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About

Amir Vaxman is a Reader in The Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour at The University of Edinburgh, UK, where he is leading the Geometry Processing Group. Before that, he was an assistant professor (Universitair docent) in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He was a postdoctoral fellow in TU Wien (Vienna) at the Geometric Modeling and Industrial Geometry group, where he also received the Lise-Meitner fellowship. He earned his BSc in computer engineering, and his PhD in Computer science from the Technion-IIT. His research interests are geometry processing and discrete differential geometry, focusing on directional-field design, unconventional meshes, constrained shape spaces, architectural geometry, and medical imaging.

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News

11/Nov/2025 We have one paper accepted to AAAI 2026.
27/Jun/2025 We have one paper accepted to ICCV 2025.
26/Jun/2025 I will serve as program co-chair of Shape and Physical Modeling (SPM) 2026.
29/Mar/2025 We have one paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025.
1/Mar/2025 We have one paper accepted to CVPR 2025.
28/Jun/2024 "Fabric Tessellation: Realizing Freeform Surfaces by Smocking" is featured on the SIGGRAPH 2024 Technical Papers Trailer.
15/June/2024 Our paper "Fabric Tessellation: Realizing Freeform Surfaces by Smocking" won the Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at SIGGRAPH 2024!
24/Mar/2024 We have one paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2024.
5/Aug/2023 We have one paper accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2023.
6/Jul/2023 Our paper "BPM: Blended Piecewise Möbius Maps" won the Runner-Up Best Paper Award at SGP 2023!
21/Mar/2023 We have one paper accepted to CVPR 2023.
16/Sep/2022 We have one paper accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2022.

