
Université de Montréal


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Fundamentals and Applications of Sketch Processing
Mikhail Bessmeltsev and Chenxi Liu
Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP 2024) Course
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FreSeg: Frenet-Frame-based Part Segmentation for 3D Curvilinear Structures
Shixuan Gu, Jason Ken Adhinarta, Mikhail Bessmeltsev, Jiancheng Yang, Jessica Zhang, Daniel Berger, Jeff W. Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister, Donglai Wei
ArXiv, 2024
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Sketch2Pose: Estimating a 3D Character Pose from a Bitmap Sketch
Kirill Brodt and Mikhail Bessmeltsev
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2022), Honorable Mention Award
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Keypoint-Driven Line Drawing Vectorization via PolyVector Flow
Ivan Puhachov, William Neveu, Edward Chien, Mikhail Bessmeltsev
ACM Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA 2021)
[PDF] [website] [acm] [code & data] - Placental Flattening via Volumetric Parameterization
S. Mazdak Abulnaga, Esra Abaci Turk, Mikhail Bessmeltsev, P. Ellen Grant, Justin Solomon, Polina Golland
MICCAI 2019
[ArXiv] [MIT news] [code] - Vectorization of Line Drawings via PolyVector Fields
Mikhail Bessmeltsev and Justin Solomon
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 38 Issue 1(SIGGRAPH 2019)
[ArXiv] [acm] [MIT news] [code] - Isometry-Aware Preconditioning for Mesh Parameterization
Sebastian Claici, Mikhail Bessmeltsev, Scott Schaefer, and Justin Solomon
SGP 2017, London, Best Paper Award
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Recovering 3D Shape from Concept and Pose Drawings
Mikhail Bessmeltsev
PhD Thesis
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IFT 3355: Computer Graphics
2021 - 2020
undergraduate-level introduction to computer graphics algorithms, focusing on rendering, with a touch of modelling and animation -
IFT 2905: User Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction
2024 - 2023 - 2022 - 2021
undergraduate-level course on interaction design, UI/UX, and intro to HCI

Kirill Brodt (2019-)
Cedric Martens (2023-)
Ivan Puhachov (2019-)
Yutao Zhang (2023-)
William Neveu (2020-2022)
Karl-Etienne Bolduc (2022-2024), co-supervision with Pierre Poulin
Olga Gutan [Youngstown State University, SGI, co-supervision with Edward Chien] (2021-2022)
Dr. Maria Myronova (2021-2023)
Hoang Quan Tran (BRPC, 2024)
Emma Gallifet, Yutao Zhang (IFT3150/Projet Informatique), 2022
Charlotte Beauchemin, Kelly Beauregard (IFT3150/Projet Informatique), 2021
Shreya Hegde [Amherst College, SGI, co-supervision with Edward Chien] (2021-2022)
Erick Jimenez Berumen [California Institute of Technology, SGI, co-supervision with Edward Chien] (2021-2022)
Potok Irvine (IFT3150/Projet Informatique), 2019


I did my postdoc at MIT (CSAIL) with Justin Solomon in Cambridge, MA. Before, I completed my PhD in Computer Science at University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), working on various sketch-based modeling projects under supervision of Alla Sheffer. Before that (2004-2010) I did my Bachelor's and Master's (oh childhood!) at Mechanics & Mathematics Department of Novosibirsk State University (Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia) under supervision of Olga Nechaeva.
Currently the top interest for me is sketching and whatever 3D we can create with it. I'm generally interested in geometry processing and computer graphics as a tool for creating true art.
Outside the department, I'm an argentine tango dancer. I also occasionally play/compose/record music, mostly on guitar (blues, classics, tango, slowly moving towards jazz).