McMains: Publications

Sara McMains' Publications and Presentations

Refereed:

Etienne, Ray, Panozzo, Hornus, Wang, Martinez, McMains, Alexa, Wyvill, Lefebvre, ``CurviSlicer: Slightly curved slicing for 3-axis printers," ACM Transactions on Graphics, 38, 2019.
Yuan, Giera, Guss, Matthews, McMains, ``Semi-Supervised Convolutional Neural Networks for In-Situ Video Monitoring of Selective Laser Melting," WACV 2019: 744-753.
Budinoff and McMains, ``Underrepresented and International Student Success and Confidence in a Small, Lab-based CAD Class,'' in Proceedings of the 73rd American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Design Graphics Division MidYear Conference, 2019.
Budinoff, McMains, and Rinaldi, ``An interactive manufacturability analysis and tolerance allocation tool for additive manufacturing,'' Proceedings of the 2018 ASME IDETC/CIE Conference.
Yuan, Guss, Wilson, Hau-Riege, DePond, McMains, Matthews, Giera, ``Machine-Learning-Based Monitoring of Laser Powder Bed Fusion," Advanced Materials Technologies 3 (12), 1800136.
Budinoff and McMains, ``Prediction and visualization of achievable orientation tolerances for additive manufacturing.'' Procedia CIRP, 75, pp. 81-86, 2018.
Yuan, Chen, Zhang, Tai, McMains, ``Iterative Cross Learning on Noisy Labels." WACV 2018: 757-765.
Budinoff and McMains, ``Relationships between Spatial Visualization Ability and Student Outcomes in a 3D Modeling Course,'' in Proceedings of the 72nd American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Design Graphics Division MidYear Conference, 2018.
Lee*, Kwon*, McMains, Hedrick, ``Convolution neural network-based lane change intention prediction of surrounding vehicles for ACC," ITSC 2017: 1-6. (*co-first authors)
Hu, Li, Krishnamurthy, Hanniel, McMains, ``Voronoi cells of non-general position spheres using the GPU," Computer-Aided Design and Applications 14(5):1-10, March 2017.
Kwon and McMains, ``Artificial Intensity Remapping: Learning Multimodal Image Descriptors without Multimodal Image Data," Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) workshop ``Reliable Machine Learning in the Wild," 2016.
Budinoff and McMains, ``Aptitude, Effort, and Achievement in an Introductory Engineering Design Graphics Class,'' in Proceedings of the 71st American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Design Graphics Division MidYear Conference, 2016.
Hu, Li, Krishnamurthy, Hanniel, and McMains, ``Voronoi cells of non-general position spheres using the GPU," Proceedings of CAD'16, pp. 173-177, 2016.
Kwon, Kim, Konjevod, and McMains, ``DUDE (DUality DEscriptor): A robust descriptor for disparate images using line segment duality," ICIP 2016: 310-314.
Pavanaskar, Pande, Kwon, Sheffer, and McMains,``Energy-efficient vector field based toolpaths for CNC pocket machining," NAMRC 2015 and Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 20(1):314-320.
Kwon and McMains, ``An Automated Grading/Feedback System for Multiview Engineering Drawings using RANSAC," Proceeding Proceedings of the Second (2015) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, pp. 157-166, March 2015.
Pavanaskar and McMains, ``Towards a Unified Problem Formulation for 5-axis Toolpath Planning," Proceedings of NAMRI/SME, Vol. 42, NAMRC42 - 4444, June 2014.
Yasui, McMains, and Glau, ``Pool Segmentation for Predicting Water Trap Regions," Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Elsevier, available online 9 September 2014; earlier version in Proceedings of NAMRI/SME, Vol. 42, NAMRC42 - 4500, June 2014.
Li and McMains, ``A Sweep and Translate Algorithm for Computing Voxelized 3D Minkowski Sums on the GPU," GD/SPM 2013: SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, November 2013, and Computer-Aided Design, 46:1, pp. 90-100, January 2014.
Pavanaskar and McMains, ``Filling Trim Cracks on GPU-rendered Solid Models, SPM 2012: Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, October 2012, and Computer-Aided Design, 45:2, pp. 535-539, February 2013.
Hanniel, McMains, and Krishnamurthy, ``Computing the Hausdorff Distance between NURBS Surfaces using Numerical Iteration on the GPU," Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP12), and Graphical Models, 74:4, pp. 255- 264, July 2012.
Li and McMains, ``Voxelized Minkowski Sum Computation on the GPU with Robust Culling," Computer-Aided Design 43:10, pp. 1270-1283, October 2011.
Krishnamurthy and McMains, ``Accurate GPU-Accelerated Surface Integrals for Moment Computation," Computer-Aided Design 43:10, pp. 1284-1295, October 2011.
