For the weekly seminar of the STORM research group, Valentin Roussellet will give a presentation on Position Based Dynamics – Theory and Practice. This seminar will take the form of both a theoretical presentation as well as a practical tutorial on this widely used physical simulation method.…

For the STORM seminar of Friday, February 2, Anahid Ghazanfarpour will present her current research works on Multiple Object Mesh Simplification with Proximity Preserving Quadric Error Metric.

Abstract : Quadric Error Metric (QEM) is a local simplification method that produces satisfying results for a single object. However, in case several objects with proximities to each other are to be simplified, QEM is no longer enough since these proximities are not considered during the simplification process and might get altered.…

For the weekly seminar of the STORM research group, Florian Canezin will give a presentation on the last Improvements of Implicit Skinning.

Abstract Since the Implicit Skinning technique went out 3 years ago, lot of work has been done in order to stabilize the code, which has been imported from an old cuda-friendly framework into the Radium Engine.…

For the weekly seminar of the STORM research group, Thibault Lejemble will present his current research work on Multi-scale and Structural Analysis of Point Cloud.

Abstract With the increasing use of 3D numerical acquisition techniques, point clouds become more and more complex. These unstructured raw data contains acquisition noise, missing data and varying sampling, which make their usage difficult.…

For the STORM seminar on Friday 8/12, Loïc Barthe will give us a talk on Line Search Methods in Numerical Optimization. This presentation is part of the reading group on Numerical Optimization. For this session, it is recommended to read the Chapter 3.…

For this weekly seminar, Sara Casti will present her last results on Cage Generation for Animation Purposes.

Abstract Computer animators need simple tools and techniques that allow them to reduce their workload in order to realize animations. Simplified structures (points, skeletons and cages), called handles, are designed in order to speed up animation pipeline.…

For the STORM seminar on Friday 24/11, Mathias Paulin will give us a talk entitled Towards a path metric for path-space rendering and compositing.

Abstract Monte Carlo methods for solving the so called path-space light transport formulation are nowadays the most useful rendering techniques. Their ability to render general and physically correct lighting effects with no user interaction is one of the main reason the movie industry tend to generalize their usage for production.…

For the STORM seminar on Friday 17/11, David Vanderhaeghe will give us a talk on Line Search Methods in Numerical Optimization. This presentation is based on the Chapter 3 of the book Numerical Optimization. It is recommended to read it in order to participate to the discussion that will follow.…

For the weekly seminar of the STORM research group, Dr. Nadine Aburumman will give a talk on Fluid Simulation in Computer Graphics.

Abstract Video games appeal to our desire to explore and interact with our environment, and adding real-world phenomena -such as fluid motion- allows game developers to create immersive and fun virtual worlds.…

For the weekly seminar of the STORM research group, Nicolas Mellado will present his current research works on Transformation Space Sampling and Analysis for Point-Cloud Registration.

Abstract Data acquisition in large-scale scenes regularly involves accumulating information across multiple scans. A common approach is to locally align scan pairs using Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm (or its variants), but requires static scenes and small motion between scan pairs.…