Gopi Meenakshisundaram  (M. Gopi)

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

University of California, Irvine

 

949 824 9498

gopi at ics.uci.edu

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gopi

http://www.graphics.ics.uci.edu/

 

Resume  [pdf]

 

 

My research work focuses mainly on topics related to geometry and topology motivated by problems in Computer Graphics.

 

Awards

Publications by Research Projects

            Stripification and Geometry Processing

            Point Set Compression

            Sampling, Approximation, and Reconstruction of Surfaces

            Sketch-Based Modeling and Non-Photorealistic Rendering

            Solid Modeling, Surface Simplification, Collision Detection

            Image Processing for Telepresence and Image Based Rendering

            Architectures for Rendering Curves and Surfaces

All Publications

Service

Teaching [Not updated yet.]

 


 

TEACHING / RESEARCH AWARDS

 

Second Best Paper Award                 EUROGRAPHICS, Dublin, Ireland, 2005.

Second Best Paper Award                 EUROGRAPHICS, Grenoble, France, 2004.

Excellence in Teaching Award           Division of Undergraduate Education, UCI, 2004.

Link Foundation Fellow                       (1999-2000).

Gold Medalist                                      Overall academic Performance, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, 1992.

 


 

RESEARCH PROJECTS              (Click here to see all publications.)

 

Stripification and Geometry Processing 

 

            Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, M. Gopi

On Maximum Independent Set of Faces of Triangulated 2-Manifolds

UCI-ICS Technical Report 08-03.

 

Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, Anusheel Bhushan, M. Gopi, Renato Pajarola

Single Strips for Fast Interactive Rendering

The Visual Computer, 22(6), pp 372 – 386, June 2006.

 

            Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, M. Gopi

Quadrilateral and Tetrahedral Mesh Stripification Using 2-Factor Partitioning of the Dual Graph

The Visual Computer, 21(8 – 10), pp 689 – 697, Sep 2005.

Pacific Graphics 2005. [13.9%]

 

            Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, M. Gopi, Renato Pajarola

Hierarchyless Simplification, Stripification and Compression of Triangulated Two-Manifolds

Computer Graphics Forum, 24(3), pp 457–467, Sep 2005.

EUROGRAPHICS 2005 [15%], 2nd Best Paper Award.

 

            M. Gopi, David Eppstein

Single-Strip Triangulation of Manifolds with Arbitrary Topology

Computer Graphics Forum, 23(3), pp 371–379, 2004.

EUROGRAPHICS 2004 [18%], 2nd Best Paper Award.

 

M. Gopi

Controllable Single-Strip Generation for Triangulated Surfaces

Pacific Graphics, pp 61–69, 2004. [25%]

 

            Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, David Eppstein, M. Gopi

Single Triangle Strip and Loop on Manifolds with Boundaries

SIBGRAPI, [33%] October 2006.

 

            Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, Anusheel Bhushan, M. Gopi, Renato Pajarola

Constrained Strip Generation and Management for Efficient Interactive 3D Rendering

Computer Graphics Int. Conference, 2005.[32%, Top 5% invited for journal].

 

            Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, Anusheel Bhushan, Renato Pajarola, M. Gopi

Weighted Strip Generation for Accelerated Rendering

ACM SIGGRAPH Sym. on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2005. [Poster].

 

Point Set Compression

 

Yan Huang, Jingliang Peng, C.-C Jay Kuo, M. Gopi

A Generic Scheme for Progressive Point Cloud Coding

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,  pp 440-453, 14(2), March/April 2008.

 

Masaki Kitago, M. Gopi

Efficient and Prioritized Point Subsampling for CSRBF Compression

EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Point Based Graphics, July 2006.

 

Yan Huang, Jingliang Peng, C.-C Jay Kuo, M. Gopi

Octree-Based Progressive Geometry Coding of Point Clouds

EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Point Based Graphics, July 2006.

 

Sampling, Approximation, and Reconstruction of Surfaces

        

Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, M. Gopi

Gauss Sphere Sampling based Surface Approximation

UCI-ICS Technical Report 07-08, 2007.

