Sergei Shabanov	Suture model web

Fall 2009

Date	Speaker	Topic
Oct. 28	Young In	DiagSplit: Parallel, Crack-Free, Adaptive Tessellation for Micropolygon Rendering paper
Oct. 21	Shayan	Accelerating geometric queries using the GPU paper
Oct. 14		Graphics Qualifying Exam Discussion
Sep. 23	Jianhua	Fast visualization of complex 3D models using displacement mapping paper
Sep. 16	Young In	Exploring Parallel Algorithms for Volumetric Mass-Spring-Damper Models in CUDA paper Efficient nonlinear FEM for soft tissue modelling and its GPU implementation within the open source framework SOFA paper SOFA(Simulation Open Framework Architecture)
Sep. 9	Shayan (Contd.)	Automatic Pre-Tessellation Culling paper
Sep. 2	Shayan	Automatic Pre-Tessellation Culling paper

Summer 2009

Date	Speaker	Topic
Aug. 12	Jianhua	Direct trimming of NURBS surfaces on the GPU paper
July. 22	Young In	Parallel View-Dependent Tessellation of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces paper (High Performance Graphics 2009)
July. 15	Shayan (Contd.)	Performing efficient NURBS modeling operations on the GPU
July. 8	Shayan	Performing efficient NURBS modeling operations on the GPU paper
July. 1	Jianhua	Direct evaluation of NURBS curves and surfaces on the GPU paper
June. 17	Dr. Peters	Subdivision Surfaces
June. 10	Usame	Box Spline (Recurrence Relation)
June. 3	Dr. Peters(Contd.)	Box Spline & Subdivision Surfaces
May. 27	Dr. Peters	Box Spline

Spring 2009

Date	Speaker	Topic
Apr. 22		CUDA CUDAcasts
Apr. 15	Shayan	Parallel View-Dependent Refinement of Progressive Meshes (I3D 2009) paper
Apr. 8		Subdivision & Tessellation GameFest 2008
Apr. 1	Young In(Contd.)	Real-time view-dependent rendering of parametric surfaces (I3D 2009) paper
Mar. 25	Young In	Real-Time Reyes-Style Adaptive Surface Subdivision (SIGGRAPH 2008 Asia) paper
Mar. 4		Graphics Qualifying Exam Discussion
Feb. 25	Jianhua(Contd.)	Watertight trimmed NURBS paper
Feb. 18	Jianhua	Watertight trimmed NURBS paper
Feb. 11	Ashish Young In(Contd.)	Distributed revision control
Feb. 4	Ashish Young In	Distributed revision control
Jan. 28	Shayan(Contd.)	Creases & Subdivision Surfaces
Jan. 27 Tue.	M.D. Li-Ming Su (MAE & CISE seminar)	Exploring Biomedical Engineering Applications to Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery at Room 303 MAE-A
Jan. 21	Shayan	Creases & Subdivision Surfaces

Fall 2008

Date	Speaker	Topic
Nov. 19	Jianhua	On Smooth Bicubic Surfaces from Quad Meshes
Nov. 5		War Drum Studios Info Session (6~7pm, E404)
Oct. 29	Ashish	Defense rehearsal:
Oct. 15	Minho	Box Spline Reconstruction on the Face Centered Cubic Lattice link
Oct. 8	Xinxin(Contd.)	Real-Time Fluid Dynamics
Oct. 1	Dr. James Keesling	Fractal Geometry (SIAM Gator Talks)
Sep. 24	Xinxin(Contd.)	Real-Time Fluid Dynamics
Sep. 17	Xinxin	Real-Time Fluid Dynamics
Sep. 10	Jianwei	Development of a Real-Time Data Visualization Toolkits with GPU
Sep. 3	Ashish (Contd.)	Review: SIGGRAPH 2008
Aug. 27	Ashish	Review: SIGGRAPH 2008

Summer 2008

Date	Speaker	Topic
Jul. 23	Tianyun	Defense rehearsal: Real-time Smooth Surface Construction on the Graphics Processing Unit
Jul. 16	Minho	Defense rehearsal: Symmetric Box-Spline on Root Lattices
Jul. 9	Jianhua	Proposal rehearsal: Guided Surfaces with Constraints

