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Illumination
Simulated Photographic Development of Synthetic ImagesThe Virtual Darkroom, a system that simulates the photographic processing of black and white prints on computer-generated images.
Joe Geigel
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 USA
+1.412.268.3911
geigel@psc.edu
Random Caustics: Natural Textures and Wave Theory RevisitedA novel approach to modeling caustics using a wave description of the propagation of light.
Jos Stam
INRIA
Rocquencourt BP 105
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, FRANCE
Fast Soft ShadowsA new algorithm that employs texture mapping and accumulation buffer hardware to produce shadows resulting from area light sources, in near real time.
Michael Herf
Paul S. Heckbert
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania15213 USA
herf+@cmu.edu
ph@cs.cmu.edu
Image-based Modeling
Hi-Lo Stereo FusionA technique for creating and storing stereo displays with minimal increase in the computational resources required for single-image displays.
Dennis R. Proffitt
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
drp@virginia.edu
Mary Kaiser
NASA Ames Research Center
Constructing 3D Object Models from PhotographsA method for automatically creating spline surface models from a small set of calibrated photographs.
Steve Sullivan
Jean Ponce
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois
sullivan@cs.uiuc.edu
Vision-Based Modeling for Production-Quality Integration of Photographic Imagery and 3D GraphicsWork in progress toward achieving automatic vision-based modeling that will live up to the demands of professional film production.
Ali Azarbayejani
Alex Pentland
MIT Media Laboratory
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA
ali@media.mit.eduChris Perry
Rhythm & Hues Studios
Automatic Video Tracking by Probabilistic PropagationA new algorithm that shows greatly improved tracking performance in clutter.
Michael Isard
Andrew Blake
Robotics Research Group
University of Oxford, Parks Rd
Oxford OX13PJ,
UNITED KINGDOM
{misard,ab}@robots.ox.ac.uk
Level of Detail
Multi-Scale ViewingA multi-scale viewing tool that creates understandable distortion patterns while including or extending the functionality of other detail in context-viewing tools.
M. Sheelagh
T. Carpendale
David J. Cowperthwaite
F. David Fracchia
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6
CANADA
carpenda@cs.sfu.ca
Effective Removal of Detail for a Multi-Resolution ViewerA method for removing detail from a wavelet description, which is important for interactive viewing of multi-resolution models.
Kari Pulli
University of WashingtonTony DeRose
Pixar
Finding the Target for Level of Detail ManagementThis evaluation shows that high frame-rate means are important, while standard deviation is only important at low means.
Benjamin Watson
Neff Walker
Bill Ribarsky
Victoria Spaulding
Aileen Worden
Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
watsonb@cc.gatech.edu
Visualization
GhostSpaceAn effective 3D data transmission system for remote collaborative CAD/CAM applications.
Mikio Nagasawa
Daisuke Nishioka
Masato Tsukakoshi
Fumio Noda
Central Research Laboratory
Hitachi Ltd.
1-280 Higashi-Koigakubo
Kokubunji, Tokyo 185 JAPAN
+81.423.23.1007
m-nagasa@crl.hitachi.co.jp
PAVE: A Distributed Visualization Application to Support Environmental Decision MakingA flexible and distributed application to visualize multivariate gridded environmental datasets.
Steve Thorpe
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27708 USA
+1.919.248.1161
thorpe@ncsc.org
Cogito: A System for Computer-Aided VisualizationA system that allows users to effectively find personally meaningful visualizations.
D.H. Hepting
F.D. Fracchia
J.C. Dill
R.D. Russell
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
V5A 1S6 CANADA
{dhepting,fracchia,dill,rdr}@sfu.ca
Interacting with Virtual Gorillas: Investigating the Educational Use of Virtual RealityA virtual gorilla environment for students in grades K-12.
Don Allison
Brian Wills
Larry F. Hodges
Jean Wineman
Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
don@cc.gatech.edu
Technical Sketches | This Web Site
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