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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium : 3D shape modeling\, animation and fabrication usin
 g computation-friendly variational methods
DTSTART:20141027T161500
DTEND:20141027T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T161428Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By : Olga Sorkine-Hornung - ETH ZurichVideo of her talkAbstrac
 t :\nIrregular triangle meshes are a powerful digital shape representation
 : they are flexible and can represent virtually any complex shape\; they a
 re efficiently rendered by graphics hardware\; they are the standard outpu
 t of 3D acquisition and routinely used as input to simulation software. Ye
 t irregular meshes are difficult to model and edit because they lack a hig
 her-level control mechanism. In this talk\, I will survey a series of rese
 arch results on surface modeling via mesh deformation and show how high-re
 solution meshes can be interactively manipulated and animated in a fast an
 d intuitive manner. I will also discuss how the incorporation of some simp
 le physics laws directly into the interactive modeling framework can be do
 ne inexpensively and beneficially for geometric modeling: while not being 
 as restrictive and parameter-heavy as a full-blown physical simulation\, t
 his allows to creatively model shapes with improved realism and directly u
 se them in fabrication.Bio :\nOlga Sorkine-Hornung is an Assistant Profess
 or of Computer Science at ETH Zurich\, where she leads the Interactive Geo
 metry Lab at the Institute of Visual Computing. Prior to joining ETH she w
 as an Assistant Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
 s\, New York University (2008-2011). She earned her BSc in Mathematics and
  Computer Science and PhD in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University (20
 00\, 2006). Following her studies\, she received the Alexander von Humbold
 t Foundation Fellowship and spent two years as a postdoc at the Technical 
 University of Berlin. Olga is interested in theoretical foundations and pr
 actical algorithms for digital content creation tasks\, such as shape repr
 esentation and editing\, artistic modeling techniques\, computer animation
  and digital image manipulation. She also works on fundamental problems in
  digital geometry processing\, including reconstruction\, parameterization
 \, filtering and compression of geometric data. Olga received the EUROGRAP
 HICS Young Researcher Award (2008)\, the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Rese
 archer Award (2011)\, the ERC Starting Grant (2012)\, the ETH Latsis Prize
  (2012) and the Intel Early Career Faculty Award (2013).More information
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