Luiz Velho

Luiz Carlos Pacheco Rodrigues Velho is a Brazilian applied mathematician working primarily on computer graphics and computer vision. He is a full researcher and professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada and leading scientist of VISGRAF, laboratory that conducts researches in the field of modeling, rendering, imaging, and animation.
In 2010, Luiz Velho received the National Order of [Scientific Merit] for his scientific and technical contributions. In 2005, he was keynote speaker in , in Vienna.
His academic background includes a BE in industrial design from , a specialization in computer science from PUC-Rio, a MS in computer graphics from the MIT Media Lab, a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Toronto and a postdoctoral fellowship in applied mathematics from IMPA.

Selected publications

Luiz Velho and Jonas Gomes. "Digital Halftoning with Space Filling Curves". Computer Graphics, 25:81–90, 1991.
Luiz Velho and Denis Zorin. "4-8 Subdivision". Computer-Aided Geometric Design, 18:397–427, 2001. Special Issue on Subdivision Techniques.
Jingdan Zhang, Kun Zhou, Luiz Velho, Baining Guo, and Heung-Yeung. "Synthesis of Progressively Variant Textures on Arbitrary Surfaces". ACM Transactions on Graphics, 22:295–302, July 2003.