Krishnamurthy, McMains, and Hanniel, ``GPU-Accelerated Hausdorff Distance Computation Between Dynamic Deformable NURBS Surfaces," GD/SPM 2011: SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, and Computer-Aided Design 43:11, pp. 1370-1379, November 2011.
Yasui and McMains, ``Testing a Rotation Axis to Drain a 3D Workpiece," Computer-Aided Design, 43:7, pp.795-808, July 2011.
Krishnamurthy, McMains, and Haller, ``GPU-Accelerated Minimum Distance and Clearance Queries," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17(6), pp.729-742, 2011. Spotlight Paper.
Krishnamurthy and McMains, ``Accurate Moment Computation Using the GPU,'' ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modelling, pp.81-90, 2010.
Li and McMains, ``A GPU-based Voxelization Approach to 3D Minkowski Sum Computation,'' ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modelling, pp.31-40, 2010.
Khardekar and McMains, ``Efficient Computation of a Near-optimal Primary Parting Line," Proceedings - SPM 2009: SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, pp. 319-324, October 2009.
Yasui and McMains, ``Testing an Axis of Rotation for 3D Workpiece Draining," Proceedings - SPM 2009: SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, pp. 223-233, October 2009. Revised and expanded for journal version (see above).
Krishnamurthy, McMains, and Haller, ``Accelerating Geometric Queries using the GPU,'' Proceedings - SPM 2009: SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, pp. 200-210, October 2009 (Award Paper Finalist).
Krishnamurthy, Li, and McMains, ``Simulation and Optimization of the Water-Jet Cleaning Process,'' Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Design Automation Conference, pp. 891-898, August 2009.
Krishnamurthy, Khardekar, McMains, Haller, and Elber, ``Performing Efficient NURBS Modeling Operations on the GPU,'' IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 530-543, 2009. (Errata: in equation (12), the 1/8 should be sqrt(3)/8.)
Krishnamurthy, Khardekar, and McMains, ``Optimized GPU evaluation of arbitrary degree NURBS curves and surfaces,'' Computer-Aided Design, Vol.41, No. 12, pp. 971-980, 2009.
Li, Shon, and McMains, ``Haptic Rendering Using C1 Continuous Reconstructed Distance Fields,'' IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications, SMI 2009, pp.163-170.
Li, Garg, and McMains, ``2D Accessibility Analysis for Waterjet Cleaning,'' Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 6(2), pp. 231-241, 2009.
Quintana, Stein, Shon, and McMains, ``Do 3D Stereoscopic Virtual Environments Improve the Effectiveness of Mental Rotation Training?" 63rd Annual ASEE/EDGD Mid-Year Conference Proceedings, January 2009.
Krishnamurthy, Khardekar, McMains, Haller, and Elber, ``Performing Efficient NURBS Modeling Operations on the GPU,'' Proceedings of the ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium, June 2008, pp. 257-268. Revised and expanded for journal version (see above). 2nd place Best Paper Award.
Chen and McMains, ``Finding All Undercut-Free Parting Directions for Solids of Revolution,'' ASME Design Automation Conference, Design Engineering Technical Conferences, September 2007, DETC2007-34688, pp. 489-500.
Krishnamurthy, Khardekar, and McMains, ``Direct Evaluation of NURBS Curves and Surfaces on the GPU," ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium, June 2007, pp. 329-334. Revised and expanded for journal version (see above). Best Presentation Award winner.
Karasuda and McMains, ``Displaying Readable Text in a Head-Tracked, Stereoscopic Virtual Environment,'' Journal of Graphics Tools, 12:2, pp. 47-57, 2007.
Khardekar and McMains, ``Fast Layered Manufacturing Support Volume Computation on GPUs,'' ASME Design Automation Conference, Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC2006-99666, September 2006.
Chen and McMains, ``Finding All Undercut-Free Parting Directions for Extrusions,'' Geometric Modeling and Processing, July 2006, LNCS 4077, Springer Verlag, pp. 514-527.
Avila, Reich-Weiser, Dornfeld, and McMains, ``Design and Manufacturing for Cleanability in High Performance Cutting,'' CIRP 2nd International Conference on High Performance Cutting, Vancouver, BC, June 2006, Paper Number 63.
Khardekar, Burton, and McMains, ``Finding Feasible Mold Parting Directions Using Graphics Hardware,'' Computer-Aided Design, 38:4, April 2006, pp.327-341; earlier conference version in Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, Cambridge, MA, June 2005, pp. 233-243.
