DIMACS Workshop on Surface Reconstruction

April 30 - May 2, 2003
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey

Organizers:

Nina Amenta, University of California - Davis, amenta@cs.ucdavis.edu

Fausto Bernardini, IBM - T. J. Watson Research Center, fausto@watson.ibm.com

This is a tentative program:

Surface reconstruction implementation challenge

Why is 3D scanning hard?
Keynote speaker: Marc Levoy, Stanford University
Leader of the Digital Michelangelo Project, a large-scale cultural heritage 3D scanning and reconstruction project.

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

  8:15 -  8:45  Breakfast and Registration

  8:40 -  8:50  Opening Remarks
                Steve Fortune

  8:50 -  9:00  Welcome and Greeting              

  9:00 -  9:40  Cocone algorithm and its variants for surface reconstruction
  		Tamal Dey, Ohio State University              

  9:40 - 10:20  Fast and Flexible 3D Scanning
		Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Princeton University  

 10:20 - 10:40  Break   

 10:40 - 11:20  Using Points for Rendering and Modeling Surfaces
		Claudio Silva, Oregon Graduate Institute 

 11:20 - 12:00  Evaluating the performance of 3-D active vision systems 
		J.-Angelo Beraldin, National Research Council Canada 

 12:00 -  1:20  Lunch

  1:20 -  2:00  Surface Reconstruction in Commercial Software
                Ping Fu, CEO and President of Raindrop Geomagic

  2:00 -  2:20  Surface reconstruction based on a dynamical system
                Joachim Giesen, Matthias John

  2:20 -  2:40  Break

  2:40 -  3:00  2.5D Active Surface for Surface Reconstruction
                Ye Duan, Hong Qin, State University of New York at Stony Brook 

  3:00 -  3:40  Nina Amenta, UC Davis

  3:40 -  4:00  Break

  4:00 -  5:00  Why is 3D scanning hard?  
                Keynote speaker: Marc Levoy, Stanford University
                Leader of the Digital Michelangelo Project 
                Open to the public

  5:00 -  6:00	Wine and cheese reception

Thursday, May 1, 2003
 
  8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast            

  9:00 - 10:00 	Computer Visualization using Partial Differential Equations and
		Implicit Surfaces
 		Hongkai Zhao, University of California               

 10:00 - 10:20  Ambient Isotopy for Topological Equivalence
		in Surface Reconstruction
		Tom Peters, University of Connecticut

 10:20 - 10:40  Break   

 10:40 - 11:20  3D Scanning for Cultural Heritage Applications
		Holly Rushmeier, IBM Watson

 11:20 - 11:40  Spectral Watertight Surface Reconstruction
		Ravi Kolluri, University of California, Berkeley

 11:40 - 12:00  Surface and Manifold Reconstruction in
		Arbitrary Embedding Spaces
		Daniel Freedman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
                Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

 12:00 -  1:20  Lunch

  1:20 -  2:20  DIMACS Challenge


  2:20 -  2:40  Break

  2:40 -  3:20  Reconstructing 3D surfaces from 2D images 
		Marc Pollefeys, University of North Carolina 

  3:20 -  3:40  Automatice Geometric Registration of
                Dense Range Scans for 3D Site Modeling
                Ioannis Stamos, Hunter College, City University of New York
                Peter K. Allen, Columbia University

  3:40 -  4:00  A Graph Theoretic Framework for Aligning
                Multiple Partial Scans
                Yates Fletcher, Geomagic.com

   4:00 - 4:20  Break

   4:20 - 5:00  Using Power Diagrams to Compute Implicitly Defined Surfaces
                Michael Henderson, IBM
 
Friday, May 2, 2003
 
   8:30 - 9:00  Breakfast            

   9:00 - 9:40  The Importance of Topology in Surface Reconstruction
                Herbert Edelsbrunner, Duke University  

  9:40 - 10:00  Shock Scaffold Segregation and Surface Recovery
                Frederic F. Leymarie and Benjamin B. Kimia, Brown University, RI.

 10:00 - 10:20  Tight Cocone : A Water-tight Surface Reconstructor
		Samrat Goswami 

 10:20 - 10:40  Break

 10:40 - 11:00  Point clouds, Surface Reconstruction, 
                and Differential Geometry: two selected topics.
		Frederic Cazals, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France

 11:00 - 11:20  Non-Iterative, Feature-Preserving Mesh Smoothing 
		Thouis Jones, MIT LCS Graphics Group

 11:20 - 12:00  Jeff Erickson, University of Illinois UC

 12:00 -  1:00  Lunch

 




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