Disc 1 Awards

Award Winners   Ronald Fedkiw, Stanford Computer Science Department   Jos Stam, Alias Systems   Tomoyuki Nishita, University of Tokyo

Papers

Appearance & Illumination   A Frequency Analysis of Light Transport   Nicolas Holzschuch, Artis/Gravir-Imag Inria   Fast and Detailed Approximate Global Illumination by Irradiance Decomposition   Okan Arikan, University of California, Berkeley   Lightcuts: A Scalable Approach to Illumination   Bruce Walter, PCG - Cornell University   Visual Simulation of Weathering by gamma-ton Tracing   Baining Guo, Microsoft Research Asia   Tien-Tsin Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong   Yaiyan Chen, Microsoft Research Asia

Capturing Reality I   Dual Photography   Pradeep Sen, Stanford University   Fourier Slice Photography   Ren Ng, Stanford University   High-Performance Imaging Using Large Camera Arrays   Bennett Wilburn, Stanford University   Performance Relighting and Reflectance Transformation With Time-Multiplexed Illumination   Andreas Wenger, USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Capturing Reality II   Acquisition of Time-Varying Participating Media   Tim Hawkins, University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies   Effects and Defects in Flash Photography   Amit Agrawal, University of Maryland   Modeling Hair From Multiple Views   Eyal Ofek, Microsoft   Wei Yichen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   Panoramic Video Textures   Aseem Agarwala, University of Washington, Dept of CSE   Ke Colin Zheng, Univ. Washington

Deformable Models   Animating Sand as a Fluid   Yongning Zhu, UBC   Coupling Water and Smoke to Thin Deformable and Rigid Shells   Eran Guendelman, Stanford University   Interactive Collision Detection Between Deformable Models Using Chromatic Decomposition   Naga Govindaraju, University of North Carolina   Real-Time Subspace Integration for St. Venant-Kirchhoff Deformable Models   Jernej Barbic, Carnegie Mellon University

Dynamics of Solids   Adaptive Dynamics of Articulated Bodies   Stephane Redon, INRIA   Fast Frictional Dynamics for Rigid Bodies   Dinesh Pai, Rutgers University   Meshless Animation of Fracturing Solids   Mark Pauly, Stanford University   Richard Keiser, ETH Zurich   Bart Adams, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Fluid Simulation   Animating Gases With Hybrid Meshes   Bryan Feldman, University of California, Berkeley   Discontinuous Fluids   Jeong-Mo Hong, Korea University   Water Drops on Surfaces   Huamin Wang, Georgia Insitute of Technology

Geometry on GPUs   Blister: GPU-Based Rendering of Boolean Combinations of Free-Form Triangulated Shapes   John Hable, Georgia Insitute of Technology   Jarek Rossignac, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA   GPU-Based Trimming and Tessellation of NURBS and T-Spline Surfaces   Michael Guthe, Universitaet Bonn, Institute of Computer Science II   Real-Time GPU Subdivision Kernel   LeJeng Shiue, University of Florida   Resolution-Independent Curve Rendering Using Programmable Graphics Hardware   Charles Loop, Microsoft Research

Hardware Rendering   A Relational Debugging Engine for the Graphics Pipeline   Krzysztof Niski, Johns Hopkins University   Nathaniel Duca, Johns Hopkins University   RPU: A Programmable Ray Processing Unit for Realtime Ray Tracing   Sven Woop, Saarland University   Philipp Slusallek, Saarland University   User-Configurable Automatic Shader Simplification   Fabio Pellacini, Cornell University

Illustration and Image-Based Modeling   Line Drawings From Volume Data   Michael Burns, Princeton University   Motion Magnification   Ce Liu, CS AIL MIT   MoXi: Real-Time Ink Dispersion in Absorbent Paper   Nelson Chu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   Out-of-Core Tensor Approximation of Multi-Dimensional Matrices of Visual Data   Yizhou Yu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   Hong Cheng Wang, UIUC

