Andrea Tagliasacchi Italian Citizen, Canadian Permanent Resident Bâtiment BC 346 EPFL - 1015 Lausanne Switzerland Telephone: +41 21 69 37533 http://drtaglia.github.io andrea.tagliasacchi@epfl.ch Education Simon Fraser University Vancouver - Canada Ph.D. Computer Science (supported by NSERC-CGS) Sep. 2007 - May. 2013 Focus: Digital geometry processing - shape analysis Supervisor: Dr. Hao Zhang (www.cs.sfu.ca/~haoz) Co-supervisor: Dr. Daniel Cohen-Or (www.cs.tau.ac.il/~dcor) Politecnico di Milano Milan - Italy M.Sc. Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) Sep. 2005 - Jun. 2007 Focus: Digital audio/video processing Thesis title: Calibration of physical models for the synthesis of string instruments Supervisor: Dr. Augusto Sarti (home.dei.polimi.it/sarti) Politecnico di Milano Milan - Italy B.Sc. Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) Sep. 2002 - Jun. 2005 Focus: Digital signal processing Thesis title: Non-separable transforms in image coding Supervisor: Dr. Stefano Tubaro (home.dei.polimi.it/tubaro) Work Experience École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne - Switzerland Postdoctoral Researcher Feb. 2013 - Present Topics: Dynamic registration, Fabrication driven surface reconstruction Faculty: Mark Pauly (http://lgg.epfl.ch/people.php) INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Nice - France Visiting Researcher (Supported by NSERC-MSFSS) Sep. 2012 - Dec. 2012 Topics: Optimal transport, Robust surface reconstruction Faculty: Pierre Alliez (www-sop.inria.fr/members/pierre.alliez) Electronic Arts Vancouver - Canada Software Engineer May. 2010 - Sept. 2010 Topics: Kinect motion recognition on XBOX360 for EA-Sport Active Supervisor: Andrew Gargus (agargus@ea.com) Simon Fraser University, EPFL Switzerland, Canada Teaching Assistant 2007-2012 Courses: Digital Geometry Processing, Computer Animation, Introduction to Computer Graphics, Software Engineering, Introduction to C++ Programming Faculty: Mark Pauly, Hao Zhang, John Edgar, Anne Lavergne 1
Teaching and Supervision Experience Dynamic 2D/3D Registration - Eurographics courses Spring 2014 Introduction to Computer Graphics - TA (Prof. Mark Pauly) EPFL, Spring 2014 Digital Geometry Processing - Guest Lecturer (Prof. Mark Pauly) EPFL, Spring 2013 Computer Animation - TA (Prof. Hao Zhang) SFU, Summer 2009 Introduction to Computer Graphics - TA (Prof. Hao Zhang) SFU, Spring 2009 Introduction to C++ Programming - TA (Prof. John Edgar) SFU, Fall 2009 Software Engineering I - TA (Prof. Anne Lavergne) SFU, Fall 2007 I have also supervised a number of students through summer internships, semester and master thesis projects, as well as recently started advising PhD students: Anastasia Tkach - Ph.D. thesis supervision EPFL, Fall 2014 Federico Martinez Lopez - M.Sc. thesis supervision EPFL, Fall 2014 Victor Ma - Fellowship semester project EPFL, Fall 2013 Song Ying - Semester project EPFL, Fall 2013 Xiang Gao - Google Summer of Code (CGAL) ETH, Summer 2013 Sadjad Fouladi - Summer@EPFL Internship EPFL, Summer 2013 Prerna Chikersal - Summer@EPFL Internship EPFL, Summer 2013 Professional Service I have been selected to participate in the following International Program Committees: Geometric Modeling and Processing 2015 SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2015 SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 technical briefs and posters program 2014 Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling 2014 I have also been a regular reviewer for a number of journals and conferences: Eurographics (since 2011), ACM SIGGRAPH (since 2011), ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (since 2011), ACM Transactions on Graphics (since 2010), Computer Graphics Forum (since 2010), Computer & Graphics (since 2011), Pacific Graphics (since 2009). I also performed reviews for Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence (2013), Journal of Graphic Tools (2013), Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2009), Solid and Physical Modeling (2014), Transaction on Image Processing (2014), The Visual Computer (2012) and reviewed books for A.K. Peters/CRC Press (2014). 2
