Paolo Cignoni Email p.cignoni 'at' isti.cnr.it Phone: +39 050 3152926 Fax: +39 050 3152810 Address: I.S.T.I. - C.N.R Via Moruzzi,1 56124 Pisa ITALY

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I am a senior researcher at the ISTI: Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the National Research Council in Pisa, Italy. I am a proud member of the Visual Computing Lab since its beginning. I received in 1992 an advanced degree (Laurea) and in 1998 a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa.

Research Activities

My research interests include the following fields of Computer Graphics:

• 3D Scanning and Cultural Heritages
• Multiresolution Models,
• Scientific Visualization

I published more than 95 papers on international journals and refereed conferences; I held tutorials, chaired sessions and gave invited talks at various computer graphics conferences. In 2004 i got the Eurographics Young Researcher Award. I am (or have been) in the Program Committee of Siggraph, Eurographics, and IEEE Visualization Conferences. More details on my publications can be found in this (slightly outdated) short curriculum; recent publications can be browsed here.

Software

I am the main designer of the VCG library. A open source portable C++ templated library for manipulation, processing and displaying with OpenGL of triangle and tetrahedral meshes. The library, composed by more than 60k lines of code, is released under the GPL license, and it is the base of almos all the many successful software tools developed in our lab, like metro and shadevis and TriMeshInfo. I have also cotnributed to the design and the innovative ideas behind QuteMol a real time bio-molecular visualizer that offers an array of cute visual effects like ambient occlusion and depth enhanced silhouette borders.

Teaching Activities (mostly at the Computer Science dept. of University of Pisa)

• FGT 09-10 Fondamenti di Grafica Tridimensionale (AA545)
• FGT 08-09 Fondamenti di Grafica Tridimensionale (AA545)
• FGT 07-08 Fondamenti di Grafica Tridimensionale (AA545)
• FGT 06-07 Fondamenti di Grafica Tridimensionale (AA545)
  
• FGT 05-06 Fondamenti di Grafica Tridimensionale(AA545)
• Geometric Mesh Processing (for the phd programme)
• CI 04-05 Costruzione di Interfacce (AA027)
• CI 03-04 Costruzione di Interfacce (AA027)
• CI 02-03 Costruzione di Interfacce (AA027)
• IUF (2001-2002) Interazione Uomo-Macchina: Fondamenti di Computer Graphics
• Ciclo di Seminari Dottorato 2000 su "Grafica Tridimensionale"
• IUF (2000-2001) Interazione Uomo-Macchina: Fondamenti di Computer Graphics
• IUF (1999-2000) Interazione Uomo-Macchina: Fondamenti di Computer Graphics
• IUF (1998-1999) Interazione Uomo-Macchina: Fondamenti di Computer Graphics
• IUP (1997-1998) Interazione Uomo-Macchina: Programmazione di interfacce grafiche

Tesi di Laurea 

Fun

A Steroid a portable open source didactic game clone of Asteroid; in c++ and opengl that i wrote in 2000 for the IUF computer graphics course.

Computer Art, Graphics (a quite old picture i did in 199x about the Meaning of Life), literature, juggling.

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