Plenary Lecture

On a Family of Flexible Cubic Bézier Interpolation Curves

Professor Dana Simian
Head of Research Center on Informatics and Information Technology
Faculty of Sciences
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Romania
E-mail: dana.simian@ulbsibiu.ro

Abstract: The aim of this talk is to introduce and analyze a family of cubic Bézier Interpolation curves. The interpolation curves depend on two parameters lying in the interval [0,1], that control the shape of the interpolation curve. We provide a hybrid method to choose the parameters in order to obtain the desired shape of the interpolation curve: convex, concave, with one or two inflexions points, with loop or with cusp. From a practical point of view sometimes it is important to be sure that specific cases like loops or cusps do not appear. Our method is based on a characterization algorithm, implemented in MATLAB and provides a tool with a friendly user interface for the choice of the parameters. Using a similar approach we generate and analyze a class of cubic G1 Bézier interpolation spline curves.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Dana Simian received a degree in Engineering from the University of Sibiu, Romania, a degree in Mathematics from the University Babes-Bolyai of Cluj-Napoca, Romania and the Ph.D. in Mathematics from Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She graduated many courses in Computer Science. She is the director of the Research Center on Informatics and Information Technology at the Faculty of Science, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania. Her research and fields of expertise include modeling and optimization, theory of algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence, theory of computation, computational geometry, applied mathematics, numerical analysis and numerical calculus.
She is a member of many international scientific committees and reviewer of many scientific publications. She serves as editor of various journals and is author of numerous publications.

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