Section: Application Domains

Domain 1

In addition to tackling enduring scientific challenges, our research on geometric modeling and processingis motivated by applications to computational engineering, reverse engineering, digital mapping and urbanplanning. The main deliverable of our research will be algorithms with theoretical foundations. Ultimatelywe wish to contribute making geometry modeling and processing routine for practitioners who deal with real-world data. Our contributions may also be used as a sound basis for future software and technology developments.

Our first ambition for technology transfer is to consolidate the components of our research experiments in the form of new software components for the CGAL (Computational Geometry Algorithms Library) library. Consolidation being best achieved with the help of an engineer, we will search for additional funding. Through CGAL, we wish to contribute to the “standard geometric toolbox”, so as to provide a generic answer to application needs instead of fragmenting our contributions. We already cooperate with the Inria spin-offcompany Geometry Factory, which commercializes CGAL, maintains it and provide technical support.

Our second ambition is to increase the research momentum of companies through advising Cifre Ph.D. thesesand postdoctoral fellows on topics that match our research program.