(Guest Editors) Curvature-Domain Shape Processing (2009)
Michael Eigensatz, Robert W. Sumner, Mark Pauly
We propose a framework for 3D geometry processing that provides direct access to surface curvature to facilitate advanced shape editing, filtering, and synthesis algorithms. The central idea is to...
M. Pauly, M. Zwicker, Frederic Cazals, Joachim Giesen, Mark Pauly, Afra Zomorodian
We define a new filtration of the Delaunay triangulation of a finite set of points in R d, similar to the alpha shape filtration. The new filtration is parameterized by a local scale parameter...
Richard Keiser, Eth Zürich, Prof Dr, Markus Gross, Mark Pauly
We introduce a framework for detecting self-collisions during interactive editing of point-sampled surfaces. Collision detection is based on a classification operator which computes whether a point...
Mario Botsch, Bob Sumner, Mark Pauly, Markus Gross, Multiresolution Editing, D S Ir
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CUTTING TAXES FOR INSURING: OPTIONS AND EFFECTS OF TAX CREDITS FOR HEALTH INSURANCE (2008)
Despite rising real incomes and a tight labor market, the number of uninsured workers and dependents has been growing. Workers sometimes choose jobs at which no employment-based coverage is offered,...
PriMo: Coupled Prisms for Intuitive Surface Modeling Abstract (2008)
Konrad Polthier, Alla Sheffer (editors, Mario Botsch, Mark Pauly, Markus Gross, Leif Kobbelt
We present a new method for 3D shape modeling that achieves intuitive and robust deformations by emulating physically plausible surface behavior inspired by thin shells and plates. The surface mesh...
Example-Based 3D Scan Completion (2008)
M. Desbrun, H. Pottmann (editors, Mark Pauly
We present a novel approach for obtaining a complete and consistent 3D model representation from incomplete surface scans, using a database of 3D shapes to provide geometric priors for regions of...
Probabilistic Fingerprints for Shapes (2008)
Konrad Polthier, Alla Sheffer (editors, Niloy J. Mitra, Leonidas Guibas, Joachim Giesen, Mark Pauly
We propose a new probabilistic framework for the efficient estimation of similarity between 3D shapes. Our framework is based on local shape signatures and is designed to allow for quick pruning of...
Joachim Giesen, Balint Miklos, Mark Pauly
Given a dense sampling S of the smooth boundary of a planar shape O. We show that the medial axis of the union of Voronoi balls centered at Voronoi vertices inside O has a particularly simple...
The Visual Computer manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) (2008)
Frederic Cazals, Joachim Giesen, Mark Pauly, Afra Zomorodian
Abstract Conformal alpha shapes are a new filtration of the Delaunay triangulation of a finite set of points in R d. In contrast to (ordinary) alpha shapes the new filtration is parameterized by a...
(Guest Editors) Multi-scale Feature Extraction on Point-Sampled Surfaces (2008)
Mark Pauly, Richard Keiser, Markus Gross, Eth Zürich
We present a new technique for extracting line-type features on point-sampled geometry. Given an unstructured point cloud as input, our method first applies principal component analysis on local...
1 Metropolis Light Transport for Participating Media (2007)
Mark Pauly, Thomas Kollig, Alexander Keller
Abstract. In this paper we show how Metropolis Light Transport can be extended both in the underlying theoretical framework and the algorithmic implementation to incorporate volumetric scattering. We...
1 Metropolis Light Transport for Participating Media (2007)
Mark Pauly, Thomas Kollig, Alexander Keller
Abstract. In this paper we show how Metropolis Light Transport can be extended both in the underlying theoretical framework and the algorithmic implementation to incorporate volumetric scattering. We...
(Guest Editors) Multi-scale Feature Extraction on Point-sampled Surfaces (2007)
Mark Pauly, Richard Keiser, Markus Gross, Eth Zürich
We present a new technique for extracting line-type features on point-sampled geometry. Given an unstructured point cloud as input, our method first applies principal component analysis on local...
