Papers

This list contains publications, technical reports, and student theses. They are sorted chronologically by year. Within a year, generally they are listed in order of published papers, published short papers, technical reports, and student theses.

For a more complete list of John Keyser's papers, see the link on his website.

Note: Several papers are protected by copyright agreements that limit posting them for download online. Links are provided to actual papers, if available, though some might require a registration or subscription to view. For such papers, we usually have a second link to a somewhat different version of the same paper (such as a preprint) avaialable, but please be aware that these versions may differ from the "real" paper.

(Last Updated January, 2005)

Papers by Year

2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

2008

2007

  • Yuksel, C., House, D., Keyser, J.
    Wave Particles
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (proceedings of SIGGRAPH), vol. 26, no.3, article 99, 2007.
    [PDF] [Preprint PDF]
    © ACM, 2007. This is the authors version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2007), {26, 3, 5 August 2007}
  • Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    Driving Object Deformations from Internal Physical Processes
    Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, pp. 51 - 59, 2007.
    [PDF] [Preprint PDF]
  • Mayerich, D., McCormick, B., Keyser, J.
    Noise and Artifact Removal in Knife-Edge Scanning Microscopy
    Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. pp. 556-559, 2007.
    [PDF] [Preprint PDF]
  • Yuksel, C., Akleman, E., Keyser, J.
    Practical Global Illumination for Hair Rendering
    Proceedings of Pacific Graphics. (short paper), 2007. pp. 415-418.
    [PDF] [Preprint PDF]
  • Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    Preview Directed Control of Complex Fluid Simulations
    Technical Report tamu-cs-tr-2007-8-1, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
    [PDF]
  • Yuksel, C., Keyser, J.
    Deep Opacity Maps
    Technical Report tamu-cs-tr-2007-7-2, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
    [PDF]
  • Hong, W., House, D., Keyser, J.
    Adaptive Particles for Incompressible Fluid Simulation
    Technical Report tamu-cs-tr-2007-6-1, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
    [PDF]
  • Mayerich, D., Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    Fast Filament Tracking Using Graphics Hardware
    Technical Report tamu-cs-tr-2007-11-3, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
    [PDF]
  • Melek, Z.
    Interactive Simulation of Fire, Burn, and Decomposition
    Ph.D. Dissertation, December, 2007
    [PDF]
  • Dingle, B.
    Volumetric Particle Modeling
    Ph.D. Dissertation, May, 2007
    [PDF]
  • D'Souza, A.
    Automated Counting of Cell Bodies Using Nissl Stained Cross-Sectional Images
    M.S. Thesis, December, 2007
    [PDF]

2006

  • Melek, Z., Mayerich, D., Yuksel, C., Keyser, J.
    Visualization of Fibrous and Thread-like Data
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (proceedings of IEEE Visualization), vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 1165-1172, 2006.
    [PDF]
    [Preprint Not Yet Online]
  • Landreneau, E., Akleman, E., Keyser, J.
    Interactive Face Replacements for Modeling Detailed Shapes
    Proceedings of Geometric Modeling and Processing 2006
    Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4077, pp. 602-608, 2006. (refereed poster)
    [Online Abstract] [Preprint not online]
  • Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    Bending Burning Matches and Crumpling Burning Paper
    Siggraph 2006 Research Poster
    Second-place winner, Student Research Competition
    [PDF Abstract]
  • Sutherland, B., Keyser, J.
    Particle-Based Enhancement of Terrain Data
    Siggraph 2006 Research Poster
    [PDF Abstract]
  • Ouchi, K.
    Exact Polynomial System Solving for Robust Geometric Calculation
    Ph.D. Dissertation, December, 2006
    [PDF]
  • Saunders, R.
    Terrainosaurus Realistic Terrain Generation Using Genetic Algorithms
    M.S. Thesis, December, 2006
    [PDF]

2005

  • Keyser, J., Ouchi, K., Rojas, J. M.
    The Exact Rational Univariate Representation for Detecting Degeneracies
    Geometric and Algorithmic Aspects of Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing, DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 67, American Mathematical Society, pp. 299-328, 2005.
    [Actual Paper Not Online] [Preprint PDF]
  • Jones, N., Keyser, J.
    Real-Time Geometric Motion Blur for a Deforming Polygonal Mesh
    Proceedings of Computer Graphics International, pp. 26-31,260; 2005
    [PDF] (poorly reproduced)
    [Preprint PDF Paper] [Preprint PDF Color Plate]
  • Ong, T., Saunders, R., Keyser, J., Leggett, J.
    Terrain Generation Using Genetic Algorithms
    Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp. 1463-1470, 2005
    [PDF] [Preprint PDF]
  • Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    Multi-Representation Interaction for Physically-Based Modeling
    Proceedings of Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, pp. 187-196,299; 2005
    [PDF]
    Technical Report 2005-01-1, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
    [Tech Report PDF]
  • Dingle, B., Keyser, J.
    Keyframing Particles of Physically-Based Systems
    Proceedings of Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, 2005
    Winner of Robert Fletcher Prize for Best Application Paper and Presentation
    [PDF] [Early Preprint PDF]
  • Radikovic, A., Leggett, J., Ulrich, R., Keyser, J.
    Artificial Window View of Nature
    CHI Extended Abstracts (short paper), pp. 1993-1996, 2005.
    [PDF]
  • Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    An Interactive Simulation Framework for Burning Objects
    Technical Report 2005-03-1, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
    [PDF]
  • Ouchi, K., Keyser, J.
    Exact Numerical Perturbation
    Technical Report 2005-01-2, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
    [PDF]
  • Landreneau, E.
    Crystal-Like Geometric Modeling
    M.S. Thesis, May, 2005
    [PDF]

