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13. Beyond Blobs: Recent Advances in Implicit Surfaces
Sunday, Full Day, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Room 33 A-C
Level: Advanced
This course covers exciting advances in implicit surfaces that are useful but seldom covered by standard graphics courses. It reviews recently developed implicit modeling tools such as radial-basis functions, level sets, skeletal extraction, and topology, and demonstrates their utility for real-world applications from character animation to medical modeling.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of 3D computer graphics and some understanding of elementary linear algebra. Familiarity with basic implicit surface techniques is useful, but not necessary.
Topics
Implicit surfaces that interpolate point data, implicit surfaces for shape transformation, surface reconstruction from computer-vision data, medical applications, modern level sets, implicit methods to compute medial structures, digital Morse theory, and a library of software tools for interactive modeling with implicit surfaces.
Co-Organizers
Greg Turk
Georgia Institute of Technology
Terry S. Yoo
National Institutes of Health
Lecturers
Jules Bloomenthal
Unchained Geometry
H. Quynh Dinh
Stevens Institute of Technology
John C. Hart
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Greg Turk
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ross T. Whitaker
University of Utah
Terry S. Yoo
National Institutes of Health
Schedule
| Component 1: Implicit Surfaces for Character Animation and Shape
Transformation |
| 8:30 |
Implicit Techniques for Character Animation
Bloomenthal |
| 9:30 |
Modeling and Shape Transformation With Variational Implicit Surfaces
Turk |
| 10:15 |
Break |
| Component 2: Using Implicit Surfaces in Computer Vision and in Medicine |
| 10:30 |
Medical Applications of Implicit Surfaces
Yoo |
| 11:20 |
Surface Reconstruction From Computer Vision Data
Dinh |
| 12:15 |
Lunch |
| Component 3: Implicit Surface Modeling: From Theory to Implementation |
| 1:30 |
Implicit Surface Topology
An Interactive Implicit Surface Modeler
Hart |
| 3:15 |
Break |
| Component 4: Level Sets - Introduction and Applications |
| 3:30 |
Introduction to Level Sets
Applications of Level Sets
Whitaker |
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