Pierre Alliez, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, A. Myles, T. Ni, J. Peters
Polyhedral meshes consisting of triangles, quads, and pentagons and polar configurations cover all major sampling and modeling scenarios. We give an algorithm for efficient local, parallel conversion...
Pierre Alliez, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, A. Myles, T. Ni, J. Peters
Polyhedral meshes consisting of triangles, quads, and pentagons and polar configurations cover all major sampling and modeling scenarios. We give an algorithm for efficient local, parallel conversion...
Motorcycle Graphs: Canonical Quad Mesh Partitioning (2009)
Pierre Alliez, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Michael T. Goodrich, Ethan Kim, Rasmus Tamstorf
We describe algorithms for canonically partitioning semi-regular quadrilateral meshes into structured submeshes, using an adaptation of the geometric motorcycle graph of Eppstein and Erickson to quad...
Estimating the Laplace-Beltrami Operator by Restricting 3D Functions (2009)
Chuang, Ming, Luo, Linjie, Rusinkiewicz, Szymon, Kazhdan, Michael
Chuang M., Luo L., Brown B., Rusinkiewicz S., Kazhdan M., ''Estimating the Laplace-Beltrami operator by restricting 3D functions'', Computer graphics forum, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1475-1484, July 2009...
Pierre Alliez, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Volume Number, Ramsay Dyer, Hao Zhang, Torsten Möller
Wedevelopadaptivesamplingcriteriawhichguaranteeatopologicallyfaithfulmeshanddemonstrateanimprovementandsimplificationoverearlierresults,albeitrestrictedto2Dsurfaces.Thesesamplingcriteriaarebasedon...
Deformation-Driven Shape Correspondence (2009)
Pierre Alliez, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, H. Zhang, A. Sheffer, D. Cohen-or, Q. Zhou, ...
Non-rigid 3D shape correspondence is a fundamental and difficult problem. Most applications which require a correspondence rely on manually selected markers. Without user assistance, the performances...
Maximum Entropy Coordinates for Arbitrary Polytopes (2009)
Pierre Alliez, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, K. Hormann, N. Sukumar
Barycentric coordinates can be used to express any point inside a triangle as a unique convex combination of the triangle’s vertices, and they provide a convenient way to linearly interpolate data...
© 2003 Springer-Verlag New York Inc. A Reflective Symmetry Descriptor for 3D Models (2009)
Michael Kazhdan, Bernard Chazelle, David Dobkin, Thomas Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Abstract. Computing reflective symmetries of 2D and 3D shapes is a classical problem in computer vision and computational geometry. Most prior work has focused on finding the main axes of symmetry,...
Ge Wang, Perry R. Cook, Ananya Misra, Philip Davidson, Mark Daly, Ge Wang, ...
Many people have further contributed to ChucK by suggesting great new ideas and improvements, reporting problems, or submitting actual code. Here is a list of these people. Help us keep it complete...
Multiscale Shape and Detail Enhancement from Multi-light Image Collections (2008)
Raanan Fattal, Maneesh Agrawala, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Figure 1: The Multi-Light Image Collection for this chard leaf contains 3 images taken under varying lighting conditions. The shading in each input image reveals different aspects of its shape and...
Abstract Atomic Volumes for Mesh Completion (2008)
M. Desbrun, H. Pottmann (editors, Joshua Podolak, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
The increased use of scanned geometry for applications in computer graphics and 3D hardcopy output has highlighted the need for general, robust algorithms for reconstruction of watertight 3D models...
Symmetry-Enhanced Remeshing of Surfaces (2008)
Er Belyaev, Michael Garl, Joshua Podolak, Aleksey Golovinskiy, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
While existing methods for 3D surface approximation use local geometric properties, we propose that more intuitive results can be obtained by considering global shape properties such as symmetry. We...
Abstract Modeling by Example (2008)
Thomas Funkhouser, Michael Kazhdan, Philip Shilane, Patrick Min, William Kiefer, Ayellet Tal, ...
In this paper, we investigate a data-driven synthesis approach to constructing 3D geometric surface models. We provide methods with which a user can search a large database of 3D meshes to find parts...