Image Processing   Animating Pictures With Stochastic Motion Textures   Daniel Goldman, University of Washington   Ke Colin Zheng, Univ. Washington   Compressing and Companding High-Dynamic-Range Images With Multiscale Wavelet Architectures   Yuanzhen Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Low Dynamic Range Video Enhancement Using Virtual Exposures   Eric Bennett, UNC-Chapel Hill

Large Models & Large Displays   Cache-Oblivious Mesh Layouts   Sung-Eui Yoon, University of North Carolina - Chape Hill   Far Voxels: A Multiresolution Framework for Interactive Rendering of Huge Complex 3D Models on Commodity Graphics Platforms   Enrico Gobbetti, CRS4 -- Visual Computing Group   GoLD: Interactive Display of Huge Colored and Textured Models   Louis Borgeat, National Research Council of Canada   The Varrier Autostereoscopic Virtual Reality Display   Tom Peterka, Electronic Visualization Laboratory   Daniel Sandin, University of Illinois at Chicago

Mesh Manipulation   Intuitive Manipulation of Unstructured Meshes   Robert Sumner, MIT CSAIL   Linear Rotation-Invariant Coordinates for Meshes   Yaron Lipman, Tel-Aviv University   Meshless Deformations Based on Shape Matching   Matthias Muller, NovodeX/AGEIA   Bruno Heidelberger, NovodeX / AGEIA & ETH Zurich

Meshes I   Fast Exact and Approximate Geodesics on Meshes   Tatiana Surazhsky, University of Oslo, CMA   Mean Value Coordinates for Closed Triangular Meshes   Scott Schaefer, Rice University   Precise and Efficient Surface Reconstruction from Normals and Positions   Diego Nehab, Princeton   Robust Moving Least-Squares Fitting With Sharp Features   Shachar Fleishman, University of Utah

Meshes II   Geometry-Guided Progressive Lossless 3D Mesh Coding With Octree (OT) Decomposition   Jingliang Peng, University of Southern California   Shell Maps   Serban Porumbescu, University of California, Davis (IDAV)   Brian Budge, UC Davis   Surface Compression with Geometric Bandelets   Gabriel Peyre, CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique   Variational Tetrahedral Meshing   Pierre Alliez, INRIA

Motion Capture Data: Interaction and Selection   Action Synopsis: Pose Selection and Illustration   Jackie Assa, Tel Aviv University   Dynamic Response for Motion Capture Animation   Victor Zordan, UC Riverside   Efficient Content-Based Retrieval of Motion Capture Data   Meinard Muller, University of Bonn, Dept. of Comp. Sc. III   Performance Animation From Low-Dimensional Control Signals   Jinxiang Chai, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Perception   A Photon Accurate Model of the Human Eye   Michael Deering,    Color2Gray: Salience-Preserving Color Removal   Amy Gooch, Northwestern University   Evaluation of Tone Mapping Operators Using a High-Dynamic-Range Display   Patrick Ledda, University of Bristol   Mesh Saliency   Chang Ha Lee, University of Maryland

Plants   Floral Diagrams and Inflorescences: Interactive Flower Modeling Using Botanical Structural Constraints   Takashi Ijiri, The University of Tokyo   Measuring and Modeling the Appearance of Finished Wood   Steve Marschner, Cornell University   Modeling and Visualization of Leaf Venation Patterns   Brendan Lane, University of Calgary   Adam Runions, University of Calgary   Real-Time Rendering of Plant Leaves   Baining Guo, Microsoft Research Asia   Lifeng Wang, Microsoft Research Asia

Precomputed Light Transport   All-Frequency Interactive Relighting of Translucent Objects With Single and Multiple Scattering   Rui Wang, University of Virginia   Local, Deformable Precomputed Radiance Transfer   Peter-Pike Sloan, Microsoft Corporation   Precomputed Local Radiance Transfer for Real-Time Lighting Design   Anders Wang Kristensen, UCSD   Precomputed Shadow Fields for Dynamic Scenes   Stephen Lin, Microsoft Research Asia

Ray Tracing   Multi-Level Ray Tracing Algorithm   Alexander Reshetov, Intel Corporation   Soft Shadow Volumes for Ray Tracing   Samuli Laine, Helsinki University of Technology   Ulf Assarsson, Chalmers   Unbiased Energy Redistribution Path Tracing   David Cline, Brigham Young University   Wavelet Importance Sampling: Efficiently Evaluating Products of Complex Functions   Petrik Clarberg, Lund University

