Introduction

The International Summer School on Shape Modeling and Reasoning will focus on representations and computational techniques for modeling and reasoning on digital shapes. A digital shape is any individual object having a visual appearance which exists in a two or higher dimensional space. Pictures, sketches, images, 3D objects, videos, and animations are examples of shapes. Digital shapes are used in many different contexts, including industrial design, biomedical applications, entertainment, environmental monitoring, cultural heritage.

The program will consist of invited lectures, given by leading international scientists in the field, who will present state-of-the-art techniques on shape modeling and understanding, and will bring complementary views of problems and solutions. The school is organized within the EU FP6 Network of Excellence AIM@SHAPE.

• Go to the International Summer School official web site for more information.

Prerequisites

The school is primarily intended for young researchers with some background in computer science, computer engineering, or mathematics. Participants should have basic knowledge of classical algorithms and data structure and of computer graphics.

Topics and Lecturers of the School

• Pierre Alliez (INRIA): Geometry processing
• Leila De Floriani, Enrico Puppo (University of Genova): Mesh-based Shape Representations
• Bianca Falcidieno (Italian National Research Council, Genova): The AIM@SHAPE approach
• Anath Fischer (Technion): Data fusion and mesh reconstruction methods utilizing 3D Emerging Non-Contact Scanning Technologies
• Stephanie Hahmann: Multi-resolution modeling
• Hanan Samet (University of Maryland): Multidimensional, Spatial, and Metric Data Structures for Computer Graphics Applications
• Ariel Shamir (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories) Strategies for mesh segmentation
• Deborah Silver (RutGers University): Curve Skeletons: Applications & Algorithms
• Simone Marini, Michela Spagnuolo, Daniela Giorgi, Silvia Biasotti (Italian National Research Council, Genova): Geometric and Semantic Methods for Shape Retrieval

Applications, such as product design and analysis, visualization and computer graphics, animation, game development, web searching, biomedical engineering, will be discussed.

Student Application

The school will be open to about 50 qualified, motivated and pre-selected students. Ph.D. students, post-docs, young researchers (both academic and industrial) or industrial professionals are encouraged to apply.

• The application will be free and it should be done before 12 May 2007.

The students who will attend the School will have free access to all courses, handling material, coffee breaks, lunches, and a social dinner.

For more information, please send a message to the Organization Commitee Chair.

Organization

Steering Commitee

• Leila De Floriani (Chair)
• Gill Barequet
• Bianca Falcidieno
• Craig Gotsman
• Enrico Puppo
• Michela Spagnuolo

Organization Commitee

• Laura Papaleo (Chair) (University of Genova)
• Laura Montanari (University of Genova)
• Daniela Peghini (University of Genova)