From August 2003 to March 2005 he was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, where he also held a position as visiting assistant
Mark Pauly will be giving the PIXL talk tomorrow at noon in CS 402. ################### Title: Symmetry Detection and Structure Discovery for Digital 3D Geometry Abstract: With recent advances in 3D acquisition technology we witness a tremendous growth in the size and complexity of digital 3D models at all scales. We are now capable of digitizing entire cities, reconstruct the intricate 3D structures of human organs, or build accurate spatial representations of complex molecules. One of the key challenges in processing such data is finding and extracting geometric content relevant for a specific application. In this talk I will introduce a computational framework for symmetry detection and structure discovery in digital 3D geometry. The approach is fully automatic and assumes no prior knowledge on the location, size, or shape of the symmetric elements. Based on a statistical analysis of pairwise similarity transformations, our method successfully discovers complex regular structures amidst clutter, noise, and missing geometry. This enables applications in model repair, automated data classification, shape retrieval, reverse engineering, or compression. I will also discuss how symmetry detection and geometric optimization methods can be combined to yield an effective tool for shape design that allows enhancing or de-emphasising symmetries. Bio: Mark Pauly is an assistant professor at the CS department of ETH Zurich. professor during the summer of 2005. He received his Ph.D. degree (with distinction) in 2003 from ETH Zurich and his M.S. degree (with honors) in 1999 from TU Kaiserslautern. His research interests include computer graphics and animation, geometry processing, shape modeling and analysis, and computational geometry. He was recipient of a full-time scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation, received the ETH medal for outstanding dissertation, and was awarded the Eurographics Young Researcher Award in 2006.