Shape & Texture   A Sketch-Based Interface for Detail-Preserving Mesh Editing   Andrew Nealen, TU Darmstadt   As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation   Takeo Igarashi, The University of Tokyo   Tomer Moscovich, Brown University   TextureMontage: Seamless Texturing of Arbitrary Surfaces From Multiple Images   Kun Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia   Yiying Tong, Caltech

Skin & Faces   Automatic Determination of Facial Muscle Activations From Sparse Motion Capture Marker Data   Eftychios Sifakis, Stanford University   Face Transfer With Multilinear Models   Daniel Vlasic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology   SCAPE: Shape Completion and Animation of People   Dragomir Anguelov, Stanford University   Skinning Mesh Animations   Doug James, Carnegie Mellon University

Styles of Human Motion   A Data-Driven Approach to Quantifying Natural Human Motion   Liu Ren, Carnegie Mellon University   Geostatistical Motion Interpolation   Tomohiko Mukai, Toyohashi University of Technology   Learning Physics-Based Motion Style With Nonlinear Inverse Optimization   Karen Liu, University of Washington   Style Translation for Human Motion   Eugene Hsu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Texture Synthesis   Parallel Controllable Texture Synthesis   Sylvain Lefebvre, Microsoft Research   Texture Design Using a Simplicial Complex of Morphable Textures   Matthias Zwicker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Texture Optimization for Example-Based Synthesis   Vivek Kwatra, Georgia Institute of Technology   Wavelet Noise   Rob Cook, Pixar Animation Studios

Transparency & Translucency   A Practical Analytic Single Scattering Model for Real-Time Rendering   Bo Sun, Columbia University   An Approximate Image-Space Approach for Interactive Refraction   Chris Wyman, University of Iowa   Light Diffusion in Multi-Layered Translucent Materials   Craig Donner, University of California, San Diego   Modeling and Rendering of Quasi-Homogeneous Materials   Stephen Lin, Microsoft Research Asia   Xin Tong, MSRA

Video & Image Matting   Automatic Photo Pop-Up   Derek Hoiem, Carnegie Mellon University   Defocus Video Matting   Morgan McGuire, Brown University   Interactive Video Cutout   Pravin Bhat, University of Washington   Jue Wang, University of Washington   Video Object Cut and Paste   Yin Li, MSR Asia

Disc 2 Sketches

Animating Humans in a Physical World   Adaptive Dynamics of Articulated Bodies: Key Implementation Issues   Stephane Redon, INRIA   Fast Physically Based Musculoskeletal Simulation   Dinesh Pai, Rutgers University   Qi Wei, Rutgers University   Shinjiro Sueda, Rutgers University   Fast Volume Preservation for Realistic Muscle Deformation   Min Hong, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center   Sunhwa Jung, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center   Interactive and Reactive Dynamic Control   Ari Shapiro, University of California

Artistic Depiction   Dynamic Planar Map Illustration   Paul Asente, Adobe Systems Incorporated   Inferring 3D Free-Form Shapes From Contour Drawings   Olga Karpenko, Brown University   Sketch-Based Modeling of Parameterized Objects   Chen Yang, The University of British Columbia   Sketch-Based Modeling With the BlobTree   Ryan Schmidt, University of Calgary

Augmented and Virtual Reality   A Car-Navigation System Based on Augmented Reality   Hiroaki Sawano, Waseda University   Enabling View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection in Real Environments   Oliver Bimber, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany   Enhanced Eyes for Better Gaze Awareness in Mixed Reality   Keisuke Tateno, University of Tsukuba   Immersive Virtual Studio   Hideki Mitsumine, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories

Autonomous Characters   Animating Autonomous Pedestrians   Wei Shao, New York University   Composite Behavior Synthesis Technique for Mental Communication Games   Atsushi Nakano, University of Tsukuba   Learning to Move Autonomously in a Hostile World   Leslie Ikemoto, University of California, Berkeley   Motion Patches: Building Blocks for Virtual Environments Annotated With Motion Data   Kang Hoon Lee, Seoul National University

