Cedric Herring’s Lasting Legacy

Helen Ollendorff-Curth: A dermatologist’s lasting legacy

Helen Ollendorff-Curth (Fig. 1) was one of the first female pioneers in academic dermatology and the study of genodermatoses, and her research contributions continue to resonate today. Born in 1899 into a successful Jewish family in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), she grew up under the guidance of her mother, Paula, a women’s advocate in her own right. Paula was an elected city councilo...

Cyber-sustainability: leaving a lasting legacy of human wellbeing

This paper presents a case for the importance of sustainability in HCI as it relates to the Web. So far, the discussion about sustainability in HCI has focused on environmental aspects. However, our belief is that cyber-sustainability is much greater than this. We argue that to address cybersustainability correctly, the principles of sustainability should be considered in relation to 3 concerns...

Olympic Health Legacy; Essentials for Lasting Development of Host City

The purpose of the Olympic Games should be to contribute to the social development by leaving behind economic, cultural and environmental legacies to the hosting region. While tangible examples such as venues are often recognized as representative legacies of the Olympics, intangible aspects such as the environment, culture, policy and human resources have been gaining in importance. The Olympi...

The Dissertation Committee for Cedric

CEDRIC Research Report n◦ CEDRIC-14-2906 A new description for scalable 3D partial object retrieval

This paper presents an approach for 3D object retrieval, dedicated to partial shape retrieval in large datasets. A Bag-of-Words representation is employed, based on the extraction of 3D Harris points and on a local description involving local Fourier descriptors. By adding ∆-TSR, a triangular spatial information between words, the richness and robustness of this representation is reinforced. Th...