Xavier Pueyo
(1954)
Professor
Centre de Recerca en Visualització, Realitat Virtual i Interacció Gràfica ViRVIG
GGG (Geometry and
Graphics Group)
Departament
d'Informàtica i Matemàtica
Aplicada (IMA)
Universitat de
Girona (UdG)
1988-1993 Associate
Professor
Departament de Llenguatges i
Sistemes Informàtics
Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunya
Enginyer
Industrial
(ETSEIB
Universitat
Politècnica
de Catalunya) 1980
Docteur
Ingénieur. Informatique
(Université de Rennes
I) 1984
Supervisor: Prof. Michel
Lucas
Doctor
Enginyer Industrial
(Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya) 1986
Supervisors: Prof . Michel Lucas and
Prof. Pere Brunet
Fellowship of the
EUROGRAPHICS Association 2004
| Address: | Departament d'Informàtica i
Matemàtica Aplicada Universitat de Girona Campus de Montilivi E - 17071 - Girona |
| Phone: | +34-972.41.84.17
+34-972.41.84.47 +34-646.59.77.32 |
| Fax: | +34-972.41.87.92
+34-972.41.82.59 |
| Email: | xavier.pueyo[at]udg.edu |
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Research interest
Computer
graphics
Visibility
algorithms
Realistic
rendering
Lighting
simulation
Dynamic
environments
Applications
Teaching
Undergraduate: Programming.
Computer
graphics. (Escola Politècnica Superior - UdG)
Master on Computing: Realistic
rendering.
Geometric models. (Master and PhD Programme UdG)
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Selected publications
A Parametric-Space Based
Scan-Line Algorithm for Rendering Bicubic Surfaces. X.Pueyo
and P.Brunet.
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 7, 4, pp.
17-25. 1987
A New Scan-Line Algorithm
for the Rendering of CSG Trees. X.Pueyo and
J.C.Mendoza.
Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS'87, pp. 347-361. 1987
Body Animation. A Survey. D.Tost and X.Pueyo. The Visual Computer, 3, pp. 254-264. 1988
Diffuse Interreflections
Techniques for Form-Factor Computation. A Survey. X.Pueyo.
The Visual Computer, 7, pp. 200-209. 1991
Expoiting Coherence for
Clipping and View Transformation in Radiosity Algorithms.
J.Vilaplana and X.Pueyo.
Photorealism in Computer Graphics, pp.137-149, Springer Verlag
(EG Seminars). 1992
On the Division of Environments by Virtual Walls
for Radiosity Computation. B. Arnaldi, X. Pueyo and J.
Vilaplana.
Advances on Rendering, P. Brunet & F.W. Jansen (Eds.), pp.
198-206, 1994
Multilevel Use of Coherence for Complex Radiosity
Environment. J. Vilaplana and X. Pueyo.
The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation,
5(3):129-141, 1994
The Stochastic Ray Method
for Radiosity. L.Neumann, W.Purgathofer, R.F.Tobler,
A.Neumann, P.Elias, M.Feda and X.Pueyo.
Rendering Techniques '95. Springer-Verlag. 1995
Global Monte Carlo. A Progresive Solution. M.
Sbert, F. Pérez and X. Pueyo.
Rendering Techniques '95 , pp. 231-239, Springer Wien, 1995
An Object-Oriented Approach for Teaching
Visibility Computation Algorithms. X. Pueyo, F.
Pérez, A. Sellarès and J.Suy.
Computers & Graphics, 20(4):605-610, July/August 1996
Rendering Techniques '96. X. Pueyo &
P. Schröeder (Eds.).
Springer-Verlag / Wien. ISBN 3-211-82883-4, 1996
Progressive Radiosity Solutions for SIMD
Architectures. G. García and X. Pueyo.
Proc. of 1st EG Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualisation,
Ed. A.Chalmers & F.W.Jansen; pp. 247-260, 1996
Global Multipath Monte Carlo Algorithms for
Radiosity. M. Sbert, X. Pueyo, L. Neumann and W.
Purgathofer.
The Visual Computer, pp. 47-61, 1996
Visibility Mask for Solving Complex Radiosity
Computations on Multiprocessors. B. Arnaldi, T. Priol,
L. Renambot and X. Pueyo.
Parallel Computing, 23(7):887-897, 1997
A Formalization and Classification of Global
Illumination Methods. C. Ureña, J.C. Torres and
X. Pueyo.
Computers & Graphics, 21(2):225-236, 1997
Towards Efficient Parallel Radiosity for
DSM-Based Parallel Computers Using Virtual Interfaces. L.
