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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=084474420-11122006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Joshua Podolak will present his preFPO on Thursday December
14 at 3:30PM in </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=084474420-11122006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Room 402. The members of his committee are Szymon
Rusinkiewicz, advisor; </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=084474420-11122006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Adam Finkelstein and Tom Funkhouser, readers; David Dobkin
and Bernard </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=084474420-11122006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Chazelle, nonreaders. Everyone is invited to attend
his talk. His abstract follows</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=084474420-11122006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>below.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2>Symmetry is an important feature of almost all shapes:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>nearly every man-made object contains at
least one plane of perfect symmetry and most natural objects exhibit
near-perfect symmetries. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However,
symmetry information has been underutilized in computer graphics. In this thesis
we will analyze both the perfect and the imperfect symmetries of 2D and 3D
models and define a symmetry transform that captures all planar symmetries.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We then examine some applications that
can benefit from symmetry information such as alignment, completion, shape
matching, segmentation, automatic viewpoint selection and
remeshing.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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