Geometric Modeling and Scientific Visualization Center

Vision

The Geometric Modeling and Scientific Visualization Center ensures that KAUST is at the forefront of petascale computing, modeling, visualization, and immersive environments.

Mission

The Center possesses top expertise and performs fundamental and application-oriented research in a variety of areas of visual computing, such as: geometric modeling and geometry processing, scientific visualization, virtual reality, rendering, simulation, computational geometry and topology, computer vision, and imaging science. There is a strong focus on novel applications with a high potential for the advancement of science and technology. In particular, the Center provides a unique interactive environment that cultivates multidisciplinary collaborations among KAUST researchers and students as well as industry researchers and collaborators interested in exploring the mathematical properties of systems in pure sciences and engineering.

Our news

GMSV Summit 2012

Come join the GMSV Summit Workshop 2012 !
25- 27 April, 2012

Organized by: Geometric Modeling & Scientific Visualization (GMSV) Center
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

GMSV's Summit is an exciting opportunity to get together with world-renowned researchers in the field of Visual Computing, Industrial partners, and GMSV's faculty and researchers. Hosted at KAUST, located directly at the Red Sea in Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Summit features:

  • A Workshop on recent trends in Geometric Modeling, Visual Computing, and Scientific Visualization
  • Academic and Industrial Board Meetings
  • Social Events

It is therefore the perfect venue to get updated on hot research in Visual Computing, to present your work (research and industry alike), for networking, or simply to talk to leading experts in the field in a beautiful and stimulating environment.

The workshop will feature a series of invited talks by Professors and Industry representatives from all over the world.

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GMSV signs collaboration agreement with Intel

GMSV is proud to announce that we have signed a collaboration agreement with Intel MER. This agreement is the foundation for exciting research opportunities with both Intel and GMSV. A first project will investigate display-aware, large-scale visualization and stream-processing of large scientific data sets. Students in Computer Science with a focus on Visualization are welcome to contact us for more information and opportunities. Please contact Dr. Jens Schneider or Prof. Dr. Markus Hadwiger for more details.

 

 

 

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GMSV to present 3 technical papers at SIGGRAPH

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This year, three GMSV papers have been accepted at SIGGRAPH, the most influential and reputed conference in Computer Graphics. These papers, entitled will be presented at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, Canada at 7 - 11 of August, 2011:

 

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Circular Arc Structures
P. Bo, H. Pottmann, M. Kilian, W. Wang, and J. Wallner
ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH, Math. Annalen), 2011

 

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Exploration of Continuous Variability in Collections of 3D Shapes
M. Ovsjanikov, W. Li, L. Guibas, N. J. Mitra
SIGGRAPH, 2011

 

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GlobFit: Consistently Fitting Primitives by Discovering Global Relations
Y. Li, X. Wu, Y. Chrysanthou, A. Sharf, D. Cohen-Or, N. J. Mitra
SIGGRAPH, 2011


Prof. Peter Wonka joins GMSV as an Associate Professor

 

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GMSV is proud to announce that Peter Wonka has joined GMSV as Associate Professor from Arizona State University. Peter has received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in Computer Science and holds a Master's Degree in Urban planning from the same institution. He was a postdoctorate researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology for two years before joining Arizona State University. His research interests include real-time rendering, procedural modeling, visualization and modeling for urban planning and architecture, remote sensing, geo-spatial visualization, and image processing.

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Prof. Niloy Mitra has been approved as GMSV Associate Professor

 

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In recognition of outstanding research and in honors of significant contributions to computer graphics, Prof. Niloy Mitra has been approved as Associate Professor at GMSV. Niloy's research interests are in geometric modeling, geometry processing, shape analysis, shape preserving deformations, scan alignment, and visualization. Currently, Dr. Mitra works on detection of symmetry and structural regularity in 3-dimensional geometry, and also in application of geometry processing in architectural design and other art forms.

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