2003 ACM SIGGRAPH Awards
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Significant New Researcher Award
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Mathieu Desbrun
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Desbrun Made Original Contributions to Animation
NEW YORK, NY, July 16, 2003 -- ACM SIGGRAPH will award its
2003 Significant New Researcher Award to Mathieu Desbrun for his
original contributions to deformable models and animation. Desbrun
has also contributed to discrete differential geometry and mesh
processing and compression. He has demonstrated a strong grasp of
the mathematics of graphics problems as well as a sound understanding of
user needs. The Significant New Researcher Award is given
annually to a researcher who has made a recent significant contribution
to the field of computer graphics and is new to the field.
Desbrun, an assistant professor at the University of Southern
California, receives his award at SIGGRAPH 2003, 27-31 July 2003, at the
San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA.
In 1997, Desbrun won recognition as Best PhD Dissertation for his work
on “Modeling and Animating Highly Deformable Substances in
Computer Graphics” at the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble in
France. The thesis made original contributions to animation using
implicit surfaces. Desbrun’s widely cited SIGGRAPH 99 paper on
implicit fairing of irregular triangle meshes developed methods using
discrete differential geometry operators to remove undesirable noise
from a mesh while retaining desirable features. He will present an
extension of this method at the 2003 SIGGRAPH Conference in San Diego.
Desbrun received an MSC in
Computer Graphics and Vision at the University of Grenoble, and an ME in
Computer Science from the National Engineering School of Computer
Science and Applied Mathematics. He joined the iMAGIS lab in
Grenoble, and completed his PhD under the supervision of Marie-Paule
Cani. After a postdoctoral fellowship at California Polytechnic
Institute, where he collaborated with Peter Schröder at the
Multi-Res Modeling Group, he joined USC. Schröder is the
winner of the 2003 Computer Graphics Achievement Award from ACM
SIGGRAPH, to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2003.
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