Spectral Mesh Processing

Wednesday, 16 December | 10:45 AM - 2:30 PM | Room 511/512

Spectral mesh processing is an idea that was proposed at the beginning of the 1990s to port the "signal processing toolbox" to the setting of 3D mesh models. Recent advances in both computing power and numerical software make it possible to fully implement this vision. In the classical context of sound and image processing, Fourier analysis was a cornerstone in development of a wide spectrum of techniques, such as filtering and recognition, to name but a few. 

In this course, attendees learn how to transfer the underlying concepts to setting a mesh model, how to implement the "spectral mesh processing" toolbox, and how to use it for real applications, including filtering, shape matching, remeshing, segmentation, and parameterization, among others.

Level

Advanced

Presentation Language

Presented in English

Prerequisites

Knowledge of mesh processing, programming, and linear algebra.

Instructor(s)

Bruno Levy 
INRIA

Richard Hao Zhang 
Simon Fraser University

Instructor Bio(s)

Bruno Levy
Bruno Levy is a researcher at INRIA. His main contribution concerns parameterization of triangulated surfaces, which is now used by some 3D modeling software (including Maya, Silo, Blender, Gocad, and Catia). He obtained his PhD in 1999 and was hired by INRIA in 2000. He served on the committees of ACM SPM, IEEE SMI, ACM/EG SGP, IEEE Visualization, Eurographics, PG, and ACM SIGGRAPH, and was program co-chair of ACM SPM in 2007 and 2008. He was recently awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council.
Richard Hao Zhang 
Richard Hao Zhang co-directs the Graphics, Usability, and Visualization Lab at Simon Fraser University, Canada, where he has been an assistant professor in the School of Computing Science since 2003. He received his PhD.from the Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP), Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto in 2003 and MMath and BMath degrees from the University of Waterloo. His research interests are geometry processing and computer graphics. Recently, he served on the program committees of Eurographics 2009, SIAM/ACM GPM 2009, Pacific Graphics 2009, and SGP 2009. He was a winner of the Best Paper Award at SGP 2008.