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Prof. Dr. Marcel Campen

Computer Graphics & Visualization

Computer Science Department
Paderborn University

Team

Research

The Computer Graphics & Visualization group is dedicated to cutting-edge research, with a focus on the field of 3D Geometric Data Processing.

The following is a list of papers describing some of the results of this work.

C¹-Smooth Parametrization of Polynomial Shapes over Polygonal Domains

Payam Khanteimouri, Marcel Campen
International Meshing Roundtable 2025

awardBest Paper Award

Guaranteed-Quality Rational Bézier Guarding

Payam Khanteimouri, Marcel Campen
SPM 2025

awardBest Paper Award (3rd)

Bijective Volumetric Mapping via Star Decomposition

Steffen Hinderink, Hendrik Brückler, Marcel Campen
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

A Progressive Embedding Approach to Bijective Tetrahedral Maps driven by Cluster Mesh Topology

Valentin Z. Nigolian, Marcel Campen, David Bommes
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

Strictly Conservative Neural Implicits

Ingmar Ludwig, Marcel Campen
Pacific Graphics 2024

Integer-Sheet-Pump Quantization for Hexahedral Meshing

Hendrik Brückler, David Bommes, Marcel Campen
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2024

awardBest Paper Award Honorable Mention

Collapsing Embedded Cell Complexes for Safer Hexahedral Meshing

Hendrik Brückler, Marcel Campen
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

3D Bézier Guarding: Boundary-Conforming Curved Tetrahedral Meshing

Payam Khanteimouri, Marcel Campen
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

Galaxy Maps: Localized Foliations for Bijective Volumetric Mapping

Steffen Hinderink, Marcel Campen
SIGGRAPH 2023

Expansion Cones: A Progressive Volumetric Mapping Framework

Valentin Z. Nigolian, Marcel Campen, David Bommes
SIGGRAPH 2023

HalfedgeCNN for Native and Flexible Deep Learning on Triangle Meshes

Ingmar Ludwig, Daniel Tyson, Marcel Campen
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2023

Volume Parametrization Quantization for Hexahedral Meshing

Hendrik Brückler, David Bommes, Marcel Campen
SIGGRAPH 2022

Which Cross Fields Can Be Quadrangulated?

Hanxiao Shen, Leyi Zhu, Ryan Capouellez, Daniele Panozzo, Marcel Campen, Denis Zorin
SIGGRAPH 2022

Hex-Mesh Generation and Processing: a Survey

N. Pietroni, M. Campen, A. Sheffer, G. Cherchi, D. Bommes, X. Gao, R. Scateni, F. Ledoux, J.-F. Remacle, M. Livesu
ACM Transactions on Graphics 2022

Rational Bézier Guarding

Payam Khanteimouri, Manish Mandad, Marcel Campen
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2022

awardBest Paper Award (2nd)

TinyAD: Automatic Differentiation in Geometry Processing Made Simple

Patrick Schmidt, Janis Born, David Bommes, Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2022

awardBest Paper Award (1st)

The 3D Motorcycle Complex for Structured Volume Decomposition

Hendrik Brückler, Ojaswi Gupta, Manish Mandad, Marcel Campen
Eurographics 2022

awardBest Paper Award Honorable Mention

Intrinsic Mixed-Integer Polycubes for Hexahedral Meshing

Manish Mandad, Ruizhi Chen, David Bommes, Marcel Campen
GMP 2022

Angle-Bounded 2D Mesh Simplification

Steffen Hinderink, Manish Mandad, Marcel Campen
GMP 2022

Efficient and Robust Discrete Conformal Equivalence with Boundary

Marcel Campen, Ryan Capouellez, Hanxiao Shen, Leyi Zhu, Daniele Panozzo, Denis Zorin
SIGGRAPH Asia 2021

Guaranteed-Quality Higher-Order Triangular Meshing of 2D Domains

Manish Mandad, Marcel Campen
SIGGRAPH 2021

Surface Map Homology Inference

Janis Born, Patrick Schmidt, Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2021

awardBest Paper Award

Simpler Quad Layouts using Relaxed Singularities

Max Lyon, Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2021

Quad Layouts via Constrained T-Mesh Quantization

Max Lyon, Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
Eurographics 2021

Bézier Guarding:
Precise Higher-Order Meshing of Curved 2D Domains

Manish Mandad, Marcel Campen
SIGGRAPH 2020

Inter-Surface Maps via Constant-Curvature Metrics

Patrick Schmidt, Marcel Campen, Janis Born, Leif Kobbelt
SIGGRAPH 2020

Combinatorial Construction of Seamless Parameter Domains

Jiaran Zhou, Changhe Tu, Denis Zorin, Marcel Campen
EUROGRAPHICS 2020

awardBest Paper Award Honorable Mention

Efficient Piecewise Higher-Order Parametrization of Discrete Surfaces with Local and Global Injectivity

Manish Mandad, Marcel Campen
Solid & Physical Modeling 2020

Distortion-Minimizing Injective Maps Between Surfaces

Patrick Schmidt, Janis Born, Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

Parametrization Quantization with Free Boundaries for Trimmed Quad Meshing

Max Lyon, Marcel Campen, David Bommes, Leif Kobbelt
SIGGRAPH 2019

Seamless Parametrization with Arbitrary Cones for Arbitrary Genus

Marcel Campen, Hanxiao Shen, Jiaran Zhou, Denis Zorin
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2019

