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Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry
National Initiatives
ADT CGALmesh
Participants : Pierre Alliez, Mariette Yvinec, Clement Jamin, Jean-Daniel Boissonnat.
In collaboration with Jane Tournois from Geometry Factory.
CGALmesh is an Inria technological development action started in March 2009, in collaboration with Geometry Factory. Building upon components from cgal , we are implementing a generic mesh generation framework for surfaces and 3D domains. We primarily target applications which involve data acquired from the physical world: geology, medicine, 3D cartography and reverse engineering. In 2012 we devised a new parallel 3D mesh generation and optimization algorithm for multi-core architectures with shared memory, and an algorithm for anisotropic mesh generation.
- Starting date: March 2009
- Duration: 3 years
ANR Présage
Participants : Olivier Devillers, Marc Glisse, Ross Hemsley, Monique Teillaud, Rémy Thomasse.
Web site: http://webloria.loria.fr/~goaoc/ANR-Presage/
We participate in the Présage project funded by the anr . The project involves:
This project brings together computational and probabilistic geometers to tackle new probabilistic geometry problems arising from the design and analysis of geometric algorithms and data structures. We focus on properties of discrete structures induced by or underlying random continuous geometric objects. This raises questions such as:
What does a random geometric structure (convex hulls, tessellations, visibility regions...) look like?
How to analyze and optimize the behavior of classical geometric algorithms on usual inputs?
How can we generate randomly interesting discrete geometric structures?
- Starting date: 31 December 2011
- Duration: 4 years
- Year publications: [55] , [50] , [57] .
ANR GIGA
Participants : Pierre Alliez, Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Frédéric Chazal, David Cohen-Steiner, Mariette Yvinec, Steve Oudot, Marc Glisse.
GIGA stands for Geometric Inference and Geometric Approximation. GIGA aims at designing mathematical models and algorithms for analyzing, representing and manipulating discretized versions of continuous shapes without losing their topological and geometric properties. By shapes, we mean sub-manifolds or compact subsets of, possibly high dimensional, Riemannian manifolds. This research project is divided into tasks which have Geometric Inference and Geometric Approximation as a common thread. Shapes can be represented in three ways: a physical representation (known only through measurements), a mathematical representation (abstract and continuous), and a computerized representation (inherently discrete). The GIGA project aims at studying the transitions from one type to the other, as well as the associated discrete data structures.
Some tasks are motivated by problems coming from data analysis, which can be found when studying data sets in high dimensional spaces. They are dedicated to the development of mathematically well-founded models and tools for the robust estimation of topological and geometric properties of data sets sampled around an unknown compact set in Euclidean spaces or around Riemannian manifolds.
Some tasks are motivated by problems coming from data generation, which can be found when studying data sets in lower dimensional spaces (Euclidean spaces of dimension 2 or 3). The proposed research activities aim at leveraging some concepts from computational geometry and harmonic forms to provide novel algorithms for generating discrete data structures either from mathematical representations (possibly deriving from an inference process) or from raw, unprocessed discrete data. We target both isotropic and anisotropic meshes, and simplicial as well as quadrangle and hexahedron meshes.
This project coordinated by Geometrica also involves researchers from the Inria team-project ABS, CNRS (Grenoble), and a representative from the industry (Dassault Systèmes).
- Starting date: October 2009.
- Duration: 4 years.
DIGITEO Chair C3TTA: Cell Complexes in Computational Topology: Theory and Applications
Participants : Claire Caillerie, Frédéric Chazal, David Cohen-Steiner, Marc Glisse, Steve Oudot, Amit Patel.
The primary purpose of this project is to bring about a close collaboration between the chair holder Dr Vin de Silva and Digiteo teams working on the development of topological and geometric methods in Computer Science. The research program is motivated by problems coming from the increasing need of studying and analyzing the (often huge) data sets that are now available in many scientific and economic domains. Indeed, due to the improvements of measurement devices and data storage tools, the available data about complex shapes or complex systems are growing very fast. These data being often represented as point clouds in high dimensional (or even infinite dimensional) spaces there is a considerable interest in analyzing and processing data in such spaces. Despite the high dimensionality of the ambient space, one often expects them to be located around an unknown, possibly non linear, low dimensional shape. It is then appealing to infer and analyze topological and geometric characteristics of that shape from the data. The hope is that this information will help to process more efficiently the data and to better understand the underlying complex systems from which the data are generated. In the last few years, topological and geometric approaches to obtain such information have encountered an increasing interest. The goal of this project is to bring together the complementary expertises in computational topology and geometry of the involved Digiteo teams and in applied geometry and algebraic topology of V. de Silva to develop new topological approaches to the previous mentioned domain. The project intends to develop both the theoretical and practical sides of this subject. The other partners of the project are the Ecole Polytechnique (L. Castelli-Aleardi and F. Nielsen) and the CEA (E. Goubault).
- Starting date: January 2009.
- Duration: 3 years.
GDR ISIS young researcher project on "scene analysis from Lidar”
Participant : Florent Lafarge.
The GDR ISIS young researcher project on "scene analysis from Lidar" consists in reconstructing in 3D large-scale city models from airborne Lidar scans. This project is in collaboration with Clément Mallet and Bruno Vallet from MATIS Laboratory, IGN [http://www.ign.fr ].
- Starting date: January 2010
- Duration: 3 years
Grand emprunt Culture 3D Clouds
Participants : Pierre Alliez, Florent Lafarge, Thijs van Lankveld.
Culture 3D Clouds is a cloud computing platform for 3D scanning, documentation, preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage. The motivation stems from the fact that the field of 3D scanning artifacts heritage evolves slowly and only provides resources for researchers and specialists. The technology and equipment used for 3D scanning are sophisticated and require highly specialized skills. The cost is thus significant and limits the widespread practice. Culture 3D Clouds aims at providing the photographers with a value chain to commercialize 3D reproductions demand for their customers and expand the market valuation of business assets (commercial publishers, general public).
- Starting date: September 2012
- Duration: 3 years