Joshua A Levine

Interests

Research

visualization, geometric modeling, topological analysis, mesh generation, vector fields, performance analysis, computer graphics, computational topology

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Cotsakis, R., Shaw, J., Tierny, J., & Levine, J. A. (2021). Implementing Persistence-Based Clustering of Point Clouds in the Topology ToolKit. In Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization VI -- Theory, Applications, and Software. Springer. doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83500-2_17
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  Note: First two authors share lead. Both were undergraduate students from UBC (advised remotely by myself and J. Tierny) during the period of time for this project.
• Masood, T. B., Budin, J., Falk, M., Favelier, G., Garth, C., Gueunet, C., Guillou, P., Hofmann, L., Hristov, P., Kamakshidasan, A., Kappe, C., Klacansky, P., Laurin, P., Levine, J. A., Lukasczyk, J., Sakurai, D., Soler, M., Steneteg, P., Tierny, J., , Usher, W., et al. (2021). An Overview of the Topology ToolKit. In Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization VI -- Theory, Applications, and Software. Springer. doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83500-2_16

Journals/Publications

• Lu, Y., Jiang, K., Levine, J. A., & Berger, M. (2021). Neural Volume Compression using Implicit Representations. Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis 2021 Proceedings), 40(3), 135--146. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14295
• Truong, N., Yuksel, C., Watcharopas, C., Levine, J. A., & Kirby, R. M. (2021). Particle Merging-and-Splitting. IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, (Early Access). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2021.3093776
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  This journal is ranked A in COREhttps://graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/projects/merging-and-splitting/
• Zhao, Z., Motta, D., Berger, M., Levine, J. A., Kuzucu, I. B., Fleischman, R. B., Paiva, A., & Scheidegger, C. (2021). STFT-LDA: An algorithm to facilitate the visual analysis of building seismic responses. Information Visualization, 20(4), 263-282. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14738716211038618
• Crum, J., Levine, J. A., & Gillette, A. (2019). Extending discrete exterior calculus to a fractional derivative. Computer-Aided Design (Special Issue of Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling), 114, 64-72.
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  While published in Journal, this work was presented at Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) 2019: https://project.inria.fr/spm2019/
• Jallepalli, A., Levine, J. A., & Kirby, R. M. (2020). The Effect of Data Transformation Methodologies on the Topological Analysis of High-Order FEM Solutions. IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Special Issue IEEE VIS 2019: SciVis), 26(1), 162-172.
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  This is ranked in category 'Visualization' on CSRankingsThis conference is ranked A in COREWhile the publication appears in a 2020 journal issue, this was a conference paper for IEEE VIS 2019: SciVis in October.
• Berger, M., Li, J., & Levine, J. A. (2019). A Generative Model for Volume Rendering. IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(4), 1636-1650.
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  This journal is ranked A in COREPublished first in journal, the paper was eventually presented at IEEE SciVis 2018: http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/papers-sessionshttps://github.com/matthewberger/tfgan
• Tierny, J., Favelier, G., Levine, J. A., Gueunet, C., & Michaux, M. (2017). The Topology ToolKit. IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
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  The paper first appeared in IEEE SciVis. It was awarded the Best Paper Honorable Mention.This is ranked in category 'Visualization' on CSRankingsThis conference is ranked A in COREThis journal is ranked A in COREhttps://topology-tool-kit.github.io/
• Berger, M., Tagliasacchi, A., Seversky, L. M., Alliez, P., Guennebaud, G., Levine, J. A., Sharf, A., & Silva, C. T. (2016). A Survey of Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds. Comput. Graph. Forum, 36(1), 301-329.

Proceedings Publications

• Wang, Z., Cashman, D., Li, M., Li, J., Berger, M., Levine, J. A., Chang, R., & Scheidegger, C. (2021, 12). NeuralCubes: Deep Representations for Visual Data Exploration. In IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 550-561.
• Jiang, K., Berger, M., & Levine, J. A. (2020, 6). Visualization of Unsteady Flow Using Heat Kernel Signatures. In Pacific Visualization Symposium.
• Berger, M., Nagesh, A., Levine, J. A., Surdeanu, M., & Zhang, H. (2018, 11). Visual Supervision in Bootstrapped Information Extraction. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
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  This is ranked in category 'Natural language processing' on CSRankingsThis conference is ranked A in CORE
• Falkenstein, M., Jones, B., Levine, J. A., Shinar, T., & Bargteil, A. W. (2017, November). Reclustering for large plasticity in clustered shape matching. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Motion in Games, 5:1--5:6.
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  Accepted as short paper
• Jones, B., Shinar, T., Levine, J. A., & Bargteil, A. W. (2017, November). Efficient collision detection for example-based deformable bodies. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Motion in Games, 4:1-4:5.
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  Accepted as a short paper
• Jones, B., Martin, A., Levine, J. A., Shinar, T., & Bargteil, A. W. (2016, February). Ductile fracture for clustered shape matching. In Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 65-70.
• Geist, R., Levine, J. A., & Westall, J. (2015, November). A problem-based learning approach to GPU computing. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing, 5:1-5:8.
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  Workshop paper, co-located with SC 2015
• Husain, B., Gim'enez, A., Levine, J. A., Gamblin, T., & Bremer, P. (2015, November). Relating memory performance data to application domain data using an integration API. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Visual Performance Analysis, 5:1-5:8.
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  Workshop paper, co-located with SC 2015
• Jones, B., Martin, A., Levine, J. A., Shinar, T., & Bargteil, A. W. (2015, nov). Clustering and collision detection for clustered shape matching. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Motion in Games, 199-204.
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  Accepted as a short paper
• Watcharopas, C., Sapra, Y., Geist, R., & Levine, J. A. (2015, dec). Extracting Surface Geometry from Particle-Based Fracture Simulations. In Advances in Visual Computing - 11th International Symposium, ISVC 2015, Proceedings, Part I, 9474, 82-91.