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SIGGRAPH 2004 - The 31st international conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques


	Fact Sheets Papers Monday 9 August - Thursday 12 August The Facts The SIGGRAPH Papers Program is the premier forum for presenting new research in computer graphics and interactive techniques. A record number of 478 submissions were received by the deadline. Of these, 83 papers were selected for presentation at the conference. The leading contributors to this year's papers program include: Microsoft Research; Carnegie Mellon University; Stanford University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the University of Tokyo; Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs; the University of Washington; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; MPI Informatik; ISTI/CNR; and New York University. The reviewing process for the papers program is one of the most rigorous in all of computer science. Each paper is read by at least two members of the Papers Committee and three external reviewers; authors are given a chance to rebut their reviews before the final selection is made; and reviewers and authors work together to revise accepted papers. The program includes many new and important developments in image rendering, scene modeling, and animation. Two topic areas are particularly well represented this year: new capture and display technologies; and interactive techniques, especially for image manipulation and geometric modeling. A Quote from the SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers Chair "SIGGRAPH is the premier forum for research in computer graphics and interactive techniques," said Joe Marks, SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers chair from MERL. "In other fields, the best research is dispersed among many conferences and journals. But computer graphics is unique in that there's only one 'best place' to publish, and that's SIGGRAPH. The quality of papers presented is always high, and this year is no exception." A Few Highlights from the SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers Program Fun with Flash Photography Flash photography is more than just a technique for capturing images in poor lighting. These papers show how flash photography can be used to enhance and stylize captured images in novel ways. Digital Photography with Flash and No-Flash Image Pairs Georg Petschnigg Maneesh Agrawala Hugues Hoppe Richard Szeliski Michael F. Cohen Kentaro Toyama Microsoft Research Flash Photography Enhancement Via Intrinsic Relighting Elmar Eisemann Artis Frédo Durand Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stylized Images Using a Multi-Flash Camera Ramesh Raskar Karhan Tan Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Rogerio Feris University of California, Santa Barbara Jingyi Yu Massachusetts Institute of Technology Matthew Turk University of California, Santa Barbara Novel Display Technologies Your next television or computer monitor may be capable of displaying imagery with high dynamic range and of creating the illusion of three dimensions without special glasses. The relevant technologies are discussed in these papers. 3D TV: A Scalable System for Real-Time Acquisition, Transmission, and Autostereoscopic Display of Dynamic Scenes Wojciech Matusik Hanspeter Pfister Mistubishi Electric Research Laboratories High-Dynamic-Range Display Systems Helge Seetzen Sunnybrook Technologies & The University of British Columbia Wolfgang Heidrich The University of British Columbia Wolfgang Stuerzlinger York University Gregory Ward Sunnybrook Technologies Lorne Whitehead Matthew Trentacoste Abhijeet Ghosh The University of British Columbia Andrejs Vorozcovs York University Interactive Techniques for Image Manipulation Creating object models and image editing mean tedium to many artists. These papers present some new techniques that promise to take the boredom out of content creation. Interactive Digital Photomontage Aseem Agarwala Mira Dontcheva The University of Washington Maneesh Agrawala Steven Drucker Alex Colburn Microsoft Research Brian Curless The University of Washington David H. Salesin The University of Washington & Microsoft Research Michael F. Cohen Microsoft Research Modeling by Example Thomas Funkhouser Michael Kazhdan Philip Shilane Princeton University Patrick Min Universiteit Utrecht William Kiefer Princeton University Ayellet Tal Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Szymon Rusinkiewicz David Dobkin Princeton University The Weird and Wacky Ever had the desire to turn your favorite polygonal model into a paper toy? Having trouble incorporating synthetic objects into an old movie? Have you wondered what would happen if you combined RFID tags, light sensors, and projectors? Then these papers may be for you! Making Papercraft Toys From Meshes Using Strip-Based Approximate Unfolding Jun Mitani Hiromasa Suzuki The University of Tokyo Eyes for Relighting Ko Nishino Shree K. Nayar Columbia University RFIG Lamps: Interacting with a Self-Describing World via Photosensing Wireless Tags and Projectors Ramesh Raskar Paul Beardsley Jeroen van Baar Yao Wang Paul Dietz Darren Leigh Thomas Willwacher Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories The SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers Program opens Monday, 9 August at 8:30 am and closes Thursday, 12 August at 5:30 pm. Complete information on SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers