Title

Seminar: Computer Graphics
Kick-off
Pierre-Alexandre Beaufort
Computer Graphics Group - University of Bern
FS2021

People

Supervisor

Prof. David Bommes

Fallback

Heng Liu

Helpers

Nicolas Gallego-Ortiz
Martin Heistermann
Valentin Nigolian
Simone Raimondi

Overview

# Tasks Skills
1. Read CG/GP articles Know about the state of the art CG/GP
2. Review a paper Assess scientific literature
3. Present a seminar Report clearly significant information

If you do a bachelor thesis with CGG:

  • You only have to attend all seminar presentations
  • You should actively participate in the discussions
  • You shall present your thesis results in a seminar

Topics

CG/GP articles have mostly been selected from papers published by top conferences

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Some research areas:

  • Geometry Processing
  • Shape Analysis and Optimisation
  • Mesh Generation
  • Digital Fabrication
  • Surface Reconstruction Algorithms

How to dig an article

Identify the context:

  • Related works
  • Key ideas
  • Novelties

Some advices:

  • Watch related talks
  • Read Related Work §
  • Check out some references
  • Query Google Scholar

⚠️ Be careful to cite all the sources you’ve used 💥

Presenting is challenging

  • Time is limited
  • Attention of the audience is finite
  • Background of the audience is various

Some tips:

  1. Motivate the topic
  2. Take time to explain the fundamentals
  3. Do not overload the slides
  4. Select carefully crucial/original information
  5. Provide a take-home message

Specifications for the seminars

  • The presentation should last 20-25 minutes
  • A discussion of 10 minutes should follow
  • The presentation is given in English
  • One rehearsal (optional, but highly recommended: contact me)

About plagiarism

wikipedia.org: “Plagiarism is the representation of another author’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one’s own original work.”

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How to avoid plagiarism in research papers?

For further info, refer to the Swiss Joint Master of Science in Computer Science guidelines

A glance on selected articles

Opening and Closing Surfaces

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Project page

A Laplacian for Nonmanifold Triangle Meshes

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Paper, project page

Discrete Differential Operators on Polygonal Meshes

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Paper, project page

Subdivision Directional Fields

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Paper, project page

Lifting Simplices to Find Injectivity

Paper, project page

Cut-enhanced PolyCube-Maps for Feature-aware All-Hex Meshing

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Paper, project page

Freeform Quad-based Kirigami

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Paper, project page

Weaving Geodesic Foliations

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Paper, project page

Factor Once: Reusing Cholesky Factorizations on Sub-Meshes

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Symmetric Moving Frames

Paper, project page

Freeform Deformations

Paper, project page

Topological Interlocking Assemblies

Paper, project page

Robust Adaptive Floating-Point Geometric Predicates (1997)

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Project page

Isotropic Distortion Energies

Paper Project page

Fast tetrahedral meshing in the wild

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Paper Project page

Inter-surface maps via constant-curvature metrics

Paper Project page

Poisson Surface Reconstruction

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Paper, project page

Poisson Surface Reconstruction with Envelope Constraints

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Paper, project page

Topology-Aware Surface Reconstruction for Point Clouds

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Paper

Introducing neural supersampling for real-time rendering

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Paper, project page

Compositional Neural Scene Representations for Shading Inference

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Paper, project page

TODO

  • Sign in Ilias for this course
  • Check out the selected articles
  • Send me an email with your three prefered articles, e.g.:
    1. title1
    2. title2” or “title3
    3. title4
  • Deadline: March 3rd, 23:59

FYI:

  • The articles are assigned according to the preferences on a first come first served basis.
  • If you want to propose an article, contact me :-)

Final words

  • There is no regular meetings during the semester.
  • If needed, schedule an appointment with me.
  • The seminars occur the last weeks of the semester.
  • You are expected to attend all presentations and actively participate in discussions.
  • Some presentations of bachelor/master thesis may occur during the semester.