Issue5

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The SMG has recently become part of a European project on multi-scale biological data visualization and analysis and a new regional consortium studying medical devices and information technology for biomedicine. The visionary research roadmap drafted within the FOCUS K3D project has become a journal paper, just as the results of our research about object recognition and description. A new approach to define the connectedness of shapes has been presented at the Shape Modeling International conference in Israel. We achieved important results on semantics-oriented 3D modeling for industrial design, on size functions for robust 3D model comparison, and on semantic similarity to analyze resources exposed as Linked Data.
In this fifth issue of the Newsletter Of the Shape MOdelling Group, we will talk about the novel activity of the group in the field of bio-medicine and related applications, about the projects triggered by research and about the conclusion of several training activities.

Issue4

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After the success of FOCUS K3D, and besides our recent involvement in the Network of Excellence GaLA on Serious Gaming, we are happy to announce that the newborn project VISIONAIR has been started; it will be focused on building a European infrastructure providing visualization facilities for research. In consequence of our collaboration with the Drug Design group of the Italian Institute of Technologies, we welcome Sergio De Cherchi in our team.
In this fourth issue of the Newsletter Of the Shape MOdelling Group, we will talk about interesting dissemination activities, projects and will provide insight on all the other recent research results of the group.

Issue3

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Even after its end, the Focus K3D project keeps demonstrating its impact on the research community. Promoted by Focus K3D, the Computer&Graphics journal (Elsevier) will host a special issue on "Semantic 3D Media and Content" with the aim to provide an up-to-date view of the open issues in knowledge-intensive 3D media, and trace future research and technological directions.
In this third issue of the Newsletter Of the Shape MOdelling Group, we will talk about interesting events, projects and will provide insight on all the other recent activities and research results of the group. The work on the extension of scalar functions from surfaces to volumes (see NoSMoG #1, pg. 16) has been invited for presentation at SIGGRAPH 2010, and therefore is worth a special mention.

Issue2

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Now that the Focus K3D European project is finished, it is time to collect the results and make them produce new challenging research. The Shape Modeling Group at IMATI is proud to have contributed, together with the Focus K3D consortium, to the delineation of a "research roadmap" that identifies high-level goals and long-term challenges that the Computer Graphics community should face in the upcoming years.
In this second issue of the Newsletter Of the Shape MOdelling Group, we summarize these "grand challenges" along with all the other recent activities and research results of the group.

Issue1

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The objective of this newsletter is to provide a regular and comprehensive overview of the ongoing activities and the research results of the Shape Modeling Group at IMATI. Just published works will be summarized here to provide an overview of the group that cannot be perceived by looking at the singular publications.