FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
Dr. Marco Agus (PhD)
- Emailmagus@hbku.edu.qa
- Phone+974 66323181
- Office locationA102F, Floor 2, LAS Building
- Profile
Biography
Marco Agus joined Hamad Bin Khalifa University after serving as a Research Engineer at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He was also a Research Scientist at the Center of Research, Development, and Advanced Studies in Sardinia (CRS4), Italy. He holds an MSc degree in Electronic Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Design, both obtained from the University of Cagliari, Italy. He regularly teaches courses in important visual computing venues, such as the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH), and frequently serves as committee member, reviewer, chair, and associated editor for top journals and conferences in the field.
Research Interests
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Visual Computing
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Haptics and Visual Rendering for Surgical Simulation
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Rendering and Natural Interaction on Light Field Displays
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Real Time Exploration of Massive Digital Heritage Models
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Processing and Visual Exploration of Connectomics and Electron Microscopy Biology Data
Experience
Expert Researcher
Visual Computing Group; CRS4, Italy
2019 - 2020Research Engineer
Visual Computing Center; KAUST, Saudi Arabia
2016 - 2019Expert Researcher
Visual Computing Group; CRS4, Italy
2007 - 2016Researcher
Visualization and Virtual Reality; CRS4, Italy
2004 - 2007
Junior Researcher
Visualization and Virtual Reality; CRS4, Italy
2001 - 2004Research consultant
Visualization and Virtual Reality; CRS4, Italy
2000
Education
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
University of Cagliari; Sardinia (Italy)
2004M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering
University of Cagliari; Sardinia (Italy)
1999
Selected Publications
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K. Al-Thelaya, M. Agus and J. Schneider
The Mixture Graph—A Data Structure for Compressing, Rendering, and Querying Segmentation Histograms"; IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics; Jan. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030451.
2021 -
Pintore G., Agus M., Gobbetti E.
AtlantaNet: Inferring the 3D Indoor Layout from a Single 360∘ Image Beyond the Manhattan World Assumption; Computer Vision – ECCV 2020. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12353. Springer, Cham; doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58598-3_26
2020 -
M. Agus, E. Gobbetti, G. Pintore, C. Calì and J. Schneider
WISH: efficient 3D biological shape classification through Willmore flow and Spherical Harmonics decomposition; 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Seattle, WA, USA, 2020, pp. 4184-4194; doi: 10.1109/CVPRW50498.2020.00494.
2020 -
Daniya Boges, Marco Agus, Ronell Sicat, Pierre J. Magistretti, Markus Hadwiger, and Corrado Calì
Virtual reality framework for editing and exploring medial axis representations of nanometric scale neural structures. Computers & Graphics, 91: 12-24, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2020.05.024.
2020 -
Corrado Calì, Marco Agus, Kalpana Kare, Daniya J. Boges, Heikki Lehvaslaiho, Markus Hadwiger, and Pierre J. Magistretti
3D cellular reconstruction of cortical glia and parenchymal morphometric analysis from Serial Block-Face Electron Microscopy of juvenile rat. Progress in Neurobiology, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2019.101696.
2019 -
Marco Agus, Corrado Calì, Ali Al-Awami, Enrico Gobbetti, Pierre Magistretti, and Markus Hadwiger
Interactive Volumetric Visual Analysis of Glycogen-derived Energy Absorption in Nanometric Brain Structures. Computer Graphics Forum, 38(3): 427-439, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13700
2019 -
Fabio Marton, Marco Agus, and Enrico Gobbetti
A framework for GPU-accelerated exploration of massive time-varying rectilinear scalar volumes. Computer Graphics Forum, 38(3): 53-66, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13671.
2019 -
J. Beyer, H. Mohammed, M. Agus, A. K. Al-Awami, H. Pfister and M. Hadwiger
"Culling for Extreme-Scale Segmentation Volumes: A Hybrid Deterministic and Probabilistic Approach," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 1132-1141, Jan. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2864847.
2019 -
M. Hadwiger, A. K. Al-Awami, J. Beyer, M. Agus and H. Pfister
"SparseLeap: Efficient Empty Space Skipping for Large-Scale Volume Rendering," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 974-983, Jan. 2018, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2017.2744238.
2018 -
Marco Agus, Fabio Marton, Fabio Bettio, Markus Hadwiger, and Enrico Gobbetti
Data-driven analysis of virtual 3D exploration of a large sculpture collection in real-world museum exhibitions. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 11(1): 2:1-2:20, December 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3099618.
2017 -
Giovanni Pintore, Valeria Garro, Fabio Ganovelli, Enrico Gobbetti, and Marco Agus.
Omnidirectional image capture on mobile devices for fast automatic generation of 2.5D indoor maps. In Proc. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). Pages 1-9, February 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2016.7477631.
2016 -
Marcos Balsa Rodriguez, Marco Agus, Fabio Marton, and Enrico Gobbetti
Adaptive Recommendations for Enhanced Non-linear Exploration of Annotated 3D Objects. Computer Graphics Forum, 34(3): 41-50, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12616. Proc. EuroVis 2015.
2015 -
Fabio Marton, Marcos Balsa Rodriguez, Fabio Bettio, Marco Agus, Alberto Jaspe Villanueva, and Enrico Gobbetti
IsoCam: Interactive Visual Exploration of Massive Cultural Heritage Models on Large Projection Setups. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 7(2): Article 12, June 2014.
2014 -
Marco Agus, Enrico Gobbetti, José Antonio Iglesias Guitián, Fabio Marton, and Giovanni Pintore
GPU Accelerated Direct Volume Rendering on an Interactive Light Field Display. Computer Graphics Forum, 27(3): 231-240, 2008. Proc. Eurographics 2008.
2008 -
Marco Agus, Andrea Giachetti, Enrico Gobbetti, Gianluigi Zanetti, and Antonio Zorcolo
Real-time Haptic and Visual Simulation of Bone Dissection. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 12(1): 110-122, February 2003.
2003
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