SCOTT SCHAEFER

Assistant Professor

Email: schaefer@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/862-4251
Office: HRBB 527B
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/schaefer

Ph.D., Computer Science, Rice University, 2006
M.S., Computer Science, Rice University, 2003
B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics, Trinity University, 2000

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Computer graphics, geometric modeling, scientific visualization

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

"Fast Point Cloud Surface Reconstruction Algorithms," The National Science Foundation, September 2009 - August 2012.

"Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds Using Wavelets," DARPA, May 2009 - April 2011.

"Terrain and Surface Reconstruction Using Wavelets," DARPA, March 2008 - March 2009.

"Generalized Barycentric Coordinates," The National Science Foundation, July 2007 - May 2010.

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2006 - present

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES

Associate Editor, Graphical Models

Associate Editor, The Visual Computer

Program Co-Chair, Shape Modeling International, 2012

Program Co-Chair, Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2011

Committee Member, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2011

Committee Member, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2010

Unified Jury Member, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2011

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Manson J., Schaefer S., "Wavelet Rasterization," Proceedings of Eurographics, pp. 395-404, 2011.

Singh M., Schaefer S., "Triangle Surfaces with Discrete Equivalence Classes," Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 46:1-46:7, 2010.

Lei H., Hormann K., Schaefer S., "Parameterizing Subdivision Surfaces," Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, pp.120:1-120:6, 2010.

Loop, C., Schaefer S., Ni T., Castano I., "Approximating Subdivision Surfaces with Gregory Patches for Hardware Tessellation," Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, pp. 151:1-151:9, 2009.

Yuksel C., Schaefer S., Keyser J., "Hair Meshes," Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, pp. 166:1-166:7, 2009.

Schaefer S., McPhail T., Warren J., "Image Deformation using Moving Least Squares," Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 533-540, 2006.

Ju T., Schaefer S., Warren J., "Mean Value Coordinates for Closed Triangular Meshes," Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 561-566, 2005.

Ju, T., Losasso F., Schaefer S., Warren J., "Dual Contouring of Hermite Data," Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 339-346, 2002.