Research papers

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2001 - Menon, J. P., "The Telecom Vision: The Journey Begins", Utility Business, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 40-42

2001 - Kumar, K. G., Lipscpomb, J. S., Ramchandra, A., Chang, S., Gaddy, W. L., Leung, R., Wood, S., Zhang, L. J., Chen, J., and Menon, J. P., "The HotMedia Architecture: Progressive and Interactive Rich Media for the Internet", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 253-267

1999 - Hartquist, E. E., Menon, J. P., Suresh, K., Voelcker, H. B., and Zagajac, J., "A Computing Strategy for Applications Involving Offsets, Sweeps, and Minkowski Operations", Computer-Aided Design, vol. 31, pp. 175-183

1998 - Menon, J. P. And Guo, B., "Free-form Modeling in Bilateral Brep and CSG Representation Schemes", International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, vol. 8, no. 5/6, pp. 537-575 

1997 - Menon, J. P., and Regli, W. C., "Technology Convergence toward Networked CAD'', Communications of the ACM

1997 - Ge, Q. J., Chang, C., Varshney, and Menon, J. P., "On Motion Synthesis using Quaternions, Dual Quaternions, and Double Quaternions'', Journal of Applied Mechanisms and Robotics

1997 - Varshney, A., Ge, Q. J., Menon, J. P., and Chang, C-F., "Double Quaternions for Motion Interpolation in Computer Graphics'', Visual Computer

1997 - Menon, J. P., and Guo, B., ``Free-form Modeling with Low Degree Algebraic Patches in Bilateral Brep and CSG Schemes'', International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications

1997 - Guo, B., Menon, J. P., and Willette, B., "Surface Reconstruction Using Alpha Shapes", Eurographics Computer Graphics Forum, pp. 177-190, vol. 16, no. 4

1997 - Menon, J. P., "Accretive Brep-to-CSG Conversion for Free-form Solids using Point-Sampling Methods", International Journal of Shape Modeling, World Scientific Publishing Company

1996 - Menon, J. P., and Regli, W. C., "Editorial: Network-Centric CAD", Computer-Aided Design, vol. 30, n0. 6, pp. 409

1996 - Borrel, P., Cheng, K-S., Darmon, P., Kirchner, P., Lipscomb, J., Menon, J. P., Mittleman, J., Rossignac, J. R., Schneider, B-O., and Wolfe, R., "The IBM 3D Interaction Accelerator (3DIX)'', IBMJournal of Research and Development

1996 - Guo, B., and Menon, J. P., ``Local Shape Control for Free-form Solids in Exact CSG Representations'', Computer-Aided Design, vol. 28, no. 6/7, pp. 483-493

May-94 - Menon, J. P., Marisa, R. J., and Zagajac, J., ``More Powerful Solid Modeling Through Ray Representations'', IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 22-35

Mar-94 - Menon, J. P., ``Constructive Shell Representations for Free-From Surfaces and Solids'', IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 24-36

Dec-93 - Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H. B., ``Toward a Comprehensive Formulation of NC Verification as a Mathematical and Computational Problem'', Journal of Design and Manufacturing, Chapman and Hall Publishers, London, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 263-278

Jun-93 - Menon, J. P., and Robinson, D. M., ``Advanced NC Verification via Massively Parallel RayCasting: Extensions to New Phenomena and Geometric Domains'', ASME Manufacturing Review, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 141-154

Dec-91 - Ellis, J. L., Kedem, G., Lyerly, T. C., Thielman, D. G., Marisa, R. J., Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H. B., ``The RayCasting Engine and Ray Representations: A Technical Summary'', International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 347-380 

Feb-91 - Ellis, J. L., Kedem, G., Marisa, R. J., Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H. B., "Breaking Barriers in Solid Modeling'', ASME Mechanical Engineering (CIME section), vol. 113, no. 2, pp. 28-34

Jan-91 - Menon, J. P., ``Solid Modeling in CAD/CAM and Robotics'', lecture notes, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research}, ed. R. Sambasivan, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi (India), vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 52-56, Golden Jubilee issue

