Fuhua (Frank) Cheng - Research

Areas of Interest

• Computer aided geometric modeling
• Computer graphics
• Collaborative CAD
• Parallel computing in geometric modeling and computer graphics
• Approximation Theory

ACIS

• Access SPATIAL's web site

Current Research Projects

• New Computation Techniques for Shape Modeling and Design, NSF (DMI-9400823), 8/15/94-7/31/97, $270,000.00.

• Building a Non-Manifold Modeling System with a Virtual Environment Interface, Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems, University of Kentucky, 7/1/95-6/30/96, $8,000.00.

• The GEO-WEB-CAD Project, NSF (INT-9722728), 6/1/1997-5/31/2000, $102,522.

• Constrained Surface scaling I: Constrained Shape Scaling of NURB Surface Patches, Honda Initiation Grant Program (461086), 8/1/1997 - 7/31/1998, $25,000 (no overhead)

• Creating High Performance Manufacturable Free-Form NURB Surfaces Using Constrained Optimization, Ford Motor Co. (537075), 6/1/1997 - 5/31/2000, $150,000 (no overhead)

• Constrained Surface Scaling II: Constrained Shape Scaling of Multi-Patch NURB Surfaces, Honda Initiation Grant Program, 12/1/1998 - 11/30/1999, $25,000 (no overhead)

• Constrained Design, Streamline Modeling, Automatic Fairing and Automatic Joining Techniques for NURB Surfaces, NSF (DMI-9912069), 5/1/2000-4/30/2004, $343,067.

• Web Based Collaborative CAD, NSF (DMI-0118124), 4/1/2001-3/31/2002, $50,000.

• Subdivision Surface based One-Piece Representation , NSF (DMS-0310645), 7/1/03-6/30/06, $99,941.

• Tessellation, Fairing, Shape Design and Trimming Techniques for Subdivision Surface based Modeling , NSF (DMI-0422126), 9/1/04-8/31/08, $300,000.

• On New Algorithms of Curve and Surface Modeling Based on Probabilistic Type Operators and Probability Distribution (Co-PI), NSF of China (NSFC-10571145), 01/01/2006-12/31/2008, RMB$280,000 (US$35,000).

• Portable Digital Mouth and Occlusion Reproducer, Kentucky Commercialization Fund, Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation (KSTC-144-401-07-015), 4/1/07-3/31/09, $150,000. (KSTC report site) (SBIR/STTR workshop registration)

Related GPU sites

• Site with useful GPU links
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• nVIDIA's site for CUDA SDK code samples
• ECE 498 at UIUC
• Cg Linux examples
• How GPU works: a primer for hardware graphic programming
• How the GPU works, Part 1
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• Things you need to know about shaders
• Vertex shaders
• Pixel shaders
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• A simple sample program (GL_VERTEX_PROGRAM_NV)
• A simple sample program (GL_VERTEX_STATE_PROGRAM_NV)
• Display List
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• Texture Coordinate Generation
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• Efficient clipping technique
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• MSDN Home page
• shader programming
• Programming Vertex and Pixel Shaders, by Wolfgang Engel
• Writing shaders and general purpose GPU programs using the RapidMind developing platform
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• Larrabbe: Intel's upcoming GPU

Cloud Computing and Client Machine

• Grid Computing
• Cloud Computing
• The Enterprise Cloud
• Computing Heads for the Clouds
• Google and the Wisedom of Clouds
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• Client machine
• En Garde Systems
• Configuring the Client Machine

Some of our recent results

• Hair Generation

• (Subdivision surface based) Shape Modeling *

• Adaptive Subdivision of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces *

• Image restoration

• Patch Reduction

• Deformation-based Shape Fine Tuning *

• Constrained Surface Scaling

• Streamline Modeling I *

• Streamline Modeling II *

• Trimmed NURBS Surface Connection I *

• Trimmed NURBS Surface Connection II *

• TriangularPatches *

• Image manipulation

  *(This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9912069. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.)

Funding Agencies

****Federal Business Opportunities****
• FedBizOpps

  ****ATP****

• ATP, NIST(Due date: 5/21/07)

• Career, DHS (COS version) (Due date: 6/19/07)

• Career, DHS(Due date: 6/19/07)

• ATP forms

• Federal Funding Opportunities (Electronic Submission Site)

  ****SBIR****

  ****to see all solicitations****

• SBIRWorld.com

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• DOD SBIR(Due date: 6/13/07)

• DARPA SBIR(Due date: 6/13/07)

• Navy SBIR/STTR

• NASA SBIR/STTR(Due date: 7/9/07)

• DOE SBIR/STTR(Due date: November)

• NSF SBIR/STTR (Due date: 6/13/07, 12/4/07)

• NIH eRA Commons

• NIH SBIR/STTR(Due date: 8/5/07) download application package; Application Instructions; Commons Registration Status; eRA Commons User Guide Assurances/certifications section 18 of SF424

• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

• National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

• SBIR/STTR programs at NIDCR

• National Institute of General Medical Sciences

• National Center for Research Resources

• USDA-DOE SBIR/STTR Energy Summit registration form
  (Questions? send email to: paynetl@ornl.gov)

  ****IBM****

• IBM 2007 Funding Opportunities

• IBM 2007 A. Richard Newton BRA

  ****Honda****

• Honda Initiation Grant (HIG2008)

• Honda Initiation Grant

  ****NSF****

• NSF, ACCELERATING DISCOVERY IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING THROUGH PETASCALE SIMULATIONS AND ANALYSIS (PetaApps)

• NSF

• NSF Fastlane

• NSF Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)

• NSF International Programs

• NSF New Funding Opportunity

• NSF IMAG program (Program Solicitation NSF 04-607)

• NSF Bioengineering Program

• NSF Information and Intelligent Systems

• Advancing Human-Centered Computing, Information Integration, and Infotmatics, and Robust Intelligence, NSF Division Information and Intelligent Systems

• DMII, NSF

• Engineering Design, NSF

• DMII Sensors solicitation (NSF 05-526), NSF

• CISE, NSF

• DMS, NSF

• NSF: Virtual Organizations in Engineering (EVOs)

• NSF:International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE)

• NSF new announcement

• NSF Supplement for Summer Interns I

• NSF Supplement for Summer Interns II

• TFC, CCF, CISE, NSF: algorithmic geometry; computational
  algorithms for high-end scientific and engineering applications

• FCPAC, CCF, CISE, NSF: Graphics and Visualization

  ****KSTC/KSEF****

• Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation(KSEF)

• Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC)

  ****NASA****

• NASA Acquisition Internet Service

• NASA RFP (March 10, 2005)

  ****NAVY****

• NRO

• Naval Research laboratory

• Office of Navy Research

  ****ARMY****

• Army Research Office

  ****AIR FORCE****

• Air Force Research laboratory

• Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

  ****NIH****

• NIH

• NIH: Submitting amended application

• NIH: Submitting revised application (part 1, page 16)

• NIH: submission dates for revised applications

• NIBIB

• NIDCR

• NIH eRA Commons

  ****DARPA****

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

  ****DOE****

• Department of Energy Office of Science

  ****DOD****

• Department of Defense, Central Contractor Registration

  ****EDA****

• EDA

  ****NSF of China****

• NSF of China