Multiresolution Modeling of Point-Sampled Geometry (2007)
Mark Pauly, Leif Kobbelt, Markus Gross
Abstract. We present a framework and algorithms for multiresolution modeling of point-sampled geometry. Most of our techniques extend the key ingredients of recent multiresolution editing concepts,...
Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Photorealistic Rendering (2007)
Mark Pauly, Ag Numerische Algorithmen, Prof Dr, Stefan Heinrich
Hiermit versichere ich, die vorliegende Arbeit selbstandig und nur mit den angegebenen Hilfsmitteln angefertigt zu haben. Kaiserslautern, Oktober 1999 Acknowledgements Iwould like to thank the people...
Bounds on the k-Neighborhood for Locally Uniformly Sampled Surfaces (2007)
M. Alexa, S. Rusinkiewicz (editors, Mattias Andersson, Joachim Giesen, Mark Pauly, Bettina Speckmann
Given a locally uniform sample set P of a smooth surface S. We derive upper and lower bounds on the number k of nearest neighbors of a sample point p that have to be chosen from P such that this...
Chao, Li-Wei, Gow, Jeff, Akintola, Olagoke, Pauly, Mark
[Abstract]; A total of 120 teachers from KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa, underwent HIV/AIDS training. As part of the study, the teachers were surveyed, before and after the training, about their...
Poor health kills small business: illness and microenterprises in South Africa (2007)
Chao, Li-Wel, Pauly, Mark, Szrek, Helena, Pereira, Nuno Sousa, Bundred, Frances, Cross, Catherine, ...
[Abstract]: Small businesses contribute almost 50 percent of total employment and 30 percent of gross domestic product in South Africa, but the impact of poor health and AIDS on these businesses is...
Geometric Modeling Based on Polygonal Meshes (2007)
Botsch, Mario, Pauly, Mark, Kobbelt, Leif, Alliez, Pierre, Lévy, Bruno, Bischoff, Stephan, ...
In the last years triangle meshes have become increasingly popular and are nowadays intensively used in many different areas of computer graphics and geometry processing. In classical CAGD irregular...
Geometric Modeling Based on Polygonal Meshes (2007)
Botsch, Mario, Pauly, Mark, Kobbelt, Leif, Alliez, Pierre, Lévy, Bruno, Bischoff, Stephan, ...
In the last years triangle meshes have become increasingly popular and are nowadays intensively used in many different areas of computer graphics and geometry processing. In classical CAGD irregular...
Embedded deformation for shape manipulation (2007)
Robert W. Sumner, Johannes Schmid, Mark Pauly
We present an algorithm that generates natural and intuitive deformations via direct manipulation for a wide range of shape representations and editing scenarios. Our method builds a space...
Embedded deformation for shape manipulation (2007)
Robert W. Sumner, Johannes Schmid, Mark Pauly
We present an algorithm that generates natural and intuitive deformations via direct manipulation for a wide range of shape representations and editing scenarios. Our method builds a space...
Medial Axis Approximation from Inner Voronoi Balls: A Demo of the {Mesecina} Tool (2007)
Miklos, Balint, Giesen, Joachim, Pauly, Mark
We illustrate a simple algorithm for approximating the medial axis of a 2D shape with smooth boundary from a sample of this boundary. The algorithm is compared to a more general approximation method...
Adaptively Sampled Particle Fluids (2007)
Pauly, Mark, Keiser, Richard, Guibas, Leonidas
We present novel adaptive sampling algorithms for particle-based fluid simulation. We introduce a sampling condition based on geometric local feature size that allows focusing computational...
Who Pays? The Incidence of High Malpractice Premiums (2006)
Pauly, Mark, Thompson, Christy, Abbott, Thomas, Margolis, James, Sage, William
This paper uses data from physician group practice to examine the relationship between malpractice premium levels and physician net incomes for the years 1994, 1998, and 2002, a period in which...
