News and Announcements

1999

July, 1
M.Sc. Thesis entitled "Um Sistema de Animação Baseado em Movimento Capturado" (A Motion Capture Based Animation System), by Fernando Wagner da Silva (COPPE-Sistemas/UFRJ) and Luiz Velho (IMPA, advisor), receives the Second Prize Award of the VI CLEI-UNESCO Contest on Masters Thesis, sponsored by UNESCO and part of the XXV Latinamerican Conference on Computer Science - CLEI'99.

July, 26-30
Participation at 22° Colóquio Brasileiro de Matemática
course on "Métodos de Otimização e suas Aplicações em Computação Gráfica"
Jonas Gomes, Paulo Cezar, Luiz Velho e Luiz Henrique

May 31
M.Sc. Thesis entitled "Um Sistema de Animação Baseado em Movimento Capturado" (A Motion Capture Based Animation System), by Fernando Wagner da Silva (COPPE-Sistemas/UFRJ) and Luiz Velho (IMPA, advisor), receives the Second Prize Award of CTD'99, the brazilian contest on M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society.

February, 28 - March, 9
Professor Dimitris Metaxas from University of Pennsylvania is visiting the Lab. During his visit, he will teach the course Physics-based modeling methods for Graphics, Vision and Medical Image Analysis.

February, 18-24
Professor Gilberto Câmara from INPE visits the Lab and teaches the course Análise Espacial de Dados Geográficos.

January 5th
Patent on Color Halftoning
Jonas Gomes e Luiz Velho

Participation at SIGGRAPH'99
course " From Fourier Analysis to Wavelets"
Jonas Gomes e Luiz Velho

Book Computação Gráfica, Volume 1
Jonas Gomes e Luiz Velho