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Finite Element Mesh Smoothing
Adaptive Remeshing
Reverse Engineering
Geometric Modeling
Geometric Data Conversion
Free-Form
Surface Modeling
Product Design
Computer Graphics
Manufacturing Planning
Computer
Assisted Surgery
Research Sponsors
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Bubble
Mesh (Physically-Based FEM Mesh Generation)
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Bubble
Mesh (1D, 2D, and 3D)
Shimada,
K., "Physically-Based Mesh Generation: Automated Triangulation of
Surfaces and Volumes via Bubble Packing," Ph.D. thesis,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993.
Shimada,
K. and D. Gossard, "Bubble Mesh: Automated Triangular Meshing of
Non-Manifold Geometry by Sphere Packing," ACM Third Symposium on
Solid Modeling and Applications, pp. 409-19, 1995. [PDF,
1,007KB]
Shimada, K. and D. Gossard, “Automatic Triangular Mesh Generation of
Trimmed Parametric Surfaces for Finite Element Analysis,” Computer Aided
Geometric Design, Vol.15, No.3, pp.199-222, 1998. [Zipped
PS, 540KB]
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Anisotropic
Tetrahedral Meshing
(with
S. Yamakawa)
Yamakawa,
S and K. Shimada, “Anisotropic Tetrahedral Meshing via Bubble Packing
and Advancing Front,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in
Engineering, 57: pp.1923-42, 2003.
Yamakawa,
S. and K. Shimada, "High Quality Anisotropic Tetrahedral Mesh
Generation via Packing Ellipsoidal Bubbles," The 9th International
Meshing Roundtable, pp.263-73, 2000. [PDF,
1,054KB]
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HEXHOOP: Hex-Dominant to All-Hex Mesh Conversion Template
(with
S. Yamakawa)
Yamakawa, S and K. Shimada,
“Fully-Automated Hex-Dominant Mesh Generation with Directionality
Control via Packing Rectangular Solid Cells,” International Journal for
Numerical Methods in Engineering, 57: pp.2099-129, 2003.
Yamakawa, S. and K. Shimada, "HEXHOOP: Modular Templates for Converting
a Hex-Dominant Mesh to an ALL-Hex Mesh," The 10th International Meshing
Roundtable, 2001. [PDF, 991KB]
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Triangulation
of Parametric Surfaces
(with
D. Gossard)
Shimada, K. and D.
Gossard, "Automatic Triangular Mesh Generation of Trimmed
Parametric Surfaces for Finite Element Analysis," Computer Aided
Geometric Design, Vol.15, No.3, pp.199-222, 1998. [Zipped
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Anisotropic
Triangulation
(with
A. Yamada and T. Itoh)
Shimada, K., A. Yamada,
and T. Itoh, "Anisotropic Triangulation of Parametric Surfaces via
Close Packing of Ellipsoids," International Journal of
Computational Geometry and Applications, Vol.10, No.4, pp. 400-424, 2000.
[Zipped PS, 1,137KB] |
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Triangular Meshing of Wireframe
(with
A. Yamada and T. Itoh)
Yamada, A., K. Shimada, and T. Itoh, “Meshing Curved Wire-Frame Models
via Energy-Minimization and Ellipse Packing,” International Journal for
Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol.46, Issue 8, pp. 1221-1236, 1999.
[Zipped PS, 293KB]
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Quadrilateral
Meshing with Directionality Control by Packing Square Cells
(with
J-H Liao and T. Itoh)
Shimada, K., J.-H. Liao,
T. Itoh, "Quadrilateral Meshing with Directionality Control through
the Packing of Square Cells," The 7th International Meshing
Roundtable, pp. 61-75, 1998. [PDF,
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Anisotropic
Quadrilateral Meshing via Packing Rectangular Cells
(with
N. Viswanath and T. Itoh)
Viswanath, N., K.
