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60
Citations
12714
World Ranking
3278
National Ranking
130

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Alla Sheffer is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with notable focus on several subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computational Mechanics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The scientific contributions cover diverse aspects such as Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques, 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis, Advanced Vision and Imaging, Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation, Interactive and Immersive Displays, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, and Human Motion and Animation.

Among recent published papers, the following are highlighted: Hex-Mesh Generation and Processing: A Survey (2022) published in ACM Transactions on Graphics, LoopyCuts (2020) in ACM Transactions on Graphics, Lifting freehand concept sketches into 3D (2020) in ACM Transactions on Graphics, PolyFit (2020) in ACM Transactions on Graphics, and AdaptiBrush (2021) in ACM Transactions on Graphics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alla Sheffer include:

  • Nicholas Vining
  • Enrique Rosales
  • Chrystiano Araújo
  • Chenxi Liu
  • Congyi Zhang

The venues where Alla Sheffer has frequently published include:

  • ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Alla Sheffer was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020 by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • A scalable active framework for region annotation in 3D shape collections

    Li Yi;Vladimir G. Kim;Duygu Ceylan;I-Chao Shen

  • Mesh Parameterization Methods and Their Applications

    Alla Sheffer;Emil Praun;Kenneth Rose

  • ABF++: fast and robust angle based flattening

    Alla Sheffer;Bruno Lévy;Maxim Mogilnitsky;Alexander Bogomyakov

  • Parameterization of Faceted Surfaces for Meshing using Angle-Based Flattening

    A. Sheffer;E. de Sturler

  • Cross-parameterization and compatible remeshing of 3D models

    Vladislav Kraevoy;Alla Sheffer

  • Periodic global parameterization

    Nicolas Ray;Wan Chiu Li;Bruno Lévy;Alla Sheffer

  • Fundamentals of spherical parameterization for 3D meshes

    Craig Gotsman;Xianfeng Gu;Alla Sheffer

  • High resolution passive facial performance capture

    Derek Bradley;Wolfgang Heidrich;Tiberiu Popa;Alla Sheffer

  • D-Charts: Quasi-Developable Mesh Segmentation

    Dan Julius;Vladislav Kraevoy;Alla Sheffer

  • Curved folding

    Martin Kilian;Simon Flöry;Zhonggui Chen;Niloy J. Mitra

  • Virtual Garments: A Fully Geometric Approach for Clothing Design

    Philippe Decaudin;Dan Julius;Jamie Wither;Laurence Boissieux

  • Deformation-driven shape correspondence

    H. Zhang;A. Sheffer;D. Cohen-Or;Q. Zhou

  • Mesh parameterization: theory and practice Video files associated with this course are available from the citation page

    Kai Hormann;Bruno Lévy;Alla Sheffer

  • Markerless garment capture

    Derek Bradley;Tiberiu Popa;Alla Sheffer;Wolfgang Heidrich

  • True2Form: 3D curve networks from 2D sketches via selective regularization

    Baoxuan Xu;William Chang;Alla Sheffer;Adrien Bousseau

  • Upright orientation of man-made objects

    Hongbo Fu;Daniel Cohen-Or;Gideon Dror;Alla Sheffer

  • All-Hex Mesh Generation via Volumetric PolyCube Deformation

    James Gregson;Alla Sheffer;Eugene Zhang

  • Model simplification for meshing using face clustering

    Alla Sheffer

  • Matchmaker: constructing constrained texture maps

    Vladislav Kraevoy;Alla Sheffer;Craig Gotsman

  • Proceedings of the fourth Eurographics symposium on Geometry processing

    Alla Sheffer;Konrad Polthier

  • Elements of style: learning perceptual shape style similarity

    Zhaoliang Lun;Evangelos Kalogerakis;Alla Sheffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Cohen-Or
Daniel Cohen-Or Tel Aviv University
Marie-Paule Cani
Marie-Paule Cani École Polytechnique
Craig Gotsman
Craig Gotsman New Jersey Institute of Technology
Hao Zhang
Hao Zhang Simon Fraser University
Hongbo Fu
Hongbo Fu City University of Hong Kong
Ariel Shamir
Ariel Shamir Reichman University
Wolfgang Heidrich
Wolfgang Heidrich King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Karan Singh
Karan Singh University of Toronto
Ari Rappoport
Ari Rappoport Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Niloy J. Mitra
Niloy J. Mitra University College London

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