Dr. Paolo Cignoni is a Research Director with CNR-ISTI where he leads the Visual Computing Laboratory) since 2019. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1998. He was awarded by the Eurographics Association “Best Young Researcher” in 2004, and he got the “Outstanding Technical Contributions Award” in 2021. Since 2022, he is part of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy. His research interests cover many Computer Graphics fields, including geometry processing and machine learning technologies for 3D, applied to 3D scanning data processing, digital fabrication, scientific visualisation, and digital heritage. His laboratory has provided the community with many successful and widely distributed advanced software tools like MeshLab and many others. He has published more than 180 papers in international refereed journals/conferences and has served on the program committee of all the most important conferences on computer graphics. He is a member of the Eurographics Executive Committee.
Teaching
He teaches 3D Graphics courses at the Computer Science department of University of Pisa.
Latest
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- Capacitive Touch Sensing on General 3D Surfaces
- Procedural generation of geometric patterns for thin shell fabrication
- 3D imaging application to the study of the early Neolithic ceramic complex: the decorated pottery of Rio Tana (Abruzzi, Italy)
- Geometric deep learning for statics-aware grid shells
- Bending-Reinforced Grid Shells for Free-form Architectural Surfaces
- Computational Design of Fabricable Geometric Patterns
- FreeGrid: a benchmark on design and optimisation of free-edge gridshells
- MoReLab: A Software for User-Assisted 3D Reconstruction
- Social and hUman ceNtered XR
- Texture Inpainting for Photogrammetric Models
- On-the-fly Acquisition and Rendering with Low Cost Lidar and RGB Cameras for Marine Navigation
- PNNR H2IOSC
- PNNR MICS
- Cultural Heritage 3D Data on the Web: Issues and Perspectives
- Automated generation of flat tileable patterns and 3D reduced model simulation
- Design and construction of a bending-active plywood structure: the Flexmaps Pavilion
- Ebb & Flow: Uncovering Costantino Nivola s Olivetti Sandcast through 3D Fabrication and Virtual Exploration
- Exploratory study on a segmented shell made of recycled-HDPE plastic
- On assisting and automatizing the semantic segmentation of masonry walls
- SkinMixer: Blending 3D Animated Models
- State of the Art in Computational Mould Design
- Vorogrid: A static-aware variable-density Voronoi mesh to design the tube structure tessellation of tall buildings
- Augmented Virtuality Using Touch-Sensitive 3D-Printed Objects
- A High Quality 3D Controller for Mobile and Desktop Web Applications
- Challenges in the deep learning-based semantic segmentation of benthic communities from Ortho-images
- Computational design, fabrication and evaluation of rubber protein models
- Evaluating Deep Learning Methods for Low Resolution Point Cloud Registration in Outdoor Scenarios
- Integrated computational framework for the design and fabrication of bending-active structures made from flat sheet material
- Reliable feature-line driven quad-remeshing
- TagLab: AI-assisted annotation for the fast and accurate semantic segmentation of coral reef orthoimages
- Texture Defragmentation for Photo-Reconstructed 3D Models
- Volume decomposition for two-piece rigid casting
- A bending-active twisted-arch plywood structure: computational design and fabrication of the FlexMaps Pavilion
- A State of the Art Technology in Large Scale Underwater Monitoring
- Another Brick in the Wall: Improving the Assisted Semantic Segmentation of Masonry Walls
- Automated Design and Analysis of Reinforced and Post-Tensioned Glass Shells
- DHFSlicer: double height-field slicing for milling fixed-height materials
- LoopyCuts: Practical Feature-Preserving Block Decomposition
- On Improving the Training of Models for the Semantic Segmentation of Benthic Communities from Orthographic Imagery
- Optimizing Object Decomposition to Reduce Visual Artifacts in 3D Printing
- Real-World Textured Things: a Repository of Textured Models Generated with Modern Photo-Reconstruction Tools
- ReviewerNet: A visualization platform for the selection of academic reviewers
- Topological Classification of Vittorio Giorgini’s Sculptures
- Turning a Smartphone Selfie Into a Studio Portrait
- ViDA 3D: Towards a View-based Dataset for Aesthetic prediction on 3D models
- High Dynamic Range Point Clouds for Real-Time Relighting
- A visualization tool for scholarly data
- Automatic Design of Cable-Tensioned Glass Shells
- Computational fabrication of macromolecules to enhance perception and understanding of biological mechanisms
- Concept and cable-tensioning optimization of post-tensioned shells made of structural glass
- Deep Flash : Turning a Flash Selfie Into a Studio Portrait
- FlexMaps Pavilion: a twisted arc made of mesostructured flat flexible panels
- HexaLab.net: An online viewer for hexahedral meshes
- Image Sets Compression via Patch Redundancy
- QuadMixer: Layout Preserving Blending of Quadrilateral Meshes
- Semi-automated Cleaning of Laser Scanning Campaigns with Machine Learning
- State of the Art on Stylized Fabrication
- Volume-Aware Design of Composite Molds
- Soft Transparency for Point Cloud Rendering
- Scalable non-rigid registration for multi-view stereo data
- Enhanced Visualization of Detected 3D Geometric Differences
- FlexMaps: Computational Design of Flat Flexible Shells for Shaping 3D Objects
- Metamolds: computational design of silicone molds
- State of the Art on Stylized Fabrication
- The EMOTIVE Project - Emotive virtual cultural experiences through personalized storytelling
- Digital Fabrication Techniques for Cultural Heritage: A Survey
- Position-Based Tensegrity Design
- Detection of Geometric Temporal Changes in Point Clouds
- Anisotropic MatCap: Easy Capture and Reproduction of Anisotropic Materials
- Conception and parametric design workflow for a timber large-spanned reversible grid shell to shelter the archaeological site of the Roman Shipwrecks in Pisa
- Design and Fabrication of Grid-shells Mockups
- FlexMolds: Automatic Design of Flexible Shells for Molding
- Generalized Trackball for Surfing Over Surfaces
- Harvesting Dynamic 3DWorlds from Commodity Sensor Clouds
- Multi-View Ambient Occlusion for Enhancing Visualization of Raw Scanning Data
- Stability of Statics Aware Voronoi Grid-Shells
- State Of The Art on Functional Fabrication
- Tracing Field-Coherent Quad Layouts
- Compression and Querying of Arbitrary Geodesic Distances
- Data-Driven Interactive Quadrangulation
- Elastic Textures for Additive Fabrication
- Mesh Joinery: A Method for Building Fabricable Structures
- Statics Aware Grid Shells
- Digital Fabrication Technologies for Cultural Heritage (STAR)
- Field-Aligned Mesh Joinery
- Interlocking pieces for printing tangible Cultural Heritage replicas
- Web and mobile visualization for Cultural Heritage
- A computer-assisted constraint-based system for assembling fragmented objects
- Assisted Multi-view Stereo reconstruction
- GAIL: Geometry-aware Automatic Image Localization
- MeshLab as a complete tool for the integration of photos and color with high resolution 3D geometry data
- PhotoCloud: interactive remote exploration of large 2D-3D datasets
- Surface Light Field from Video Acquired in Uncontrolled Settings
- A Low-Memory, Straightforward and Fast Bilateral Filter Through Subsampling in Spatial Domain
- Color to gray conversions in the context of stereo matching algorithms
- Efficient and Flexible Sampling with Blue Noise Properties of Triangular Meshes
- Flow-Based Local Optimization for Image-to-Geometry Projection
- Joint Interactive Visualization of 3D Models and Pictures in Walkable Scenes
- PileBars: Scalable Dynamic Thumbnail Bars
- 3D models for Cultural Heritage: beyond plain visualization
- An interactive local flattening operator to support digital investigations on artwork surfaces
- Automatic Construction of Quad-Based Subdivision Surfaces using Fitmaps
- Processing a Complex Architectural Sampling with MeshLab: the case of Piazza Della Signoria
- Processing sampled 3D data: reconstruction and visualization technologies
- Simple Quad Domains for Field Aligned Mesh Parametrization
- A framework for User-Assisted Sketch-Based Fitting of Geometric Primitives
- Almost isometric mesh parameterization through abstract domains
- Browsing Large Image Datasets through Voronoi Diagrams
- Controlled and Adaptive Mesh Zippering
- Dynamic Shading Enhancement for Reflectance Transformation Imaging
- Improved Color Acquisition and Mapping on 3D Models via Flash-Based Photography
- Mutual Correspondences: an hybrid method for image-to-geometry registration
- Practical quad mesh simplification
- Real-time Single Scattering Inside Inhomogeneous Materials
- Shape enhancement for rapid prototyping
- Solid-Texture Synthesis: A Survey
- Artifacts removal for color projection on 3D models using flash light
- Flash Lighting Space Sampling
- Interactive Remote Exploration of Massive Cityscapes
- Pushing Time-of-Flight scanners to the limit
- Scanner 3D con hardware low cost e strumenti free/open source
- Splitting Cubes a Fast and Robust technique for Virtual Cutting
- 3D enhanced model from multiple data sources for the analysis of the Cylinder seal of Ibni-Sharrum
- Color Enhancement for Rapid Prototyping
- Integrazione di dati tridimensionali e campionamento del colore a fini di documentazione e visualizzazione interattiva
- Masked Photo Blending: mapping dense photographic dataset on high-resolution 3D models
- MeshLab: an Open-Source 3D Mesh Processing System
- MeshLab: an Open-Source Mesh Processing Tool
- Practical and robust MLS-based integration of scanned data
- Sampled 3D models for CH applications: an enabling medium or a technological exercise?
