Conference Program

Program at a glance:

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Invited Talks:

Invited talks will be given on the mornings of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Monday (Oct. 29), 8:00-9:00
"Rethinking Algorithms for Games: Towards High-Fidelity Effects in Interactive Environments" (Show Abstract)
Dr. Zoran Popović, (University of Washington, USA)

Tuesday (Oct. 30), 8:00-9:00
"Geometric Computing in Shape Space" (Show Abstract)
Dr. Helmut Pottmann, (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Thursday (Nov. 1), 8:00-9:00
"Laplacian Guided Editing, Synthesis and Simulation" (Show Abstract)
Dr. Yizhou Yu, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Friday (Nov. 2), 8:00-9:00
"Communicating 3D Shape using Lines" (Show Abstract)
Dr. Doug DeCarlo, (Rutgers University, USA)

Paper sessions:

There are 11 single-tracked paper sessions. Each oral paper is allocated 20 minutes, with 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for question answering.

Monday (Oct. 29)
Session 1: Animation (9:00-10:00) Chaired by Jehee Lee

Multilinear Motion Synthesis with Level-of-Detail Controls
Tomohiko Mukai, Shigeru Kuriyama

Rubber-like Exaggeration for Character Animation
Ji-yong Kwon, In-Kwon Lee

Freeform Image
Thomas Schiwietz, Joachim Georgii, Rüdiger Westermann

Session 2: Simulation (10:30-11:50) Chaired by Donald House

Real-time Breaking Waves for Shallow Water Simulations
Nils Thuerey, Matthias Mueller-Fischer, Simon Schirm, Markus Gross

Fast Hydraulic Erosion Simulation and Visualization on GPU
Xing Mei, Philippe Decaudin, Bao-Gang Hu

Visualization of Dyeing based on Diffusion and Adsorption Theories
Yuki Morimoto, Masayuki Tanaka, Reiji Tsuruno, Kiyoshi Tomimatsu

Interactive Reaction-Diffusion on Surface Tiles
Kui-Yip Lo, Hongwei Li, Chi-Wing Fu, Tien-Tsin Wong

Session 3: Rendering I (16:00-18:00) Chaired by Rui Wang

Interactive Global Illumination Using Implicit Visibility
Zhao Dong, Jan Kautz, Christian Theobalt, Hans-Peter Seidel

Global Illumination for Interactive Lighting Design using Light Path Pre-computation and Hierarchical Histogram Estimation
Yonghao Yue, Kei Iwasaki, Yoshinori Dobashi, Tomoyuki Nishita

Image-Based Proxy Accumulation for Real-Time Soft Global Illumination
Peter-Pike Sloan, Naga K. Govindaraju, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, John Snyder

Statistical Hypothesis Testing for Assessing Monte Carlo Estimators: Applications to Image Synthesis
Kartic Subr, James Arvo

Real-Time Design and Rendering of Inhomogeneous, Single-Scattering Media
Kun Zhou, Qiming Hou, Minmin Gong, John Snyder, Baining Guo, Heung-Yeung Shum

Tuesday (Oct. 30)
Session 4: Shape modeling (9:00-10:00) Chaired by Julie Dorsey

Model Composition from Interchangeable Components
Vladislav Kreavoy, Dan Julius Alla, Sheffer

A Data-driven Approach to Human-body Cloning Using a Segmented Body Database
Pengcheng Xi, Won-Sook Lee, Chang Shu

Papercraft Models using Generalized Cylinders
Fady Massarwi, Craig Gotsman, Gershon Elber

Session 5: Rendering II (10:30-11:50) Chaired by John Snyder

Precomputed Visibility Cuts for Interactive Relighting with Dynamic BRDFs
Oskar Akerlund, Mattias Unger, Rui Wang

Illumination Brush: Interactive Design of All-frequency Lighting
Makoto Okabe, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Li Shen, Takeo Igarashi

Image-space Caustics and Curvatures
Xuan Yu, Feng Li, Jingyi Yu

The Soft Shadow Occlusion Camera
Qi Mo, Voicu Popescu, Chris Wyman

Session 6: Applications (16:00-17:00) Chaired by Robin Chen

The Mental Canvas: A Tool for Conceptual Architectural Design and Analysis
Julie Dorsey, Songhua Xu, Gabe Smedresman, Holly Rushmeier, Leonard McMillan

Example-Based Cosmetic Transfer
Wai-Shun Tong, Chi-Keung Tang, Michael S. Brown, Ying-Qing Xu

Visualization and Simulation of Near-body Hydrodynamics using the Semi-Lagrangian Fluid Simulation Method
Duc-Thang Truong, Ying-Yi Chow, Anthony C. Fang

Thursday (Nov. 1)
Session 7: Geometry processing I (9:00-10:00) Chaired by Seungyong Lee

Fast and Faithful Geometric Algorithm for Detecting Crest Lines on Meshes
Shin Yoshizawa, Alexander Belyaev, Hideo Yokota, Hans-Peter Seidel

Genus Oblivious Cross Parameterization: Robust Topological Management of Inter-surface Maps
Janine Bennett, Valerio Pascucci, Kenneth Joy