Tim Weyrich, Jason Lawrence, Hendrik Lensch, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Todd Zickler
Algorithms for scene understanding and realistic image synthesis require accurate models of the way real-world materials scatter light. This course describes recent work in both the graphics and...
Michael Burns, Janek Klawe, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Adam Finkelstein, Doug Decarlo
Renderings of volumetric data have become an important data analysis tool for applications ranging from medicine to scientific simulation. We propose a volumetric drawing system that directly...
Abstract Symmetry Descriptors and 3D Shape Matching (2008)
R. Scopigno, D. Zorin, Michael Kazhdan, Thomas Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
In this paper, we present the Symmetry Descriptors of a 3D model. This is a collection of spherical functions that describes the measure of a model’s rotational and reflective symmetry with respect...
Abstract Modeling by Example (2008)
Thomas Funkhouser, Michael Kazhdan, Philip Shilane, Patrick Min, William Kiefer, Ayellet Tal, ...
In this paper, we investigate a data-driven synthesis approach to constructing 3D geometric surface models. We provide methods with which a user can search a large database of 3D meshes to find parts...
Jason Lawrence, Aner Ben-artzi, Christopher Decoro, Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, Ravi Ramamoorthi, ...
Recent progress in the measurement of surface reflectance has created a demand for non-parametric appearance representations that are accurate, compact, and easy to use for rendering. Another crucial...
Kavita Bala, Philip Dutré (editors, Jason Lawrence, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Ravi Ramamoorthi
As image-based surface reflectance and illumination gain wider use in physically-based rendering systems, it is becoming more critical to provide representations that allow sampling light paths...
Abstract Symmetry Descriptors and 3D Shape Matching (2007)
R. Scopigno, D. Zorin, Michael Kazhdan, Thomas Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
In this paper, we present the Symmetry Descriptors of a 3D model. This is a collection of spherical functions that describes the measure of a model’s rotational and reflective symmetry with respect...
Lecturer Pat Hanrahan, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Steve Marschner, Scribe Ravi Ramamoorthi, Reviewer Yelena Vileshina
Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions (BRDFs) are the fundamental quantity describing reflectance. After a brief introduction (by Pat), this lecture discusses common features of BRDFs and...
Rotation Invariant Spherical Harmonic Representation of 3D Shape Descriptors Abstract (2007)
L. Kobbelt, P. Schröder, Michael Kazhdan, Thomas Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
One of the challenges in 3D shape matching arises from the fact that in many applications, models should be considered to be the same if they differ by a rotation. Consequently, when comparing two...
Abstract Visible Zone Maintenance for Real-Time Occlusion Culling Olaf Hall-Holt (2007)
Figure 1: A frame from a flythrough of a forest scene accelerated using visible zone maintenance. The scene consists of 1,000,000 tree objects, each ranging from 2,948 to 38,744 polygons. For this...
Highlight Lines for Conveying Shape (2007)
Doug Decarlo, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Recent work has shown that sparse lines defined on 3D shapes, including occluding contours and suggestive contours, are effective at conveying shape. We introduce two new families of lines called...
Christopher Decoro, Forrester Cole, Adam Finkelstein, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Figure 1: Traditional computer graphics algorithms produce “accurate ” shadows (left). Artists often deliberately render abstract shadows, such as the shadow with reduced contour detail in this...
ICCV 2007 Short Course Principles of Appearance Acquisition and Representation (2007)
Weyrich, Tim, Lawrence, Jason, Lensch, Hendrik P. A., Rusinkiewicz, Szymon, Zickler, Todd
A compact factored representation of heterogeneous subsurface scattering (2006)
Pieter Peers, Karl Berge, Wojciech Matusik, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Jason Lawrence, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, ...
Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for commercial advantage...
A planar-reflective symmetry transform for 3d shapes (2006)
Joshua Podolak, Philip Shilane, Aleksey Golovinskiy, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Thomas Funkhouser
Copyright © 2006 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided...
Inverse shade trees for non-parametric material representation and editing (2006)
Jason Lawrence, Aner Ben-artzi, Christopher Decoro, Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, Ravi Ramamoorthi, ...
Recent progress in the measurement of surface reflectance has created a demand for non-parametric appearance representations that are accurate, compact, and easy to use for rendering. Another crucial...