January, 1999 - Desai, R., and Menon, J. P., ``Low Bitrate Representation of Cylindrical Volume Grids using Chebyshev Bases -- Direct Section Computation, Synthesis and Reconstruction", SPIE EI'99: Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, San Jose, California, 23-27

1998 - Desai, R., and Menon, J. P., ``Application of Chebyshev Bases to Cylindrical Volume Grids", IEEE Visualization - Late Breaking Hot Topics

1998 - Varshney, A., Ge, Q. J, Menon, J. P., and Chang, C-F., "Double Quaternions for Motion Interpolation", Graphics Interface 98, Canada

April, 1998 - Guo, J., Guo, B., and Menon, J. P., "Region Boundary Approximations of Sweep and Minkowski Operations", CSG-98 Set Theoretic Solid Modeling Techniques and Applications, Bath, UK, 1-3

October 12-15, 1997 - Ge, Q. J., Chang, C., Varshney, and Menon, J. P., "On Motion Synthesis using Quaternions, Dual Quaternions, and Double Quaternions'', 5th National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio

September 14-17, 1997 - Menon, J. P., Desai, R., and Buckey, J., "Constraint-Based Reverse Engineering from Ultrasound Cross Sections'', Proc. ASME DETC-97 Design for Manufacturing Conference, Sacramento, Calfornia

October 19-24, 1997 - Desai, R., Menon, J., Guo, B., Buckey, J., and Pearce, J., "Feature Preserving Volume Reconstruction'', IEEE Visualization-97, Phoenix, Arizona

Aug-97 - Mittleman, J. D., and Menon, J. P., "Fast Polygonal Simplification with Vertex Cluster Trees'', ACM SIGGRAPH-97 Technical Sketches, Los Angeles, California

March 3-6, 1997 - Menon, J. P., "CSG Constructs for Free-form Solids Bounded by Implicit Algebraic Patches",Shape Modeling International '97, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan

March 3-6, 1997 - Menon, J. P., ``Representation Schemes and Impact on Algorithms", Shape Modeling International '97, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan

March 3-6, 1997 - Menon, J. P., "An Introduction to Implicit Techniques", Shape Modeling International '97, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan

March 3-6, 1997 - Menon, J., "Collaborative Visualization and Modeling", Shape Modeling International '97, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan

8-14 February, 1997 - Desai, R., and Menon, J. P., ``Hybrid Pyramidal/Vector-Quantized Volume Compression", SPIE EI'97: Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, San Jose, California

7-8 October, 1996 - Menon, J. P., ``Ray-reps for Free-form Modeling: Line Membership Classification on CSRs", Second Eurographics Workshop on Implicit Surfaces, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

August 18-22, 1996 - Menon, J. P., and Horn, W. P., ``Virtual Prototyping of Product Structure in Product Data Management", Proc. ASME DETC-96 Design for Manufacturing Conference, University of California, Irvine, pp. 1304.

1-14Aug-96 - Menon, J. P., "CSG Constructs for Free-form Solids Bounded by Implicit Algebraic Patches", SIGGRAPH 96 Course Notes: Implicit Surfaces for Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics, New Orleans

August 1996 - Menon, J. P., ``Representation Schemes and Impact on Algorithms", SIGGRAPH 96 Course Notes: Implicit Surfaces for Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics, New Orleans

Aug-96 - Menon, J. P., "An Introduction to Implicit Techniques", SIGGRAPH 96 Course Notes: Implicit Surfaces for Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics, New Orleans

April 17-19, 1996 - Menon, J. P., and Guo, B., ``A Framework for Sculptured Solids in Exact CSG Representation", CSG-96 Set Theoretic Solid Modeling Techniques and Applications, published by Information Geometers, Winchester, UK, pp. 141-157

April 15-16, 1996 - Menon, J. P., and Srinivasan, V., ``A Decade of Teaching Geometry: A New York Experience", Teaching Solid Modeling Workshop, published by Information Geometers, Winchester, UK, pp. 1-8

