Journal Publications

 

Smooth Reverse Subdivision, Sadeghi, J., Samavati F.F.  Vol. 33, No. 3, 2009. Computer & Graphics. [PDF]
Sketch-Based Modeling: A Survey. Olsen, L., Samavati, F.F., Costa Sousa, M., and Jorge, J.  Vol. 33, No.1, 2009. Computer & Graphics. [PDF
GPU-based Point Radiation for Interactive Volume Sculpting and Segmentation, Chen, H.J., Samavati, F.F., and  Sousa, M.C, The Visual Computer. Vol. 24, Numbers 7-9, July 2008. [PDF][Video1][Video2]
Terrain Synthesis By-Example,     Brosz, J., Samavati, F.F. and Sousa, M.C.  Communications in Computer and Information Science: Advances in Computer Graphics and Computer Vision, Springer, Vol. 4, pp. 58-77, 2008. Revised Selected Papers from International Conferences VISAPP and GRAPP 2006. [PDF]

 Contextual Void Patching for Digital Elevation Model, Wecker, L., Samavati, F.F.  and Gavrilova, M., The Visual Computer, Vol. 23, No. 9-11,  2007. [PDF]

 

Improving the Sketch-Based Interface: Forming Curves from Many Small Strokes, Pusch, R., Samavati, F.F., Nasri, A., and Wyvill, B. The Visual Computer, Vol. 23, No. 9-11, 2007. [PDF]

 

Capturing and Re-Using Artistic Styles with Multiresolution Analysis, Brunn, M., Sousa, M.C.  and Samavati, F.F.,       International Journal of Images and Graphics, Vol. 7, No. 4,  2007.  [PDF]

“Ribbons: A representation for point clouds”, Runions, A., Samavati, F.F., and Prusinkiewicz, P., The Visual Computer, Vol. 23, No. 9-11, 2007. [PDF]

 

Local B-spline Multiresolution with Examples in Iris Synthesis and Volumetric Rendering, Faramarz F. Samavati, Richard .H. Bartels and Luke Olsen, Image Pattern Recognition: Synthesis and Analysis in Biometrics, Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence , Vol. 67, World Scientific Publishing, 2007. [PDF]
Multiresolution for Curves and Surfaces Based on Constraining Wavelets,   Olsen, L., Samavati, F.F. and Bartels, R. Computer & Graphics,  Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 449-462, June 2007. [PDF]

 

Diagrammatic Tools for Generating Biorthogonal Multiresolutions, F.F.Samavati and  R. H. Bartels, International Journal of Shape Modeling, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 47-73, 2006. [PDF
Incremental Subdivision for Triangle Meshes, Hamid-Reza Pakdel and Faramarz F. Samavati,  International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 80-92, 2007.. [PDF]

Reverse of Loop Subdivision,  Samavati, F.F., Pakdel, H.R, and Smith, C. , Iranian Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2007. [PDF]

 

Some Observation on Local Least Squares, R. H. Bartels, G. H. Golub, and F. F. Samavati, BIT Numerical Mathematics, Volume 46, Number 3, pp. 455-477, 2006.  [PDF]
Polygonal Silhouette Error Correction: A Reverse Subdivision Approach, Kevin Foster, Mario Costa Sousa, Faramarz F. Samavati and Brian Wyvill, International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 53-70, 2007. [PDF]

L-system Description of Subdivision Curves,  P. Prusinkiewicz, F.F.Samavati, C.Smith and R.Karwowski,  International Journal of Shape Modeling (IJSM),  Vol.9, No.1, 2003.  [ABSTRACT+PDF]

Precise Ink Drawing of 3D Models  Mario Costa Sousa, Kevin Foster, Brian Wyvill,  Faramarz Samavati, Special issue of Computer Graphic Forum, Vol.22, No.3, 2003.   [PDF]
Multiresolution Representation of Surface with Arbitrary Topology  by Reversing Doo Subdivision, F. F. Samavati, N. Mahdavi-Amiri and R. H. Bartels, Computer Graphic Forum, Vol.21, No.2, pp.121-136, 2002. [PDF]
Reversing Subdivision Rules: Local Linear Conditions and Observations on Inner Products,  R. H. Bartels and F. F. Samavati, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 119, Issue 1-2, pp. 29-67, 2000.  [PDF]
A Filtered B-Spline Models of Scanned Digital Images,  F.F. Samavati and  N. Mahdavi-Amiri, Journal of Science, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 258-264, 2000.    [PDF]
Multiresolution Curve and Surface Representation by Reversing Subdivision Rules,  F.F.Samavati and R. H. Bartels, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 97-120, 1999.  [PDF]
A Local Method in Multiresolution of smooth Models, (in Persian), F. F. Samavati and N.Mahdavi-Amiri,   Computer Science and Engineering Journal, Number 1, 2003.