Renambot, B. Arnaldi,
T. Priol and X. Pueyo.
Third Parallel Rendering Symposium, IEEE-ACM/SIGGRAPH, 1997
Radiosity for Dynamic Environments. X.
Pueyo, D.Tost, I. Martín and B. García.
The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation,
8(4):221-231, 1997
Global Illumination Techniques for the Simulation
of Participating Media. F. Pérez, X. Pueyo and
F.X. Sillion.
Proc. of the Eigth Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Saint
Etienne, France, June 16-18, 1997, pp. 309-320
An
Image-Space
Refinement Criterion for Linear Hierarchical Radiosit.
I. Martín, X. Pueyo and D. Tost.
Proceedings of Graphics Interface´97 Kelowna, British
Columbia (Canada), pp. 26-36, 1997
A
Hardware Based Method for Hierarchical Radiosity.
I. Martín, X. Pueyo and D. Tost.
Computers Graphics Forum (Eurographics '98 Proceedings),
17(3):159-164, 1998
The
SIR
Rendering
Architecture. I. Martín, F. Pérez
and X. Pueyo
Computers & Graphics, 22(5):601-609, October 1998
A Dynamic
Light Sources Algorithm for Radiosity Environments.
G. Besuievsky and X. Pueyo
IX EGCAS (Eurographic Workshop on Computer Animation and
Simulation), August 1998
Acceleration of Monte Carlo Path Tracing for
General Environments. F. Pérez, I.
Martín, X. Pueyo and F.X.
Sillion.
Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2000, Hong Kong, China, Oct.
3-5, 2000
Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed
Computer Graphics. M.Fairen and
X.Pueyo (Eds.).
Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices , 3 ( 3),
September 2000. Nova Science Publishers (USA)
Animating Radiosity Environments Through the
Multi-Frame Lighting Method. G. Besuievsky and X.
Pueyo.
Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation 12(2), pp.
93-106, May 2001
A Monte Carlo Method for Accelerating the
Computation of Animated Radiosity Sequences. G.
Besuievsky and X. Pueyo.
Computer Graphics International '01, Hong Kong,
China, July 2001
Ibero-American
Co-operation in Computer Graphics. M.P.
do Santos, X.Pueyo, Luiz Velho (Eds.).
Computers and Graphics 27 (1), February 2003.
Frame-to-Frame Coherent Animation with Two-Pass
Radiosity. I. Martín, X. Pueyo and D. Tost.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
9(1), pp. 70-84, January-March 2003
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Projects
Design and Implementation of a Lighting Simulation
System. 1992-1995
CICYT TIC92-1031-C02-01
Precise Lighting Simulation System. Global
techniques. 1995-1998
CICYT
TIC95-0614-C03
Advanced Distributed CAD System. Realistic
Rendering. 1995-1998
CICYT
TIC95-0630-C05
Realistic Simulation of Light for general
Environments. SIMULGEN. 1997-2002
ESPRIT
Open
LTR num 25772 and 35772
Virtual Reality for Cooperative Design in very
Complex Engineering Systems
CICYT
TIC98-0586-C03-03
Integrated CAD for lighting applications and
illumination. 1998-2002
CICYT
TIC98-0973-C03-02
Flexible Inspection Cell. CIF. 1998-2002
CeRTAP
Immersive Interaction Systems for Virtual
Environments. SIeRV. 2002-2005
CICYT
TIC2001-2226-C02-02
Ecostreetlight. 2008-2010
FP7-SME-2007-1
CALBaD. CAD basado enel modelado y la
simulación del transporte de la luz. 2007-2010
MEC-TIN2007-67120
Low-Cost, efficient and accurate acquisition
of human skin appearance for relighting and rendering. 2010-2011
AGAUR 2009-CTP-00021
HDRi: The digital capture, storage, transmition and
display of real-world lighting. 2010-2015
ICT
Action IC1005
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Supervised PhD dissertations
The Use of Global Random
Directions to Compute Radiosity. Global Monte Carlo
Techniques. Mateu
Sbert
Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya, 1997.
Efficient Monte-Carlo Methods for Global
Illumination. Carlos
Ureña
Universidad de Granada, 1998.
Co-supervisor: J.C. Torres
Temporal Coherence in Animation of Global
Illumination Environments. Ignacio
Martín
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2000.
Co-supervisor: Dani Tost
Structural and Algorithmic Aspects of Geometric
Projections. Joan Antoni
Sellarès
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2000.
Co-supervisor: Ferran Hurtado
A Monte Carlo Approach for Animated Radiosity
Environments. Gonzalo
Besuievsky
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2001.
Global Illumination Techniques for the
Computation of High Quality Images in General
Environments. Frederic
Pérez-Cazorla
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2003.
Co-supervisor: Ignacio Martín