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Overview

Marc Alexa is affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin in Germany and focuses their research within the fields of computer science and engineering. Their work spans several subfields including computational mechanics, computer graphics and computer-aided design, computer vision and pattern recognition, signal processing, and computational theory and mathematics.

Their research addresses multiple core topics, notably:

  • 3D shape modeling and analysis
  • Computer graphics and visualization techniques
  • Advanced numerical analysis techniques
  • Computational geometry and mesh generation
  • Advanced vision and imaging
  • Visual attention and saliency detection
  • Advanced image and video retrieval techniques

Marc Alexa has published extensively in several key academic venues. Most frequently, their publications have appeared in:

  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • Scientific Reports

Several of their recent papers include:

  • "Properties of Laplace Operators for Tetrahedral Meshes" (2020) published in Computer Graphics Forum
  • "Conforming weighted delaunay triangulations" (2020) published in ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • "Super-Fibonacci Spirals: Fast, Low-Discrepancy Sampling of SO(3)" (2022) presented at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • "Efficient Embeddings in Exact Arithmetic" (2023) published in ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • "The Diamond Laplace for Polygonal and Polyhedral Meshes" (2021) published in Computer Graphics Forum

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors including Ugo Finnendahl, M. Kohlbrenner, Markus Worchel, Tobias Djuren, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung. These collaborations reflect a consistent engagement with the broader research community active in computational geometry, graphics, and numerical methods.

Best Publications

  • Computing and rendering point set surfaces

    M. Alexa;J. Behr;D. Cohen-Or;S. Fleishman

  • Laplacian surface editing

    O. Sorkine;D. Cohen-Or;Y. Lipman;M. Alexa

  • Multi-level partition of unity implicits

    Yutaka Ohtake;Alexander Belyaev;Marc Alexa;Greg Turk

  • How do humans sketch objects

    Mathias Eitz;James Hays;Marc Alexa

  • As-rigid-as-possible surface modeling

    Olga Sorkine;Marc Alexa

  • Point set surfaces

    Marc Alexa;Johannes Behr;Daniel Cohen-Or;Shachar Fleishman

  • As-rigid-as-possible shape interpolation

    Marc Alexa;Daniel Cohen-Or;David Levin

  • Point based animation of elastic, plastic and melting objects

    M. Müller;R. Keiser;A. Nealen;M. Pauly

  • Visualizing time-series on spirals

    M. Weber;M. Alexa;W. Muller

  • FiberMesh: designing freeform surfaces with 3D curves

    Andrew Nealen;Takeo Igarashi;Olga Sorkine;Marc Alexa

  • Sketch-Based Image Retrieval: Benchmark and Bag-of-Features Descriptors

    M. Eitz;K. Hildebrand;T. Boubekeur;M. Alexa

  • Merging polyhedral shapes with scattered features

    Marc Alexa

  • Laplacian mesh optimization

    Andrew Nealen;Takeo Igarashi;Olga Sorkine;Marc Alexa

  • Representing animations by principal components

    Marc Alexa;Wolfgang Müller

  • Sketch-based shape retrieval

    Mathias Eitz;Ronald Richter;Tamy Boubekeur;Kristian Hildebrand

  • ABC: A Big CAD Model Dataset for Geometric Deep Learning

    Sebastian Koch;Albert Matveev;Zhongshi Jiang;Francis Williams

  • Recent Advances in Mesh Morphing

    Marc Alexa

  • Differential Coordinates for Local Mesh Morphing and Deformation

    Marc Alexa

  • A sketch-based interface for detail-preserving mesh editing

    Andrew Nealen;Olga Sorkine;Marc Alexa;Daniel Cohen-Or

  • Linear combination of transformations

    Marc Alexa

  • Reconstruction with Voronoi centered radial basis functions

    M. Samozino;M. Alexa;P. Alliez;M. Yvinec

  • Laplacian Surface Editing

    Olga Sorkine;Yaron Lipman;Daniel Cohen-Or;Marc Alexa

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniele Panozzo
Daniele Panozzo New York University
Daniel Cohen-Or
Daniel Cohen-Or Tel Aviv University
Kenneth Holmqvist
Kenneth Holmqvist University of Regensburg
Bernd Bickel
Bernd Bickel ETH Zurich
Olga Sorkine
Olga Sorkine ETH Zurich
Hans-Peter Seidel
Hans-Peter Seidel Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Denis Zorin
Denis Zorin New York University
Adam Finkelstein
Adam Finkelstein Princeton University
Markus Gross
Markus Gross ETH Zurich

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