{"id":22271,"date":"2025-10-04T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=22271"},"modified":"2025-10-04T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:52:00","slug":"22271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2025\/10\/04\/22271\/","title":{"rendered":"BU PhD Candidate Daniel Scrivener and his collaborators\u00a0received an\u00a0Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award\u00a0at\u00a0SIGGRAPH 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The paper<span>\u00a0<\/span><i>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/scrivener.studio\/faraday\">Faraday Cage Estimation of Normals for Point Clouds and Ribbon Sketches<\/a>\u201d<\/i><span>\u00a0<\/span>received an<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.siggraph.org\/2025\/06\/siggraph-2025-technical-papers-awards-best-papers-honorable-mentions-and-test-of-time.html\/\">Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award\u00a0at\u00a0SIGGRAPH 2025<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s premier conferences in computer graphics and interactive techniques.<\/p>\n<p>The effort was\u00a0led by BU PhD student Daniel Scrivener, in collaboration with BU Computer Science undergraduate alumni\u00a0Daniel Cui (\u201925)\u00a0and\u00a0Ellis Coldren (\u201924), as well as\u00a0S. Mazdak Abulnaga, Mikhail Bessmeltsev, and Professor Edward Chien.<\/p>\n<p><span>The team\u2019s research introduces a novel technique, FaCE (Faraday Cage Estimation), for surface reconstruction from unoriented 3D data, such as raw point clouds and VR ribbon sketches. It estimates surface normals by leveraging the physics of Faraday cages, modeling input points or ribbons as a \u201cconductive cage\u201d that shields interior regions from external fields. This produces more accurate and flexible surface reconstructions, especially in cases with complex internal structures or sparse artistic sketches.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper\u00a0\u201cFaraday Cage Estimation of Normals for Point Clouds and Ribbon Sketches\u201d\u00a0received an\u00a0Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award\u00a0at\u00a0SIGGRAPH 2025, one of the world\u2019s premier conferences in computer graphics and interactive techniques. The effort was\u00a0led by BU PhD student Daniel Scrivener, in collaboration with BU Computer Science undergraduate alumni\u00a0Daniel Cui (\u201925)\u00a0and\u00a0Ellis Coldren (\u201924), as well as\u00a0S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15206,"featured_media":22272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22276,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22271\/revisions\/22276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}