SMI 2008: Stony Brook, NY, USA

Invited Talks

• Tao Ju:
  Octree skeleton: An efficient tool for shape and topology analysis of digital models.
  
• Wenping Wang:
  Computation and properties of Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation.
  

Smoothing and Fairing

• Tianyun Ni, Young In Yeo, Ashish Myles, Vineet Goel, Jörg Peters:
  GPU smoothing of quad meshes. 3-9
  
• Ahmed Fouad El Ouafdi, Djemel Ziou:
  A global physical method for manifold smoothing. 11-17
  
• Ye Zhao:
  GPU-accelerated surface denoising and morphing with lattice Boltzmann scheme. 19-28
  
• Yu-Kun Lai, Yong-Jin Liu, Yu Zang, Shi-Min Hu:
  Fairing wireframes in industrial surface design. 29-35
  

Reconstruction

• Xianfang Sun, Paul L. Rosin, Ralph R. Martin, Frank C. Langbein:
  Noise in 3D laser range scanner data. 37-45
  
• S. Cihan Bilir, Yücel Yemez:
  Time varying surface reconstruction from multiview video. 47-51
  

Skeletons

• Ying He, Xian Xiao, Hock Soon Seah:
  Example based skeletonization using harmonic one-forms. 53-61
  
• Sasakthi S. Abeysinghe, Matthew L. Baker, Wah Chiu, Tao Ju:
  Segmentation-free skeletonization of grayscale volumes for shape understanding. 63-71
  
• Giuseppe Patanè, Michela Spagnuolo, Bianca Falcidieno:
  Reeb graph computation based on a minimal contouring. 73-82
  

Matching and Shape Retrieval

• David Eppstein, Michael T. Goodrich, Ethan Kim, Rasmus Tamstorf:
  Approximate topological matching of quadrilateral meshes. 83-92
  
• Ryutarou Ohbuchi, Kunio Osada, Takahiko Furuya, Tomohisa Banno:
  Salient local visual features for shape-based 3D model retrieval. 93-102
  
• Frank B. ter Haar, Remco C. Veltkamp:
  A 3D face matching framework. 103-110
  

Curves and Surfaces

• Hao Wang, Carlos Eduardo Scheidegger, Cláudio T. Silva:
  Optimal bandwidth selection for MLS surfaces. 111-120
  
• Martin Aigner, Bert Jüttler:
  Gauss-Newton-type techniques for robustly fitting implicitly defined curves and surfaces to unorganized data points. 121-130
  
• Charlie C. L. Wang:
  A least-norm approach to flattenable mesh surface processing. 131-138
  

Representing and Creating Shapes

• Stefanus L. Yohanes:
  Surface representations using blossoms and buds. 139-145
  
• Linge Bai, Manolya Eyiyurekli, David E. Breen:
  Self-organizing primitives for automated shape composition. 147-154
  
• George W. Hart:
  Sculptural forms from hyperbolic tessellations. 155-161
  

Computing Solutions and Distances

• Gershon Elber, Thomas A. Grandine:
  Efficient solution to systems of multivariate polynomials using expression trees. 163-169
  
• Thiago Bastos, Waldemar Celes Filho:
  GPU-accelerated Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields. 171-178
  
• Joon-Kyung Seong, Won-Ki Jeong, Elaine Cohen:
  Anisotropic geodesic distance computation for parametric surfaces. 179-186
  

Aligning, Clustering and Organizing Models

• Mohamed Chaouch, Anne Verroust-Blondet:
  A novel method for alignment of 3D models. 187-195
  
• Iurie Chiosa, Andreas Kolb:
  Variational Multilevel Mesh Clustering. 197-204
  
• Justin Jang, Jarek Rossignac:
  OCTOR: OCcurrence selecTOR in pattern hierarchies. 205-212
  

SHape REtrieval Contest (SHREC) 2008

• Remco C. Veltkamp, Frank B. ter Haar:
  SHape REtrieval Contest (SHREC) 2008. 215-216
  
• Silvia Biasotti, Marco Attene:
  SHape REtrieval contest 2008: Stability of watertight models. 217-218
  
• Daniela Giorgi, Simone Marini:
  SHape REtrieval contest 2008: Classification of watertight models. 219-220
  
• Ramanathan Muthuganapathy, Karthik Ramani:
  SHape REtrieval contest 2008: CAD models. 221-222
  
