Technical Papers

HDR-VDP-2: A Calibrated Visual Metrics for Visibility and Quality Predictions in All Luminance Conditions

A metric for predicting visible differences (discrimination) and image quality (MOS) in high-dynamic-range images. The metric is based on new contrast sensitivity measurements and calibrated against several datasets. The visibility predictions are shown to be improved compared to the original HDR-VDP and VDP metrics.

Rafal Mantiuk
Bangor University

Kil Joong Kim
Seoul National University

Allan Rempel
The University of British Columbia

Wolfgang Heidrich
The University of British Columbia

Image and Video Upscaling From Local Self-Examples

A new, high-quality, and efficient single-image upscaling method that exploits local self-similarities in the data and reduces search time. The method is implemented using novel non-dyadic filter banks that allow real-time processing when converting low-resolution video formats into HD standards.

Gilad Feedman
Hebrew University

Raanan Fattal
Hebrew University

Converting 3D Furniture Models to Fabricatable Parts and Connectors

A grammar-based framework for converting 3D furniture models to separate parts and connectors that can be physically built, which allows nonprofessional users to create products that they can use themselves by "printing" 3D furniture models.

Manfred Lau
Japan Science and Technology Agency

Akira Ohgawara
The University of Tokyo and Japan Science and Technology Agency

Jun Mitani
University of Tsukuba and Japan Science and Technology Agency

Takeo Igarashi
The University of Tokyo and Japan Science and Technology Agency

High-Quality Spatio-Temporal Rendering Using Semi-Analytical Visibility

This paper presents:

• A novel spatio-temporal anti-aliasing algorithm with essentially noise-free results. Visibility is solved for along line samples in screen space and in time.
• A new method for ambient occlusion based on line samples/ The method can also handle motion-blurred ambient occlusion.

Carl Johan Gribel
Lund University

Rasmus Barringer
Lund University

Tomas Akenine-Möller
Lund University and Intel Corporation

Blue-Noise Point Sampling Using Kernel Density Model

A new method for generating spatially varying stochastic-point distributions with blue-noise spectrum in linear time. The method relies on a novel multi-scale strategy that draws samples from an interacting particles statistical model that formalizes the problem.

Raanan Fattal
Hebrew University

Interactive Editing of Massive Imagery Made Simple: Turning Atlanta Into Atlantis

This simple framework for progressive processing of high-resolution images with minimal resources implements an adaptive, multi-resolution solver for gradient-based image processing that is capable of real-time seamless cloning for images that are hundreds of gigapixels in size.

Brian Summa
University of Utah

Giorgio Scorzelli
University of Utah

Ming Jiang
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Peer-Timo Bremer
University of Utah and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Valerio Pascucci
University of Utah

Interactive and Anisotropic Geometry Processing Using the Screened Poisson Equation

A general framework for performing curvature-aware geometry processing through solution of a screened Poisson equation and a parallel streaming implementation for constructing and solving the associated linear system at interactive rates.

Michael Kazhdan
Johns Hopkins University

Ming Chuang
Johns Hopkins University

Making Burr Puzzles From 3D Models

A computational approach to creating burr puzzles from 3D models while enforcing a single-key property in the 3D puzzle-construction process. When the puzzle is assembled, all the pieces are notched except the key piece, which remains mobile.

Shiqing Xin
Nanyang Technological University

Chi-Fu Lai
Nanyang Technological University

Chi-Wing Fu
Nanyang Technological University

Tien-Tsin Wong
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ying He
Nanyang Technological University

Daniel Cohen-Or
Tel Aviv University

Sensitive Couture for Interactive Garment Modeling and Editing

A novel interactive tool for garment design that enables interactive bidirectional editing between 2D patterns and 3D high-fidelity simulated draped forms. Artists can now interactively edit 2D pattern designs and immediately obtain stable, accurate online feedback.

Nobuyuki Umetani
University of Tokyo

Danny M. Kaufman
Columbia University

Takeo Igarashi
University of Tokyo

Eitan Grinspun
Columbia University

Data-Driven Elastic Models for Cloth: Modeling and Measurement

This data-driven technique to construct elastic models for cloth creates a database of 10 different cloth materials, each of which exhibits distinctive elastic behaviors. These measurements can be used in simulation systems to create natural and realistic clothing wrinkles and shapes.

