Manuel Menezes de Oliveira Neto is a faculty member at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Brazil. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 2000. Before joining UFRGS in 2002, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 2000 to 2002. During the Fall 2009 - Spring 2010, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab. His research interests cover most aspects of computer graphics, but especially in the frontiers among graphics, vision (both human and machine), and image processing. This includes image-based and real-time rendering, physiologically-based models of the human visual system, measuring visual acuity, 3D photography, 3D scanning, representation and rendering of surface details, and surface reconstruction from point clouds.

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