Xiaohu Guo's Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS


 

Generally, I am interested mainly on geometric aspects related to Computer Graphics, like Geometric Modeling, Processing, and Physics-Based Modeling, Computer Animaiton, Medical Image Analysis, etc.

Specifically, my previous PhD thesis researches are mainly focused on the point-based modeling and meshless simulation. My current researches at UT-Dallas includes: mesh generation, centroidal Voronoi tessellation, spectral geometric analysis, deformable models, compression, watermarking, GPU-based algorithms, and medical image registration, etc.

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

 
  • Particle-Based Anisotropic Surface Meshing

We introduce a particle-based approach for anisotropic surface meshing. Given an input polygonal mesh endowed with a Riemannian metric and a specified number of vertices, the method generates a metric-adapted mesh. The main idea consists of mapping the anisotropic space into a higher dimensional isotropic one, called “embedding space”. The vertices of the mesh are generated by uniformly sampling the surface in this higher dimensional embedding space, and the sampling is further regularized by optimizing an energy function with a quasi-Newton algorithm. All the computation can be re-expressed in terms of the dot product in the embedding space, and the Jacobian matrices of the mappings that connect different spaces. This transform makes it unnecessary to explicitly represent the coordinates in the embedding space, and also provides all necessary expressions of energy and forces for efficient computations. Through energy optimization, it naturally leads to the desired anisotropic particle distributions in the original space...

  • Zichun Zhong, Xiaohu Guo, Wenping Wang, Bruno Lévy, Feng Sun, Yang Liu, Weihua Mao, "Particle-Based Anisotropic Surface Meshing," in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2013), Vol. 32, Issue 4, Article No. 99, 2013. [paper][appendix][UTD news]

  • Boundary-Aware Multi-Domain Subspace Deformation

We propose a novel framework for multi-domain subspace deformation using node-wise corotational elasticity. With the proper construction of subspaces based on the knowledge of the boundary deformation, we can use the Lagrange multiplier technique to impose coupling constraints at the boundary without over-constraining. In our deformation algorithm, the number of constraint equations to couple two neighboring domains is not related to the number of the nodes on the boundary but is the same as the number of the selected boundary deformation modes. The crack artifact is not present in our simulation result and the domain decomposition with loops can be easily handled....

  • Yin Yang, Weiwei Xu, Xiaohu Guo, Kun Zhou, Baining Guo, "Boundary-Aware Multi-Domain Subspace Deformation," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 19, No. 10, pp. 1633-1645, 2013. [paper][video]

  • Physics-Based Deformable Tongue Visualization

A physics-based framework is presented to visualize the human tongue deformation. The tongue is modeled with the finite element method (FEM) and driven by the motion capture data gathered during speech production. Several novel deformation visualization techniques are presented for in-depth data analysis and exploration. To reveal the hidden semantic information of the tongue deformation, we present a novel physics-based volume segmentation algorithm. This is accomplished by decomposing the tongue model into segments based on its deformation pattern with the computation of deformation subspaces and fitting the target deformation locally at each segment. In addition, the strain energy is utilized to provide an intuitive low dimensional visualization for the high dimensional sequential motion. Energy-interpolation-based morphing is also equipped to effectively highlight the subtle differences of the 3D deformed shapes without any visual occlusion...

  • Yin Yang, Xiaohu Guo, Jennell Vick, Luis Torres, Thomas Campbell, "Physics-Based Deformable Tongue Visualization," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 811-823, 2013. [paper][video]

  • Periodic Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation for Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology

We extend the concept of the CVT from Euclidean and spherical space to hyperbolic space. A novel hyperbolic CVT energy is defined, and the relationship between minimizing this energy and the hyperbolic CVT is proved. Two algorithms -- Lloyd's algorithm and the L-BFGS algorithm -- are adopted to compute the hyperbolic CVT, and the convergence of Lloyd's algorithm is proved. After conformally mapping the surfaces onto their universal covering space, the periodic CVT is computed on either Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces for surfaces with genus>=1. We utilize the periodic CVT to compute uniform partitions and high-quality remeshing results for surfaces of arbitrary topology...

  • Liang Shuai, Xiaohu Guo, Miao Jin, "GPU-Based Computation of Discrete Periodic Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation in Hyperbolic Space," in Computer-Aided Design (SPM 2012 Special Issue), Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 463-472, 2013. [paper][web]
  • Guodong Rong, Miao Jin, Liang Shuai, Xiaohu Guo, "Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation in Universal Covering Space of Manifold Surfaces," in Computer Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 28, No. 8, pp. 475-496, 2011. [paper][web]
  • Guodong Rong, Miao Jin, Xiaohu Guo, "Hyperbolic Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation," in Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM 2010), pp. 117-126, Haifa, Israel, September 2010. [paper][errata][web]

  • Point-Based Manifold Harmonics

We propose an algorithm to build a set of orthogonal Point-Based Manifold Harmonic Bases (PB-MHB) for spectral analysis over point-sampled manifold surfaces. To ensure that PB-MHB are orthogonal to each other, it is necessary to have symmetrizable discrete Laplace-Beltrami Operator (LBO) over the surfaces. Existing converging discrete LBO proposed by Belkin et al is not guaranteed to be symmetrizable. We build a new point-wisely discrete LBO over the point-sampled surface that is guaranteed to be symmetrizable, and prove its convergence...

  • Yang Liu, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Xiaohu Guo, "Point-Based Manifold Harmonics," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 18, No. 10, pp. 1693-1703, 2012. [paper][video][source code][web]

  • Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation on GPU

Centroidal Voronoi tessellation (CVT) is widely used in computational science and engineering. The most commonly used method is Lloyd's method, and recently Liu et al propose the L-BFGS method for computing CVT and show that it is faster than Lloyd's method. These methods run on the CPU and are still too slow for many practical applications. We present new techniques to implement these two methods on the GPU for computing CVT on a 2D plane and on a surface, and demonstrate significant speedup of these GPU-based methods over their CPU counterparts...

  • Guodong Rong, Yang Liu, Wenping Wang, Xiaotian Yin, Xianfeng Gu, Xiaohu Guo, "GPU-Assisted Computation of Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 345-356, 2011. [paper][video][source code]

  • Dirichlet Harmonic Shape Compression with Feature Preservation

In this paper we describe a spectral method to compress the geometric shapes equipped with arbitrary valid parametric information. It guarantees to preserve user-specified feature lines while achieving a high compression ratio. By applying the spectral shape analysis -- Dirichlet Manifold Harmonics, in the 2D parametric domain, this method provides a progressive compression mechanism to trade-off between bit-rate and shape quality...

  • Yang Liu, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Xiaohu Guo, "Dirichlet Harmonic Shape Compression with Feature Preservation for Parameterized Surfaces," in Computer Graphics Forum (PG 2010 Special Issue), Vol. 29, No. 7, pp. 2039-2048, 2010. [paper][video]

  • Spectral Hybrid Simulation of Deformable and Rigid Materials

A novel spectral framework is proposed to simulate a hybrid body with both deformable and rigid regions in real-time. We extend the modal analysis technique to rigid body simulation while using the modal warping method to handle rotational deformation in the deformable subsystem, and thus build up a uniform physically based spectral solution for the hybrid system. Moreover, a new strategy that fortifies the connection constraint between subsystems is employed to replace the traditional position constraint expression which accumulates the approximation errors making the whole system unstable...

  • Yin Yang, Guodong Rong, Luis Torres, Xiaohu Guo, "Real-Time Hybrid Solid Simulation: Spectral Unification of Deformable and Rigid Materials," in Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CASA 2010 Special Issue), Vol. 21, No. 3-4, pp. 151-159, 2010. [paper][video]

  • Deformable Model Streaming for Collaborative Interaction

Streaming deformations on complex 3D objects arising from a user¡¯s manipulations is a challenging task. In this research, we propose a framework for real-time streaming of 3D deformations in collaborative learning applications. Our research contributions through this framework include: (i) use of spectrumbased surface deformation for real-time, distributed computation of the 3D model; (ii) handling different clients display capabilities by enabling the deformations to be applied on multiple resolutions of the same 3D object. Our experiments indicate that transmission of deformation information can be accomplished in a very short time, even for large and complicated 3D models...

  • Ziying Tang, Guodong Rong, Xiaohu Guo, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, "Streaming 3D Shape Deformations in Collaborative Virtual Environment," in Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR 2010), pp. 183-186, Waltham, Massachusetts, March 2010. [paper][video]
  • Ziying Tang, Orkun Ozbek, Xiaohu Guo, "Real-Time 3D Interaction with Deformable Model on Mobile Devices," to appear in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Conference (MM 2011), Scottsdale, AZ, November 2011.

  • Spectral Surface Deformation

The geometry and motion of the original irregular meshes can be compactly encoded using the low-frequency spectrum of the manifold surfaces. Using the spectral method, the size of the linear/nonlinear deformation system can be significantly reduced to achieve interactive computational speed for manipulating large triangle meshes...

  • Guodong Rong, Yan Cao, Xiaohu Guo, "Spectral Mesh Deformation," in The Visual Computer (CGI2008 Special Issue), Vol. 24, No. 7-9, pp. 787-796, 2008. [paper][video][web]
  • Guodong Rong, Yan Cao, Xiaohu Guo, "Spectral Surface Deformation with Dual Mesh," in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2008), pp. 17-24, Seoul, Korea, September 2008. [paper][video][web]

  • Spectral Blind Watermarking for Manifold Surfaces

We propose a blind and imperceptible spectral watermarking approach for manifold surfaces represented as triangle meshes. The basic idea is to transform the original mesh into frequency domain using the Fourier-Like Manifold Harmonics Transform. The manifold harmonics basis defined on arbitrary topology surfaces is an intrinsic property of the manifold surfaces, which makes our watermarking scheme immune to uniform affine attack (rotation, scaling, and translation) and robust against noise-addition and mesh simplification attacks...