Huamin Wang
University of California, Berkeley

James O'Brien
University of California, Berkeley

Ravi Ramamoorthi
University of California, Berkeley

Circular Arc Structures

As a means of rationalization of freeform architectural designs, "circular arc structures" combine faithful consistency with the design intent and simple edge elements and congruent nodes. This paper summarizes the method's easily manufactured support elements, repetition, the first global approximation method for principal patches, and volumetric designs.

Pengbo Bo
University of Hong Kong and Technische Universität Wien

Helmut Pottmann
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Technische Universität Wien

Martin Kilian
Evolute and Technische Universität Wien

Wenping Wang
University of Hong Kong

Johannes Wallner
Technische Universität Graz and Technische Universität Wien

Color Compatibility From Large Datasets

This paper studies color compatibility using large online datasets, and develops new tools for choosing colors to test new and existing theories of human color preferences and learn quantitative models that score the aesthetic quality of a color combination, and demonstrate the models in color selection tasks.

Peter O'Donovan
University of Toronto

Aaron Hertzmann
University of Toronto

Aseem Agarwala
Adobe Systems Incorporated

Building Volumetric Appearance Models of Fabric Using Micro CT Imaging

This paper builds volume-appearance models based on density data from X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans and appearance data from photographs under uncontrolled illumination. The resulting models show extreme detail in closeups, while at larger scales the distinctive textures and highlights of a range of fabrics emerge automatically.

Shuang Zhao
Cornell University

Wenzel Jakob
Cornell University

Steve Marschner
Cornell University

Kavita Bala
Cornell University

Expression Flow for 3D-Aware Face Component Transfer

This paper addresses the problem of transferring facial components between images with different expressions. Expression Flow is a 2D flow field that warps the target face globally so that the warped face becomes compatible with the new feature to be blended in.

Fei Yang
Rutgers University

Jue Wang
Adobe Systems Incorporated

Eli Shechtman
Adobe Systems Incorporated

Lubomir Bourdev
University of California, Berkeley

Dimitri Metaxas
Rutgers University

Characterizing Structural Relationships in Scenes Using Graph Kernels

This paper shows how to represent scenes as graphs that encode models and their semantic relationships. It then defines a kernel between these relationship graphs that compares common virtual substructures in two graphs and captures the similarity between their corresponding scenes.

Matthew Fisher
Stanford University

Manolis Savva
Stanford University

Pat Hanrahan
Stanford University

A Comprehensive Theory of Volumetric Radiance Estimation Using Photon Points and Beams

A novel, comprehensive theory of volumetric radiance estimation that leads to new insights and includes all previous radiance estimates as special cases. The authors use this theory to develop a more efficient rendering method for participating media based on "photon beams".

Wojciech Jarosz
Disney Research Zürich

Derek Nowrouzezahrai
Disney Research Zürich and University of Toronto

Iman Sadeghi
University of California, San Diego

Henrik Wann Jensen
University of California, San Diego

MeshFlow: Interactive Visualization of Mesh Construction Sequences

MeshFlow is an interactive system for visualizing polygonal mesh construction sequences. It hierarchically clusters editing operations visualized with graphical annotations to provide levels of detail on demand. MeshFlow was tested on five mesh sequences and evaluated with a case study using modeling students.

Jonathan Denning
Dartmouth College

William Kerr
Dartmouth College

Fabio Pellacini
Dartmouth College and Sapienza - Università di Roma

Highlighted Depth-of-Field Photography: Shining Light on Focus

A camera-projector system casts distinct grid patterns onto a scene to generate a spatial distribution of point reflections. These point reflections relay a relative measure of defocus that is utilized in post-processing to generate a highlighted depth-of-field photograph.

Jaewon Kim
MIT Media Lab and Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Roarke Horstmeyer
MIT Media Lab

Ig-Jae Kim
MIT Media Lab and Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Ramesh Raskar
MIT Media Lab

Efficient Maximal Poisson-Disk Sampling

This paper solves the problem of generating a uniform Poisson-disk sampling that is both maximal and unbiased over bounded non-convex domains. The method is fast, requires little memory, and is guaranteed to terminate without any bias. The paper also demonstrates a parallel GPU implementation that performs MPS in a bias-free fashion.

