Patricio Simari
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
--E. W. Dijkstra
Dr. Simari is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University.
His main research interests are in geometry processing and the computational understanding of shape with applications to computer graphics, vision, health, and robotics.
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Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Deformation-Driven Topology-Varying 3D Shape Correspondence”, Ibraheem Alhashim, Kai Xu, Yixin Zhuang, Junjie Cao, Patricio Simari, Hao Zhang. ACM Transactions on Graphics, November 2015, Volume 34, Issue 6, pages 236:1--236:13. Presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2015, November 2-5, 2015 Kobe, Japan. [url] [doi] [page] [pdf]
“Fast and Scalable Mesh Superfacets,” Patricio Simari, Giulia Picciau, Leila De Floriani. Presented at Pacific Graphics 2014 and published in special issue of Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 33, Number 7, pp. 181-190, October 2014 [url] [doi] [source code] [pdf]
“Generalized Extrinsic Distortion and Applications,” Patricio Simari, Leila De Floriani, Federico Iuricich, Mohammed Mostefa Mesmoudi. Presented at Shape Modeling International 2013, published in special issue of Elsevier Computers & Graphics, vol. 37, num. 6, pp. 582--588, October 2013, ISSN 0097-8493 [url] [doi] [pdf]
“Fully Automated Simultaneous Integrated Boosted–Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Is Feasible for Head-and-Neck Cancer: A Prospective Clinical Study,” Binbin Wu, Todd McNutt, Marianna Zahurak, Patricio Simari, Dalong Pang, Russell Taylor, Giuseppe Sanguineti. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, Volume 84, Number 5 , pp. e647-e653, December 2012 [url] [doi]
“Increased organ sparing using shape-based treatment plan optimization for intensity modulated radiation therapy of pancreatic adenocarcinoma,” Steven F. Petit, Binbin Wu, Michael Kazhdan, André Dekker, Patricio Simari, Rachit Kumar, Russell Taylor, Joseph M. Herman, Todd McNutt. Radiotherapy & Oncology, 2012 Jan;102(1):38-44 [url] [doi]
“A data-driven approach to generating achievable DVH objectives in IMRT treatment planning,” Binbin Wu, Francesco Ricchetti, Giuseppe Sanguineti, Michael Kazhdan, Patricio Simari, Robert Jacques, Russell Taylor, Todd McNutt. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, Volume 79, Issue 4, Pages 1241-1247, 15 March 2011. [url] [doi]
“Patient Geometry-Driven Information Retrieval for IMRT Treatment Plan Quality Control,” Binbin Wu, Francesco Ricchetti, Giuseppe Sanguineti, Michael Kazhdan, Patricio Simari, Ming Chuang, Russell Taylor, Robert Jacques, Todd McNutt. Medical Physics, Volume 36, Issue 12, pp. 5497-5505, December 2009 [url] [doi] [pdf]
“Multi-objective shape segmentation and labeling,” Patricio Simari, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Karan Singh. Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2009, published in special issue of Wiley-Blackwell Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 28, Num. 5, July 2009, pp. 1415-1425 (11), Blackwell Publishing [url] [doi] [pdf][video]
“Extracting lines of curvature from noisy point clouds,” Evangelos Kalogerakis, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Patricio Simari, Karan Singh. Elsevier Journal of Computer-Aided Design, Special Issue on Point-Based Computational Techniques, Volume 41, Number 4 (April 2009), pp. 282-292 [url] [doi] [page] [pdf]
“Data-driven curvature for real-time line drawing of dynamic scenes,” Evangelos Kalogerakis, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Patricio Simari, James McCrae, Aaron Hertzmann, Karan Singh. ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2009. Presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 [url] [doi] [page] [video] [pdf]
“Revisions of Informant Plausibility in Multiagent Systems,” Patricio D. Simari, Marcelo A. Falappa. Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Argentine Journal in Computer Science), Volume 2, Number 5: 16-29, 2001, ISSN 1666-6038 [pdf]
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Computer Science Conference Proceedings
“Supertetras: A Superpixel Analog for Tetrahedral Mesh Segmentation”, Giulia Picciau, Patricio Simari, Federico Iuricich, and Leila De Floriani. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP) 2015, 7-11 September 2015, Genoa, Italy; acceptance rate: 55%; peer-reviewed and published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 9279 (September 2015), pp 375-386, ISBN: 978-3-319-23230-0 (Print) 978-3-319-23231-7 (Online) [url] [doi] [source code] [pdf]
“Hierarchical Mesh Segmentation Editing through Rotation Operations”, Federico Iuricich and Patricio Simari. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP) 2015, 7-11 September 2015, Genoa, Italy; acceptance rate: 55%; peer-reviewed and published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 9279 (September 2015), pp 398-409, ISBN: 978-3-319-23230-0 (Print) 978-3-319-23231-7 (Online) [url] [doi] [pdf]
“Spectral Global Intrinsic Symmetry Invariant Functions”, Hui Wang, Patricio Simari, Zhixun Su, Hao Zhang. Graphics Interface (GI) 2014, 7-9 May 2014, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; acceptance rate 39%; peer-reviewed and published in the Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2014 by the Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, pp. 209-215, ISBN 978-1-4822-6003-8 [url] [page] [pdf]
“Discrete Morse versus watershed decompositions of tessellated manifolds,” Leila De Floriani, Federico Iuricich, Paola Magillo, Patricio Simari. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP) 2013; acceptance rate 45.76%; peer-reviewed and published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 8157 (September 2013), pp 339-348, ISSN 0302-9743 [doi] [url] [pdf]
“A Statistical Approach for Achievable Dose Querying in IMRT Planning,” Patricio Simari, Binbin Wu, Robert Jacques, Alex King, Todd McNutt, Russell Taylor, Michael Kazhdan. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2010, published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6362/2010 (September 2010), pp 521-528 [url] [doi] [pdf]
“A Geometry-driven Approach for Predicating DVHs of Organs at Risk in IMRT Planning,” Binbin Wu, Michael Kazhdan, Patricio Simari, Russell Taylor, Todd McNutt. International Conference on the use of Computers in Radiation Therapy 2010. Accepted as oral presentation. [pdf]
“A Shape Relationship Descriptor for Radiation Therapy Planning,” Michael Kazhdan, Patricio Simari, Todd McNutt, Binbin Wu, Robert Jacques, Ming Chuang, Russell Taylor. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2009, published Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5762/2009 (September 2009), pp 100-108 [url] [doi] [pdf]
“Extraction and remeshing of ellipsoidal representations from mesh data,” Patricio D. Simari, Karan Singh. Graphics Interface, 2005 [url] [pdf]
“Consolidation of Plausibility Relations in Multi-Agents Systems,” Marcelo A. Falappa, Patricio D. Simari. Argentine Conference in Computer Science (CACIC) 2001 [pdf]
“Revision of Plausibility Relations in Dynamic Systems,” Patricio D. Simari, Marcelo A. Falappa. Argentine Conference in Computer Science (CACIC) 2000 [pdf]