• Background Data
• Research/Educational Interests
• Research Description
• Selected Publications
• F-rep Home Page
• HyperFun Project

Background Data

Then she worked as a system engineer at the All-Russian Research, Planning and Surveying Institute of Production Technology: ARPSIPT (PromNIIProekt), Moscow, Russia.

From 2001 she was a researcher at the IT Institute of Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. She received her Dr. Eng. degree from Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan with the thesis titled “Shape modeling with some applications in cultural heritage” (2005).

In February 2006, Galina started her teaching carrier as an Assistant Professor of the Al Ghurair University, UAE.

From 2007 she was the Head of the Computer Science and Information Systems Department of the University of New York/ Tirana (UNYT), Albania. As an Associate Professor she taught undergraduate courses of the UNYT and advanced courses of the International Program of the Empire State College of the State University of New York, USA.

Currently, Galina is the Head of Software Engineering Department and an Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Architecture and Engineering of European University of Lefke/ Cyprus .

Her teaching experience covers wide range of undergraduate and master courses:

• Computer Applications
• Introduction to Programming
• Fundamentals of Digital Computing
• Computing Theory
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Programming in C-I
• Design of Programming Languages
• Compiler Construction
• Computer Graphics
• Geometric Modelling
• Computer Animation and Visualization
• Advanced Computer Graphics
• Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Engineering

Research/Educational Interests

• Function-based shape modeling and multidimensional modeling
• Visualization
• Computer animation
• Digital fabrication
• Preservation of cultural heritage

Research Description

• Bounded blending operations
• Space-time blending and metamorphosis
• Trimmed implicit surfaces

The blending localization problem was investigated and an original solution allowing for blend localization completely inside an additional bounding solid was proposed. This results in support of such unusual operations as multiple blending and partial edges blending, which hardly can be supported by other blending techniques.

A new approach was introduced and analytical formulations for shape metamorphosis on the basis of the dimension increase, bounded blending between higher-dimensional space-time objects, and cross sectioning the blend area for getting frames of the animation were proposed. The proposed original approach can handle non-overlapping 2D and 3D shapes with arbitrary topology defined by input polygons, set-theoretic or analytical expressions.

A new model of two-dimensional manifolds with boundaries for implicit complexes was proposed: an implicit surface trimmed by a set-theoretic operation with a trimming solid. The algorithm of trimmed implicit surface polygonization extends conventional polygonization algorithms by including a trimming solid or surface and adapting the polygonal mesh to the 2-manifold boundary. The proposed adaptive solution significantly accelerates polygonization. Applications of the algorithm include cultural preservation, computer-aided design, and heterogeneous object modeling.

The proposed methods and algorithms have been applied in several case studies. The bounded blending operation was used in modeling traditional Japanese lacquer ware in the Virtual Shikki project, which has resulted in a Web site with 3D models in HyperFun and VRML formats.

The proposed space-time blending was used in the presented case studies of 2D- and 3D-metamorphosis, and in the Dancing Buddhas project particularly, where an animation of Buddha shape transformation to a Chinese character (kanji) was generated. Abstraction hierarchy analysis of flowers was done on the adjunction space and cellular levels with the geometric level implemented and illustrated using HyperFun tools. The application of trimmed implicit surfaces for modeling spiral objects by M. C. Escher was presented.

F-rep Home Page presents descriptions of selected research topics, list of publications, images, and animations.
HyperFun project provides tools for F-rep modeling using HyperFun language.

Selected Publications

• Proceedings of 5-th International Architecture and Engineering Symposiums "CREATING THE FUTURE", 5-th International Symposium on Electrical and Computer Systems, K.Balasubramanian (Ed.), A.Cellatoglu, G. Pasko, V.Murugesh, F. Savaroglu, N.Ciftci (Associate Eds.), European University of Lefke, Gemikonagi, TRNC, ISBN: 978-975-98897-1-5, November 2008, 266 pp.

• Chapter "Modelling Function-based Mixed-dimensional Objects with Attributes", in book "Heterogeneous Objects Modeling and Applications"", ( with B. Schmitt, A. Pasko, V. Adzhiev, C. Schlick), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4889, A. Pasko, V. Adzhiev, and P. Comninos (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2008, pp. 90-117.

• Ascending in Space Dimensions: Digital Crafting of Escher’s Drawings, (with A. Pasko, T. Vilbrandt, Lixandrão Filho A. L., da Silva J. V. L.), Leonardo, MIT, USA, 2010 (submitted).

• Digital preservation of traditional crafts and three-dimensional modeling technologies, (with T. Vilbrandt, C. Vilbrandt and A. Pasko), International Journal of Arts & Sciences, USA, (2010).

