Schedule

Fall 2008

Time and Place: Wednesday 3~4pm, E344

Date Speaker Topic
Oct. 29
Oct. 22
Oct. 15
Oct. 8
Oct. 1
Sep. 24
Sep. 17
Sep. 10
Sep. 3 Young In
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
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
August 23 Tianyun Point-based Rendering

Summer 2006

August 16 Minho knot intervals and T-splines by Thomas W. Sederberg T-splines.ppt
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 Jörg
"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