Who Pays? The Incidence of High Malpractice Premiums (2006)
Pauly, Mark, Thompson, Christy, Abbott, Thomas, Margolis, James, Sage, William
This paper uses data from physician group practice to examine the relationship between malpractice premium levels and physician net incomes for the years 1994, 1998, and 2002, a period in which...
Who Pays? The Incidence of High Malpractice Premiums (2006)
Pauly, Mark, Thompson, Christy, Abbott, Thomas, Margolis, James, Sage, William
This paper uses data from physician group practice to examine the relationship between malpractice premium levels and physician net incomes for the years 1994, 1998, and 2002, a period in which...
Who Pays? The Incidence of High Malpractice Premiums (2006)
Pauly, Mark, Thompson, Christy, Abbott, Thomas, Margolis, James, Sage, William
This paper uses data from physician group practice to examine the relationship between malpractice premium levels and physician net incomes for the years 1994, 1998, and 2002, a period in which...
M.: Partial and approximate symmetry detection for 3d geometry (2006)
Niloy J. Mitra, Leonidas J. Guibas, Mark Pauly
Figure 1: Symmetry detection on a sculpted model. From left to right: Original model, detected partial and approximate symmetries, color-coded deviations from perfect symmetry as a fraction of the...
Point-based multiscale surface representation (2006)
Mark Pauly, Leif P. Kobbelt, Markus Gross
In this article we present a new multiscale surface representation based on point samples. Given an unstructured point cloud as input, our method first computes a series of point-based surface...
M.: Partial and approximate symmetry detection for 3d geometry (2006)
Niloy J. Mitra, Leonidas J. Guibas, Mark Pauly
Figure 1: Symmetry detection on a sculpted model. From left to right: Original model, detected partial and approximate symmetries, color-coded deviations from perfect symmetry as a fraction of the...
Visual Comput (2006) DOI 10.1007/s00371-006-0027-1 ORIGINAL ARTICLE (2006)
Frederic Cazals, Joachim Giesen, Mark Pauly, Afra Zomorodian, J. Giesen, M. Pauly, ...
The method of alpha shapes was originally motivated for the study of points in the plane [9]. This method was later generalized to higher dimensional points [10]. Alpha shapes define a family of...
Geometric Modeling Based on Triangle Meshes (2006)
Botsch, Mario, Pauly, Mark, Rössl, Christian, Bischoff, Stephan, Kobbelt, Leif
In the last years triangle meshes have become increasingly popular and are nowad ays intensively used in many different areas of computer graphics and geometry p rocessing. In classical CAGD...
Geometric Modeling Based on Triangle Meshes (2006)
Botsch, Mario, Pauly, Mark, Rössl, Christian, Bischoff, Stephan, Kobbelt, Leif
In the last years triangle meshes have become increasingly popular and are nowad ays intensively used in many different areas of computer graphics and geometry p rocessing. In classical CAGD...
Efficient raytracing of deforming point-sampled surfaces (2005)
Keiser, Richard, Pauly, Mark, Guibas, Leonidas J., Gross, Marcus
We present efficient data structures and caching schemes to accelerate ray-surface intersections for deforming point-sampled surfaces. By exploiting spatial and temporal coherence of the deformation...
Collins, John, Pauly, Mark, Lamping, Mark, Quesnel, Bob, Georgacopoulos, Artie
Capstone Design Course MIE 702, Technical Design Report, Final report
The Convergence between For-Profit and Nonprofit Hospitals in the United States (2005)
Guy David, Anup Malani, David Meltzer, Mark Pauly, Tomas Philipson, Chad Syverson, ...
This paper provides evidence of growing similarity in capacity of for-profit and nonprofit hospitals. In 1960, U.S. nonprofit hospitals maintained on average more than three times as many beds per...
Efficient raytracing of deforming pointsampled surfaces (2005)
Bart Adams, Richard Keiser, Mark Pauly, Leonidas J. Guibas, Markus Gross, Philip Dutré
We present efficient data structures and caching schemes to accelerate ray-surface intersections for deforming point-sampled surfaces. By exploiting spatial and temporal coherence of the deformation...
