Teaching & Supervision

Courses at FAST

• CS 418: Computer Graphics, Spring 2012
• CS 301: Theory of Automata, Spring 2012
• CS 102: Introduction to Computer Science, Fall 2011
• CS 422: Human Computer Interaction, Fall 2011

Courses at FSU Jena

• Information Visualization Seminar, Summer semester 2010
  
• Programming with CUDA and Parallel Algorithms, Winter semester 2009
  
• Shape Retrieval Seminar, Summer semester 2009
  
• Programming with CUDA, Winter semester 2008

Students

• Thomas Baumbach, "FLASH: Fast Large Scale Shape Retrieval", Master thesis, Sep. 2010, FSU Jena
• Igor Berkov, "Simulating Physical Processes on Multi-core Machines", Master thesis, Aug. 2010, FSU Jena
• Thomas Baumbach, "Generalizing User Study Results", Semester project, Oct. 2009, FSU Jena
• Danyi Wang, "3D Shape Complexity using View Similarity", Master thesis, Jan. 2008, MPI Informatik
• Danyi Wang, "Towards Learning 2D Shape Orientation", Semester project, Jan. 2008, MPI Informatik

Education

• 2008 - 2011: Post-Doc with Prof. Dr. Joachim Giesen at the Theoretical Computer Science II group at FSU Jena
• 2004 - 2008: PhD with Dr. Alexander Belyaev and Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel at the Computer Graphics group at MPI Informatik
  
• 2002 - 2004: Master Studies in Computer Science at Saarland University; thesis with Dr. Ioannis Ivrissimtzis and Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel at the Computer Graphics group at MPI Informatik
• 1999 - 2002: Bachelor Studies in Computer Science at Mohammad Ali Jinnah University

Publications & Talks

Journals

• On Visual Complexity of 3D Shapes
  Waqar Saleem, Alexander Belyaev, Danyi Wang, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
  Computers & Graphics, 35(3), pp. 580-585. June 2011.
  Proceedings of Shape Modeling International (SMI) 2011.
• On Stochastic Methods for Surface Reconstruction
  Waqar Saleem, Oliver Schall, Giuseppe Patanè, Alexander Belyaev, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
  The Visual Computer, 23(6), 2007, pp 381--395.
  AIM@SHAPE Best Paper Award 2006.

Refereed  Proceedings

• KAV-DB: Towards a Framework for the Capture and Retrieval of Visualization Knowledge over the Web
  S. Garg, J. Nam, K. Padalkar, K. Mueller, M.Y. Chan, H. Qu, S. Laue, W. Saleem, and J. Giesen.
  Schloss Dagstuhl Scientific Visualization Workshop (SciVis) 2010.
• SHREC'10 Track: Large Scale Retrieval
  R.C. Veltkamp, G.J. Giezeman, H. Bast, T. Baumbach, T. Furuya, J. Giesen, A. Godil, Z. Lian, R. Ohbuchi and W. Saleem.
  Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR), 2010.
• Automatic 2D Shape Orientation by Example
  Waqar Saleem, Danyi Wang, Alexander Belyaev, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
  IEEE Shape Modeling International (SMI), 2007.
• On Computing Best Fly
  Waqar Saleem, Wenhao Song, Alexander Belyaev, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
  23rd Annual Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG), 2007.
• Advanced Remote Inspection and Download of 3D Shapes
  Emanuele Danovaro, Laura Papaleo, Davide Sobrero, Marco Attene, and Waqar Saleem.
  12th International Conference on 3D Web Technology (Web3D), 2007.
• Towards Stable and Salient Multi-View Representation of 3D Shapes
  Hitoshi Yamauchi, Waqar Saleem, Shin Yoshizawa, Zachi Karni, Alexander Belyaev, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
  IEEE Shape Modeling International (SMI), 2006.

Theses

• Digital Processing and Management Tools for 2D  and 3D Shape Repositories
  PhD Dissertation, Computer Graphics group, Max Planck Institut Informatik
  June, 2010.
  
• A Flexible Framework for Learning-based Surface Reconstruction
  Master Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Saarland University
  December, 2004.

Research Reports

• Estimating complexity of 3D shapes using view similarity
  Danyi Wang, Alexander Belyaev, Waqar Saleem and Hans-Peter Seidel
  Max Planck Institute Informatik, MPI-I-2008-4-002, September 2008.

Workshop Papers

• Statistical Learning for Shape Applications
  Waqar Saleem, Alexander Belyaev, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
  1st International Workshop on Shapes and Semantics, Matsushima, Japan, 2006.
  
• Clustering for Surface Reconstruction
  Francesco Isgro, Francesca Odone, Waqar Saleem, and Oliver Schall.
  1st International Workshop towards Semantic Virtual Environments (SVE), Villars sur Ollon, Switzerland, 2005.

Talks

• Workshop: General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units
  International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT), IBA, Pakistan. July 2011.
• Choosing the Right Model
  Dagstuhl Seminar on Scalable Visual Analytics, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, Novermber 2010.
• Geometric Models of Real World Objects
  - Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT), Lahore, Pakistan. July 2011.
  - College of Computer Science & Information Systems (CCSIS), IoBM, Karachi, Pakistan. June 2011.
• Massive Scale Programming with GPUs
  together with Timo Stich from NVIDIA
  Colloquium, FSU Jena. February, 2011.
  
• GPGPU with CUDA
  Workshop: Analysis and Management of Complex Systems, FSU Jena, Germany. March, 2010.
• 2D Views of 3D Shapes
  Invited talk at
  - CNR-IMATI. May 2007.
  - DISI , University of Genova. May 2007.
• The AIM@SHAPE Shape Repository
  Presented at
  - 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) , Zurich, Switzerland. 2007.
  - Workshop on Industry Challenges in Geometric Modeling , CAD and Simulation , Darmstadt, Germany. 2007.
  - EU IST Event , Helsinki, Finland, 2006.
  - AIM@SHAPE Summer School: Applications of 3D Shapes , Tallinn, Estonia. 2006.
  - 1st International Workshop on Shapes and Semantics , Matsushima, Japan. 2006.
  - Communicating European Research (CER) , Brussels, Belgium. 2005.

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