Exact Constraint Satisfaction for Truly Seamless Parametrization

Manish Mandad, Marcel Campen
EUROGRAPHICS 2019

A Simple Approach to Intrinsic Correspondence Learning on Unstructured 3D Meshes

Isaak Lim, Alexander Dielen, Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
ECCV 2018 Workshop: Geometry Meets Deep Learning

Quadrangulation of Non-Rigid Objects using Deformation Metrics

Jiaran Zhou, Marcel Campen, Denis Zorin, Changhe Tu, Claudio T. Silva
GMP 2018

On Discrete Conformal Seamless Similarity Maps

Marcel Campen, Denis Zorin
arXiv, 2017

Similarity Maps and Field-Guided T-Splines: a Perfect Couple

Marcel Campen, Denis Zorin
SIGGRAPH 2017

Partitioning Surfaces into Quadrilateral Patches: A Survey

Marcel Campen
Computer Graphics Forum, 2017

Tiling the Bunny: Quad Layouts for Efficient 3D Geometry Representation

Marcel Campen
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 2017

Bijective Maps from Simplicial Foliations

Marcel Campen, Claudio Silva, Denis Zorin
SIGGRAPH 2016

Interactively Controlled Quad Remeshing of High Resolution 3D Models

Hans-Christian Ebke, Patrick Schmidt, Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

Directional Field Synthesis, Design, and Processing

Amir Vaxman, Marcel Campen, Olga Diamanti, Daniele Panozzo, David Bommes, Klaus Hildebrandt, Mirela Ben-Chen
EUROGRAPHICS 2016

Scale-Invariant Directional Alignment of Surface Parametrizations

Marcel Campen, Moritz Ibing, Hans-Christian Ebke, Denis Zorin, Leif Kobbelt
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2016

Quantized Global Parametrization

Marcel Campen, David Bommes, Leif Kobbelt
SIGGRAPH Asia 2015

Level-of-Detail Quad Meshing

Hans-Christian Ebke, Marcel Campen, David Bommes, Leif Kobbelt
SIGGRAPH Asia 2014

Dual Strip Weaving: Interactive Design of Quad Layouts using Elastica Strips

Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
SIGGRAPH Asia 2014

Quad Layout Embedding via Aligned Parameterization

Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
Computer Graphics Forum 33 (8), 2014

Quad Layouts - Generation and Optimization of Conforming Quadrilateral Surface Partitions

Marcel Campen
Doctoral Thesis, RWTH Aachen University 2015, Shaker Verlag

awardEUROGRAPHICS Best PhD Thesis Award 2016

Integer-Grid Maps for Reliable Quad Meshing

David Bommes, Marcel Campen, Hans-Christian Ebke, Pierre Alliez, Leif Kobbelt
SIGGRAPH 2013

QEx: Robust Quad Mesh Extraction

Hans-Christian Ebke, David Bommes, Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
SIGGRAPH Asia 2013

Efficient Computation of Shortest Path-Concavity for 3D Meshes

Henrik Zimmer, Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2013

Polygon Mesh Repairing: An Application Perspective

Marco Attene, Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 45, 2, February 2013

Practical Anisotropic Geodesy

Marcel Campen, Martin Heistermann, Leif Kobbelt
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP 2013)

awardBest Paper Award

Dual Loops Meshing: Quality Quad Layouts on Manifolds

Marcel Campen, David Bommes, Leif Kobbelt
SIGGRAPH 2012

Rationalization of Triangle-Based Point-Folding Structures

Henrik Zimmer, Marcel Campen, David Bommes, Leif Kobbelt
EUROGRAPHICS 2012

A Practical Guide to Polygon Mesh Repairing

Marcel Campen, Marco Attene, Leif Kobbelt
EUROGRAPHICS 2012 Tutorial

Variational Tangent Plane Intersection for Planar Polygonal Meshing

Henrik Zimmer, Marcel Campen, Ralf Herkrath, Leif Kobbelt
Advances in Architectural Geometry 2012

Walking On Broken Mesh: Defect-Tolerant Geodesic Distances and Parameterizations

Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
EUROGRAPHICS 2011

Polygonal Boundary Evaluation of Minkowski Sums and Swept Volumes

Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP 2010)

awardBest Paper Award

Exact and Robust (Self-)Intersections for Polygonal Meshes

Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
EUROGRAPHICS 2010

Hybrid Booleans

Darko Pavic, Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
Computer Graphics Forum 29, 2010

Ein Framework für Geometrieverarbeitung basierend auf hybriden Oberflächendarstellungen

Marcel Campen
Informatik Spektrum 33(1): 66-69, 2010

A Framework for Geometry Processing based on Hybrid Surface Representations

Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
GI Lecture Notes in Informatics, Volume S-8, 219-222

awardGI-Informatiktage 2009 Best Paper Award

Teaching

The following courses were/are offered by the Computer Graphics & Visualization group:

3D Modeling

WS 2025/26

Geometric Deep Learning

WS 2025/26

Recent Geometry Processing Trends

WS 2025/26

Data Visualization

WS 2025/26

3D Rendering

SS 2025

Geometry Processing

SS 2025

Data Visualization

SS 2025

Contact

Prof. Dr. Marcel Campen
Universität Paderborn
Institut für Informatik
Fürstenallee 11
D-33102 Paderborn

Raum: FU.237
Tel: +49 5251 60 6600
E-Mail: marcel.campen@upb.de