• Ryutarou Ohbuchi:
  SHape REtrieval contest 2008: Generic models. 223-224
  
• Frank B. ter Haar, Mohamed Daoudi, Remco C. Veltkamp:
  SHape REtrieval contest 2008: 3D face scans. 225-226
  
• Thibault Napoleon, Tomasz Adamek, Francis Schmitt, Noel E. O'Connor:
  SHREC'08 entry: Multi-view 3D retrieval using multi-scale contour representation. 227-228
  
• Tony Tung, Francis Schmitt:
  SHREC'08 entry: Shape retrieval of noisy watertight models using aMRG. 229-230
  
• Dong Xu, Li Cui, Ping Hu, Weiguo Cao, Hua Li:
  SHREC'08 entry: Invariant features for robust shape retrieval. 231-232
  
• Corey Goldfeder, Haoyun Feng, Peter K. Allen:
  SHREC'08 entry: Training set expansion via autotags. 233-234
  
• Xiaolan Li, Afzal Godil, Asim Wagan:
  SHREC'08 entry: Visual based 3D CAD retrieval using Fourier Mellin Transform. 235-236
  
• Kunio Osada, Takahiko Furuya, Ryutarou Ohbuchi:
  SHREC - 08 entry: Local 2D visual features for CAD Model retrieval. 237-238
  
• Asim Wagan, Afzal Godil, Xiaolan Li:
  SHREC'08 entry: 3D shape searching using object partitioning. 239-240
  
• Akihiro Yamamoto, Masaki Tezuka, Toshiya Shimizu, Ryutarou Ohbuchi:
  SHREC'08 entry: Semi-supervised learning for semantic 3D model retrieval. 241-243
  
• Kunio Osada, Takahiko Furuya, Ryutarou Ohbuchi:
  SHREC'08 entry: Local volumetric features for 3D model retrieval. 245-246
  
• Panagiotis Papadakis, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros J. Perantonis, Theoharis Theoharis, Georgios Passalis:
  SHREC'08 entry: 2D/3D hybrid. 247-248
  
• Liu Yujie, Yao Xiaolan, Li Zongmin, Men Xiuping:
  SHREC'08 entry: 3D model retrieval based on the V system invariant moment. 249-250
  
• Liu Yujie, Yao Xiaolan, Li Zongmin:
  SHREC'08 entry: Forward neural network-based 3D model retrieval. 251-252
  
• Brian Amberg, Reinhard Knothe, Thomas Vetter:
  SHREC'08 entry: Shape based face recognition with a Morphable Model. 253-254
  
• Stefano Berretti, Alberto Del Bimbo, Pietro Pala:
  SHREC'08 entry: 3D face recognition using integral shape information. 255-256
  
• Prathap Nair, Andrea Cavallaro:
  SHREC'08 entry: Registration and retrieval of 3D faces using a Point Distribution Model. 257-258
  
• Frank B. ter Haar, Remco C. Veltkamp:
  SHREC'08 entry: 3D face recognition using facial contour curves. 259-260
  
• Dong Xu, Ping Hu, Weiguo Cao, Hua Li:
  SHREC'08 entry: 3D face recognition using moment invariants. 261-262
  

Posters

• Yukie Nagai, Yutaka Ohtake, Kiwamu Kase, Hiromasa Suzuki:
  Polygonizing skeletal sheets of CT-scanned objects by partitioin of unity approximations. 265-266
  
• Adeline Pihuit, Paul G. Kry, Marie-Paule Cani:
  Hands on virtual clay. 267-268
  
• Masayoshi Taniguchi, Masaki Tezuka, Ryutarou Ohbuchi:
  Learning 3D Face Models for shape based retrieval. 269-270
  
• Shuming Gao, Wei Zhao, Fanqin Yang, Xiang Chen:
  Feature suppression based CAD mesh model simplification. 271-272
  
• Dennie Reniers, Alexandru Telea:
  Robust segmentation of voxel shapes using medial surfaces. 273-274
  
• Yi-Ling Chen, Xiang Zhang:
  A memory effective two-phase approach for large scanned surface mesh simplification. 275-276
  
• Julie S. Chalfant, Nicholas M. Patrikalakis:
  Shape registration via the wavelet transform. 277-278
  
• Dmitry N. Krasnoshchekov, Valentin Polishchuk:
  Robust curve reconstruction with k-order alpha-shapes. 279-280
  
• Corey Goldfeder, Peter K. Allen:
  Autotagging to improve text search for 3D models. 281-282
  
• Takashi Kanai, Yutaka Ohtake:
  Discrete shortest paths on smooth surface representations. 283-284