Biography:Luiz Velho
Luiz Velho | |
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| Born | 5 June 1956 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Citizenship | Brazilian |
| Known for | 4-8 Subdivision Scheme |
| Awards | National Order of Scientific Merit (2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied Mathematics |
| Institutions | IMPA |
| Thesis | Piecewise Description of Implicit Surfaces and Solids (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Demetri Terzopoulos |
Luiz Carlos Pacheco Rodrigues Velho (born 5 June 1956) is a Brazilian applied mathematician working primarily on computer graphics and computer vision. He is a full researcher and professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) and leading scientist of VISGRAF, laboratory that conducts researches in the field of modeling, rendering, imaging, and animation.[1][2]
In 2010, Luiz Velho received the National Order of Scientific Merit for his scientific and technical contributions.[3] In 2005, he was keynote speaker in Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, in Vienna.
His academic background includes a BE in industrial design from ESDI-UERJ, a specialization in computer science from PUC-Rio, a MS in computer graphics from the MIT Media Lab, a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Toronto and a postdoctoral fellowship in applied mathematics from IMPA.[4]
Selected publications
- Luiz Velho and Jonas Gomes. "Digital Halftoning with Space Filling Curves". Computer Graphics, 25(4):81–90, 1991.
- Luiz Velho and Denis Zorin. "4-8 Subdivision". Computer-Aided Geometric Design, 18(5):397–427, 2001. Special Issue on Subdivision Techniques.
- Jingdan Zhang, Kun Zhou, Luiz Velho, Baining Guo, and Heung-Yeung. "Synthesis of Progressively Variant Textures on Arbitrary Surfaces". ACM Transactions on Graphics, 22(3):295–302, July 2003.
References
- ↑ "Personal webpage of Luiz Velho". http://lvelho.impa.br/.
- ↑ "Institucional webpage of Luiz Velho". IMPA. http://www.impa.br/opencms/pt/pesquisa/pesquisa_pesquisadores/pesquisadores_luiz_velho/pesquisadores_luiz_velho.html.
- ↑ "CRC Press". https://www.crcpress.com/authors/i207-luiz-velho.
- ↑ "Curriculum vitae of Luiz Velho". http://lattes.cnpq.br/9500245604678806.
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