Efficient Spherical Harmonics Representation of 3D Objects
Mohamed-Hamed Mousa, Raphaelle Chaine, Samir Akkouche, Eric Galin

Session 8: Geometry processing II (10:30-11:30) Chaired by Scott Schaefer

Point-Based Minkowski Sum Boundary
Jyh-Ming Lien

Contour Correspondence via Ant Colony Optimization
Oliver van Kaick, Ghassan Hamarneh, Hao Zhang, Paul Wighton

A Delaunay Simplification Algorithm for Vector Fields
Tamal K. Dey, Joshua A. Levine, Rephael Wenger

Session 9: Curves and surfaces (15:00-16:00) Chaired by Wenping Wang

Visualisation of Implicit Algebraic Curves
Lionel Alberti, Bernard Mourrain

Extending Catmull-Clark Subdivision and PCCM with Polar Structures
Ashish Myles, Kestutis Karciauskas, Jorg Peters

Exact Evaluation of Non-Polynomial Subdivision Schemes at Rational Parameter Values
Scott Schaefer, Joe Warren

Friday (Nov. 2)
Session 10: Non-photorealistic rendering (9:00-10:00) Chaired by Peter-Pike Sloan

Abstract Line Drawings from 2D Images
Minjung Son, Henry Kang, Yunjin Lee, Seungyong Lee

Computer-Generated Papercutting
Jie Xu, Craig S. Kaplan, Xiaofeng Mi

Line Drawing as a Dynamic Process
Donald H. House, Mayank Singh

Session 11: Image processing (10:30-12:10) Chaired by Shimin Hu

Towards Digital Refocusing from a Single Photograph
Yosuke Bando, Tomoyuki Nishita

Brightness Adjustment for HDR and Tone Mapped Images
Grzegorz Krawczyk, Rafal Mantiuk, Dorota Zdrojewska, Hans-Peter Seidel

Exposure Fusion
Tom Mertens, Jan Kautz, Frank Van Reeth

Radiometric Compensation through Inverse Light Transport
Gordon Wetzstein, Oliver Bimber

Explicit Control of Vector Field Based Shape Deformations (Moved from Session 8)
Wolfram von Funck, Holger Theisel, Hans-Peter Seidel

Poster sessions:

There are two hour-long poster sessions in the afternoon of Tuesday and Thursday. Each poster session starts with a 20-minute oral introductions (2-minute by each poster presenter) followed by an open session for poster viewing and discussions. If powerpoint slides are used during the introduction, they should be uploaded to the conference computer before the session starts.

Tuesday (Oct. 30), 17:00-18:00
Session 1: Animation, rendering, and applications.

Real-Time Approximate Subsurface Scattering on Graphics Hardware
Hyunwoo Ki, Jihye Lyu, Kyoungsu Oh

Lighting Details Preserving Photon Density Estimation
Robert Herzog, Hans-Peter Seidel

GPU-Based Monte-Carlo Volume Raycasting
Christof Rezk-Salama

Practical Global Illumination for Hair Rendering
Cem Yuksel, Ergun Akleman, John Keyser

Faceting Artifact Analysis for Computer Graphics
Lijun Qu, Gary W. Meyer

Real-time Sound Generation of Spark Discharge
Katsutsugu Matsuyama, Tadahiro Fujimoto, Norishige Chiba

Wrestle Alone: Creating Tangled Motions of Multiple Avatars From Individually Captured Motions
Edmond SL Ho, Taku Komura

Soft-tissue Deformation for In Vivo Volume Animation
Taehyun Rhee, J.P. Lewis, Ulrich Neumann, Krishna Nayak

Color Transfer Brush
Qing Luan, Fang Wen, Ying-Qing Xu

Thursday (Nov. 1), 16:00-17:00
Session 2: Geometry, image and video processing

Developable Strip Approximation of Parametric Surfaces With Global Error Bounds
Yong-Jin Liu, Yu-Kun Lai, Shi-Min Hu

A New Volumetric Implicit Surface Data Structure and Its Triangulation Algorithm Applied to Mesh Integration
Marc Fournier, Jean-Michel Dischler, Dominique Bechmann

A Subdivision Arrangement Algorithm for Semi-algebraic Curves: An Overview
Julien Wintz, Bernard Mourrain

QAS: Real-time Quadratic Approximation of Subdivision Surfaces
Tamy Boubekeur, Christophe Schlick

Cross-parameterization for Triangular Meshes with Semantic Features
Shun Matsui, Kota Aoki, Hiroshi Nagahashi, Ken'ichi Morooka

Simple and Efficient Mesh Editing with Consistent Local Frames
Nikolas Paries, Patrick Degener, Reinhard Klein

Automatic Natural Video Matting with Depth
Oliver Wang, Jonathan Finger, Qingxiong Yang, James Davis, Ruigang Yang

Integrative Information Visualization of Multimodality Neuroimaging Data
Guangyu Zou, Jing Hua, and Ming Dong

Transplanting and Editing Animations on Skinned Meshes
Yuntao Jia, Wei-wen Feng, Yizhou Yu