Publications

Miaowei Wang, Jakub Zadrożny, Oisin Mac Aodha, and Amir Vaxman MotionPhysics: Learnable Motion Distillation for Text-Guided Simulation Accepted to AAAI 2026 [Project Page]
Miaowei Wang, Changjian Li, and Amir Vaxman CanFields: Consolidating Diffeomorphic Flows for Non-Rigid 4D Interpolation from Arbitrary-Length Sequences International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025. [**Project Page**]
Jiabao Brad Wang and Amir Vaxman Power-Linear Polar Directional Fields In SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings, Article 97, 1–10, 2025. [**Preprint**][**Supplementary Material**]
Thomas Walker*, Salvatore Esposito*, Daniel Rebain, Amir Vaxman, Arno Onken, Changjian Li, Oisin Mac Aodha CrossSDF: 3D Reconstruction of Thin Structures from Cross-Sections Accepted to IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025. [**Project website**]
Thomas Walker, Octave Mariotti, Amir Vaxman, and Hakan Bilen Spatially-Adaptive Hash Encodings For Neural Surface Reconstruction IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025. [**Preprint**]
Aviv Segall, Jing Ren, Amir Vaxman, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung Fabric Tessellation: Realizing Freeform Surfaces by Smocking ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 43(4), 2024. Best Paper award (Honorable Mention) [**Project page**][**Technical Papers Trailer**]
Ioanna Mitropoulou, Amir Vaxman, Olga Diamanti, and Benjamin Dillenburger Fabrication-Aware Strip-Decomposable Quadrilateral Meshes Computer-Aided Design, 2023. [**Preprint**][**Official version**]
Thomas Walker, Octave Mariotti, Amir Vaxman, and Hakan Bilen Explicit Neural Surfaces: Learning Continuous Geometry with Deformation Fields NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations, 2023. [**Preprint**]
Lorenzo Diazzi, Daniele Panozzo, Amir Vaxman, and Marco Attene Constrained Delaunay Tetrahedrization: A Robust and Practical Approach ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 42(6), 2023. [**Preprint**][**Code**]
Shir Rorberg, Amir Vaxman, and Mirela Ben-Chen BPM: Blended Piecewise Möbius Maps Best Paper award (2nd place) Computer Graphics Form (Proc. SGP), 42(5), 2023. [**Preprint**][**Official version**][**Code**][**Implementation by Mark Gillespie**]
Haim Sawdayee, Amir Vaxman, and Amit Haim Bermano OReX: Object Reconstruction from Planar Cross-sections Using Neural Fields IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023. [**Project Page**]
Iwan Boksebeld and Amir Vaxman High-Order Directional Fields ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 41(6), 2022. [**Preprint**]
Floor Verhoeven, Amir Vaxman, Tim Hoffmann, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung Dev2PQ: Planar Quadrilateral Strip Remeshing of Developable Surfaces ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH 2022), 41(3), 2022. [Preprint]
Merel Meekes and Amir Vaxman Unconventional Patterns on Surfaces ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 40(4), 2021. [**Preprint**]
Kacper Pluta, Michal Edelstein, Amir Vaxman, and Mirela Ben-Chen PH-CPF: Planar Hexagonal Meshing Using Coordinate Power Fields ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 40(4), 2021. [**Repository**]
Christian Müller and Amir Vaxman Discrete Curvature and Torsion from Cross-Ratios Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata(1923 -): Vol. 200, Iss. 5 (2021) , Page 1935. [Preprint] [Official version]
Bram Custers and Amir Vaxman Subdivision Directional Fields ACM Transactions on Graphics (Presented at SIGGRAPH 2020), 39(2), 2020. [Preprint][Supplementary material][Errata]
Andrew Sageman-Furnas, Albert Chern, Mirela Ben-Chen, and Amir Vaxman Chebyshev Nets from Commuting PolyVector Fields ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 38(6) 2019. [Project page]
Meged Shoham, Amir Vaxman, and Mirela Ben-Chen Hierarchical Functional Maps between Subdivision Surfaces Best Paper award (2nd place) Computer Graphics Form (Proc. SGP), 38(5), 2019. [Preprint][Code]
Marc van Kreveld, Frank Staals, Amir Vaxman, and Jordi Vermeulen Approximating the Earth Mover's Distance between a set of points and line segments 35th European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG), Utrecht, The Netherlands, March 2019. [Preprint]
Justin Solomon and Amir Vaxman Optimal Transport-Based Polar Interpolation of Directional Fields ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 38(4) 2019. [Preprint]
Mees van de Kerkhof, Tim de Jong, Raphael Parment, Maarten Löffler, Amir Vaxman, and Marc van Kreveld Design and Automated Generation of Japanese Picture Puzzles Computer Graphics Form (Proc. Eurographics), 2019. [Preprint]
Amir Vaxman, Christian Müller, and Ofir Weber Canonical Möbius Subdivision ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH ASIA), 37(6), 2018. [Paper] [Video][Code]
Nico Pietroni, Marco Tarini, Amir Vaxman, Daniele Panozzo, and Paolo Cignoni Position-Based Tensegrity Design ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 36(6), 2017. [Paper] [**Video**]
Amir Vaxman, Christian Müller, and Ofir Weber Regular Meshes from Polygonal Patterns ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 36(4), 2017. [Paper] [Video][Code]
