<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><b style="">When:    </b>Wednesday, January 4th<b style=""> at </b></font></span><b style="font-family:georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11:30AM CT</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Where:   </b>Talk will be given<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font></span>at</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                   TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                    5th Floor, Room 530<b>  </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Virtually: </b>via Panopto (<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=30bb08d8-9718-4298-b1fa-af780141fde1" target="_blank">Livestream</a>)</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Who:     </b>Noam Aigerman, Adobe Research</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Title:     </b><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Neural shape mapping: modifying, manipulating, and synthesizing geometry through deep learning</span><br style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract:</b><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> In this talk I will discuss AI-driven shape mapping, i.e., enabling AI frameworks to manipulate, modify, and retarget 3D geometry. This task has the potential to automate many critical applications that interact with 3D geometry, such as 3D design, modeling organ development, video-to-3D, and physical simulation, to name a few. However, achieving AI-driven mapping capabilities is a non-trivial problem, due to the inherent difficulties in applying deep-learning techniques to 3D geometry. In the context of shape mapping, this difficulty has been, to a significant degree, overcome by one of my latest works which provides a fundamental, versatile framework for AI-driven mapping of shapes, and which will be the focal point of this talk. I will complement its discussion with a review of earlier, non-ML shape mappings works, as well as recent works on applications of neural shape mappings, such as shape variation by example, and super-resolution of 3D shapes.</span><br clear="all"></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, se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