dcc12

Shape Matching for CAD

Important Dates
Workshop December 13
Time US EST 10:00am-2:00pm

Workshop Aim:
Recent advances in shape matching provide new opportunities for the design world. The increasing proliferation of visual information in large image databases in engineering, science, business, art and design, and the increasing interest in direct shape retrieval (image retrieval by content), – as opposed to external features of an image such as a description, text or tag – suggests transformative changes in the ways designers think and work with two-dimensional and three-dimensional models in their design workflows. The full potential of these opportunities for engineering and architectural designis yet to be realized: visual shape matching is still absent from current computer-aided design (CAD) systems. The goal of this workshop is to explore the state-of-the-art and current computational methods, processes and practices in shape matching in CAD systems and postulate the future developments and impact in the field.

Questions relevant to this workshop include but are not limited to:
How can shape matching be used in existing design workflows? Does it suggest new design workflows?
• What new opportunities for design emerge from shape matching?
• Are the similarity measures of shape matching significant for design?
• How would CAD interfaces change to accommodate shape matching methods in design workflows?

• Is it possible to import tools and paradigms from image processing and word processing software to CAD software?

Workshop Chair
Athanassios Economou (thanos@gatech.edu)
Iestyn Jowers (iestyn.jowers@open.ac.uk)
Program Committee


• Chris Earl, Open University
• Thomas Grasl, TU Vienna
• Ramesh Krishnamurti, Carnegie Mellon University
• Kristina Shea, ETH Zurich
• Rudi Stouffs,National University Singapore
• Rob Woodbury, Simon Fraser University

Workshop Notes
The workshop builds on the Shape Machine Symposium (https://shape.design.gatech.edu/Symposium)

Submission information:
Participants do not need to submit anything to attend the workshop.
However, if you have related material please submit it to the Workshop Chair (thanos@gatech.edu) for possible inclusion.

Workshop format:
This interactive workshop will be structured winto the following parts:
1. Short introductions from workshop attendees about their research
2. Mini-presentations followed by short discussion
3. Small group discussions among workshop attendees about the challenges and future of shape matching
4. Wrap up.

Workshop attendees need to regsiser at a cost of $US25/workshop. Please navigate to the Registration page to register.

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