Mohamed Ebeida
Sandia National Laboratories

Anjul Patney
University of California, Davis

Scott Mitchell
University of California, Davis

Andrew Davidson
University of California, Davis

Patrick Knupp
Sandia National Laboratories

John Owens
University of California, Davis

Geodesic Image and Video Editing

A new, unified technique to perform general edge-sensitive editing operations on n-dimensional images and videos efficiently. Introduction of a generalized geodesic distance transform provides the unifying framework to efficiently address several editing operations such as de-noising, segmentation, and non-photorealistic rendering.

Antonio Criminisi
Microsoft Research Cambridge

Toby Sharp
Microsoft Research Cambridge

Carsten Rother
Microsoft Research Cambridge

Patrick Perez
Technicolor Paris Research Center

Andrew Fitzgibbon
Microsoft Research Cambridge

DINUS: Double Insertion, Non-Uniform, Stationary Subdivision Surfaces

The double insertion, non-uniform, stationary subdivision surface (DINUS) generalizes both the non-uniform, bicubic spline surface and the Catmull-Clark subdivision surface. DINUS allows arbitrary knot intervals on the edges, allows incorporation of special features, and provides limit point as well as limit normal rules.

Kerstin Müller
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Christoph Fuenfzig
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Lars Reusche
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Dianne Hansford
Arizona State University

Gerald Farin
Arizona State University

Hans Hagen
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

A Geometric Study of V-Style Pop-Ups: Theories and Algorithms

We study a simple but common class of pop-ups: the v-style pop-ups. Conditions are given for a v-style paper structure to be pop-uppable. Based on these conditions, we developed an interactive tool for designing v-style pop-ups and an automated construction algorithm.

Xianying Li
Tsinghua University

Tao Ju
Washington University in St. Louis

Yan Gu
Tsinghua University

Shimin Hu
Tsinghua University

Real-Time Large-Deformation Substructuring

A technique for making model reduction of FEM deformable objects undergoing large deformations adaptable in space. The object is decomposed into several domains, which are reduced independently, and combined with elastic and inertial coupling. The method can simulate rich, detailed deformations of complex structures at hard real-time rates.

Jernej Barbič
University of Southern California

Yili Zhao
University of Southern California

Frame-Based Elastic Models

A new type of deformable model that combines the realism of physically based models and the usability of frame-based skinning methods. The degrees of freedom are coordinate frames. Viscoelastic forces are computed based on continuous media mechanics applied to the smoothly deformed volume.

Benjamin Gilles
The University of British Columbia, INRIA

Guillaume Bousquet
Université de Grenoble, LJK, INRIA

François Faure
Université de Grenoble, LJK, INRIA

Dinesh Pai
The University of British Columbia

Discrete Laplacians on General Polygonal Meshes

A principled approach for constructing geometric discrete Laplacians on surfaces with arbitrary polygonal faces, encompassing non-planar and non-convex polygons.

Marc Alexa
Technische Universität Berlin

Max Wardetzky
Universität Göttingen

Edge-Aware Color Appearance

The effect of edge smoothness on color has not been studied in color-appearance modeling. This paper examines the appearance of color under different degrees of edge smoothness, confirms that color appearance changes with increased smoothness, and demonstrates an appropriate appearance model.

Min H. Kim
Yale University

Tobias Ritschel
École d'Ingénieurs Télécom ParisTech

Jan Kautz
University College London

Pocket Reflectometry

A simple, fast solution for reflectance acquisition with a BRDF chart, a linear light source, and a video camera on a mobile phone. Convincing svBRDF results are obtained after less than 30 seconds of data capture in casual environments.

Peiran Ren
Tsinghua University

Jiaping Wang
Microsoft Research Asia

John Snyder
Microsoft Research

Xin Tong
Microsoft Research Asia

Baining Guo
Microsoft Research Asia

Image-Guided Weathering: A New Approach Applied to Flow Phenomena

With this new technique, weathering data can be extracted from photographs of real scenes and applied to generate similar weathering appearance in new environments. Stains produced by fluid flow illustrate a representative case.