 

M. Gopi

Theory and Practice of Sampling and Reconstruction of Manifolds with Boundaries

Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

 

M. Gopi, S. Krishnan, C. T. Silva

Surface Reconstruction based on Lower Dimensional Localized Delaunay Triangulation

EUROGRAPHICS 2000 [37%],  [More than 85 citations]

 

M. Gopi, S. Krishnan

Fast and Efficient Projection Based Approach for Surface Reconstruction

Brazilian Sym. on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, SIBGRAPI 2002.

 

            M. Gopi

On Sampling and Reconstructing Surfaces with Boundaries

Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, 2002, Lethbridge, Canada.

 

L.Nyland, D.McAllister, V.Popescu, C.McCue, A.Lastra, P.Rademacher, M.Oliveira, G.Bishop, M.Gopi, M.Cutts, H.Fuchs

The Impact of Dense Range Data on Computer Graphics

Proc. of Multi-View Modeling and Analysis Workshop(Part of CVPR), 1999.

 

Sketch-Based Modeling and Non Photorealistic Rendering

 

Koel Das, Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, M. Gopi

Sketching Free-form Surfaces Using Network of Curves

EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Sketch Based Interfaces and Modeling, 2005.

 

Gautam Chaudhary, Koel Das, M. Gopi

Curvature Minimizing Depth Interpolation for Intuitive and Interactive Space Curve Sketching

Computer Graphics International Conference, 2005. [Poster]

 

Aditi Majumder, M. Gopi

Hardware Accelerated Real Time Charcoal Rendering

SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, 2002, pp 59–66.

 

Solid Modeling, Geometric Simplification, and Collision Detection

 

Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, M. Gopi, Renato Pajarola

Hierarchyless Simplification, Stripification and Compression of Triangulated Two-Manifolds

Computer Graphics Forum, 24(3), pp 457–467, Sep 2005.

EUROGRAPHICS 2005 [15%], 2nd Best Paper Award.

 

S. Krishnan, D. Manocha, M. Gopi, T. Culver, J. Keyser

BOOLE: A Boundary Evaluation System for Boolean Combinations of Sculptured Solids

Int. Journal of Comp. Geometry and Applications, 11(1), pp 105–144, Feb 2001.

 

M. Gopi, D. Manocha

Simplifying Spline Models

Comp. Geometry, Theory and Applications, 14, (1-3), pp 67-90, Nov. 1999.

 

S. Krishnan, M. Gopi, M. Lin, D. Manocha, A. Pattekar

Rapid Accurate Contact Determination between Spline Models using ShellTrees

EUROGRAPHICS 1998. [Same as J5]

 

S.Krishnan, M.Gopi, D.Manocha, M.Mine

Interactive Boundary Computation of Boolean Combinations of Sculptured Solids

EUROGRAPHICS 1997 [33%]. [Same as J4]

 

M. Gopi, D. Manocha

A Unified Approach for Simplifying Polygonal and Spline Models

IEEE Visualization 1998, pp 271-278.

 

Image Processing for Telepresence and Image-Based Rendering

 

Aditi Majumder, M. Gopi, B. Seales, H. Fuchs

Geometric Stitching for Real-Time Panoramic Image Generation Using Texture Maps

ACM Multimedia Õ99, pp 169-178. [19%]

 

Anusheel Bhushan, Oliver Le, Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, M. Gopi

Capturing and View-Dependent Rendering of Billboard Models

International Symposium on Visual Computing, 2005.

 

O. Sen, C. Chemudugunta, M. Gopi

Silhouette-Opaque Transparency Rendering

6th IASTED Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, 2003, pp 153–158.

 

Architectures for Rendering Curves and Surfaces

 

            M. Gopi

Special Purpose Architectures for B-Splines.

M.S. Thesis, Supercomputer Education and Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1994.

 

M.Gopi, S.Manohar

A Unified Architecture for the computation of B-Spline Curves and Surfaces

IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 8(12), 1275-1287, Dec. 1997.

 

            M.Gopi, S.Manohar

Parallel architecture for the computation of Uniform Rational B-Spline Patches

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Nov. 1995.

 

            M.Gopi, S.Manohar

A VLSI architecture for the computation of Uniform B-Spline curves

Microprocessing and Microprogramming, EUROMICRO Journal, Nov. 1994.

 

            M.Gopi, S.Manohar

VLSI architecture for the computation of NURBS patches

Proc. of International Conf. on VLSI Design, New Delhi, India, Jan 1995.