• Digital Crafting of Traditional Designs, (with T. Vilbrandt, A. Pasko, C. Stamm), ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, USA, 2009 (submitted).

• Computer reconstructions of Escher’s drawings, (with A. Pasko), International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS), USA, ISSN 1944-6934, Vol.3, No.3, pp. 7-12. (2009).

• Case studies in computer-aided traditional crafts, (with T. Vilbrandt, C. Vilbrandt, A. Pasko), Computer Graphics & Geometry, NRNU MEPhI, RF, ISSN 1811-8992, http://www.cgg-journal.com, vol, 9, No. 1, pp. 68-80. (2007).

• "Bounded blending for function-based shape modeling", (with A. Pasko, T. Kunii), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 36-45. (2005)

• "Space-time blending", (with A. Pasko, T. Kunii), Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, John Wiley&Sons Ltd., UK, vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 109-121. (2004)

• "Trimming implicit surfaces", (with A. Pasko), The Visual Computer, Springer, USA, vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 437-447. (2004)

• Methods of shape metamorphosis based on space-time blending, (with A. Pasko, T. Kunii), Computer Graphics & Geometry, NRNU MEPhI, RF, vol. 6, No.1 , pp. 1-24. (2004).

• "Cultural heritage preservation using constructive shape modeling", (with C. Vilbrandt, A. Pasko, P.-A. Fayolle, T. Vilbrandt, J. R. Goodwin, J. M. Goodwin, T. L. Kunii), Computer Graphics Forum, Blackwell Pub., Oxford, UK, vol. 23, No.1, pp. 25-41. (2004)

• "Modeling of conceptual multiresolution analysis by an incrementally modular abstraction hierarchy", ( with T. Kunii, M. Ibusuki, A. Pasko, D. Terasaki, H. Hanaizumi ), Special issue of J. Transactions of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Oxford University Press, UK, Vol. E86-D, No. 7, pp. 1181-1190. (2003)

• "Localized blending for exact control of shapes with applications to shape modeling and 2D animation", (with A. Pasko, M. Ikeda, T. L. Kunii), International Journal of Shape Modeling, special SMI'2002 issue , World Scientific Pub. Co, vol.8, No.2, pp.159-172. (2002)

• Shape modeling issues of digital preservation of Japanese lacquer ware and temples, (with A. Pasko, C. Vilbrandt, M. Ikeda), Computer Graphics & Geometry, NRNU MEPhI, RF, vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1-19. (2001).

• G. Pasko, D. Kravtsov, A. Pasko, Controlled Space-time Blending, The International Computer Graphics Conference CGI'10, 2010 (submitted).

• G. Pasko, A. Pasko, Art-inspired modeling and visualization; 14-th International Conference on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization VMV'09 in cooperation with Eurographics Association, Braunschweig, Germany, M. Magnor, B. Rosenhahn, H. Theisel (Eds.), Published by Institute fur Simulation und Graphik, Magdeburg, Germany, ISBN 978-3-9804874-8-1, pp. 389-390, 2009.

• G. Pasko, Controlled shape blending in space and time, 5-th International Symposium on Electrical and Computer Systems, European University of Lefke, Gemikonagi, TRNC, pp. 179-190, 2008.

• G. Pasko, Digital cultural preservation and three-dimensional shape modelling, 5-th International Symposium on Electrical and Computer Systems, European University of Lefke, Gemikonagi, TRNC, pp. 167-178, 2008.

• T. Vilbrandt, C. Stamm, A. Pasko, G. Pasko, Wise bits: digital preservation and current three-dimensional modeling technologies, World Archaelogical Congress WAC-6, University College Dublin, Ireland, p. 100, 2008.

• G. Pasko, A. Pasko, Function-based shape modeling for cultural heritage applications, The e-volution of Information Communication Technology in Cultural Heritage, Joint event CIPA/VAST/EG/EuroMed, Short papers, M. Ioannides, D. Arnold, F. Niccolucci, K. Mania (Eds.), EPOCH publication, pp. 153-158, 2006.

• T. Vilbrandt, C. Vilbrandt, G. Pasko, A. Pasko, Modeling and digital fabrication of traditional Japanese lacquer ware, The e-volution of Information Communication Technology in Cultural Heritage, Joint event CIPA/VAST/EG/EuroMed, Project papers, M. Ioannides, D. Arnold, F. Niccolucci, K. Mania (Eds.), EPOCH publication, 2006, pp. 276-279.

• G. Pasko, A. Pasko, T.Kunii, Ternary blending operations, 21st European Workshop on Computational Geometry, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, pp. 143-145, March, 2005.

