Efficient Processing of 3D Scanned Models
Roberto Scopigno

Abstract

The construction of detailed and accurate 3D models is made easier by the increasing diffusion of automatic sampling devices (often called 3D scanners). These allow to build digital models of real 3D objects in a cost- and time-effective manner. The talk will present the capabilities of this technology focusing mainly on some issues which are preventing a wider use of this technology, such as for example the considerable user intervention required and the complexity of the models produced. Another emerging issue is how to support the visual presentation of the models (local or remote) with guaranteed interactive rendering and data protection. Some examples of the results of current projects, mainly in the Cultural Heritage field, will be shown.

Biography

Roberto Scopigno is a Senior Research Scientist at CNR-ISTI, an Institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He is part of the Visual Computer Lab. He graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1984, and has been involved in Computer Graphics since then. He had appointments at the Department of Computer Engineering and at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, where he taught computer graphics courses (1990-1997).
He is currently engaged in research projects concerned with multiresolution data modeling and rendering, 3D scanning, surface reconstruction, scientific visualization, volume rendering, and applications to cultural heritage. He published more than ninety papers in international refereed journals/conferences and gave invited lectures or courses on visualization at several international conferences. He was Co-Chair of international conferences (Eurographics '99, Rendering Symposium 2002, WSCG 2004, Geometry Processing Symp. 2004) and serves in the programme committees of several events (ACM Siggraph '04, Eurographics '04, IEEE Visualization '04, SMI'04, etc.). Since 2001 he is Chief Editor of the Computer Graphics Forum Journal (with David Duke) and Member of the Editorial Board of The Visual Computer Journal. He is member of Eurographics and IEEE. He has been elected member of the Eurographics Executive Committee on 2001, and appointed Vice Chair of the association in 2003.

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