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Sarah Niebe

Postdoc
University of Copenhagen
Sigurdsgade 41
2200 København N
Email: niebe@di.ku.dk
Office: 1.10b
Phone: (+45) N/A

Short CV

Sarah Niebe received her B.Sc (2006), Master's (2009) and PhD degree (2014) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU).
In the fall of 2012, Sarah spent 2.5 months as a visiting scholar at Professor Jeff Trinkle's Robotics lab at RPI, Troy, NY. Sarah is currently a Postdoc with the Image Group at DIKU.

Research Interests

Numerical methods, optimization, physical simulation, contact force problems, contact point generation.

Publications

Books
  • Sarah Niebe, Kenny Erleben: Numerical methods for linear complementarity problems in physics-based animation. Synthesis lectures on computer graphics and animation. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2015.
Journal papers
  • Morten Silcowitz, Sarah Niebe, Kenny Erleben: Interactive Rigid Body Dynamics Using a Projected Gauss-Seidel Subspace Minimization Method. Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications, 218-229. 2011
  • Morten Engell-Nørregård, Sarah Niebe, Kenny Erleben: A joint-constraint model for human joints using signed distance-fields. Multibody System Dynamics, 1-13. 2011
  • Morten Silcowitz, Sarah Niebe, Kenny Erleben: A nonsmooth nonlinear conjugate gradient method for interactive contact force problems. The Visual Computer 26 (6), 893-901. 2010
Conference papers
  • Jed Williams, Ying Liu, Sarah Niebe, Michael Andersen, Kenny Erleben, Jeff Trinkle: RPI-MATLAB-Simulator - a tool for efficient research and practical teaching in multibody dynamics. Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS). 2013
  • Morten Engell-Nørregård, Sarah Niebe, Kenny Erleben: Distance-Field Based Joint-Limits for Biomechanics Joint Models. Euromech [511]. 2011
  • Morten Engell-Nørregård, Sarah Niebe, Kenny Erleben: Local Joint-Limits using Distance Field Cones in Euler Angle Space. Computer Graphics International (CGI). 2010
  • Micky Kelager, Sarah Niebe, Kenny Erleben: A Triangle Bending Constraint Model for Position-Based Dynamics. Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS). 2010
  • Morten Silcowitz, Sarah Niebe, Kenny Erleben: Normal and Friction Stabilization Techniques for Interactive Rigid Body Constraint-based Contact Force Computations. Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS). 2010
  • Morten Silcowitz, Sarah Niebe, Kenny Erleben: Projected Gauss-Seidel Subspace Minimization Method for Interactive Rigid Body Dynamics. International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP). 2010
  • Morten Poulsen, Sarah Niebe, Kenny Erleben: Heuristic Convergence Rate Improvements of the Projected Gauss-Seidel Method for Frictional Contact Problems. 18th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG). 2010
  • Morten Silcowitz, Sarah Niebe, Kenny Erleben: Nonsmooth Newton Method for Fischer Function Reformulation of Contact Force Problems for Interactive Rigid Body Simulation. Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS). 2009
Extended abstracts
  • Morten Silcowitz, Sarah Niebe, Kenny Erleben: Contact Point Generation for Convex Polytopes in Interactive Rigid Body Dynamics. Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA). 2010