McMains and Chen, ``Finding Undercut-Free Parting Directions for Polygons with Curved Edges,'' ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 6:1, March 2006, pp. 60-68.
Shon and McMains, ``Haptic Force Shading Parameter Effects on Path Tracing Accuracy,'' 14th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems at IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, March 25-26, 2006, pp. 517-523.
Chen and McMains, ``Polygon Offsetting Using Winding Numbers,'' ASME Design Automation Conference, Design Engineering Technical Conferences, September 2005, pp. 565-575.
McMains, Bailey, and Crawford, ``Layered Manufacturing as a Graphics Display Device,'' SIGGRAPH Courses Program, August 2005, Course Notes v. 27.
McMains, Layered Manufacturing Technologies, Communications of the ACM, June 2005, 48:4, pp.50-56.
Shon and McMains, Evaluation of Drawing on 3D Surfaces with Haptics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Nov/Dec 2004, 24:6, pp.40-50.
Nadjakova and McMains, Finding an Optimal Set of Cutter Radii for 2.5D Pocket Machining, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Anaheim, CA, Nov. 2004, IMECE2004-62224, pp. 351-358.
McMains and Chen, Determining Moldability and Parting Directions for Polygons with Curved Edges, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Anaheim, CA, Nov. 2004, IMECE2004-62227, pp. 359-368.
Karasuda and McMains, Textual Annotation in a Head Tracked, Stereoscopic Virtual Design Environment, 2004 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 2004, DETC2004/57705, pp. 527-536.
McMains, Smith, and Séquin, Thin-Wall Calculation for Layered Manufacturing (pdf from JCISE website), Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, September 2003, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp. 210-218.
McMains, Bailey, Crawford, and Séquin, 3D Hardcopy: Converting Virtual Reality to Physical Models, SIGGRAPH 2003, Courses Program, San Diego, CA, July 2003, Course Notes v. 33.
McMains, Smith, and Séquin, The Evolution of a Layered Manufacturing Interchange Format (pdf), Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, 28th Design Automation Conference, September 2002, v. 2. DETC2002/DAC-34136, pp. 945-953.
Ahn, McMains, Séquin, and Wright, Mechanical Implementation Services for Rapid Prototyping (pdf), Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B, vol. 216 no. 8, pp. 1193-1199, August, 2002.
McMains, Sara, Double Sided Layered Manufacturing (pdf), Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation, July 2002, Hiroshima, Japan, pp. 269-272.
McMains, Séquin, Bailey, and Crawford, 3D Hardcopy: Converting Virtual Reality to Physical Models, SIGGRAPH 2001, Courses Program, Los Angeles, CA, August 2001, Course Notes v. 39.
Simmons, McMains, and Séquin, Efficient Update of Geometric Constraints in an Evolving Mesh Representation, Technical Sketch presented at SIGGRAPH 2001, Conference Abstracts and Applications, Los Angeles, CA, August 2001, p. 175.
McMains, Hellerstein, and Séquin, Out-of-Core Build of a Topological Data Structure from Polygon Soup (pdf), Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, June 2001, pp. 171-182.
Ahn, Sundararajan, Smith, Kannan, D'Souza, Sun, Mohole, Wright, Kim, McMains, Smith, and Séquin, CyberCut: An Internet Based CAD/CAM System (gzipped PostScript), ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, March 2001, pp. 52-59.
McMains, Smith, Wang, and Séquin, Layered Manufacturing of Thin-Walled Parts, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences 2000, 26th Design Automation Conference, September 2000, DETC2000/DAC-14285, pp. 379-387. (Best Paper Award).
McMains and Séquin, Efficient Out-of-Core Build of a Topological Data Structure, Technical Sketch presented at SIGGRAPH 2000, Conference Abstracts and Applications, New Orleans, LA, July 2000, p. 199.
McMains and Séquin, A Coherent Sweep Plane Slicer for Layered Manufacturing (gzipped PostScript), Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, June 1999, pp. 285-295.
McMains, Séquin, and Smith, SIF: A Solid Interchange Format for Rapid Prototyping (gzipped PostScript), CIRP - Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 29, No. 1, 1999, pp. 29-32. Also published in Proceedings of the 31st CIRP International Seminar on Manufacturing Systems, May 26-28, 1998, pp. 40-45 and as SME Technical Report PE99-117.
Seltzer, Smith, Balakrishnan, Chang, McMains, and Padmanabhan, File System Logging versus Clustering: A Performance Comparison (gzipped PostScript), Proceedings of the 1995 Usenix Technical Conference, January 1995, pp. 249-64. (Best Student Paper Award).

