Since 1997, Shape Modeling International (SMI) has been organizing a series of conferences on Shape Modeling and Applications to provide a forum for the dissemination of new computational techniques for modeling and processing digital representations of shapes and their properties to a community of experts across a wide range of areas in academia and industry.
SMI conferences address all aspects of shape acquisition, processing, retrieval and understanding. Applications of shape modeling cover image synthesis, medicine, biology, botany, motion picture, special effects and videogame production, as well as Computer-Aided Design, manufacture, and engineering.
SMI was started as a bi-annual event by Prof. Kunii and his colleagues in Japan. In 2001, SMI has merged with the Implicit Surface Workshops and is now run as an annual event alternating between Asia, Europe and America.
Last modified: June 6, 2008
SMI 2008 was held on June 4-6, 2008, in Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA