Thales Vieira


I'm Professor at the Institute of Mathematics, UFAL, Maceió - Brazil. I am currently interested in Geometric Modeling and Intelligence applied to Computer Graphics.
This year I am organizing the Workshop of Works in Progress (WIP) of SIBGRAPI 2012 with Denise Guliato (UFU, Brazil). You can check the event website here. Also, I have been working in an institutional project to incorporate new technologies in education. You can check some learning objects I have developed for univariate Calculus here. You can find my lattes curriculum here.



Formation

PhD in Mathematics (Computer Graphics) at PUC-Rio, 2010.
Title: “Galerias Inteligentes e Otimização de Posicionamento de Câmera [pdf]

Advisor: Prof. Thomas Lewiner

MSc in Mathematics (Computer Graphics) at UFAL ( Federal University at Alagoas), 2007.
Title: “Registro Automático de Superfícies Usando Spin Images" [pdf]
Advisor: Prof. Adelailson Peixoto

BSc in Computer Science at UFAL ( Federal University at Alagoas), 2005.
Title: “Uma Técnica para Interpolação de Superfícies Triangulares
Advisor: Prof. Ailton Cruz

Academic Interests

3D Video
Pose and Gesture Classification
Intelligent Computer Graphics
Support Vector Machines
Surface Reconstruction
Surface Registration
Surface Parameterization
Surface Deformation

Publications

Stereo music visualization through manifold harmonics
Thomas Lewiner, Clarissa Marques, João Paixão, Scarlett de Botton, Allyson Cabral, Renata Nascimento, Vinícius Mello, Adelailson Peixoto, Dimas Martinez, Thales Vieira
The Visual Computer (october 2011)
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Simplificação de malhas triangulares baseada no diagrama de Voronoi intrínseco

Douglas Cedrim, Adelailson Peixoto, Thales Vieira, Dimas Martinez.

Workshop of Theses and Dissertations of SIBGRAPI 2011
[pdf]

Extração de Isosuperfícies Usando Galerias de Design
Augusto Cunha, Lucas Lima, Thales Vieira
Workshop of Undergraduate Work of SIBGRAPI 2011
[pdf]

Interactive 3D Caricature from Harmonic Exaggeration

Thomas Lewiner, Thales Vieira, Dimas Martinez, Adelailson Peixoto, Vinícius Mello and Luiz Velho.

Shape Modeling International 2011 (Computer & Graphics 35(3))
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Tuning Manifold Harmonics Filters
Thomas Lewiner, Thales Vieira, Alex Bordignon, Allyson Cabral, Clarissa Marques, João Paixão, Lis Custódio, Marcos Lage, Maria Andrade, Renata Nascimento, Scarlett de Botton, Sinésio Pesco, Hélio Lopes, Vinícius Mello, Adelailson Peixoto, Dimas Martinez
Sibgrapi 2010
[pdf] [mov][youtube]

Geometry super-resolution by example

Thales Vieira, Alex Bordignon, Thomas Lewiner and Luiz Velho

Sibgrapi 2009

[pdf]

Scale-space for union of 3d balls
Alex Bordignon, Betina Vath, Thales Vieira, Marcos Craizer, Thomas Lewiner and Cynthia Ferreira
Sibgrapi 2009
[pdf] [mov]

Learning good views through intelligent galleries

Thales Vieira, Alex Bordignon, Adelailson Peixoto, Geovan Tavares, Hélio Lopes, Luiz Velho and Thomas Lewiner

Eurographics 2009 (Computer Graphics Forum 28(2))

[pdf] [mov]

An iterative framework for registration with reconstruction
Thales Vieira, Adelailson Peixoto, Luiz Velho and Thomas Lewiner
Vision, Modelling and Visualization 2007 [pdf]

Automatic surface registration using spin-images

Thales Vieira, Adelailson Peixoto, Luiz Velho and Thomas Lewiner

Sibgrapi - Workshop de Teses e Dissertações 2007
[pdf]

A computational procedure for interpolation of triangular parametric surfaces
Thales Vieira, Clarissa Marques, Adelailson Peixoto, Hilario Alencar, William Lira, Ailton Cruz
XXVI Cilamce'2005
[pdf]


Triangular parametric surfaces reconstruction using an adapted spr
method

Thales Vieira, Adelailson Peixoto, William Lira

II Jornada de Iniciação Científica no IMPA 2005

[pdf]

   

Awards

Silver Medal in II Jornada de Iniciação Científica no IMPA, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, 2005.
2nd Prize in Workshop of Undergraduate Work of SIBGRAPI 2011

 

Teaching

2012.1

Análise para Licenciatura (Real Analysis): undergraduate course in Math
Cálculo 1
(Univariate Calculus 1): undergraduate course in Engineering


2011.2

Geometria Computacional (Computational Geometry): graduate course in Math
Cálculo 1
(Univariate Calculus 1): undergraduate course in Computer Science

 

2011.1
Cálculo 1 (Univariate Calculus 1): undergraduate course in Computer Science


2011 Summer

Introdução à Computação Gráfica (Introduction to Computer Graphics): scientific initiation course


2010.2

Geometria Computacional (Computational Geometry): graduate course in Math
Cálculo 1
(Univariate Calculus 1): undergraduate course in Math

 

2010.1
Computação Gráfica Interativa (Interactive Computer Graphics): scientific initiation course
Geometria Analítica
(Analytic Geometry): undergraduate course in Computer Science
Geometria Analítica (Analytic Geometry): undergraduate course in Physics

 

Contact

E-Mail: thalesv@gmail.com
Home Page: http://www.im.ufal.br/professor/thales/
Phone: +55 82 3214 1419

Address:
Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Campus A. C. Simões.
Instituto de Matemática
Av. Lourival Melo Mota, s/n, Tabuleiro do Martins.
Maceió, AL - 57072.970
Brasil