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Efi Arazi School of Computer Science ,
The Interdisciplinary Center , Herzliya

Office phone: 972 - 9 - 9527378

CV (pdf)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Mesh Analysis and Partitioning
  • Image and Video Processing
  • 3D Shape Retrieval
  • Multi-Resolution Models
  • Digital Typography
  • Visual Succinct Representation of Information

Video Retarget

 

Vladislav Kraevoy   Alla Sheffer   Ariel Shamir   Daniel Cohen-Or
Non-homogeneous Resizing of Complex Models
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 27, Number ? (to appear)  
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008

Video Retarget

 

Michael Rubinstein, Ariel Shamir, Shai Avidan
Improved Seam Carving for Video Retargeting
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 27, Number 3 (to appear)  
SIGGRAPH 2008
Video

 

part analogies

 

Shy Shalom· Lior Shapira · Ariel Shamir · Daniel Cohen-Or
Part Analogies in Sets of Objects
Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on 3D Object Retrieval, pages 33-40, 2008.

Seam Carving

 

Shai Avidan, Ariel Shamir
Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 26, Number 3,  
SIGGRAPH 2007
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Ariel Shamir
A survey on Mesh Segmentation Techniques
Computer Graphics Forum, to appear

Previous version:
Segmentation and Shape Extraction of 3D Boundary Meshes
State-of-the-Art Report, Proceedings Eurographics 2006
abstract          Talk Slides

 

 

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Lior Shapira · Ariel Shamir · Daniel Cohen-Or
Consistent Mesh Partitioning and Skeletonization using the Shape Diameter Function
The Visual Computer, to appear

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Ran Gal, Ariel Shamir, Daniel Cohen-Or
Pose Oblivious Shape Signature
IEEE Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 13, No. 2, pages 261–271, 2007
abstract    Sample Application

Skeleton Hand

 

Andrei Sharf, Thomas Lewiner, Ariel Shamir and Leif Kobbelt
On-the-fly Curve-skeleton Computation for 3D Shapes
Computer Graphics Forum,
Volume 26, number 3, September 2007,
Pages 323-328 (Proceedings Eurographics 2007)

Skeleton Hand

 

Ran Gal, Ariel Shamir, Tal Hassner, Mark Pauly and Daniel Cohen-Or
Surface Reconstruction using Local Shape Priors
Proceedings of the fifth Eurographics symposium on Geometry processing 2007,
Pages: 253 - 262

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Andrei Sharf, Marina Blumenkrants, Ariel Shamir, and Daniel Cohen-Or
Snap-Paste: An Interactive Technique for Easy Mesh Composition
The Visual Computer, Volume 22, Numbers 9-11, September, 2006
pages 835-844 (Proceedings Pacific Graphics 2006)

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Andrei Sharf, Thomas Lewiner, Ariel Shamir, Leif Kobbelt, and Daniel Cohen-Or
Competing Fronts for Coarse–to–Fine Surface Reconstruction
Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 25 No. 3 , pages 389-398 (Proceedings Eurographics) 2006

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Marina Blumenkrants, Hilla Starovisky, Ariel Shamir
Narrative Algorithm Visualization
Proceedings ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, pages 17-26, September 2006
abstract

 

Lior Shapira, Ariel Shamir
Local Geodesic Parametrization: An Ant's Perspective
in Mathematical Foundations of Scientific Visualization, Computer
Graphics, and Massive Data Exploration, Springer, to appear

abstract

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Ariel Shamir, Amir Shaham
Skeleton Based Solid Representation with Topology Preservation
Graphical Models, 68: 307-321, 2006
abstract

 

Ariel Shamir, Miki Rubinstein, Tomer Levinboim
Generating Comics From 3D Interactive Computer Graphics
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Volume 26, number 3, 30-38, 2006
abstract

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Ariel Shamir, Lior Shapira, Daniel Cohen-Or
Mesh Analysis Using Geodesic Mean Shift
The Visual Computer, 22(2): 99-108, 2006
abstract