2004

  • Keyser, J., Ouchi, K., Rojas, J. M.
    The Exact Rational Univariate Representation and its Application
    AMS/DIMACS volume on Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, 2004, to appear.
    [Actual Paper Not Online] [Preprint PDF]
  • Beaudoin, J., Keyser, J.
    Simulation Levels of Detail for Plant Motion
    Proceedings of SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, pp. 297-304, 2004.
    [Actual Paper] [Preprint PDF]
  • Ouchi, K., Keyser, J.
    Handling Degeneracies in Exact Boundary Evaluation
    Proceedings of 9th ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, pp. 321-326, 2004. (Refereed poster/short paper)
    [Actual Paper Not Yet Online] [Preprint PDF]
  • McCormick, B., Busse, B., Melek, Z., Doddapaneni, P., Keyser, J.
    Compression, Segmentation, and Modeling of Filamentary Volumetric Data
    Proceedings of 9th ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, pp. 333-338, 2004. (Refereed poster/short paper)
    [Actual Paper Not Yet Online] [Preprint PDF]
  • Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    Interactive Simulation of Burning Objects
    SIGGRAPH/ Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2004. (poster)
    [Posters Proceedings Abstract (PDF)]
  • Jones, N., Keyser, J.
    Real-Time Geometric Motion Blur for a Deforming Polygonal Mesh
    SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2004. (poster)
    [Posters Proceedings Abstract (PDF)]
  • Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    Modeling Decomposing Objects under Combustion
    IEEE Visualization, 2004. (poster)
    [Posters Proceedings Abstract (PDF)]
  • McCormick, B., Busse, B., Melek, Z., Doddapaneni, P., Keyser, J.
    Compression, Segmentation, and Modeling of Large-Scale Filamentary Volumetric Data
    IEEE Visualization, 2004. (poster)
    [Posters Proceedings Abstract (PDF)]
  • Dingle, B.
    Designing a Multivariate Polynomial Class
    Technical Report 2004-07-4, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University.
    [PDF]
  • Foshee, J.
    Resolution Independent Curved Seams in Clothing Animation Using a Regular Particle Grid
    M.S. Thesis, August, 2004
    [PDF]
  • Jones, N.
    Real-Time Geometric Motion Blur for a Deforming Polygonal Mesh
    M.S. Thesis, May, 2004
    [PDF]
  • Edmondson, P.
    Hierarchical Occlusion Culling for Arbitrarily-Meshed Height Fields
    M.S. Thesis, May, 2004
    [PDF]

2003

  • Melek, Z., and Keyser, J.
    Interactive Simulation of Burning Objects
    Proceedings of 11th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, 2003, pp. 462-466. (Refereed poster/short paper)
    [Actual Paper] [Modified PDF]
  • Mayerich, D.
    Acquisition and Reconstruction of Brain Tissue Using Knife-edge Scanning Microscopy
    M.S. Thesis, December, 2003
    [PDF]

2002

  • Keyser, J., Culver, T., Foskey, M., Krishnan, S., Manocha, D.
    ESOLID: A System for Exact Boundary Evaluation
    Proceedings of Seventh ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (ACM Solid Modeling ’02), pp. 23-34, 2002.
    [Actual Paper]
  • Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    Interactive Simulation of Fire Proceedings of 10th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, 2002, pp. 431-432. (Refereed poster)
    [Actual Paper] [Preprint PDF]
  • Overby, D., Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    Interactive Physically-based Cloud Simulation Proceedings of 10th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, 2002, pp. 469-470. (Refereed poster)
    [Actual Paper] [Preprint PDF]
  • Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    Interactive Simulation of Fire
    Technical Report 2002-7-1, Texas A&M Department of Computer Science, 2002.
    [PDF]
  • Overby, D., Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    Interactive Physically-based Cloud Simulation
    Technical Report 2002-7-2, Texas A&M Department of Computer Science, 2002.
    [PDF]
  • McCormick, B., Busse, B., Melek, Z., Keyser, J.
    Polymerization Strategy for the Compression, Segmentation, and Modeling of Volumetric Data
    Technical Report 2002-12-1, Department of Computer Science, December 2002.
    [PDF]
  • Overby, D.
    Interactive Physically-Based Cloud Simulation
    M.S. Thesis, May, 2002
    [PDF]

2001

  • Krishnan, S., Foskey, M., Culver, T., Keyser, J., Manocha, D.
    PRECISE: Efficient Multiprecision Evaluation of Algebraic Roots and Predicates for Reliable Geometric Computation
    UNC-CH Technical report, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
    A version of this paper appeared in the 2001 Proceedings of Symposium on Computational Geometry (pp. 274-283), however it was missing a key and important reference. This technical report has been edited to reflect the references more completely. It can be downloaded from:
    http://www.cs.unc.edu/~geom/papers/SOCG01/krishnan01.html