Honors and Awards NSERC-CGS (Alexander Graham Bell) Sep. 2011 Sep. 2014 NSERC-MSFSS (Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement) Sep. 2012 Mar. 2013 Best poster award NSF workshop on Finite Element Methods Aug. 2012 Best student paper award MITACS Jun. 2009 Graduate School Gold Medalist (Politecnico di Milano) Mar. 2009 Other awards include: SFU Graduate Fellowship 11,12, Nova Tech Engineering Graduate Scholarship 10, Faculty of Applied Sciences Graduate Fellowship 09, Ralph Howatt Graduate Scholarship 09, Computing Science Travel Funding Award 08,09,12, ACM Student Travel Funding Award 08, Angelo Colombo Undergraduate Scholarship 09, Complete tuition waiver at Politecnico di Milano (top.5% GPA). Referees Prof. Dr. Mark Pauly École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) mark.pauly@epfl.ch, +41 (0)21 69 35234 BC348, EPFL/IN/ISIM/LGG, Station 14, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1015. Prof. Dr. Hao (Richard) Zhang Simon Fraser University (SFU) haoz@cs.sfu.ca, +1 778 782 6843 SFU School of Computing Science, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC, Canada, V5A-1S6 Prof. Dr. Daniel Cohen-Or Tel-Aviv University (TAU) dcor@tau.ac.il, +972 3 6405368 Tel Aviv University Schreiber building, room 216, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Prof. Dr. Ghassan Hamarneh Simon Fraser University (SFU) hamarneh@cs.sfu.ca, +1 778 782 2214 SFU School of Computing Science, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC, Canada, V5A-1S6 Prof. Dr. Niloy J. Mitra (external referee) University College London (UCL) n.mitra@cs.ucl.ac.uk, +44 (0)20 7679 0322 Dept. of Computer Science, Gower Street, MPEB Room 6.17, London WC1E 6BT, UK. Prof. Dr. Karan Singh (external referee) University of Toronto karan@dgp.toronto.edu, +1 416 978 7201 UToronto Computer Science, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2E4. 3
Selected Publications [1] Alexandru E. Ichim, Sofien Bouaziz, Andrea Tagliasacchi, and Mark Pauly. Dynamic Facial Avatar Creation using Handheld Cameras. In: ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) (2015). (currently in submission). [2] Andrea Tagliasacchi, Matthias Schröder, Anastasia Tkach, Sofien Bouaziz, Mario Botsch, and Mark Pauly. Robust Real-Time Hand Tracking Using a Single Depth Camera. In: ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) (2015). (currently in submission). [3] Matthew Berger, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Lee M. Seversky, Gael Guennebaud, Pierre Alliez, Joshua A. Levine, Andrei Sharf, and Claudio Silva. State of the Art in Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds. In: Eurographics State of the Art Reports (STAR) (2014). (journal version fast-forwarded to Computer Graphics Forum). [4] Sofien Bouaziz, Andrea Tagliasacchi, and Mark Pauly. Dynamic 2D/3D Registration. In: Proc. Eurographics (Course Notes) (2014). [5] Yuliy Schwartzburg, Romain Testuz, Andrea Tagliasacchi, and Mark Pauly. High-contrast Computational Caustic Design. In: ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIG- GRAPH) 33.4 (2014). Nature science image of the month, Aug 14 http : / / www. nature.com/news/images-of-the-month-august-2014-1.15797., 74:1 74:11. [6] Sofien Bouaziz, Andrea Tagliasacchi, and Mark Pauly. Sparse Iterative Closest Point. In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing) 32.5 (2013). ( equal contributions), pp. 113 123. [7] Andrea Tagliasacchi, Ibraheem Alhashim, Matt Olson, and Hao Zhang. Mean Curvature Skeletons. In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing) 31.5 (2012). (also best poster award at the NSF workshop on Finite Element Methods), pp. 1735 1744. [8] Oliver van Kaick, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Oana Sidi, Hao Zhang, Daniel Cohen-Or, Lior Wolf, and Ghassan Hamarneh. Prior Knowledge for Part Correspondence. In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics) 30.2 (2011), pp. 553 562. [9] Andrea Tagliasacchi, Matt Olson, Hao Zhang, Ghassan Hamarneh, and Daniel Cohen-Or. VASE: Volume-Aware Surface Evolution for Surface Reconstruction from Incomplete Point Clouds. In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing) 30.5 (2011). (invited to the Geometry for Anatomy workshop at the Ban International Research Station.), pp. 1563 1571. [10] Junjie Cao, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Matt Olson, Hao Zhang, and Zhixun Su. Point cloud skeletons via Laplacian based contraction. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications. IEEE Computer Society. 2010, pp. 187 197. [11] Qian Zheng, Andrei Sharf, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Baoquan Chen, Hao Zhang, Alla She er, and Daniel Cohen-Or. Consensus Skeleton for Non-Rigid Space-Time Registration. In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics) 29.2 (2010), pp. 635 644. [12] Andrea Tagliasacchi, Hao Zhang, and Daniel Cohen-Or. Curve Skeleton Extraction from Incomplete Point Cloud. In: ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) 28.3 (2009). (MITACS best student paper award), 71:1 71:9. 4
[13] Kai Xu, Hao Zhang, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Ligang Liu, Guo Li, Min Meng, and Yueshan Xiong. Partial Intrinsic Reflectional Symmetry of 3D Shapes. In: ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia) 28.5 (2009), 138:1 138:10. [14] Hao Zhang, Alla She er, Daniel Cohen-Or, Qingnan Zhou, Oliver van Kaick, and Andrea Tagliasacchi. Deformation-Drive Shape Correspondence. In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing) 27.5 (2008), pp. 1431 1439. 5