• B. Schmitt, G. Pasko, A. Pasko, T. Kunii, Rendering Trimmed Implicit Surfaces and Curves, African Graphics Association Conference Afrigraph 2004, South Africa, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 7-13, November, 2004. http://cis.k.hosei.ac.jp/~F-rep/Fspirals.html

• G. Pasko, T. Nieda, A. Pasko, T. Kunii, Space-time Modeling and Analysis, 20th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics SCCG'2004, Budmerice, Slovakia, ACM SIGGRAPH, ISBN:1-58113-914-4, pp. 13 – 20, April 22-24, 2004.

• C. Vilbrandt, G. Pasko, T. Vilbrandt, P.-A. Fayolle, M. Kazakov, V. Adjiev, A. Pasko, Reverse construction of cultural heritage, STAR report, International Conference GraphiCon03, Russia, pp. 22-29, August, 2003.

• C. Vilbrandt, G. Pasko, A. Pasko, P.-A. Fayolle, T. Vilbrandt, Alternatives to metadata for cultural heritage objects, International Conference CIDOC/ADIT-2003 (Electronic Potential of a Museum: Stimuli and Restrictions, Achievements and Problems), Russia, pp. 86-87, September, 2003.

• G. Pasko, A. Pasko, M. Ikeda, T. Kunii, Advanced metamorphosis based on bounded space-time blending, 10th International Multimedia Modeling Conference MMM 2004(Brisbane, Australia), Ed. Y. -P. Phoebe Chen, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 211-217, January, 2004.

• G. Pasko, A. Pasko, M. Ikeda, T. Kunii, 2D shape transformation using 3D blending, Proceedings of MMM 2003, 9-th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (Taipei, Taiwan), Tamkang University, pp.390-401, January, 2003.

• G. Pasko, A. Pasko, M. Ikeda, T. Kunii, Bounded blending operations, Shape Modeling International 2002, Banff (Canada), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 95-103, May, 2002. http://cis.k.hosei.ac.jp/~F-rep/BoundBlendSMI02.pdf

• J.R. Goodwin, J.M. Goodwin, A. Pasko, G. Pasko, C. Vilbrandt, Dancing Buddhas: new graphical tools for the presentation and preservation of cultural artifacts, Virtual Systems and Multimedia Conference VSMM'01 (University of California Berkley), IEEE Computer Society, pp.345-352, October, 2001.

• C. Vilbrandt, A. Pasko, G. Pasko, J.R. Goodwin, J.M. Goodwin, Digital preservation of cultural heritage through constructive modeling, International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting ichim01 (Milan, Italy), D. Bearman and F. Garzotto (Eds.), vol. 1, pp. 183-200, September, 2001.

• G. Pasko, A. Pasko, C. Vilbrandt, T. Ikedo, Virtual Shikki and Sazaedo: shape modeling in digital preservation of Japanese lacquer ware and temples, Spring Conference on Computer Graphics SCCG'2001 (Budmerice, Slovakia), R. Durikovic, S. Czanner (Eds.), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 147-154, April, 2001.

• G. Pasko, A. Pasko, 3D Computer Reconstructions of 2D Images for Virtual Museums, The 3-d International Inclusive Museum Conference, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 29 June-2 July, 2010.

• T. Vilbrandt, G. Pasko, C. Vilbrandt and A. Pasko, Digital preservation of traditional crafts and three-dimensional modeling technologies, International Journal of Arts & Sciences Conference, Gozo, Malta, February 15-18, 2010.

• G. Pasko and A. Pasko, Computer reconstructions of Escher’s drawings, International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS) Conference, Gottenheim, Germany, November 9-13, 2009.

• G. Pasko, Cultural Heritage Preservation and 3D Shape Modelling, Invited talk, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Russian Federation, June, 30, 2009.

• G. Pasko, From Implicit Surfaces to Heterogeneous Objects, Invited talk, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, June, 12, 2008.

• A. A. Pasko , T. Vilbrandt, C. Vilbrandt, G. Pasko, T. Someya, Desktop Manufacturing from Easily Transmitted High Resolution Digital Files and its Application Case Studies, Technical Report HCIS-2006-01, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, 2006, 10 pp.

• G. Pasko, T.L. Kunii, Function-based Shape Modeling for Cultural Heritage Applications, Poster, Conference CD of Graphite 2005, 3rd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia, Dunedin, New Zealand, November – December, 2005.

• C. Vilbrandt, J.R. Goodwin, J.M. Goodwin, A. Pasko, G. Pasko, Musdi B. H. Shanat, Archaeological Reconstruction and Open Source Software, Proc. of the 2nd Italy-USA workshop "The reconstruction of the archaeological landscapes through digital technologies" Rome, November 3-5 2003, BAR series S1379 2005 (Oxford), Archaeopress, Berkeley, USA, May 2005, ed. Maurizio Forte, ISBN 184171819X.