A planar-reflective symmetry transform for 3d shapes (2006)
Joshua Podolak, Philip Shilane, Aleksey Golovinskiy, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Thomas Funkhouser
Figure 1: The Planar Reflective Symmetry Transform captures the degree of symmetry of arbitrary shapes with respect to reflection through all planes in space. Although symmetry measures are computed...
A compact factored representation of heterogeneous subsurface scattering (2006)
Pieter Peers, Karl Berge, Wojciech Matusik, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Jason Lawrence, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, ...
Figure 1: A factored composite wax material model applied to the Stanford dragon. The material is composed of two kinds of wax with different scattering properties. Left: illuminated by an area light...
Improved subpixel stereo correspondences through symmetric refinement (2005)
Diego Nehab, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, James Davis
Most dense stereo correspondence algorithms start by establishing discrete pixel matches and later refine these matches to sub-pixel precision. Traditional sub-pixel refinement methods attempt to...
Efficiently combining positions and normals for precise 3d geometry (2005)
Diego Nehab, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, James Davis, Ravi Ramamoorthi
not use color information in order to focus on geometric aspects. Note how our method eliminates noise from the range image while introducing real detail. The surface normals are of the same quality...
Efficiently combining positions and normals for precise 3d geometry (2005)
Diego Nehab, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, James Davis, Ravi Ramamoorthi
not use color information in order to focus on geometric aspects. Note how our method eliminates noise from the range image while introducing real detail. The surface normals are of the same quality...
Line drawings from volume data (2005)
Michael Burns, Janek Klawe, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Adam Finkelstein, Doug Decarlo
classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for...
Geometrically Stable Sampling for the ICP Algorithm (2003)
Natasha Gelfand, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
The Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm is a widely used method for aligning three-dimensional point sets. The quality of alignment obtained by this algorithm depends heavily on choosing good...
Suggestive contours for conveying shape (2003)
Doug Decarlo, Adam Finkelstein, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Anthony Santella
classroom use is granted without fee provided that the copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage, the copyright notice, the title of the publication, and its date appear,...
Spacetime stereo: A unifying framework for depth from triangulation (2003)
James Davis, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Depth from triangulation has traditionally been treated in a number of separate threads in the computer vision literature, with methods like stereo, laser scanning, and coded structured light...
A reflective symmetry descriptor for 3D models (2003)
Michael Kazhdan, Bernard Chazelle, David Dobkin, Thomas Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Computing reflective symmetries of 2D and 3D shapes is a classical problem in computer vision and computational geometry. Most prior work has focused on finding the main axes of symmetry, or...
A Reflective Symmetry Descriptor for 3D Models (2003)
Michael Kazhdan Bernard, Bernard Chazelle, David Dobkin, Thomas Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Computing reflective symmetries of 2D and 3D shapes is a classical problem in computer vision and computational geometry. Most prior work has focused on finding the main axes of symmetry, or...
Spacetime stereo: A unifying framework for depth from triangulation (2003)
James Davis, Diego Nehab, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Depth from triangulation has traditionally been investigated in a number of independent threads of research, with methods such as stereo, laser scanning, and coded structured light considered...
The Digital Michelangelo project: 3d scanning of large statues (2000)
Marc Levoy, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Matt Ginzton, Jeremy Ginsberg, Kari Pulli, David Koller, ...
We describe a hardware and software system for digitizing the shape and color of large fragile objects under non-laboratory conditions. Our system employs laser triangulation rangefinders, laser...
The Digital Michelangelo project: 3d scanning of large statues (2000)
Marc Levoy, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Matt Ginzton, Jeremy Ginsberg, Kari Pulli, David Koller, ...
We describe a hardware and software system for digitizing the shape and color of large fragile objects under non-laboratory conditions. Our system employs laser triangulation rangefinders, laser...
The Digital Michelangelo project: 3d scanning of large statues (2000)
Marc Levoy, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Matt Ginzton, Jeremy Ginsberg, Kari Pulli, David Koller, ...
We describe a hardware and software system for digitizing the shape and color of large fragile objects under non-laboratory conditions. Our system employs laser triangulation rangefinders, laser...