Shimada and T. Itoh, "Quadrilateral Meshing with Anisotropy and
Directionality Control via Close Packing of Rectangular Cells," The
9th International Meshing Roundtable, 2000. [PDF,
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Quad-Layer:
Layered Quadrilateral Meshing of Narrow Two-Dimensional Domain for Large Deformation Analysis
(with
S. Yamakawa)
Yamakawa, S and K. Shimada, “Quad-Layer:
Layered Quadrilateral Meshing of Narrow Two-Dimensional Domain by Bubble
Packing and Chordal Axis Transformation,” ASME Journal of Mechanical
Design, Vol. 124, pp.564-73, 2002.
Yamakawa,
S. and K.
Shimada, "Quad-Layer: Layered Quadrilateral Meshing of Narrow
Two-Dimensional Domain via Bubble Packing and Chordal Axis
Transformation," ASME DAC, 2001. [PDF,
872KB]
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Finite Element Mesh Smoothing
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Two-Dimensional
Angle
Smoothing
(with
T. Zhou)
Zhou,
T. and K. Shimada, "An Angle-Based Approach to Two-dimensional Mesh
Smoothing," The 9th International Meshing Roundtable, pp.373-84,
2000. [PDF, 512KB]
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Improving
the Quality of Tet Meshes via Angle Smoothing and Edge Swapping
(with
T. Zhou and A. Dheeravongkit)
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Adaptive
Remeshing
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Solution
Adaptive Quadrilateral Remeshing
(with
N. Viswanath and T. Itoh)
Viswanath, N., K.
Shimada and T. Itoh, "Quadrilateral Meshing with Anisotropy and
Directionality Control via Close Packing of Rectangular Cells," The
9th International Meshing Roundtable, pp.227-238, 2000. |
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Sheet
Metal Forming Simulation
(with
N. Mori, T. Kondo, T. Itoh, K. Kase, and A. Makinouchi)
Shimada,
K., N. Mori, T. Kondo, T. Itoh, K. Kase, A. Makinouchi, "Automated
Mesh Generation for Finite Element Analysis of Sheet Metal
Forming," International Journal of Vehicle Design, Vo. 21, Nos.
2/3, 1999.
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Reverse Engineering
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Surface Segmentation
(with M. Vieira)
Vieira, M. and K. Shimada, “Surface Mesh
Segmentation and Smooth Surface Extraction through Region Growing,”
Computer-Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp.771-92, 2005. |
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Geometric
Modeling and Product Design
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Automatic
Shape Generation for Mechanical Components
(with
D. Gossard)
Shimada,
K., and D. Gossard, Automated Shape Generation of Mechanical Components
with FEM-Based Deformable Curves, submitted to ASME Journal of
Mechanical Design, 2000. |
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Shortest Path Finder
(with
M. Kageura)
Kageura, M., and K.
Shimada, “Finding the Shortest Path for Quality Assurance of Electric
Components,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 126, pp. 1017-1026,
2005.
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3D
Layouting and Packaging
(with
J. Cagan, C. Aladahalli, and S. Yin)
Cagan, J., K. Shimada, and S. Yin, “A Survey of Computational Approaches
to Three-Dimensional Layout Problems,” Computer-Aided Design, accepted
2001. [PDF, 126KB]
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Geometric
Data Conversion
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WitS:
Wireframe
to Surface/Solid Conversion
(with
K. Inoue and K. Chilaka)
Inoue, K.,
K. Shimada and K. Chilaka, “Solid Model Reconstruction of Wireframe CAD
Models,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 125 (3): 434-442, 2003.
