09-07 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.
This combination of topics will make the conference of interest to a wide audience of mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and others. Contributions are sought covering parametric surfaces, implicit surfaces, mesh surfaces, and other representations. A timely issue is the question of geometric algorithms which exploit the power of multi-core processors and GPUs, and papers addressing this topic would be particularly welcome. A key feature will be the interplay of ideas between the theoreticians in the subject and the users of the techniques. It is hoped that the conference will stimulate research ideas from users and developers of surface modelling systems by presentations of novel problems that may require new theoretical solutions.
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, USA
Contributed 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: ralph@cs.cf.ac.uk.
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:
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Pierre Alliez |
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-Residential:
| Non IMA Member: | £415.00 |
| IMA Member: | £330.00 |
| Student: | £195.00 |
All fees include lunch, refreshments and the conference dinner.
Programme
A conference programme can be downloaded below.
Domestic arrangements:
The residential conference fee includes accommodation (B&B) at Alcuin College on the campus for the nights of Sunday 6th, Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th September. The campus is about a 45 minute walk to the King's Manor - we hope to be able to organise a shuttle bus to take delegates to and from the conference venue. Accommodation is also available on Wednesday 9th at an additional cost of £40. Dinner is provided on Sunday evening at the college, there will be a wine reception on Monday evening with an optional dinner at a nearby restaurant, and the conference dinner at King's Manor will take place on the Tuesday night.
Accommodation
Accommodation will be available in the modern ensuite bedrooms in the University of York.
The accommodation is at Alcuin College which is on the Heslington Campus, while the King's Manor is in the city centre.
http://www.york.ac.uk/np/maps/kmdirect.htm
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The journey between the campus and the King's Manor can be walked in approximately 30-40 minutes. There is a regular bus service (number 4) which runs every 15 minutes and takes 10-15 minutes to the city centre (cost of around £2 for a return), this runs from 6am to midnight.
Conference Location
The meeting will be held in the King's Manor in the historic centre of York. The manor is one of York's most important and attractive buildings. The manor was originally the Abbots House for St Mary's Abbey and dates back to 1291. Following the Dissolution of the monasteries, it was retained by the Crown and allocated to the Council of the North. It became the official residence of the President of the Council in 1561 and was gradually enlarged and extended during the reign of Elizabeth I. Henry VIII and Catherine Howard stayed in the manor, and it was used as a residence by the Stuarts on their journeys between London and Edinburgh.
The workshop will be held in the Huntingdon Room which contains an impressive plaster frieze with the arms of Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon.The decorative doorway at the main entrance is Jacobean and depicts the Royal Arms.
Enquiries
Enquiries regarding possible contributions should be addressed to one of the members of the Organising Committee:
Prof. R. Martin, Cardiff University, Email: ralph@cs.cf.ac.uk
Dr. M. Sabin, Numerical Geometry Ltd, Email: malcolm@geometry.demon.co.uk
Prof. Edwin Hancock, University of York, Email: erh@cs.york.ac.uk
All other enquiries concerning conference arrangements should be sent the Conference Officer (Email: conferences@ima.org.uk) The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson St., Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England SS1 1EF.