Spring 2008

Date	Speaker	Topic
Apr. 23	Minho	Raycasting on GPU A Simple and Flexible Volume Rendering Framework for Graphics-Hardware-based Raycasting, Simon Stegmaier, Magnus Strengert, Thomas Klein and Thomas Ertl, Volume Graphics (2005) GPU-Based Ray-Casting of Quadratic Surfaces , Christian Sigg, Tim Weyrich, Mario Botsch and Markus Gross, Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Point-Based Graphics (2006) Iterative Methods for Visualization of Implicit Surfaces on GPU, Rodrigo de Toledo and Bruno Levy and Jean-Claude Paul, International Symposium on Visual Computing - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2007) Incremental Raycasting of Piecewise Quadratic Surfaces on the GPU , Carsten Stoll, Stefan Gumhold and Hans-Peter Seidel,, Proc. IEEE Symposium on Interactive Raytracing, (2006)
Apr. 16	Ashish	Geometric Modeling in Shape Space (SIGGRAPH 2007) paper
Apr. 9	Dr. Peters	Contraints in Parametric Surfaces
Apr. 2	Minho	Character animation from 2D pictures and 3D motion data paper
Mar. 26	Tianyun	Microsoft Academic Days in Games
Mar. 19	Jianhua(Contd.)	Explicit surface remeshing paper
Mar. 12		Graphics Qualifying Exam Discussion
Mar. 5	Jianhua(Contd.)	Explicit surface remeshing paper
Feb. 27	Jianhua	FiberMesh: Designing Freeform Surfaces with 3D Curves (SIGGRAPH2007) paper
Feb. 20	Young In	I3D 2008
Feb. 13	Tianyun(Contd.) Sergei	Generalized Displacement Maps paper MMVR summary
Feb. 6	Tianyun	GPU programming with DirectX 10
Jan. 30	Sukitti (Contd.)
Jan.16	Sukitti (Contd.)
Jan. 9	Sukitti	A Fast variational framework for accurate solid-fluid coupling (SIGGRAPH 2007) paper

Fall 2007

Date	Speaker	Topic
Dec. 12	Sukitti	A Fast variational framework for accurate solid-fluid coupling (SIGGRAPH 2007) paper
Nov. 28		Presentation for visitors from Ecuador (2pm in CSE305)
Nov. 14	Sukitti	Geometrically and physically based modeling for deformable objects simulating soft tissue interactions in surgery environments
Oct. 31	Minho	Fast and stable evaluation of box-splines via the Bezier form paper
Oct. 24	Ashish	Extending Catmull-Clark Subdivision and PCCM with Polar Structures paper
Oct. 17		Graphics Qualifying Exam Discussion
Oct. 10	Jianhua	Guided Curves (similar to guided surfaces but in 1D)
Oct. 3	Minho (Contd.)
Sep. 19	Minho (Contd.)
Sep. 12	Minho	Edge Subdivision Schemes and the Construction of Smooth Vector Fields supplemented with Discrete Differential Forms for Computational Modeling both can be found at http://www.geometry.caltech.edu/pubs.html
Sep. 5	Jianwei	CUDA(Compute Unified Device Architecture)
Aug. 29	Young In	"Approximating Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces with Bicubic Patches"
Aug. 22	Ashish	Discussion on solving a system of polynomial equations