Inoue,
K., and K. Shimada, "Surface Model Reconstruction from Wire-Frame
CAD Models," Journal of the Information Processing Society of
Japan, accepted 2000. (in Japanese) [PDF,
871KB] |
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Face
Clustering for Mesh Generation
(with
K. Inoue, T. Itoh, A. Yamada, and T. Furuhata)
Inoue,
K., T. Itoh, A. Yamada, T. Furuhata, K. Shimada, "Clustering a
Large Number of Faces for Two-Dimensional Mesh Generation,"
Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 33, No 3., pp. 251- 61, 2001. [PDF,
1,737KB]
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Free-Form Surface Modeling
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Fair
Surface Generation with Spring Models
(with
A. Yamada, T. Furuhata, and K.-H. Hou)
Yamada,
A., K. Shimada, T. Furuhata, and K.-H. Hou, "A Discrete Spring
Model to Generate Fair Curves and Surfaces," Proceedings of Pacific
Graphics '99, 1999. [PDF, 1,558KB]
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Automated Generation of Fillet Surfaces
(with K.-H. Hou
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Computer
Graphics
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Radiosity
Methods
(with T. Itoh,
and A. Doi)
Itoh, T., K. Shimada,
and A. Doi, "Discontinuity Meshing for Radiosity," Journal of
the Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.36, No.11, pp. 2632-41,
1995. (in Japanese)
Shimada, K., T. Itoh,
and A. Doi, "Automatic Triangular Meshing for Fast and Accurate
Radiosity Method," NICOGRAPH '95, pp. 44-55, 1994. (in Japanese)
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Pavement
Texture Generation
(with
K. Miyata and T. Itoh)
Miyata,
K., T. Itoh, and K. Shimada, "A Method of Generating Pavement
Textures Using the Square Packing Technique," Visual Computer,
accepted 2000. [PDF, 1,726KB]
Miyata,
K., T. Itoh, and K. Shimada, "A Method of Generating Pavement
Textures Using Square Packing Technique," SIGGRAPH 2000 Technical
Sketch, 2000. |
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Organic
Texture Generation with Controlled Anisotropy and Directionality
(with
K. Miyata and T. Itoh)
Miyata, K., T.
Itoh, and K. Shimada, "Organic Textures with Controlled Anisotropy and
Directionality," SIGGRAPH 2001 Technical Sketch, 2001. [PDF,
169KB]
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Manufacturing
Planning
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Optimal
Stacking
Sheet Metal Parts
(with
V. Ayyadevara, D. Bourne and R. Sturges)
Ayyadevara,
V., D. Bourne, K. Shimada, and R. Sturges, "Interference-Free
Polyhedral Configuration for Stacking," IEEE Transactions on
Robotics and Automation, accepted 2000. [PDF,
1,596KB]
Ayyadevara,
V., D. Bourne, K. Shimada, and R. Sturges, "Determining Near
Optimal Interference-Free Polyhedral Configurations for Stacking,"
Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and
Task Planning, Porto, Portugal, pp. 286-293, 1999. |
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Finding
the Farthest Point from Object Boundary and its Application to
Manufacturing Cost Estimation
(with
M. Kageura)
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Computer
Assisted Surgery
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Computer
Assisted Arthroscopic Hip Surgery
(with E. Monahan)
Monahan, E. and K. Shimada, “Computer-Aided
Navigation for Arthroscopic Hip Surgery Using Encoder Linkages for
Position Tracking,” Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14, 2006.
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Computer
Assisted Cryosurgery
(with D. Tanaka and Y. Rabin)
Tanaka, D., Y.
Rabin, and K. Shimada, “Bubble Packing Application in Computerized
Planning of Cryosurgery,” Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14, 2006.
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Computer
Assisted Orthopedic Surgery
(with B.
Caes, T. Furuhata, M. Gunay, N. Krause, B. Mendicino, G. Neplotnik, A. Schwarzhans T.
Kanade, and L. Weiss)
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3D
Shape Reconstruction from X-Ray Images
(with
M. Gunay)
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Osteotomy
Configuration Optimizer
(with
T. Furuhata)
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Human
Modeling, Simulation, and Identification
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Human
Face Recognition
(with
S. Yamakawa, C. DeFrank and A. Eraslan)
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Research
Sponsors
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