- Stereo Light Probe
- Virtual Inspector: a flexible visualizer for dense 3D scanned models
- High quality digital acquisition and virtual presentation of three-dimensional models
- Out-of-core MLS reconstruction
- Ray-Casted BlockMaps for Large Urban Models Streaming and Visualization
- Using 3D scanning to analyze a proposal for the attribution of a bronze horse to Leonardo da Vinci
- Ambient occlusion and edge cueing to enhance real time molecular visualization
- Beyond manual drafting: a restoration-oriented system
- C-BDAM - Compressed Batched Dynamic Adaptive Meshes for Terrain Rendering
- Easy Access to Huge 3D Models of Works of Art
- Implementing Mesh-Based Approaches for deformable Objects on GPU
- A Comparison of Systems and Tools for 3D Scanning
- A simple Normal Enhancement technique for Interactive Non-photorealistic Renderings
- A six-degrees-of-freedom planning algorithm for the acquisition of complex surfaces
- Assisting the user in image to geometry alignment
- Batched Multi Triangulation
- Enhancing processing and visualization efficiency of 3D scanned meshes
- Exploiting the scanning sequence for automatic registration of large sets of range maps
- Extracting Meta-Information From 3-Dimensional Shapes With Protégé
- Fondamenti di Grafica Tridimensionale Interattiva
- Generating random points in a tetrahedron
- Interactive visualization of artwork’s 3D digital reconstruction
- Minimizing user intervention in registering 2D images to 3D models
- Pinchmaps: Textures with Customizable Discontinuities
- Processing huge scanned datasets: issues and solutions
- Tools for inverse mapping and visualization of multi-spectral image data on 3D scanned representations of drawings
- Triangulating Convex Polygons having T-Vertices
- Using multiple scanning technologies for the 3D acquisition of Torcello's basilica
- Adaptive TetraPuzzles: Efficient Out-of-Core Construction and Visualization of Gigantic Multiresolution Polygonal Models
- Closing Gaps by Clustering Unseen Directions
- Digital reconstruction of the Arrigo VII funerary complex
- Integrazione di dati tridimensionali e campionamento del colore a fini di documentazione e visualizzazione interattiva
- Making Profitable Use of the Digital 3D Model in the David Restoration
- Optimal Isosurface Extraction
- PolyCube-Maps
- Protected Interactive 3D Graphics Via Remote Rendering
- PSP: A Progressive Subdivision Paradigm
- Restoring David using 3D
- RoboScan: An automatic system for accurate and unattended 3D scanning
- Selective Refinement Queries for Volume Visualization of Unstructured Tetrahedral Meshes
- Simplicial-based Multiresolution Volume Datasets Management: An Overview
- The Marching Intersections Algorithm for Merging Range Images
- Visualization and 3D data processing in David’s restoration
- Batching Meshes for High Performance Terrain Visualization
- BDAM: Batched Dynamic Adaptive Meshes for High Performance Terrain Visualization
- Derma: monitoring the evolution of skin lesions with a 3D system
- Enhancing the 3D Laser Scanning Pipeline using Mirrors
- Exploiting Mirrors for Laser Stripe 3D Scanning
- External Memory Management and Simplification of Huge Meshes
- Il modello digitale 3D del David e il suo uso nel progetto di restauro
- Planet-sized batched dynamic adaptive meshes (P-BDAM)
- PSP: Progressive Subdivision Paradigm for Large Scale Visualization
- Supporting the restoration of the Minerva of Arezzo
- Using optically scanned 3D data in the restoration of Michelangelo David
- VCLab Tools for 3D range data processing
- Visibility based methods and assessment for detail-recovery
- Geometry Processing
- HexaLab
- PyMeshLab