EG 3DOR 2012

The fifth Eurographics workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (EG3DOR'12) will be take place on May 13, 2012 in Caliari (Italy), as a co-event of the 33rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics 2012). I am program chair of this event, together with Alexander Bronstein from Tel-Aviv University. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original and unpublished research and practical applications in all areas of 3D Object Retrieval.

3DORuS web page published

I am the principal investigator of the 3DORuS: 3D Object Retrieval using Skecthes project, funded by Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT). This project focus on interfaces for 3D object retrieval and started in March 2010. After a few delays, we made now available online the 3DORuS project webpage. Feel free to visit it and give us some feedback.

T-b3DR online again

After a long down-time due to server problems, the Thesaurus-based 3D Object Retrieval (T-b3DR) webpage is again online. Among other stuff, you can find there some interisting utilities that were develepod during my PhD thesis (and after).

ACM MM 3DOR 2010

Last week I attended the International Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, a co-event of ACM Multimedia 2010. This workshop brought together researchers from different fields, ranging from computer vision, computer graphics, machine learning and human-computer interaction, whose works relates to 3D object retrieval.

Although all work presented in this forum was relevant to my research, I was particularly interested in the paper "Local Visual Patch for 3D Shape Retrieval" by Mohamed Daoudi et.al. and the poster "A Benchmark for Best View Selection of 3D Objects" by Afzal Godil et.al.

LSketchIt

Last week I've been in the fifth Eurographics workshop on sketch-based interfaces and modeling (SBIM'08). The workshop took place during the famous Annecy Animation Film Festival and was held together with the premier conference for techniques in expressive rendering and animation: the non photo realistic animation and rendering conference (NPAR'2008).

At the SBIM'08, I presented our more recent work on sketch based modeling (see paper "Using Sketches and Retrieval to Create LEGO Models"). The LSketchIt is a calligraphic tool for creating LEGO models that uses sketches and retrieval to ease and speed up the modeling process. Check out LSketchIt working in the demonstration video below.

LSketchIt demonstration video