Efficient raytracing of deforming pointsampled surfaces (2005)
Bart Adams, Richard Keiser, Mark Pauly, Leonidas J. Guibas, Markus Gross, Philip Dutré
We present efficient data structures and caching schemes to accelerate ray-surface intersections for deforming point-sampled surfaces. By exploiting spatial and temporal coherence of the deformation...
Robust Filtering of Noisy Scattered Point Data (2005)
Schall, Oliver, Belyaev, Alexander, Seidel, Hans-Peter, Pauly, Mark, Zwicker, Matthias
In this paper, we develop a method for robust filtering of a noisy set of points sampled from a smooth surface. The main idea of the method consists of using a kernel density estimation technique for...
Perspective Accurate Splatting (2004)
Matthias Zwicker, Jussi Räsänen, Mario Botsch, Carsten Dachsbacher, Mark Pauly
We present a novel algorithm for accurate, high quality point rendering, which is based on the formulation of splatting using homogeneous coordinates. In contrast to previous methods, this leads to...
Robust Watermarking of Point-Sampled Geometry (2004)
Daniel Cotting Tim, Tim Weyrich, Mark Pauly, Markus Gross
We present a new scheme for digital watermarking of point-sampled geometry based on spectral analysis. By extending existing algorithms designed for polygonal data to unstructured point clouds, our...
Robust Watermarking of Point-Sampled Geometry (2004)
Daniel Cotting Tim, Tim Weyrich, Mark Pauly, Markus Gross
We present a new scheme for digital watermarking of point-sampled geometry based on spectral analysis. By extending existing algorithms designed for polygonal data to unstructured point clouds, our...
Uncertainty and Variability in Point Cloud Surface Data (2004)
M. Alexa, S. Rusinkiewicz (editors, Mark Pauly, Niloy J. Mitra, Leonidas J. Guibas
We present a framework for analyzing shape uncertainty and variability in point-sampled geometry. Our representation is mainly targeted towards discrete surface data stemming from 3D acquisition...
Quasi-Rigid Objects in Contact (2004)
R. Boulic, Mark Pauly, Dinesh K. Pai, Leonidas J. Guibas
We investigate techniques for modeling contact between quasi-rigid objects -- solids that undergo modest deformation in the vicinity of a contact, while the overall object still preserves its basic...
M.: Point-based computer graphics. Eurographics Tutorial T1 (2003)
Marc Alexa, Tu Darmstadt, Markus Gross, Markus Gross, Mark Pauly, Eth Zürich, ...
citizen of Germany accepted on the recommendation of (2003)
Mark Pauly, Prof Dr, Markus Gross, Prof Dr, Leif Kobbelt, Prof Dr, ...
3D geometry has become increasingly popular as a new form of digital media. Similar to other types of media data, i.e., sound, images, and video, this requires tools to acquire, store, process, edit,...
Point primitives for interactive modeling and processing of 3D geometry [microform] / (2003)
Thesis (doctoral)--Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 2003.
Pointshop 3D: An Interactive System for Point-Based Surface Editing (2002)
Matthias Zwicker, Mark Pauly, Oliver Knoll, Markus Gross, Eth Zürich
We present a system for interactive shape and appearance editing of 3D point-sampled geometry. By generalizing conventional 2D pixel editors, our system supports a great variety of different...
Pointshop 3D: An Interactive System for Point-Based Surface Editing (2002)
Matthias Zwicker, Mark Pauly, Oliver Knoll, Markus Gross, Eth Zürich
We present a system for interactive shape and appearance editing of 3D point-sampled geometry. By generalizing conventional 2D pixel editors, our system supports a great variety of different...