March 25-27, 1996 - Menon, J. P., ``Research Frontiers of Modeling and Simulation in Design and Manufacturing", IEEE ACE Electronics in Manufacturing Systems Conference, New Delhi, India, pp. 1-11

May 17-19, 1995 - Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H. B., ``On the Completeness and Conversion of Ray Representations of Arbitrary Solids'', Proc. Third ACM/IEEE Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, ed. C. Hoffmann and J. Rossignac, Salt Lake City, Utah, pp. 175-186

May 17-19, 1995 - Menon, J. P., ``The Power of Implicit Quadrics in Shape Modeling'', International Conference on Shape Modeling: Parallelism, Interactivity and Applications, University of Aizu, Japan

24-29 July 1994 - Menon, J. P., ``Massively Parallel Hybrid Brep/CSG Processing for Geometric Modeling and Graphics'', SIGGRAPH'94 Technical Sketches Program,, Orlando, Florida

13-15 June 1994 - Schneider, B-O., Borrel, P., Menon, J. P., Mittleman, J., and Rossignac, J. R., ``Brush as a Walk-through System for Architectural Models'', Proc. 5-th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Darmstadt, Germany, pp. 389-399

April 13-15, 1994 - Menon, J. P., Marisa, R. J., and Voelcker, H. B., "Theoretical Relative Efficiency of the RayCasting Engine, A Parallel CSG Classification Computer'', CSG94: Set-theoretic Solid Modeling Techniquesand Applications, published by Information Geometers, Winchester, UK, pp. 225-250

May 19-21, 1993 - Menon, J. P., ``An Introduction to Constructive Shell Representations for Free-Form Surfaces and Solids'', Proc. Second ACM/IEEE Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, ed. J. Rossignac, J. Turner, and G. Allen, Montreal, Canada, pp. 23-34

1993 - Menon, J. P., ``The RayCasting Engine and Ray Representations for Solid Modeling: A Research Synopsis'', Graphics, Design and Visualization, ed. S. P. Mudur and S. N. Pattanaik, IFIP Transactions, Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. (North Holland), vol. B-9, pp. 241-257

February 22-26, 1993 - Menon, J. P., "Highly Parallel Computing for Solid Modeling", Proc. ICCG93 - International Conference on Computer Graphics, IFIP TC5-WG5.2 WG5.10 and Computer Society of India (CSI), Bombay, India, pp. 291-306

January 6-8, 1993 - Voelcker, H. B., Hartquist, E. E., Marisa, R. J., Menon, J. P., Parratt, S. W., Robinson, D. M., and Zagajac, J., ``Research in Solid Modeling and Mechanical Tolerancing'', Proc. The 1993 NSF Design and Manufacturing Systems Grantees Conference, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, pp. 1479-1488

Nov. 8-13, 1992 - Menon, J. P., and Robinson, D. M., ``High Performance NC Verification via Massively Parallel RayCasting: Extensions to New Phenomena and Geometric Domains'', Proc. Symposium on Concurrent Engineering, 1992 ASME Winter Annual Meeting}, Anaheim, California, pp. 179-194

Nov. 8-13, 1992 - Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H. B., ``Toward a Comprehensive Formulation of NC Verification as a Mathematical and Computational Problem'', Proc. Symposium on Concurrent Engineering, 1992 ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, pp. 147-164

January 8-10, 1992 - Marisa, R. J., Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H. B., ``CAD/CAM Applications of Ray Representations'', Proc. The 1992 NSF Design and Manufacturing Systems Conference, SME, Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 737-742

June 5-7, 1991 - Ellis, J. L., Kedem, G., Lyerly, T. C., Thielman, D. G., Marisa, R. J., Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H. B., ``The RayCasting Engine and Ray Representations'', Proc. First ACM/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Solid Modeling Foundations and CAD/CAM Applications, ed. J. Rossignac and J. Turner, Austin, Texas, pp. 255-267

June 17-21, 1990 - Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H. B., ``Automatic Verification of NC Programs'', extended abstract, IFIP WG5.2 Workshop on Geometric Modeling, Rensselaerville, New York

