Dates: Wednesday, September 28
Topic: No Meeting
Papers:

None.

Speakers:  
Dates: Wednesday, October 5
Topic: Implicit Surfaces I
Papers:

Levin, D. The approximation power of moving least-squares. Math. Comput. 67, 224 (Oct. 1998), 1517-1531. PDF file for this paper.

Amenta, N. and Kil, Y. J. Defining point-set surfaces. ACM Trans. Graph. 23, 3 (Aug. 2004), 264-270. PDF file for this paper.

Speakers: Natasha Gelfand (slides) and Niloy Mitra (slides)
Dates: Wednesday, October 12
Topic: Implicit Surfaces II
Papers:

Shen, C., O'Brien, J. F., and Shewchuk, J. R. Interpolating and approximating implicit surfaces from polygon soup. ACM Trans. Graph. 23, 3 (Aug. 2004), 896-904. PDF file for this paper.

Dey, T. K., and Sun, J. An adaptive MLS surface for reconstruction with guarantees. Eurographics Symp. Geometry Processing. (2005), 43-52. PDF file for this paper.

Speakers: Nikola Milosavljevic (slides) and Michael Wand (slides)
Dates: Wednesday, October 19
Topic: Surface and Volume Parametrization
Papers:

M. S. Floater, M. S., and Hormann, K. Surface parameterization: a tutorial and survey. In Advances in Multiresolution for Geometric Modelling , Dodgson, N. A., Floater, M. S., and M. A. Sabin, M. A., editors, Mathematics and Visualization, Springer Verlag, 2005. PDF file for this paper.

Ju, T., Schaefer, S., and Warren, J. Mean value coordinates for closed triangular meshes. ACM Trans. Graph. 24, 3 (Jul. 2005), 561-566. PDF file for this paper.

Speakers: Afra Zomorodian (slides) and Tarang Vaish (slides)
Dates: Wednesday, October 26
Topic: Local Coordinates, Discrete Differential Geometry
Papers:

Lipman, Y., Sorkine, O., Levin, D., and Cohen-Or, D. Linear rotation-invariant coordinates for meshes. ACM Trans. Graph. 24, 3 (Jul. 2005), 479-487. PDF file for this paper.

Bobenko, A. I, and Schröder, P. Discrete Willmore flow. Procedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing , 2005. PDF file for this paper.

Speakers:

Siddhartha Chaudhuri (slides) and Daniel Russel (slides)

Date: Wednesday, November 2
Topic: Mesh Deformation I
Papers:

James, D. L. and Twigg, C. D. 2005. Skinning mesh animations. ACM Trans. Graph. 24, 3 (Jul. 2005), 399-407. PDF file for this paper.

Anguelov, D., Srinivasan, P., Koller, D., Thrun, S., Rodgers, J., and Davis, J. 2005. SCAPE: shape completion and animation of people. ACM Trans. Graph. 24, 3 (Jul. 2005), 408-416. PDF file for this paper.

Speakers: Emilio Antunez (slides) and Inam Malik (absent, James and Twigg paper not presented)
Date: Wednesday, November 9
Topic: Mesh Deformation II
Papers:

Müller, M., Heidelberger, B., Teschner, M., and Gross, M. 2005. Meshless deformations based on shape matching. ACM Trans. Graph. 24, 3 (Jul. 2005), 471-478. PDF file for this paper.

Sumner, R. W., Zwicker, M., Gotsman, C., and Popovic, J. 2005. Mesh-based inverse kinematics. ACM Trans. Graph. 24, 3 (Jul. 2005), 488-495. PDF file for this paper.

Speakers: Steve Oudot (slides) and Maksim Ovsjanikov (slides)
Date: Wednesday, November 16
Topic: Motion Data Analysis
Papers:

Müller, M., Röder, T., and Clausen, M. 2005. Efficient content-based retrieval of motion capture data. ACM Trans. Graph. 24, 3 (Jul. 2005), 677-685. PDF file for this paper.

Assa, J., Caspi, Y., and Cohen-Or, D. 2005. Action synopsis: pose selection and illustration. ACM Trans. Graph. 24, 3 (Jul. 2005), 667-676. PDF file for this paper.

Speakers: Inam Malik (slides) and Kyle Heath
Date: Wednesday, November 23
Topic: No Meeting -- Thanksgiving Recess
Papers:

None

Speakers:  
Date: Wednesday, November 30
Topic: Dynamics
Papers:

Redon, S., Galoppo, N., and Lin, M. C. 2005. Adaptive dynamics of articulated bodies. ACM Trans. Graph. 24, 3 (Jul. 2005), 936-945. PDF file for this paper.

Kaufman, D. M., Edmunds, T., and Pai, D. K. 2005. Fast frictional dynamics for rigid bodies. ACM Trans. Graph. 24, 3 (Jul. 2005), 946-956. PDF file for this paper.

Speakers: Qing Fang (slides) and Jorge Vittes (slides)
Date: Wednesday, December 7
Topic: Fluids
Papers:

Foster, N., and Metaxas, D. Realistic animation of liquids (extended). Graphical Models and Image Processing , 58(5), (1996), pp. 471-483. PDF file for this paper.

Stam, J. 1999. Stable fluids. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and interactive Techniques International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., New York , NY , 121-128. PDF file for this paper.

Speakers: An Nguyen (slides) and Primoz Skraba (slides)

Last update: October 8, 2005