  • Yang Liu, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Xiaohu Guo, "A Robust Spectral Approach for Blind Watermarking of Manifold Surfaces," in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia & Security Workshop, pp. 43-52, Oxford, UK, September 2008. [paper]
  • Yang Liu, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Xiaohu Guo, "Blind Invisible Watermarking for 3D Meshes with Textures," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 3689-3692, Hong Kong, September 2010. [paper]
  • Yang Liu, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Xiaohu Guo, "Spectral Watermarking for Parameterized Surfaces," in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 1459-1471, 2012. [paper]

  • Harmonic Volumetric Mapping

Harmonic volumetric mapping for two solid objects establishes a one-to-one smooth correspondence between them. It finds its applications in shape registration and analysis, shape retrieval, information reuse, and material/texture transplant...

  • Xin Li, Xiaohu Guo, Hongyu Wang, Ying He, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin, "Harmonic Volumetric Mapping for Solid Modeling Applications," in Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM 2007), pp. 109 - 120, Beijing, June 2007. [paper]
  • Xin Li, Xiaohu Guo, Hongyu Wang, Ying He, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin, "Meshless Harmonic Volumetric Mapping using Fundamental Solution Methods," in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 409-422, 2009. [paper]

  • Globally Optimal Quasi-Conformal Surface Mapping

We developed a quasi-conformal surface mapping paradigm which minimizes angle distortion and metric distortion of mappings globally based on the intrinsic geometric structure of surfaces...

  • Xin Li, Yunfan Bao, Xiaohu Guo, Miao Jin, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin, "Globally Optimal Surface Mapping for Surfaces with Arbitrary Topology," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 805-819, 2008. [paper][video]

  • Spline-Based Thin-Shell Simulation

We developed a new paradigm which elegantly integrates the thin-shell finite-element simulation with geometric design of arbitrary manifold spline surfaces...

  • Kexiang Wang, Ying He, Xiaohu Guo, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin, "Spline Thin-Shell Simulation of Manifold Surfaces," in Proceedings of Computer Graphics International (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Vol. 4035, pp. 570-577), 2006. [paper]

  • Global Parameterization for Meshless Simulation
A new approach for the meshless thin-shell elastic deformation and fracture simulation of point-sampled geometry via explicit, global conformal point-surface parameterization...
  • Xiaohu Guo, Xin Li, Yunfan Bao, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin, "Meshless Thin-shell Simulation Based on Global Conformal Parameterization," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 375-385, 2006. [paper][video][web]

  • Shape and Appearance Repair/Editing System
A new surface content completion framework that can restore both shape and appearance (texture) from scaned, incomplete point set inputs...
  • Seyoun Park, Xiaohu Guo, Hayong Shin, Hong Qin, "Shape and Appearance Repair for Incomplete Point Surfaces," in Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005), pp. 1260 - 1267, Beijing, October, 2005. [paper][video][web]
  • Seyoun Park, Xiaohu Guo, Hayong Shin, Hong Qin, "Surface Completion for Shape and Appearance," in The Visual Computer, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 168 - 180, 2006. [paper][video][web]

  • Physically-Based Morphing of Point-Sampled Surfaces

An innovative method for naturally and smoothly morphing two point-sampled surfaces via dynamic, meshless simulation...

  • Yunfan Bao, Xiaohu Guo, Hong Qin, "Physically Based Morphing of Point-sampled Surfaces," in the 18th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2005), Hong Kong, October, 2005. One of the best papers invited to the journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Vol. 16, No. 3-4, pp. 509 - 518, 2005. [paper][video][slides][web]

  • Real-Time Meshless Deformation

A real-time meshless simulation paradigm for point-sampled solid objects using Modal Warping technique...

  • Xiaohu Guo, Hong Qin, "Real-time Meshless Deformation," in the 18th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2005), Hong Kong, October, 2005. One of the best papers invited to the journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Vol. 16, No. 3-4, pp. 189 - 200, 2005. [paper][video][slides][web]

  • Scalar-Function-Driven Editing on Point Set Surfaces

A modeling paradigm and system for local and global editing on point set surfaces lets users easily modify the topology of sculpted point sets...

  • Xiaohu Guo, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin, "Point Set Surface Editing Techniques based on Level-Sets," in Computer Graphics International '04, pp. 52 - 59, Crete, Greece, June 2004. [paper][slides][web]
  • Xiaohu Guo, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin, "Scalar-Function-Driven Editing on Point Set Surfaces," in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 43 - 52, 2004. [paper][web]

  • Haptics-Based Editing on Point Set Surfaces

A modeling paradigm for haptics-based editing on point set surfaces exploits implicit surfaces, physics-based modeling, point-sampled surfaces, and haptic feedback...

  • Xiaohu Guo and Hong Qin, "Dynamic Sculpting and Deformation of Point Set Surfaces," in Pacific Graphics' 03, pp. 123 - 130, Canmore, Alberta, Canada, October 2003. [paper][slides][web]
  • Xiaohu Guo, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin, "Touch-Based Haptics for Interactive Editing on Point Set Surfaces," in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 31 - 39, 2004. [paper][web]
 
 
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