August 20-24, 1989 - Voelcker, H. B., and Menon, J. P., ``Contemporary CNC Machining Technology'', Proc. International Symposium on Steel Product-Process Integration, ed. J. D. Boyd; 28-th Annual Conf. of Metallurgists of CIM, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada), pp. 12-33

September 7-15, 1988 - Hartquist, E. E., Menon, J. P., and Sungurtekin, U. A., ``Solid Modeller Based Machining'', Proc. National Machine Tool Builders'Association 4-th Biennial International Manufacturing Technology Conference, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 7.23-7.38

1999 - Kumar, K. G., Lipscomb, J. S., Ramchandra, A., Chang, S., Gaddy, W. L., Lueng, R., Wood, S., Zhang, L-J., Chen, J., and Menon, J. P., "The HotMedia Architecture: Progressive and Interactive Rich Media for the Internet",IBMResearch Report RC 21519, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1997 - Luken, W. L., Lipscomb, J. L, Cheng, K-S., Gaddy, W., Heger, W., and Menon, J. P., "PanoramIX: Photorealistic Multimedia 3D Scenery", IBM Research Report RC 21145, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1992 - Menon, J. P., ``Constructive Shell Representations for Free-Form Surfaces and Solids'', Cornell Programmable Automation Report CPA92-5, Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

1991 - Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H. B., ``Mathematical Foundations I: Set Theoretic Properties of Ray Representations and Minkowski Operations on Solids'', Cornell Programmable Automation Report CPA91-9, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

November 1991 - Marisa, R. J., Menon, J. P., and Thielman, D. G., ``The RayCasting Engine User's Guide'', Cornell Programmable Automation Report CPA91-8, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Jul-89 - Menon, J. P., "A Summary of Issues and Opportunities Associated with the RayCasting Engine", Cornell Programmable Automation Report, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Nov-88 - Menon, J. P., ``P2NC: Automatic NC Simulator/Verifier'', Cornell Programmable Automation User's Manual UM-11/2.2, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

1988 - Menon, J. P., ``P2NC - Command Summary'', Cornell Programmable Automation Document PNCG-02, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

1988 - Menon, J. P., ``P2NC - Primer'', Cornell Programmable Automation Document PNCG-01, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

May-86 - Menon, J. P., and Arora, A., ``Longitudinal Track Train Dynamics'', Mechanical Engineering B.Tech Report, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

Aug-85 - Menon, J. P., ``Designing a Sequence Control for a Fully Automatic Work Station -- Pneumatic Press and Index Table'', Switchgear Technical Training Cell (STTC) Report, Larsen \& Toubro Ltd., Powai, Bombay, India