 

Refereed Conference Publications 

 

Sketch Based Interfaces and Modeling, Nasri, A., Bou Karam, W., Samavati, F.F.,  6th Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, New Orleans, Louisiana , August 2009. [PDF]
A Discrete Approach to Multiresolution Curves and Surfaces, Olsen, L., and Samavati, F.F., International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2008).[PDF]
Animating Persian Floral Patterns, Katayoon Etemad, Faramarz  Samavati and Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz. Computational aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging, pp. 25-32, Lisbon, Portugal, 2008. [PDF]
Single Camera Flexible Projection,  John Brosz, Faramarz Samavati, Sheelagh Carpendale, Mario Costa Sousa.  4th International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR 2007), in association with ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics, San Diego, US, August 2007.[PDF] [Video]
Purple crayon: from sketches to interactive environment, Min  Xin, Ehud Sharlin, Mario Costa Sousa, Saul Greenberg, Faramarz Samavati. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Proceedings of the international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology,  Salzburg, Austria    June 13 - 15, 2007.[PDF

                   

Transformation Strokes, Aaron Severn, Faramarz Samavati, and Mario Costa Sousa, M.C.,  Proceedings of the 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interface and Modeling, Vienna, Austria, September 2006. [PDF] [Video]

 

Sketch-Based Volumetric Seeded  Region Growing, Jason Chen, Faramarz Samavati, Mario Costa Sousa,  and Ross Mitchell,   Proceedings of the 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interface and Modeling, Vienna, Austria, September 2006.[PDF] [Video]

 

Modeling Plant Structures Using Concept Sketches,  Fabricio Anastacio, Mario Costa Sousa, Faramarz Samavati and Joaquim Jorge, 4th International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR 2006), in association with ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics, Annecy, France, June 2006.[PDF] [Video]
Terrain Synthesis By-ExampleBrosz, J., Samavati, F.F. and Sousa, M.C.,  International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, In Association with Eurographics, February 2006. [PDF] [Video]
Real-Time Super Resolution Contextual Close-up of Clinical Volumetric Data, Taerum, T., Sousa, M.C., Samavati, F.F.,  Chan, S. and Mitchell, R. To Appear, the Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVIS 2006), May 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.    [PDF] [Video][Results]
Fast Intersection for Subdivision Surfaces, Severn, A. and Samavati, F.F.,  International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications(ICCSA 2006).[PDF]
Sketch-based Mesh Augmentation, Luke Olsen, Faramarz Samavati, Mario Costa Sousa, Joaquim A. Jorge, 2nd Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-based Interfaces and Modeling, Dublin, Ireland, August 2005. [PDF]

  

Iris Synthesis: A MultiResolution Approach,  Lakin Wecker, Faramarz F.  Samavati and  Marina Gavrilova , GRAPHITE 2005 Conference, short paper, New Zealand, December 2005.[PDF]

 

Multiresolution B-Splines Based on Wavelets Constraints, Luke Olsen, Faramarz F.Samavati, Richard H.Bartels, Third Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH, short paper,  Vienna, Austria, July 2005.
Incremental Catmull-Clark Subdivision, Hamid-Reza Pakdel and Faramarz F. Samavati,  The 5th International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling, will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, June 2005. [PDF]
Sketch-based Modeling with Few Strokes, Joseph J. Cherlin, Faramarz Samavati, Mario Costa Sousa, Joaquim A.Jorge, Best Presentation Award, In  Proceedings of Spring Conference of Computer Graphics 2005 (SCCG '05 ), in association with ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics, Proceeding will be also printed by ACM SIGGRAPH, May2005.  [PDF] [Videos]

 

Local Bspline Wavelets,  F. F. Samavati and R.H. Bartels, Biometric 2004, University of Calgary. [PDF]

Illustrating Terrains using Direction of Slop and Lighting, K. Buchin, M. Costa Sousa, J. Doellner, F. F. Samavati and M. Walther,   4th ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop Vall de Nuria, Spain, October 2004.

Silhouette Rendering Based On Stability Measurement, J. Brosz, F.F. Samavati and M. Costa Sousa, Spring Conference of Computer Graphics 2004 (SCCG '04), organized in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographic. [PDF]

Incremental Adaptive Loop Subdivision, H. R. Pakdel and F. F. Samavati,  ICCSA2004.  Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3045, pp. 237-246, 2004.

Depicting Shape Features with Directional Strokes and Spotlighting, M. Costa Sousa, F. F. Samavati and M.Brunn, Computer Graphics International 2004. [PDF]

Reverse Subdivision Multiresolution for Polygonal Silhouette Error Correction, K. Foster, M. Costa Sousa, F. F. Samavati and B. Wyvill,  ICCSA2004 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3045, pp. 247-256, 2004. [PDF]

Progressive Curve Representation Based on Reverse Subdivision,  F. F. Samavati, M. Ali Nur, R. Bartels, B. Wyvill The 2003 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2667, pp. 67 – 78, 2003. [PDF]

Local Specification of Surface Subdivision Algorithms, Colin Smith, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz , Faramarz Samavati,  Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance AGTIVE '03, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, September 28 - October 1, 2003,   Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3062, pp. 313-327. [ABSTRACT + PDF]