Beautiful Things   Aggregation: Complexity Out of Simplicity   Andy Lomas, www.andylomas.com   Artworks Using Metaball Representation With Stepwise Approach   Joe Takayama, Kyushu University

Breakfast Theater   A-maize-ing Dynamic Cornfield Toolkit   Dale Mayeda, Walt Disney Feature Animation   Ian Coony, Walt Disney Feature Animation   Descent to the Underworld: A Game-Film   Nora Barry, Druid Media, Inc.   Generating Secondary Motions in Shadow Play Animations With Motion-Planning Techniques   Tsai-Yen Li, National Chengchi University   Rhythmic Character Animation: Interactive Chinese Lion Dance   Je-Ren Chen, National Chengchi University

Capture and Simulation of Cloth   Cloth Capture   Ryan White, University of California, Berkeley   Cloth Simulation on the GPU   Cyril Zeller, NVIDIA Corporation   Motion Capture Using Color-Coded Patterns   Volker Scholz, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik

Cinematography   A New Camera Calibration Method Taking Into Account Blur Effects   Masashi Baba, Hiroshima City University   Defocus Difference Matting   Morgan McGuire, Brown University   Multi-Perspective Rendering for Autostereoscopic Displays   Kei Utsugi, Hitachi Ltd.   Shutter Efficiency and Temporal Sampling   Ian Stephenson, NCCA Bournemouth University

Collisions   Detection and Evaluation of Grasping Positions   Fumihito Kyota, Tokyo Institute of Technology   Implementation of Fast Frictional Dynamics for Rigid Bodies   Danny M. Kaufman, Rutgers University   Pre-Stabilization for Rigid-Body Articulation With Contact and Collision   Rachel Weinstein, Stanford University

Effects Omelette   Cartoony Fluid Animation   Peter Demund, Walt Disney Feature Animation   Visual Simulation of Wispy Smoke   Christopher Batty, Frantic Films

Feature Fries   An Integrated 2D and 3D Production Pipeline for Independent Filmmakers   Ding Ye, Cinematic Artist

Fluid Simulation   A Semi-Lagrangian Contouring Method for Fluid Simulation   Adam W. Bargteil, University of California, Berkeley   Fluid Simulation Via Disjoint Translating Grids   Sanjit Patel, University of Southern California   Gigantic Deformable Surfaces   Ben Houston, Frantic Films   Michael Bang Nielsen, University of Aarhus

Global Illumination and Occlusion   Correlated Visibility Sampling for Direct Illumination   Abhijeet Ghosh, The University of British Columbia   Importance Sampling for Video Environment Maps   Vlastimil Havran, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik   Practical Dynamic Parallax Occlusion Mapping   Natalya Tatarchuk, ATI Research, Inc.   Precomputed Light Sets for Fast High-Quality Global Illumination   Johannes Gunther, MPI Informatik

GPU Modeling   GPU-Based Trimming and Tessellation of NURBS and T-Spline Surfaces   Akos Balazs, Universitat Bonn   Image-Space Construction of Displaced Normal Maps   Ivan Neulander, Rhythm & Hues Studios   Real-Time Rendering of Billboard Plants in a Dynamic Lighting Environment   Oliver Franzke, Technischen Universitat Dresden   Rendering Detailed Outdoor Ground Surfaces on the GPU   Orin Tresnjak-Smith, University of Maryland

GPU Programming   Building a Graphics Debugger   Nathaniel Duca, Johns Hopkins University   Dynamic Adaptive Shadow Maps on Graphics Hardware   Aaron Lefohn, University of California Davis   GPU-Accelerated Iterated Function Systems   Simon G. Green, NVIDIA Corporation

GPU Rendering Tricks   Angular Extent Filtering with Edge Fixup for Seamless Cubemap Filtering   John R. Isidoro, ATI Research Inc.   Interactive Summed-Area Table Generation for Glossy Environmental Reflections   Justin Hensley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   Percentage-Closer Soft Shadows   Randima Fernando, NVIDIA Corporation   Radiance Cache Splatting: A GPU-Friendly Global Illumination Algorithm   Pascal Gautron, IRISA/INRIA and University of Central Florida

