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Overview

David E. Breen is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of engineering and computer science with a focus on subfields including polymers and plastics, computer vision and pattern recognition, computational mechanics, artificial intelligence, and computer graphics and computer-aided design.

The main topics in Breen's body of work include textile materials and evaluations, 3D shape modeling and analysis, additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies, smart agriculture and AI, water quality monitoring technologies, AI in cancer detection, and computer graphics and visualization techniques.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Breen feature contributions to the understanding and modeling of knitted fabrics and computational methods. These include:

  • An optimized yarn-level geometric model for Finite Element Analysis of weft-knitted fabrics, 2020, Computer Aided Geometric Design
  • Geometric modeling of complex knitting stitches using a bicontinuous surface and its offsets, 2021, Computer Aided Geometric Design
  • Geometric modeling of knitted fabrics using helicoid scaffolds, 2020, Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics
  • Computational metadata generation methods for biological specimen image collections, 2022, International Journal on Digital Libraries
  • Loop Order Analysis of Weft-Knitted Textiles, 2022, Textiles

Breen collaborates frequently with a number of researchers. The most frequent coauthors include Geneviève Dion, Chelsea Amanatides, Joel Pepper, Levi Kapllani, and Jane Greenberg.

Their publications have appeared in a variety of venues, with multiple papers in Computer Aided Geometric Design and the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). Other publication venues include the Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics, International Journal on Digital Libraries, and Research Square.

Best Publications

  • Predicting the drape of woven cloth using interacting particles

    David E. Breen;Donald H. House;Michael J. Wozny

  • Geometrically deformed models: a method for extracting closed geometric models form volume data

    James V. Miller;David E. Breen;William E. Lorensen;Robert M. O'Bara

  • A particle-based model for simulating the draping behavior of woven cloth

    David Edward Breen

  • Cloth modeling and animation

    Donald H. House;David E. Breen

  • Interactive Occlusion and Collision of Real and Virtual Objects in Augmented Reality

    David E. Breen;Eric Rose;Ross T. Whitaker

  • Level set surface editing operators

    Ken Museth;David E. Breen;Ross T. Whitaker;Alan H. Barr

  • Calibration requirements and procedures for a monitor-based augmented reality system

    M. Tuceryan;D.S. Greer;R.T. Whitaker;D.E. Breen

  • Real-time vision-based camera tracking for augmented reality applications

    Dieter Koller;Gudrun Klinker;Eric Rose;David Breen

  • A physically-based particle model of woven cloth

    David E. Breen;Donald H. House;Phillip H. Getto

  • Interactive Occlusion and Automatic Object Placement for Augmented Reality

    David E. Breen;Ross T. Whitaker;Eric Rose;Mihran Tuceryan

  • Semi-regular mesh extraction from volumes

    Z.J. Wood;M. Desbrun;P. Schroder;D. Breen

  • 3D Scan-Conversion of CSG Models into Distance, Closest-Point and Colour Volumes

    David E. Breen;Sean Mauch;Ross T. Whitaker

  • A level-set approach for the metamorphosis of solid models

    D.E. Breen;R.T. Whitaker

  • 3D scan conversion of CSG models into distance volumes

    David E. Breen;Sean Mauch;Ross T. Whitaker

  • Distributed Augmented Reality for Collaborative Design Applications

    Klaus H. Ahlers;André Kramer;David E. Breen;Pierre-Yves Chevalier

  • Annotating real-world objects using augmented reality

    Eric Rose;David Breen;Klaus H. Ahlers;Chris Crampton

  • Scalable interactive volume rendering using off-the-shelf components

    S. Lombeyda;L. Moll;M. Shand;D. Breen

  • Level set modeling and segmentation of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging brain data

    Leonid Zhukov;Ken Museth;David E. Breen;Alan H. Barr

  • Calculating Center of Mass in an Unbounded 2D Environment

    Linge Bai;David E. Breen

  • Fitting a woven-cloth model to a curved surface: mapping algorithms

    Masaki Aono;David E. Breen;Michael J. Wozny

  • Confluence of computer vision and interactive graphies for augmented reality

    Gudrun J. Klinker;Klaus H. Ahlers;David E. Breen;Pierre-Yves Chevalier

  • Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation

    Rick Parent;Karan Singh;David Breen;Ming C. Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross T. Whitaker
Ross T. Whitaker University of Utah
Alan H. Barr
Alan H. Barr California Institute of Technology
Gudrun Klinker
Gudrun Klinker Technical University of Munich
Frank Jülicher
Frank Jülicher Max Planck Society
William C. Regli
William C. Regli University of Maryland, College Park
Guillermo Sapiro
Guillermo Sapiro Princeton University
Vadim Shapiro
Vadim Shapiro University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jessica K. Hodgins
Jessica K. Hodgins Carnegie Mellon University
Mathieu Desbrun
Mathieu Desbrun California Institute of Technology
Karan Singh
Karan Singh University of Toronto

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