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Congratulations Diego García Espinoza! 🎓
Exam Details Student: Diego Alejandro García Espinoza Thesis Title: Parallelization of a Compact Data Structure on the GPU for the Representation of Geometric Figures Degrees obtained: Magíster en Ciencias, Mención Computación + Título de Ingeniero Civil en Computación Advisor: Nancy Hitschfeld Kahler Co-advisor: Sergio Salinas Fernández Committee Members: José Fuentes Sepúlveda Gonzalo Navarro Badino Cristóbal Navarro Guerrero Funding: FONDECYT Regular 1241596 Thesis Abstract Parallelization of a Compact Data Structure on the GPU for the Representation of Geometric Figures
Diego García Espinoza
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Sergio Salinas-Fernández
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Nancy Hitschfeld Kahler
Jun 5, 2026
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GPU-accelerated processing of polygonal meshes in compact space
We present a new compact half-edge data structure for querying and traversing polygonal meshes on the GPU. For this, we adapted a …
Diego García Espinoza
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Sergio Salinas-Fernández
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José Fuentes-Sepúlveda
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Nancy Hitschfeld Kahler
DOI
Convex Hull 3D Filtering with GPU Ray Tracing and Tensor Cores
In recent years, applications such as real-time simulations, autonomous systems, and video games increasingly demand the processing of …
Roberto Carrasco
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EnzoMeneses
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Hector Ferrada
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Cristobal A Navarro
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Nancy Hitschfeld Kahler
arXiv
Advancing RT Core-Accelerated Fixed-Radius Nearest Neighbor Search
Recent research on GPU Computing has found new ways to leverage the Ray Tracing (RT) cores beyond lighting/rendering tasks. One …
EnzoMeneses
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HBec
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Cristobal A Navarro
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Benoît Crespin
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FelipeQuezada
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Nancy Hitschfeld Kahler
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Heinich S. Porro S.
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Maxime Maria
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GPolylla: Fully GPU-accelerated polygonal mesh generator
This work presents a fully GPU-accelerated algorithm for the polygonal mesh generator known as Polylla. Polylla is a tri-to-polygon …
Sergio Salinas-Fernández
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Nancy Hitschfeld Kahler
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Roberto Carrasco
arXiv
An evaluation of GPU filters for accelerating the 2D convex hull
The Convex Hull is one of the most relevant structures in computational geometry, with many applications such as in computer graphics, …
Roberto Carrasco
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Hector Ferrada
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Cristobal A Navarro
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Nancy Hitschfeld Kahler
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A scalable and energy efficient GPU thread map for m-simplex domains
This work proposes a new GPU thread map for m-simplex domains that improves its speedup along with the m-dimension and is energy …
Cristobal A Navarro
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Felipe A. Quezada
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Benjamin Bustos
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Nancy Hitschfeld Kahler
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Rolando Kindelan
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Efficient GPU thread mapping on embedded 2D fractals
This work proposes a new approach for mapping GPU threads onto a family of discrete embedded 2D fractals. A block-space map λ:ZE2↦ZF2 …
Cristobal A Navarro
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Felipe A. Quezada
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Nancy Hitschfeld Kahler
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Raimundo Vega
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Benjamin Bustos
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A high-speed tracking algorithm for dense granular media
Many fields of study, including medical imaging, granular physics, colloidal physics, and active matter, require the precise …
Mauricio Cerda Villablanca
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Cristobal A Navarro
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Juan Silva
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Scott R. Waitukaitis
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Nicolás Mujica
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Nancy Hitschfeld Kahler
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Block-space GPU mapping for embedded Sierpiński gasket fractals
This research examines GPU thread mapping for a Sierpiński gasket fractal embedded in an n×n discrete Euclidean space. The authors …
Cristobal A Navarro
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Raimundo Vega
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Benjamin Bustos
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Nancy Hitschfeld Kahler
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