Spring 2007

Date	Speaker	Topic
May 2	Ashish
Apr 25	Tianyun	Rapid Evaluation of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces Evaluation of Subdivision Surfaces on Programmable Graphics Hardware Catmull-Calrk Subdivision Surfaces on GPU
Apr 18	Young In	Haptic Deformation using Graphics and kd-trees A Hybrid Collision Detection Approach for the Haptic Rendering of Deformable Tools
Apr 4	Dr. Umlauf
Mar 28	Minho	Modeling with Cubic A-patches (pdf), 1995, by Chandrajit Bajaj, Jindon Chen and Guoliang Xu Non-scanned version can be found here.
Mar 21	Sukitti
Mar 14	Ashish	G-continuity and PCCM
Feb 28	Jianhua	stable,circulation preserving,simplicial fluids
Feb 21	Sergei	MMVR 15 Notes
Feb 14	Jianwei (Contd.)	Minimal surfaces from circle patterns: Geometry from combinatorics (paper) Minimal surfaces from circle patterns: Geometry from combinatorics (presentation)
Feb 7	Jianwei	Minimal surfaces from circle patterns: Geometry from combinatorics (paper) Minimal surfaces from circle patterns: Geometry from combinatorics (presentation)
Jan 31	Tianyun	TIPS
Jan 24	Minho	Real-Time GPU Rendering of Piecewise Algebraic Surfaces (SIGGRAPH 2006) references Jim Blinn's corner: notation, notation, notation, 2003 (eBook accessible from UF) Resolution Independent Curve Rendering using Programmable Graphics Hardware, SIGGRAPH 2005 Solving quartics and cubics for graphics, Graphics Gems V, 1995 The Geometry of the Cubic Formula Cubic equation, Wikipedia
Jan 17	Sukitti	Volume and Shape Preservation via Moving Frame Manipulation Published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) Vol 26, Issue 1 (Jan 2007)
Jan 10	Sukitti	SUPERCOMPUTING 2006 Tutorial on GPGPU

Fall 2006

Date	Speaker	Topic
Dec. 13	Tianyun	"Patching Catmull-Clark Meshes", "Curved PN Triangles"
Nov. 29	Jianhua	"Locality-Sensitive Hashing Scheme Based on p-Stable Distributions"
Nov. 15	Sukitti	"Fast Arbitrary Splitting of Deforming Objects"
Nov. 8	Minho	"Geometric Modeling with Conical Meshes and Developable Surfaces" Contd.
Nov. 1	Minho	"Geometric Modeling with Conical Meshes and Developable Surfaces" Contd. (Cancelled)
October 25	Minho	"Geometric Modeling with Conical Meshes and Developable Surfaces" (SIGGRAPH 2006) PQmesh.ppt
October 20	Combined seminars with G2V2	"Ph.D Qualifying Exam --- Computer Graphics: Q & A"
October 11	Young In	"Haptic Rendering" (Haptic Rendering in Virtual Environments ) (Haptics in Minimally Invasive Surgical Simulation and Training )
October 4	Ashish	"Ph.D Thesis Proposal: C^2 surface construction on polar mesh structures. "
September 27	Ashish	"Guided Subdivision and Jet Subdivision" (Guided Subdivision) (Jet Subdivision)
September 20	Jianhua	"Mesh Editing based on Discrete Laplace and Poisson Models" (paper)
September 13	Sukitti	About GPU
September 6	Minho	"BCC is the optimal sampling lattice in 3D." bcc.ppt "Linear and Cubic Box Splines for the Body Centered Cubic Lattice" Alireza Entezari, Ramsay Dyer and Torsten Möller, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2004 (Vis04), pp. 11-18, Austin, TX, October 2004. "Point Lattices in Computer Graphics and Visualization," Alireza Entezari, Jim Morey, Klaus Mueller, Victor Ostromoukhov, Dimitri Van De Ville and Torsten Moller, Tutorial presented at IEEE Visualization 2005 (Vis05), Minneapolis, MN, October 2005.
August 23	Tianyun	Point-based Rendering Surfels: Surface Elements as Rendering Primitives, SIGGRAPH 2000

Summer 2006

August 16	Minho	knot intervals and T-splines by Thomas W. Sederberg T-splines.ppt T-spline Simplification and Local Refinement, SIGGRAPH 2004 T-splines and T-NURCCS, SIGGRAPH 2003 Knot intervals and multi-degree splines, CAGD, vol 20, issue 7, 455--468, 2003
August 9	Steffen, Sukitti	"Spline Basics (Continued...)", SIGGRAPH conference
August 2	Steffen	"Spline Basics"
July 26	Sukitti	"Subspace Gradient Domain Mesh Deformation", SIGGRAPH 2006
July 19	Sukitti	"Inverse Kinematics for Reduced Deformable Models", SIGGRAPH 2006 "A Fast Multigrid Algorithm for Mesh Deformation", SIGGRAPH 2006 ~~"Subspace Gradient Domain Mesh Deformation", SIGGRAPH 2006~~
June 21	Young In	"A Data-Driven Shape Model for Human Body Reconstruction from Photos" (CASA 2005 paper)
June 14	Tianyun	"Tuned Ternary Quad Subdivision" (GMP 2006 paper)
June 7	Ashish	"Modified Subdivision Surfaces with Continuous Curvature" (SIGGRAPH 2006 paper)
May 31	Minho	"Point-Sampled Cell Complexes" (SIGGRAPH 2006 paper)
May 17	Tianyun	"Spectral surface Quadrangulation" (SIGGRAPH 2006 paper)