Justin Solomon, Amir Vaxman, and David Bommes Boundary Element Octahedral Fields in Volumes ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH 2017), 36(3), 2017. [Preprint]
Amir Vaxman, Marcel Campen, Olga Diamanti, Daniele Panozzo, David Bommes, Klaus Hildebrandt, and Mirela Ben-Chen Directional Field Synthesis, Design, and Processing SIGGRAPH 2017 courses SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 courses State-of-the-art Report (STAR), Eurographics 2016 [STAR Version] [Webpage for course] [SGP 2017 Summer School version]
Caigui Jiang*, Chengcheng Tang*, Amir Vaxman, Peter Wonka†, and Helmut Pottmann† Polyhedral Patterns ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH ASIA), 34(6), 2015. [Paper] [Auxiliary material][Video] * Joint first authors. † Joint last authors.
Amir Vaxman, Christian Müller, and Ofir Weber Conformal Mesh Deformations with Möbius Transformations ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 34(4), 2015. [Paper] [Video][Code]
Olga Diamanti, Amir Vaxman, Daniele Panozzo, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung Integrable PolyVector Fields ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 34(4), 2015. [Project Page]
Orestis Vardoulis, Pierre Monney, Davide Piccini, Amit Bermano, Amir Vaxman, Craig Gotsman, Janine Schwitter, Matthias Stuber, Nikolaos Stergiopulos, and Juerg Schwitter Single breath-hold 3D measurement of left atrial volume using compressed sensing CMR and a non-model-based reconstruction approach Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 17(1), 2015. [Paper]
Helmut Pottmann, Michael Eigensatz, Amir Vaxman, and Johannes Wallner Architectural Geometry Computers and Graphics 47, 2015. [Paper]
Amir Vaxman and Mirela Ben-Chen Dupin Meshing: A Parameterization Approach to Planar Hex-Dominant Meshing Technical Report CS-2015-01 [Paper]
Olga Diamanti, Amir Vaxman, Daniele Panozzo, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung Designing N-PolyVector Fields with Complex Polynomials Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 33(5), 2014. Best Paper award [Project Page]
Amir Vaxman A Projective Framework for Polyhedral Mesh Modelling Computer Graphics Forum 33(8), 2014 (presented at SGP 2015). [Preprint]
Amir Vaxman Modeling Polyhedral Meshes with Affine Maps Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP) 31(5), 2012 Best Paper award (2nd place) [Paper][Note - Alternative Implementation] [Video] [Code in libhedra]
Amit Bermano, Amir Vaxman, and Craig Gotsman Online Reconstruction of 3D Objects from Arbitrary Cross-Sections ACM Transactions on Graphics 30(5), 2011 (presented at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011). [Paper] [Video]
Amir Vaxman, Mirela Ben-Chen and Craig Gotsman A Multi-Resolution approach to Heat Kernels on Discrete Surfaces ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 29(4), 2010. [Paper]
Gill Barequet and Amir Vaxman Reconstruction of Multi-Label Domains from Partial Planar Cross-Sections Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP) 28(5), 2009. [Paper]
Gill Barequet, David Eppstein, Michael T. Goodrich and Amir Vaxman Straight Skeletons of Three-Dimensional Polyhedra Lecture Notes In Computer Science (Proc. ESA), Vol. 5193, 2008. [Paper][Video]
Gill Barequet and Amir Vaxman Nonlinear Interpolation Between Slices International Journal of Shape Modeling (preliminary version appeared in Proceedings of SPM, Beijing, 2006), 14(1), 2008. [Paper]

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Education

Service

Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) 2020 General Chair
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022, 2024, 2025 Technical Papers Committee member
SIGGRAPH 2019, 2020 Technical Papers Committee member
SIGGRAPH 2022–2024 COI Coordinator
Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) 2018 Program co-chair (with Tao Ju)
Shape and Physical Modeling (SPM) 2026 Program co-chair
Eurographics 2026 Tutorials Track co-chair
Eurographics 2018 Short Papers Track co-chair (with Olga Diamanti)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) Associate editor
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2019–2024 Associate editor
The Visual Computer 2016–2022 Associate editor
SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Workshops Committee member
Shape Modeling International (SMI) 2016, 2017, 2020, 2023 Technical Papers Program Committee member
Eurographics 2015, 2020, 2023, 2025, 2026 Full Papers International Program Committee member
Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) 2013–2025 International Programme Committee Member
Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP) 2014–2024 Technical Program Committee member
Pacific Graphics (PG) 2017–2019 International Program Committee member
Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) 2018, 2020, 2023 Papers Committee member
Graphics Interface (GI) 2020 Program Committee member
CAD/GRAPHICS 2017 International Program Committee member
Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2018–2021 Program Committee member
International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2018 Program Committee member
International Conference on Computational Visual Media (CVM) 2019 Program Committee member

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