Ruben Wiersma

@rubenwiersma.nl

Research Scientist at Adobe Research Paris, working on geometry processing and geometric deep learning. Previously Postdoc at ETH Zürich, PhD @TUDelft, research intern @Adobe. rubenwiersma.nl

I recently completed my PhD thesis, where I developed algorithms for making geometric inferences from imperfect data (i.e. incomplete and inaccurate observations/representations of shapes, like broken meshes or point clouds). A thread 🧵:

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Simple idea to filter out (some) LLM-written papers with non-existent references: check the reference file agains DBLP and desk reject if a certain % of citations doesn't exist.

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Moving to sustainable manufacturing requires new computational design tools. We show how to make new objects from old "trash". 🚮 Presented on Thursday at SGP 2025 in the Fabrication session.

Holding SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 in Malaysia is a slap in the face to the rights of LGBTQ+ people. Especially now, when underrepresented people need as much support as we can possibly give them ! Angry like me ? Sign this open letter to let them know. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open Letter to the SIGGRAPH Leadership

RE: Call for SIGGRAPH Asia to relocate from Malaysia and commit to a venue selection process that safeguards LGBTQ+ and other at-risk communities. To the SIGGRAPH Leadership: SIGGRAPH Executive Commit...

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I'm sharing code&data of an unpublished project 🤯 During my PhD, I worked on applications of #computergraphics for #paintinganalysis. The main hurdle was the lack of #opensource code&data. I gathered my own, but didn't get to use it. Now I'm sharing it, so others can. 1/3 github.com/rubenwiersma...

GitHub - rubenwiersma/painting_tools: Painting Tools and Dataset

Painting Tools and Dataset. Contribute to rubenwiersma/painting_tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

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This was a wonderful collaboration 🤩 We developed a method that optimizes both an irregular tetrahedral grid and SDF for mesh optimization with marching tets. It recovers really detailed meshes with a fraction of the memory!

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🔷🦀 TetWeave: Isosurface Extraction using On-The-Fly Delaunay Tetrahedral Grids for Gradient-Based Mesh Optimization is accepted to #SIGGRAPH2025 (TOG). Done in collaboration with @rubenwiersma.nl, Philipp Herholz, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung. But why a new shape representation? (1/9)

Has anyone else noticed a particular style to ChatGPT comics? I wonder if they sourced or synthesized a very ‘narrow’ dataset — or maybe it’s just confirmation bias on my end. The same for fonts.

Recent progress in multi-view 3D object capture is stunning! But is there a limit? In our upcoming #SIGGRAPH2025 paper "Uncertainty for SVBRDF Acquisition using Frequency Analysis," we show how to answer this question for material estimation. 1/6

The figure illustrates a pipeline for estimating uncertainty and spatially-varying material properties of a plush dinosaur toy. On the left, a rendered model shows the input: incoming lighting, the BRDF, and outgoing lighting from multi-view captures. Three plots in the center display spherical harmonics power spectra for incoming lighting, BRDF, and outgoing lighting. Right side: first, a colored uncertainty map (entropy) over the dinosaur surface is shown, computed within 0.5 milliseconds. Then, three images show estimated base color, roughness, and metallicity maps, computed in about 3 seconds.