1996 - Desai, R., Menon, J. P., and Guo, B., ``Generation of Feature Specific 3D Shapes from Noisy and Sparse Image Ensembles II: INTERPOLATION", IBM Research Report xxx}, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Desai, R., Menon, J. P., and Guo, B., ``Generation of Feature Specific 3D Shapes from Noisy and Sparse Image Ensembles I: FILTERING", IBM Research Report xxx, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Menon, J. P., Borrel, P., and Kirchner, P., ``Collaborative Design with Interactive 3D Graphics", IBM Research Report xxx, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Menon, J. P., and Horn, W. P., ``Virtual Prototyping in PDM", IBM Research Report xxx, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Menon, J. P., "Mixing Prismatic and Sculptured Boundaries", IBM Research Report xxx, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Crosnier, A. M., Menon, J. P., and Rossignac, J. R., ``Interference Detection in Large Static Assemblies'', IBM Research Report xxx, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Desai, R., and Menon, J. P., ``Hybrid Pyramidal/Vector-Quantized Volume Compression", IBM Research Report RC xxxxx, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Menon, J. P., ``Ray-reps for Free-form Modeling: Line Membership Classification on CSRs", IBM Research Report RC 20571, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Menon, J. P., "CSG Constructs for Free-form Solids Bounded by Implicit Algebraic Patches", IBM Research Report RC 20494, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Menon, J. P., "Representation Schemes and Impact on Algorithms", IBM Research Report RC 20492, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Menon, J. P., "An Introduction to Implicit Techniques", IBM Research Report RC 20493, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Menon, J. P., and Srinivasan, V., ``A Decade of Teaching Geometry: A New York Experience", IBM Research Report RC 20430, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Menon, J. P., ``Research Frontiers of Modeling and Simulation for Design and Manufacturing", IBM Research Report RC 20429, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Menon, J. P., and Guo, B., ``A Framework for Sculptured Solids in Exact CSG Representation", IBM Research Report RC 20379, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1996 - Menon, J. P., and Horn, W. P., ``Virtual Prototyping of Product Structure in Product Data Management", IBM Research Report RC 20378, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1995 - Borrel, P., Cheng, K-S., Darmon, P., Kirchner, P., Lipscomb, J., Menon, J. P., Mittleman, J., Rossignac, J. R., Schneider, B-O., and Wolfe, R., ``The IBM 3D Interaction Accelerator (3DIX)'', IBMResearch Report RC 20302, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1995 - Guo, B., and Menon, J. P., ``Local Shape Control for Free-form Solids in Exact CSG Representations'', IBM Research Report RC 20051, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1995 - Menon, J. P., and Guo, B., ``Free-form Modeling with Low Degree Algebraic Patches in Bilateral Brep and CSG Schemes'', IBM Research Report RC 20050, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1995 - Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H. B., ``On the Completeness and Conversion of Ray Representations of Arbitrary Solids'', IBM Research Report RC 19935, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1994 - Menon, J. P., ``The Power of Implicit Quadrics in Shape Modeling'', IBM Research Report RC 19670, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York1994Menon, J. P., ``Massively Parallel Hybrid Brep/CSG Processing for Geometric Modeling and Graphics'', IBM Research Report RC 19669, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1994 - Schneider, B-O., Borrel, P., Menon, J. P., Mittleman, J., and Rossignac, J. R., ``Brush as a Walk-through System for Architectural Models'', IBM Research Report RC 19638, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New YorkMarch

1994 - Menon, J. P., Marisa, R. J., and Zagajac, J., ``More Powerful Solid Modeling Through Ray Representations'', IBM Research Report RC 19482, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

Jan-94 - Menon, J. P., Marisa, R. J., and Voelcker, H. B., ``Theoretical Relative Efficiency of the RayCasting Engine, a Parallel CSG Classification Computer'', IBM Research Report RC 19351, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

Dec-93 - Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H.B., ``Toward a Comprehensive Formulation of NC Verification as a Mathematical and Computational Problem'', IBM Research Report RC 19286, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

May-93 - Menon, J. P., and Robinson, D. M., ``Advanced NC Verification via Massively Parallel Raycasting'', IBM Research Report RC 18892, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

Dec-92 - Menon, J. P., ``The RayCasting Engine and Ray Representations for Solid Modeling: A Research Synopsis'', IBM Research Report RC 18573, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

Oct-92 - Menon, J. P., ``Constructive Shell Representations for Free-form Surfaces and Solids'', IBM Research Report RC 18450, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

Sep-92 - Voelcker, H. B., Hartquist, E. E., Marisa, R. J., Menon, J. P., Parratt, S. W., Robinson, D. M., and Zagajac, J., ``Research in Solid Modeling and Mechanical Tolerancing'', Cornell ProgrammableAutomation Report CPA92-10, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Jun-91 - Ellis, J. L., Kedem, G., Lyerly, T. C., Thielman, D. G., Marisa, R. J., Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H. B., ``The RayCasting Engine and Ray Representations'', Cornell Programmable Automation Report CPA91-2, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Feb-91 - Ellis, J. L., Kedem, G., Marisa, R. J., Menon, J. P., and Voelcker, H. B., ``Breaking Barriers in Solid Modeling'', Cornell Programmable Automation Report CPA90-2, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Aug-89 - Voelcker, H. B., and Menon, J. P., ``Contemporary CNC Machining Technology'', Cornell Programmable Automation Report CPA89-2, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York