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Yunjin Lee, Seungyong Lee, Ariel Shamir, Daniel Cohen-Or, Hans-Peter Seidel
Mesh scissoring with minima rule and part salience
Computer Aided Geometric Design, Volume 22, Issue 5 , July, Pages 444-465, 2005
abstract

 

Yunjin Lee, Seungyong Lee, Ariel Shamir, Daniel Cohen-Or, Hans-Peter Seidel
Intelligent Mesh Scissoring Using 3D Snakes
Proceedings of the 12th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, pp. 279-287, 2004
abstract

 

Amir Shaham, Ariel Shamir, Daniel Cohen-Or
Medial Axis Based Solid Representation
Proceedings ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, pp. 37-44, 2004
abstract



 

 

Ariel Shamir,
A View on Views
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3031 / 2004
Proceedings Smart Graphics: 4th International Symposium pp. 90-100, 2004
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Doron A. Friedman, Yishai A. Feldman, Ariel Shamir, Tsvi Dagan,
Automated Creation of Movie Summaries in Interactive Virtual Environments,
Proceedings IEEE Virtual Reality 2004, pp. 191-198, 2004
abstract

 

Ariel Shamir,
Feature-Space Analysis of Unstructured Meshes,
Proceedings, IEEE Visualization 2003, Seattle, Washington, pp. 185--192, 2003



 

 

Ariel Shamir, Andrei Sotzio, Daniel Cohen-Or,
Enhanced Hierarchical Shape Matching for Shape Transformation,
International Journal for Shape Modeling IJSM, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2003



 

 

Ariel Shamir,
Constraint-based approach for automatic hinting of digital typefaces
ACM Transactions on Graphics Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 131--151, 2003



 

 

Bajaj, C., Pascucci, V., Shamir, A., Holt, J. R., Netravali A. N.,
Dynamic Maintenance and Visualization of Molecular Surfaces
Discrete and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 127, No. 1, pp. 23--51, 2003


 

 

Bajaj, C., Shamir, A., Sohn, B.-S.
Progressive Tracking of Isosurfaces in Time-Varying Scalar Fields,
 CS & TICAM Technical Report TR-02-4, University of Texas at Austin, 2002

 

Shamir, A., Pascucci, V.,
Temporal and Spatial Level of Details for Dynamic Meshes,
Proceedings, Virtual Reality Systems and Techniques 2001, Ban , Canada, pp. 423--430, 2001

 

Shamir, A., Pascucci, V., Bajaj, C.,
Multi-Resolution Dynamic Meshes with Arbitrary Deformation,
Proceedings, IEEE Visualization Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, pp. 423--430, 2000

 

Ariel Shamir, Ari Rappoport
Compacting Oriental Fonts by Optimizing Parametric Elements
The Visual Computer, Vol. 15 No. 6, pp. 302--318, 1999


 

 

Ariel Shamir, Ari Rappoport
Quality enhancements of digital typeface boundary representations.
Computers & Graphics Vol. 21, No. 6, special issue on Graphics in Electronic Printing and Publishing, 1997

 

Ariel Shamir, Ari Rappoport
Extraction of typographic elements from outline representations of fonts.
Computer Graphics Forum, Vol.15 No.3 1996 pp.259-268, Conference issue (proceedings, Eurographics '96).
Eurographics'96 Best Paper Award (3rd prize).

 

Ariel Shamir
Data Structures (Textbook in Hebrew)
AKADEMON Hebrew U. student press, 1992

Introduction to Computer Science in Java

  • Fall 2000
  • Fall 2001
  • Fall 2002
  • Fall 2003
  • Fall 2004
  • Fall 2005
  • Fall 2007

 

Geometric Modeling and Visualization

  • Spring 2002
  • Spring 2003
  • Spring 2004
  • Spring 2006

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Advanced Seminar in Graphics

 

Machine Learning

  • Fall 2003
  • Fall 2004
  • Spring 2008