Carles Bosch
REVES/INRIA Sophia Antipolis

Pierre-Yves Laffont
REVES/INRIA Sophia Antipolis

Holly Rushmeier
Yale University

Julie Dorsey
Yale University

George Drettakis
REVES/INRIA Sophia Antipolis

Probabilistic Reasoning for Assembly-Based 3D Modeling

A probabilistic model of shape structure that encodes semantic and geometric relationships among shape components. The model is trained on a shape database and is used to present relevant components during interactive 3D modeling.

Siddhartha Chaudhuri
Stanford University

Evangelos Kalogerakis
Stanford University

Leonidas Guibas
Stanford University

Vladlen Koltun
Stanford University

Progressive Photon Mapping: A Probabilistic Approach

A novel formulation of progressive photon mapping based on a probabilistic derivation. Unlike the original progressive photon-mapping algorithm, this method does not require maintenance of local photon statistics. It extends progressive photon mapping to arbitrary kernels and includes stochastic ray tracing and volumetric photon mapping.

Claude Knaus
Universität Bern

Matthias Zwicker
Universität Bern

LR: Compact Connectivity Representation for Triangle Meshes

LR is a compact data structure for representing the connectivity of manifold triangle meshes. It supports constant-time incidence and adjacency queries while storing only one integer reference per triangle. Its greedy, linear-time construction involves ordering the vertices along a nearly Hamiltonian cycle.

Topraj Gurung
Georgia Institute of Technology

Mark Luffel
Georgia Institute of Technology

Peter Lindstrom
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jarek Rossignac
Georgia Institute of Technology

Layered 3D: Tomographic Image Synthesis for Attenuation-Based Light Field and High Dynamic Range Displays

This method optimizes auto-multiscopic displays composed of compact volumes of light-attenuating material. Inexpensively fabricated by stacking transparencies, the attenuators recreate a light field when illuminated by a backlight. Tomographic optimization resolves inconsistencies between views, leading to brighter, higher-resolution 3D displays with extended depth of field and improved dynamic range.

Gordon Wetzstein
The University of British Columbia

Douglas Lanman
MIT Media Lab

Wolfgang Heidrich
The University of British Columbia

Ramesh Raskar
MIT Media Lab

Differential Domain Analysis for Non-Uniform Sampling

Existing spatial and spectral methods for analyzing sample distributions are restricted to uniform domains. This paper presents differential domain analysis for general non-uniform scenarios including adaptive, anisotropic, and surface sampling, by reformulating standard Fourier analysis that depends on sample locations into an equivalent form that depends on only location differentials.

Li-Yi Wei
Microsoft Research

Rui Wang
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Matting and Compositing of Transparent and Refractive Objects

This image-based model for matting and compositing transparent and refractive objects from single images encodes plausible refractive properties of a transparent object and its observed specularities and transmissive properties. The method simulates compound compositing, Fresnel effect, scene depth, and caustic shadows from the extracted model.

Sai-Kit Yeung
University of California, Los Angeles and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Chi-Keung Tang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Michael Brown
National University of Singapore

Sing Bing Kang
Microsoft Research

An Efficient Scheme for Curve and Surface Construction Based on a Set of Interpolatory Basis Functions

By interpolating basis functions built on the Sinc function with a Guassian multiplier, this technique constructs freeform interpolatory curves and surfaces through scattered data points.

Renjiang Zhang
Zhejiang Gongshang University

Weiyin Ma
City University of Hong Kong

Depixelizing Pixel Art

A novel algorithm for extracting a resolution-independent vector representation from small pixel art images, which enables magnifying the results by an arbitrary amount without image degradation. Pixel-scale features are resolved and converted into regions with smoothly varying shading that are crisply separated by piecewise-smooth contour curves.

Johannes Kopf
Microsoft Research Redmond

Dani Lischinski
The Hebrew University

Solid Simulation With Oriented Particles

Using particles with orientation enables simulation of rigid, plastic, and soft bodies as well as one-, two-, and three-dimensional structures with only a few simulation nodes. In addition, the system uses orientation information to robustly skin visual meshes and increase the accuracy of the particle-based collision volume.

