IMA 13th Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces
Date: Monday 7 - Wednesday 9 September 2009 Location: University of York Computer-based methods for the capture, construction, representation, fitting, and manipulation of complicated surfaces have led to a wide interest in, and need for, surface mathematics. Many applications require the use of surface descriptions, especially in such fields as computer aided design and manufacturing, computer graphics and computer vision. The description of surfaces is also of interest in geographic information systems, multimedia, and many other areas of science and medicine. This diversity and the wide range of applicability of the subject have already enabled the IMA to hold twelve very successful international conferences in the Mathematics of Surfaces series. The 13th such conference has now been scheduled. Several international authorities will be presenting invited papers, and contributed papers are now called for. These will be refereed by an international programme committee. Three types of papers are sought:- Research papers presenting new developments in the capture, representation, manipulation, approximation, fitting, and design of surfaces, with an emphasis on computational methods and their underlying mathematical principles.
- Research papers covering novel practical applications of surface mathematics in areas such as CAD, Computer Vision, Computer graphics, GIS, and Architecture, especially those which pose new problems for the research community.
- Survey papers describing the state of the art of an aspect of the mathematics of surfaces.
Invited Speakers
Freddy Bruckstein, Technion, Israel Massimo Fornasier, Johann Radon Institute for Computational & Applied Mathematics, Austria Tom Funkhouser, Princeton University, USA
Bert Jüttler, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Swept Volume Parameterization for Isogeometric Analysis
Abstract: Isogeometric Analysis uses NURBS representations of the domain for performing numerical simulations. The first part of this talk presents a variational framework for generating NURBS parameterizations of swept volumes. The class of these volumes covers a number of interesting free-form shapes, such as blades of turbines and propellers, ship hulls or wings of airplanes. The second part of the talk reports the results of isogeometric analysis which were obtained with the help of the generated NURBS volume parameterizations. In particular we discuss the influence of the chosen parameterization and the incorporation of boundary conditions.
Biography: Bert Juettler is professor of Scientific Computing at Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria and head of the Institute of Applied Geometry (www.ag.jku.at). He did his PhD studies (1992-94) at Darmstadt University of Technology under the supervision of the late Professor Josef Hoschek. His research interests include various branches of applied geometry, such as Computer Aided Geometric Design, Isogeometric Analysis, Kinematics and Robotics. Bert Juettler is member of the Editorial Boards of Computer Aided Geometric Design (Elsevier) and the Int. J. of Shape Modeling (World Scientific) and serves on the program committees of various international conferences (e.g. for the ACM-SIAM conference on "Solid and Physical Modeling", San Francisco 2009).
Konrad Polthier; Free University of Berlin, Germany
Thomas Vetter, University of Basel, Switzerland
3D Morphable Face Models for the Analysis and Synthesis of 2D Images
Abstract: Morphable models constitute a unifying framework for the analysis and synthesis of images. In the field of Computer Graphics, they are applied to model photo-realistic face images; in the domain of Computer Vision, they are used in face recognition applications compensating variations across pose, illumination and facial expressions. Morphable face models draw on prior knowledge of human faces in the form of a general face model, learned from examples of other faces. By exploiting the correspondences between all examples, these models introduce a vector space structure on the examples that allows to synthesize novel photo-realistic images. Image analysis can be performed by fitting such a flexible model to novel images. Then, the model parameters yielding the optimal reconstruction are used to code or analyze the face depicted. In this talk, I start with a quick review on morphable face models and will discuss some of its limitations for face recognition applications based on skin detail analysis. In a second part I will report on current work on building morphable models of human bones and skulls and their application in medical data analysis for image segmentation and the probabilistic modeling of traumatized body parts.
Biography: Thomas Vetter studied mathematics and physics and received the Ph.D. degree in biophysics from the University of Ulm, Germany. As a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Biological and Computational Learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, he started his research on computer vision. In 1993, he moved to the Max-Planck-Institute, Tübingen, Germany, and, in 1999, he became a Professor of computer graphics at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Since 2002, he has been a Professor of applied computer science at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His current research is on image understanding, graphics, and automated model building.
Keynote Speaker
We are delighted to have as Keynote Speaker the renowned Field's Medallist: Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University, USAContributed Papers and Instructions to Authors
Contributed papers are invited in any of the categories outlined above. Full papers will be considered and should be sent by email to Prof. Ralph Martin, Cardiff University: [email protected]. Authors must prepare and submit their papers using LaTeX2e as the proceedings will be produced directly from authors' LaTeX sources. Appropriate guidance on preparation of the paper can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, including the necessary style files and an example paper. It is hoped that the proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series on behalf of the IMA, and will be available at the conference. Suggestions for poster sessions and software demonstrations are also welcomed. Papers will be refereed by an International Programme Committee:| Pierre Alliez Chandrajit Bajaj Alexander Belyaev Bob Cripps Gershon Elber Gerald Farin Rida Farouki Bob Fisher Mike Floater Leila de Floriani Xiao-Shan Gao Peter Giblin Ron Goldman Laureano Gonzalez-Vega Xianfang Gu Hans Hagen Kai Hormann Shimin Hu Deok-Soo Kim Myung-Soo Kim Tom Lyche Bernard Mourrain Alberto Paoluzzi Nick Patrikalakis Xavier Pennec Sonia Pérez-Díaz Jorg Peters Helmut Pottmann Hong Qin Christophe Rabut Ulrich Reif Martin Rumpf Paul Sablonniere Hanan Samet Will Smith Hiromasa Suzuki Georg Umlauf Luiz Velho Wenping Wang Joe Warren Mike Wilson Guoliang Xu | INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France University of Texas at Austin, USA Heriot-Watt University, UK University of Birmingham, UK Technion, Israel Arizona State University, USA University of California, Davis, USA University of Edinburgh, UK University of Oslo, Norway University of Genova, Italy Chinese Academy of Sciences, China University of Liverpool, UK Rice University, USA University of Cantabria, Spain State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Technical University of Clausthal, Germany Tsinghua University, China Hanyang University, Korea Seoul National University, Korea University of Oslo, Norway INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France University of Rome 3, Italy MIT, USA INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France University of Alcalá, Spain University of Florida, USA Technical University of Vienna, Austria State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA INSA Toulouse, France Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany University of Bonn, Germany INSA Rennes, France University of Maryland, USA University of York, UK University of Tokyo, Japan University of Kaiserslautern, Germany IMPA, Brazil University of Hong Kong, China Rice University, USA University of Leeds, UK Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Conference Fees
Residential (includes dinner, bed & breakfast):| Non IMA Member: | £565.00 |
| IMA Member: | £480.00 |
| Student: | £345.00 |
| Non IMA Member: | £415.00 |
| IMA Member: | £330.00 |
| Student: | £195.00 |
