geometry processing

KAUST alumna Professor Jing Ren receives the Eurographics Young Researcher Award

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The award highlights contributions spanning geometry processing, digital fabrication and computer vision.

Isotropic Geometry and Applications in Geometric Computing

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B3 L5 R5209

This thesis addresses challenges in computational design and fabrication, particularly in the geometry of architectural gridshell structures and their approximation, by solving nonlinear optimization problems.

Workshop on Applied Geometry and Visual Computing

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B4 L5 R5209

The “KAUST Workshop on Applied Geometry and Visual Computing” brings together leading scientists from Europe and the United States, presenting their latest results in - Applied and Discrete Differential Geometry - Geometry Processing - Computational Fabrication The talks are related to various problems in Applied Mathematics in general and to further areas of Visual Computing such as Computer Graphics, Physical Simulation and Scientific Visualization. The workshop provides a great opportunity to learn about latest developments and to discuss ongoing work with top researchers in the field.

Robust Geometry Processing for Physical Simulation

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B4 L5 R5209

I will discuss the limitations of the current state of the art, and present a proposal for an integrated pipeline, considering data acquisition, meshing, basis design, and numerical optimization as a single challenge, where tradeoffs can be made between different phases to increase automation and efficiency. I will demonstrate that this integrated approach offers many advantages, while opening exciting new geometry processing challenges, and that a fully opaque meshing and analysis solution is already possible for heat transfer and elasticity problems with contact. I will present a set of applications enabled by this approach in reinforcement learning for robotics, force measurements in biology, shape design in mechanical engineering, stress estimation in biomechanics, and simulation of deformable objects in graphics.

Cohomology in fluids

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B4 L5 R5209

We present a topological analysis of the vorticity formulation in describing fluid dynamics. Despite its widespread use in fluid mechanics, this formulation is insufficient at describing fluid dynamics on a non-simply-connected domain. What is missing is an equation of motion for fluid's cohomology component, which exhibits fascinating dynamics previously under explored. Using geometric language, we derive the new equation of motion and establish new conservation laws, as Casimir invariants in Hamiltonian mechanics, for fluids on domains with general topology. Significantly, we present the first physically correct vortex method on curved surfaces with genus and boundaries.

Discrete Surfaces from Developable Strips

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B4 L5 R5209

We will discuss several settings in which smooth developable strips are attached to each other or assembled in some other way to obtain surfaces with interesting geometric properties. Driven by the view towards applications we will investigate collections of strips which lie orthogonal or tangential to a reference surface and assume particular shapes. Such strips can serve as support structures or cladding panels of free-form shapes in architectural contexts. Our focus will lie on surfaces with a constant ratio of principal curvatures, cone nets, geodesic grid shells, and others.

Yipeng Qin

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer Science
Yipeng Qin was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with Professor Peter Wonka at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Currently, he is a Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Informatics in Cardiff University (CU), United Kingdom. Education and Early Career In 2013, Yipeng Qin graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Later during 2017, he obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University in

Victor Ceballos Inza

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
Victor Ceballos Inza is a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Helmut Pottmann at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Niloy Mitra

Professor Niloy Mitra joined KAUST as an Assistant professor in 2009. Currently, he is a Professor of Geometry Processing in the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL). Education and Early Career He received his Master and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University under the guidance of Leonidas Guibas and Marc Levoy, and was a postdoctoral scholar with Professor Helmut Pottmann at Technical University Vienna. His research interests include shape analysis, computational design and fabrication, and geometry processing.

Michael Birsak

Research Scientist, Computer Science
Michael Birsak is a Research Scientist working with Professor Peter Wonka at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Khusrav Yorov

Khusrav's research focuses on geometry and its application in real life, especially differential geometry, discrete differential geometry, and isotropic geometry.

Jing Ren

KAUST alumna and computer graphics researcher specializing in geometry processing and shape analysis.

Jens Schneider

Research Scientist, Computer Science
Jens Schneider was a Staff Scientist at the Visual Computing Center in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Currently, he’s an Assistant Professor in College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar. Education and Early Career Jens Schneider received a diploma equivalent to Master degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen in Germany, 2004. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Technical University Munich, Germany, in 2009 Dr. Schneider joined KAUST in 2009 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Later on, he was promoted to Research

Caigui Jiang

Research Scientist, Computer Science
Caigui Jiang is a Research Scientist at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) working with Professor Helmut Pottmann at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Dr. Jiang obtained a bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering and his masters in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in China. After that, he joined KAUST to receive his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2016. Caigui has a diverse experience in the academic and research field. In 2016, he joined Max Planck Institute for Informatics as a Postdoctoral