SmartAnnotator An Interactive Tool for Annotating Indoor RGBD Images

RGBD images with high quality annotations, both in the form of geometric (i.e., segmentation) and structural (i.e., how do the segments mutually relate in 3D) information, provide valuable priors for a diverse... Read more »

Morse complexes for shape segmentation and homological analysis: discrete models and algorithms

Morse theory offers a natural and mathematically-sound tool for shape analysis and understanding. It allows studying the behavior of a scalar function defined on a manifold. Starting from a Morse function, we... Read more »

Template Assembly for Detailed Urban Reconstruction

We propose a new framework to reconstruct building details by automatically assembling 3D templates on coarse textured building models. In a preprocessing step, we generate an initial coarse model to approximate a... Read more »

A Dimension-reduced Pressure Solver for Liquid Simulations

This work presents a method for efficiently simplifying the pressure projection step in a liquid simulation. We first devise a straightforward dimension reduction technique that dramatically reduces the cost of solving the... Read more »

Layer-Based Procedural Design of Façades

We present a novel procedural framework for interactively modeling building façades. Common procedural approaches, such as shape grammars, assume that building façades are organized in a tree structure, while in practice this... Read more »

Recent Advances in Facial Appearance Capture

Facial appearance capture is now firmly established within academic research and used extensively across various application domains, perhaps most prominently in the entertainment industry through the design of virtual characters in video... Read more »

Composition-Aware Scene Optimization for Product Images

Increasingly, companies are creating product advertisements and catalog images using computer renderings of 3D scenes. A common goal for these companies is to create aesthetically appealing compositions that highlight objects of interest... Read more »

Guiding Image Manipulations using Shape-appearance Subspaces from Co-alignment of Image Collections

We propose a system to restrict the manipulation of shape and appearance in an image to a valid subspace which we learn from a collection of exemplar images. To this end, we... Read more »

Real-Time Subspace Integration for Example-Based Elastic Material

Example-based material allows simulating complex material behaviors in an art-directed way. This paper presents a method for fast subspace integration for example-based elastic material, which is suitable for real-time simulation in computer... Read more »

Selective Degree Elevation for Multi-Sided Bézier Patches

This paper presents a method to selectively elevate the degree of an S-Patch of arbitrary dimension. We consider not only S-Patches with 2D domains but 3D and higher-dimensional domains as well, of... Read more »