Invited and Conference Presentations:

McMains and Li, "Parallel GPU Analysis for Real-Time Manufacturability Feedback," poster presentation at NSF CMMI Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, January 2011.
Krishnamurthy and McMains, "Parallel GPU Algorithms for Interactive Mechanical CAD," presented at GPU Technology Conference, September 2010.
Negrut, Suresh, and McMains, "Teraflop Parallel Computing on a Budget: Applications of GPU Computing in Mechanical Engineering," workshop presented at ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, August 2010.
Li and McMains, "CUDA-based Rendering of 3D Minkowski Sums," ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, presentation, August 2010.
Negrut, McMains, D'Souza, Suresh, Mishra, Krishnamurthy, and Mazhar, "Teraflop Parallel Computing on a Budget: Applications of GPU Computing in Mechanical Engineering," workshop co-organizer and speaker, presented at ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, August 30, 2009.
McMains and Krishnamurthy, "Parallel GPU Algorithms for Interactive CAD/CAM Operations," Proceedings of the NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, June 2009.
McMains, Krishnamurthy, Khardekar, and Li, "Design and Manufacturing using GPUs," Proceedings of the NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, January 2008.
Dornfeld, McMains, Arbelaez, Avila, Krishnamurthy, Li, and Yasui, "Cleanability of Mechanical Components," Proceedings of the NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, January 2008.
Krishnamurthy, Khardekar, McMains, Wu, and Haller, "NURBS Modeling Operations on the GPU," SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 2007, pp. 29-30.
Chen and McMains, "Finding all Undercut-Free Parting Directions for Solids of Revolution," presented at 2007 International CAD Conference and Exhibition, June 2007.
McMains, ``Design For Manufacturing Feedback At Interactive Rates,'' Invited Plenary Speaker, ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium, Cardiff, Whales, June 6-8, 2006, p. 239.
McMains, Ramani, Saitou, ``Design and Manufacturing,'' (Panel Chair and Speaker), ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium, Cardiff, Whales, June 6-8, 2006.
McMains and Khardekar, ``Design for Manufacturing Analysis with Graphics Hardware,'' SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 2005, Phoenix, AZ, p. 30.
Khardekar and McMains, Finding Mold Removal Directions Using Graphics Hardware, 2004 ACM Workshop on General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processors (p. C-19) (also presented at SIGGRAPH 2004 poster sessions), Los Angeles, Aug. 2004.
McMains, Chen, and Ambekar, ''Decomposition and Reconfiguration in Layered Manufacturing,'' SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 2003, Seattle, WA, p. 29.
McMains, Séquin, and Wright, ``Virtual Reality Collaborative Re-Design Environment,'' Proceedings WIHAVE 2002 Workshop on Intelligent Humans & Virtual Environments, Chapel Hill, NC, Oct 2002, pp. D-8, D-38, E-16.
McMains and Séquin, ``Computational Issues in Layered Manufacturing,'' SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing 2001, November 2001, Sacramento, CA, p. 31.
Smith, McMains, and Séquin, SIF: A Solid Interchange Format for Web-Based Prototyping (gzipped PostScript) (or html), NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, January 1999.
McMains and Séquin, ``SIF: The Emerging Solids Interchange Format,'' Fifth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, November 1997, Nashville, TN, p. 22.
McMains, Séquin, and Smith, Dealing with Data Imprecision, Design Tolerances, and Manufacturing Limitations in SIF (gzipped PostScript), Measurements and Standards Issues in Rapid Prototyping, Oct 16-17, 1997, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.
Séquin and McMains, What Can SFF CAD Learn from the VLSI CAD Revolution? (gzipped PostScript), NSF Workshop on Design Methodologies for Solid Freeform Fabrication, June 5-6, 1995, Section 4.5.1.

Theses:

McMains, Sara, Geometric Algorithms and Data Representation for Solid Freeform Fabrication (pdf) (or gzipped PostScript, or abstract), PhD Thesis, U.C. Berkeley, 2000.
McMains, Sara, Rapid Prototyping of Solid Three Dimensional Parts (gzipped PostScript), Master's Thesis, U.C. Berkeley, 1995. UCB Tech Report UCB/CSD-96-892.

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