Pointshop 3D: An Interactive System for Point-Based Surface Editing (2002)
Matthias Zwicker, Mark Pauly, Oliver Knoll, Markus Gross, Eth Zürich
We present a system for interactive shape and appearance editing of 3D point-sampled geometry. By generalizing conventional 2D pixel editors, our system supports a great variety of different...
Metropolis light transport for participating media (2000)
Mark Pauly, Thomas Kollig, Alexander Keller
Abstract. In this paper we show how Metropolis Light Transport can be extended both in the underlying theoretical framework and the algorithmic implementation to incorporate volumetric scattering. We...
Metropolis light transport for participating media (2000)
Mark Pauly, Thomas Kollig, Alexander Keller
Abstract. In this paper we show how Metropolis Light Transport can be extended both in the underlying theoretical framework and the algorithmic implementation to incorporate volumetric scattering. We...
Neglecting Disaster: Why Don't People Insure Against Large Losses?
This paper provides a theoretical explanation for the common observation that people often fail to purchase insurance against low-probability high-loss events even when it is offered at favorable...
Health Risk, Income, and Employment-Based Health Insurance
M. Kate Bundorf, Bradley Herring, Mark Pauly
While many believe that an individual’s health plays an important role in both their willingness and ability to obtain health insurance in the employment-based setting, relatively little...
Rules Rather Than Discretion: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
This paper explores options for programs to be put in place prior to a disaster to avoid large and often poorly-managed expenditures following a catastrophe and to provide appropriate protection...
Information Technology and Consumer Search for Health Insurance
Mark Pauly, Bradley Herring, David Song
We explore the impact of information technology on the level of premiums paid for individual health insurance by asking which kinds of buyers will have larger gains from the use of new technology. We...
Although the role of the services sector in the economy has grown increasingly large, and partnerships are a prevalent form of organization in this sector, relatively little is known about the...
The Role of Physicians in the Production of Hospital Output
Mark Pauly, Mark A. Satterthwaite
The purpose of this paper is to present estimates of production functions for hospitals in which a measure of the level of physician input is utilized. Since no data on the total number of hours...
Avi Dor, Mark Pauly, Margaret Eichleay, Philip Held
End-stage renal disease, Dialysis, Health care financing, Incentives, Medical costs, Reimbursement, Transplantation, I10, I11, I12, I18,
International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
Papers published in International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
Guaranteed Renewability with Group Insurance.
Pauly, Mark, Nickel, Andreas, Kunreuther, Howard
This paper investigates a multiple-period level premium insurance policy equilibrium in a model in which loss probabilities increase for a fixed time period for a set of persons buying insurance in a...
Rules rather than discretion: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
This paper explores options for programs to be put in place prior to a disaster to avoid large and often poorly-managed expenditures following a catastrophe and to provide appropriate protection...
Adverse Selection and the Challenges to Stand-Alone Prescription Drug Insurance
This paper investigates a possible predictor of adverse selection problems in unsubsidized stand-alone prescription drug insurance: the persistence of an individual's high spending over multiple...
Tax Credits, the Distribution of Subsidized Health Insurance Premiums, and the Uninsured
Mark Pauly, Bradley Herring, David Song
This paper investigates the impact of a$1,000 refundable tax credit for self-only coverage on net premiums and insurance purchases for a representative sample of potential buyers in the individual...
Who Pays? The Incidence of High Malpractice Premiums
Mark Pauly, Christy Thompson, Thomas Abbott, James Margolis, William Sage
This paper uses data from physician group practice to examine the relationship between malpractice premium levels and physician net incomes for the years 1994, 1998, and 2002, a period in which...
Is There a Market for Voluntary Health Insurance in Developing Countries?
Mark Pauly, Fredric E. Blavin, Sudha Meghan
In many developing countries the proportion of health care spending paid out of pocket is about half of all spending or more. This study examines the distribution of such spending by income and care...
Incentive-Compatible Guaranteed Renewable Health Insurance
Multi-period theoretical models of renewable insurance display front-loaded premium schedules that both cover lifetime total claims of low-risk and high-risk individuals and provide an incentive for...