Spring 2006

Date	Speaker	Topic
May 10	Sukitti	"Vector Field Based Shape Deformations" (SIGGRAPH 2006 paper)
Apr. 19	Steffen	"Algebraic manipulation made simple via convolution" (paper)
Apr. 12	Tianyun	"Least squares conformal maps for automatic texture atlas generation" (paper)
Apr. 5	Jianhua	"Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Modeling:Insight and Computation" (Cont.) (paper ) (Notes )
Mar. 29	Young In	"As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation" (paper ) (demo)
Mar. 8	Jianhua	"Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Modeling:Insight and Computation" (paper )
Mar. 1	Ashish	"Fast Safe Spline Surrogates for Point Clouds"
Feb. 22	Steffen	"Blossoming" (.pdf )
Feb. 15	Minho	"Blender" (Blender 3D ) (Blender tutorial )
Feb. 8	Sukitti	"Large Mesh Deformation Using the Volumetric Graph Laplacian" (Siggraph 2005 Paper)
Feb. 1	Tianyun	"Microsoft Academic Days on Gaming Review" (The Link)
Jan. 18	Minho	"Exploiting Graphics Hardware for Haptic Authoring" (MMVR14 conference presentation)

Fall 2005

Date	Speaker	Topic
Dec. 14	Sukitti	Animating Sand as a Fluid (SIGGRAPH 2005) by Yongning Zhu and Robert Bridson of University of British Columbia. See Robert Bridson's Homepage for sample movies. For more details, check out Yongning Zhu's Master Thesis (Nov 2005).
Dec. 7	Minho	Dynamic LOD on GPU paper by Junfeng Ji, et al. More
Nov. 30	Tianyun	Interpolating and Approximating Implicit Surfaces from Polygon Soup SIGGRAPH04 Paper by Shen, et al.
Nov. 16	Sukitti	Particle-Based Fluid-Fluid Interaction, published in Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (2005) paper
Nov. 9	Minho	GPU-based trimming and tessellation of NURBS and T-Spline surface paper sketch
Oct. 26	Jianhua, Tianyun	Root Classification for Constraint Solving, Review and Extension of Ternary Quad Subdivision
Oct. 12	Tianyun	A Smooth Ternary Subdivision Scheme on Quadrilateral Meshes
Oct. 5	Ashish	Blades (continued) Geometric Algebra Tutorial (pdf file) GABLE Summary
Sep. 28	Ashish	Blades Geometric Algebra Tutorial (pdf file) GABLE Summary
Sep. 21	Rodolfo	"Suggestive Contours for Conveying Shape" paper
Sep. 14	Minho	"Resolution Independent Curve Rendering Using Programmable Graphics Hardware" paper
Sep. 7	Ashish	"Evaluation of Subdivision Surfaces" paper 1 paper 2
Aug. 31	Tianyun	"Linear and Cubic Box Splines for the Body Centered Cubic Lattice" paper

Summer 2005

Date	Speaker	Topic
May 18	Tianyun	Mean Value Coordinates for Closed Triangular Meshes Paper
May 25	Minho	Loop Subdivision Evaluation in GPU Reference
June 15	Sukitti	"Interactive Collision Detection between Deformable Models using Chromatic Decomposition" by Govindaraju, et al. paper
June 22	Jianhua	"Mold Accessibility via Gauss Map Analysis" paper
June 29	J\F6rg	"Guided Subdivision"
July 6	Sukitti	"Meshless Deformations Based on Shape Matching" paper
July 13	Tianyun	"Subdivision Schemes and Attractors" paper
July 20	Sukitti	"Fast Frictional Dynamics for Rigid Bodies" paper
August 10	Jiahua	"Reconstruction of Solid Models From Oriented Point Sets" paper