Matthias Müller-Fischer
NVIDIA PhysX Research

Nuttapong Chentanez
NVIDIA PhysX Research

Example-Based Elastic Materials

This example-based approach for simulating complex elastic material behavior constructs an example manifold that acts as an additional elastic attractor and guides the object toward preferred shapes. It allows implementation of inhomogeneous and anisotropic materials in a direct and intuitive way.

Sebastian Martin
ETH Zürich

Bernhard Thomaszewski
Disney Research Zürich and ETH Zürich

Eitan Grinspun
Columbia University

Markus Gross
Disney Research Zürich and ETH Zürich

HOT: Hodge-Optimized Triangulations

Introducing Hodge-optimized triangulations (HOT), a family of well-shaped primal-dual pairs of complexes designed for fast and accurate computations in computer graphics.

Patrick Mullen
California Institute of Technology

Pooran Memari
California Institute of Technology

Fernando De Goes
California Institute of Technology

Mathieu Desbrun
California Institute of Technology

Example-Based Image Color and Tone Style Enhancement

An example-based method for image color and tone-style enhancement that has been successfully applied in two scenarios: cell phone photo enhancement by transferring the style of a high-end camera and photo enhancement using styles learned from photographers.

Baoyuan Wang
Zhejiang University

Yizhou Yu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ying-Qing Xu
Microsoft Research Asia

Microgeometry Capture Using an Elastomeric Sensor

This paper describes a system for measuring microscopic surface geometry using an elastomeric sensor and a single camera. The system is not affected by the optical characteristics of the surface and can be configured as a portable device. Results from a variety of real-world materials are presented.

Micah Johnson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Forrester Cole
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alvin Raj
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Edward Adelson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Exploring Photobios

A method for generating face animations from large image collections of the same person, by computing an optimized, aligned subsequence. This approach is the basis for the Picasa's Face Movies feature. A key contribution of this paper is proving why the cross dissolve produces a strong motion effect.

Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
University of Washington

Eli Shechtman
Adobe Systems Incorporated

Rahul Garg
University of Washington

Steven M. Seitz
University of Washington

Shape Google: Geometric Words and Expressions for Invariant Shape Retrieval

Using heat diffusion kernels as "geometric words", this technique employs the "bag of features" paradigm to construct invariant shape descriptors. The descriptors provide state-of-the-art results on large-scale shape retrieval benchmarks.

Michael Bronstein
University of Lugano

Alexander Bronstein
Tel Aviv University

Leonidas Guibas
Stanford University

Maks Ovsjanikov
Stanford University

Cache-Oblivious Ray Reordering

A novel heuristic ray-reordering method for incoherent secondary rays. Its benefits are demonstrated in two stochastic rendering methods and different cache levels.

Bochang Moon
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Yongyoung Byun
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Tae-Joon Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Pio Claudio
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Hye-sun Kim
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Yun-ji Ban
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Seung Woo Nam
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Sung-eui Yoon
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

On the Velocity of an Implicit Surface

Previously, only the normal component of the surface was known. This method of deriving a formula for the velocity of a time-evolving implicit surface applies the normal component to the problem of tracking particles on the surface and the problem of motion-blurring implicit surfaces.

Jos Stam
Autodesk, Inc.

Ryan Schmidt
Autodesk, Inc.

A Perceptual Model for Disparity

This paper summarizes a psychophysical experiment to determine human sensitivity to binocular disparity on modern 3D stereo equipment. The obtained data were used to formulate a model of perceived disparity that lays the foundations for effective disparity compression, retargeting, personalized stereo, hybrid stereo images, and a perceived disparity-difference metric.

Piotr Didyk
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

Tobias Ritschel
École d'Ingénieurs Télécom ParisTech, CNRS, and Intel Visual Computing Lab

Elmar Eisemann
École d'Ingénieurs Télécom ParisTech, CNRS, and Intel Visual Computing Lab

Karol Myszkowski
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

Hans-Peter Seidel
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

Filtering Solid Gabor Noise

Existing noise functions either introduce discontinuities of the solid noise at sharp edges (wavelet noise, Gabor noise) or result in detail loss when anti-aliased (Perlin noise, wavelet noise). This paper presents a new noise function that preserves continuity over sharp edges and supports high-quality anti-aliasing.

Ares Lagae
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and REVES/INRIA Sophia-Antipolis

George Drettakis
REVES/INRIA Sophia-Antipolis

Nonlinear Revision Control for Images

A nonlinear revision-control system for images that supports review, diff, addition, branching, merging, and conflict resolving, and facilitates artistic creation in common image editing and digital sketching tasks. The core idea is a DAG structure that represents the spatial, temporal, and semantic relationships between operations.

Hsiang-Ting Chen
National Tsing Hua University

Li-Yi Wei
Microsoft Research

Chun-Fa Chang
National Taiwan Normal University

ℓ1-Sparse Reconstruction of Sharp Point Set Surfaces

With this ℓ1-sparse reconstruction of piecewise smooth objects, common objects can be characterized by a small number of features that introduce sparsity into the model. The reconstruction gives rise to shapes that consist mainly of smooth modes, with the objective function residual concentrated near sharp features.

Haim Avron
Tel-Aviv University, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Andrei Sharf
Ben Gurion University

Chen Greif
The University of British Columbia

Daniel Cohen-Or
Tel-Aviv University

Guide Shapes for High-Resolution Naturalistic Liquid Simulation

To efficiently obtain natural-looking liquid simulations subject to art direction, this method processes approved low-resolution geometry into a "guide shape" just below the liquid surface. The final high-resolution simulation runs just a surface layer constrained by the guide, with benefits for both speed and control.

Michael Nielsen
Weta Digital Ltd

Robert Bridson
University of British Columbia and Weta Digital Ltd

Real-Time Performance-Based Facial Animation

This paper presents a system for performance-based character animation that enables any user to control the facial expressions of a digital avatar in real-time using a non-intrusive, commercially available 3D sensor.

Thibaut Weise
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Sofien Bouaziz
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Hao Li
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Mark Pauly
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Coherent Noise for Non-Photorealistic Rendering

This noise function suitable for non-photorealistic rendering creates random variation that moves with the objects in a scene.

Michael Kass
Pixar Animation Studios

Davide Pesare
Pixar Animation Studios

A Nonsmooth Newton Solver for Capturing Exact Coulomb Friction in Fiber Assemblies

This paper focuses on the challenging problem of simulating frictional contact between thin elastic rods. Following the seminal work by Alart and Curnier in contact mechanics, this work simultaneously models contact and exact Coulomb friction as a root-finding problem that can be simply solved using a nonsmooth Newton algorithm.

Florence Bertails-Descoubes
INRIA

Florent Cadoux
INRIA

Gilles Daviet
INRIA

Vincent Acary
INRIA

Video-Based Characters: Creating New Human Performances From a Multi-View Video Database

This paper presents a new data-driven approach for image-based synthesis of realistic video animations containing user-defined human motions seen from user-defined camera views.

Feng Xu
Tsinghua University

Yebin Liu
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

Carsten Stoll
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

James Tompkin
University College London

Gaurav Bharaj
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

QiongHai Dai
Tsinghua University

Hans-Peter Seidel
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

Jan Kautz
University College London

Christian Theobalt
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

Discrete Element Textures

A data-driven method for synthesizing phenomena characterized by repetitive discrete elements, such as a stack of fresh produce, a plate of noodles, or a mosaic pattern. The method is general and easy to use, requiring only a small input exemplar and a coarse output domain.

Chongyang Ma
Tsinghua University and Microsoft Research Asia

Li-Yi Wei
Microsoft Research

Xin Tong
Microsoft Research Asia

Animating Fire With Sound

A technique for synthesizing synchronized sounds for physically based fire animations. A hybrid method simulates low-frequency flame sounds using a physics-based approach, and then uses bandwidth extension and sound-texture synthesis to synthesize fiery high-frequency details.

Jeffrey Chadwick
Cornell University

Doug James
Cornell University

Composite Control of Physically Simulated Characters

This approach to constructing composite controllers that track multiple trajectories in parallel generates both high-quality animations and natural responses to certain disturbances.

Uldarico Muico
University of Washington

Jovan Popović
Abobe Systems Incorporated

Zoran Popović
University of Washington