• C. Vilbrandt, J.R. Goodwin, J.M. Goodwin, A. Pasko, G. Pasko, Musdi B. H. Shanat, Function Representation and HyperFun: Open Source Tools for Digital Preservation, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Panel Computer Applications to Archaeology, Italy, May 2004.

• C. Vilbrandt, J.R. Goodwin, J.M. Goodwin, A. Pasko, G. Pasko, Musdi B. H. Shanat, Function representation and HyperFun: proposed tools for solving the problem of digital persistence, Congress of Cultural Atlases: The Human Record, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), University of California, Berkeley, 2004.

• C. Vilbrandt, A. Pasko, G. Pasko, J.R. Goodwin, J.M. Goodwin, Shape Modeling Styles and Standards in Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage, 1-st International Workshop on Digital and Academic Liberty of Information DALI 2001, University of Aizu, Japan, 2001.

• Selected haiku in Renguru, Haikumena , Haiku Poetry almanac, Russian Institute for Cultural Research, 1-2 issues, Moscow, 2003-2004.

• Selected haiku in Ulitka, on-line magazine, issue 2, 2006 (in English, in Russian).

Academic activities

• Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Internet-Journal "Computer Graphics & Geometry", 2006-now.
• Member of the ACM's Committee on Women in Computing, 2009-now.
• Member of ACM, 2004-now.
• Scientific and organizing committee member, 6th International Symposium on Electrical and Computer Systems, European University of Lefke, Gemikonagi, Cyprus, 25-26 November, 2010.
• IPC member, IADIS International Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing Conference IADIS CGVCVIP(MCCSIS 2010), Freiburg, Germany, 27 - 29 July 2010.
• Member of the Board of Reviewers, 18-th WSCG 2010 Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, 1 - 4 February, 2010.
• Reviewer, 2-nd IEEE International Conference on IHCI 2010, IIIT Allahabad, India, January 2010.
• Member of International Advisory Committee, 2-nd IEEE International Conference on IHCI 2010, IIIT Allahabad, India, January 2010.
• Reviewer, Eurographics, 2006, 2008, and 2009.
• Reviewer, International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing (MCCSIS 2009), Algarve, Portugal, 20 - 22 June, 2009.
• Reviewer, "Computers and Graphics" Journal (Elsevier) and Shape Modeling International SMI2009 Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June 26-28, 2009.
• Reviewer, WSCG'2009, The 17-th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision in cooperation with Eurographics, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic, February 2-5, 2009.
• Reviewer, The 1-st International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2009), Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India, Januaury 20-23, 2009.
• Member of the Board of Reviewers, Journal of WSCG, ISSN 1213-6972, Czech Republic, 2008-2009.
• Scientific and organizing committee member, session chair, 5th International Symposium on Electrical and Computer Systems, European University of Lefke, Gemikonagi, Cyprus, 27-28 November, 2008.
• IPC member, 11-th International Conference on Humans and Computers (HC'2008), Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan, November 20-23, 2008.
• IPC, scientific and organizing committee member, 16-th World Conference INFORUM 2008, Interindustry Forecasting Project, European University of Lefke, Cyprus, August 31 - September 7, 2008.
• Member of the scientific committee of the International Conference “Computer Graphics and Visualization - CGV2008”, IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2008), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 24 - 26, 2008.
• Reviewer, WSCG'2008, The 16-th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic, February 4 - 7, 2008.
• IPC member, 10-th International Conference on Humans and Computers (HC'2007), Duesseldorf, Germany; Aizu-Wakamatsu – Tokyo, Japan, December 13 - 15, 2007.
• IPC member, 2-nd International Workshop on Digital Media and its Applications in Museum and Heritage (DMAMH07), Chongqing, China, December 10-12, 2007.
• Organizing committee member of conferences Shape Modeling International '97 and '99, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan.
• Organizing committee member of conference Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents`98, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan.

Extra courses

• 1970-1976 Diploma of music school, piano, Moscow, Russia

• 1977-1983 Technical English, MEPhI, Moscow, Russia

• 1993-1994 Basic Japanese, Xaverio School, Aizu -Wakamatsu , Japan

• 1994-2006 First level degree diploma of ikebana instructor of Ryuseiha School, Aizu -Wakamatsu/ Tokyo, Japan (applied). Participant of annual workshops and exhibitions of the Ryuseiha School in Aizu-Wakamatsu and Tokyo, Japan.

• 1998-2006 Diploma of tea ceremony instructor of Urasenke School, Aizu -Wakamatsu/ Tokyo, Japan

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