Research
Motivation
Computer Graphics is an important, fascinating, and very
active field in Computer Science that has revolutionized many endeavors in
entertainment, design, education, computer human interaction, and medicine. It
is a field drawing on algorithm design and system building from the field of
computer science, differential geometry, numerical computation, simulation and
visualization. In recent years,
computer graphics has seen tremendous progress and forms
the single largest special interest subgroup (SIGGRAPH) of the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM). As the role of computers as mediator between people and
the virtual world continues to grow, computer-generated visual stimulus is now
becoming increasingly critical in our daily lives.
Research
Interests
Basically,
I am interested in most aspects of computer graphics and related subjects. I
like to work on problems in geometric modeling, rendering, computer aided
design, computer animation, graphics software development, visualization,
texture mapping, digital imaging and computer vision as long as they are
interesting, theoretically significant or practically valuable. However, my
dissertation research has been primarily aimed at the field of computer
graphics and computer aided geometric design and modeling. More specifically,
my
research interests focus on designing fundamental algorithms and techniques
for computer graphics, as well as pursuing mathematically rigorous
representations and operations/manipulations of 3D objects with arbitrary
topology. I have published several refereed journal and conference papers in
these areas. I also took part in helping write and prepare preliminary data
for several external grant proposals in these fields. My research at Shanghai
Jiaotong University was devoted to design and implement part of a parallel
object-relational database management system. The following are some research
areas that I am most interested in:
- Computer Graphics
- Computer Aided Geometric design
- Image Processing
- Computer Aided design
- Visualization
- Medical Imaging
- Computer Vision
- Distributed/Parallel Database
System
Future
Research
Directions
My research area is inherently interdisciplinary, assimilating ideas from
computer graphics, computer vision, image processing, geometric modeling,
applied mathematics, bio-informatics and computer engineering to develop 3D
models for design and visualization. I will continue my efforts of exploring
the theoretical foundation and practical algorithms of accurate representation
and efficient manipulation of 3D objects. The following are a couple of
problems inspired by my dissertation research, and are theoretically
significant and practically valuable.
They will constitute my main research directions in the near future.
1.
Accurate
Representations of Topologically
Complex 3D Objects
2.
Algorithms for
Construction, Rendering, Manipulation, Processing, Transmission and Storage
of Topologically Complex
3D Objects