Illumination Capture and Display   Automatic HDRI Generation of Dynamic Scenes   Katrien Jacobs, University College London   High-Fidelity Color Reproduction Based on Multi-Channel BTF/BRDF Acquisition, Rendering, and Display   Masaru Tsuchida, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology   Light Waving: Estimating Light Positions From Photographs Alone   Holger Winnemoeller, Northwestern University   Real Illumination from Virtual Environments   Abhijeet Ghosh, The University of British Columbia   Matthew Trentacoste, University of British Columbia

Image-Based Rendering   Carved Visual Hulls for High-Accuracy Image-Based Modeling   Yasutaka Furukawa, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   Image-Based Material Editing   Erum Arif Khan, University of Central Florida   Image-Based Rendering From a Sparse Set of Images   Todd Zickler, Harvard University

Interactive Interaction   3motion: Untethered 3D Gesture Interaction   John Payne, Glasgow School of Art   Creating Face Models From Vague Mental Images   Irene Albrecht, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik   Inside Interactive Video Cutout   Jue Wang, University of Washington   Pravin Bhat, University of Washington

Interactive Modeling   Boneless Motion Reconstruction   Vladislav Kraevoy, The University of British Columbia   Interaction Capture and Synthesis   Paul G. Kry, The University of British Columbia   Knowledge-Based Modeling of Laser-Scanned Trees   Hui Xu, University of Minnesota   Nathan Gossett, University of Minnesota   Surfacing By Numbers   Steve Zelinka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Interfaces   Graphical Digital Storytelling: Visualizing Personal Histories and Relations   Yuya Nomata, University of Tsukuba   Interface Currents: Supporting Fluent Face-to-Face Collaboration   Uta Hinrichs, University of Magdeburg   Intersection: Computer Graphics for Everyday Living   Sara Ljungblad, Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute   Multi-Touch Sensing Through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection   Jefferson Han, New York University, Media Research Lab

Lighting Models in Rendering   A Practical Analytic Single Scattering Model for Real-Time Rendering   Bo Sun, Columbia University   An Empirical Model for Heterogeneous Translucent Objects   Christian Fuchs, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik   Rendering Hair-Like Objects with Indirect Illumination   Cem Yuksel, Texas A&M University

Making Graphics Real   Bump Mapping Onto Real Objects   Naoki Kawai, DaiNippon Printing Co., Ltd.   Emo System: A Public Message Display to Share Emotional Information   Atsuro Ueki, Inakage Lab, Keio University   Real Toys from Virtual Models   Dan Julius, University of British Columbia

Mesh Thingies   Combining Metrics for Mesh Simplification and Parameterization   Jordan Smith, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center   Predictive Point-Cloud Compression   Stefan Gumhold , Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik   Streaming Compression of Triangle Meshes   Martin Isenburg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   Unconstrained Spherical Parameterization   Ilja Friedel, California Institute of Technology

Modeling   Fair Curve Networks in Nonlinear Geometries   Michael Hofer, University of Minnesota   Modeling With Implicit Complexes   Valery Adzhiev , Bournemouth University   Non-Rigid Global Alignment Using Thin-Plate Splines   Benedict J. Brown, Princeton University   Vectorfield Isosurface-Based Reconstruction From Oriented Points   Peter G. Sibley, Brown University

Perception   A Human Eye Retinal Cone Synthesizer   Michael Deering,    Manipulating Volumetric Abstractions to Match Color Perception Between Dissimilar Gamuts   Dominic Glynn, C.O.R.E Feature Animation   Perceptually Based Image Rendering of Art Paintings   Shoji Tominaga, Osaka Electro-Communication University   Spatio-Temporal Video Warping   Shmuel Peleg, The Hebrew University

Performances   Active Space: Embodied Media in Performance   John Crawford, University of California, Irvine   Cave Writing: Toward a Platform for Literary Immersive VR   Sascha Becker, Brown University   eVokability: The Interactive Costume   Sarah  Drury, Temple University   Landing Place: Remapping Motion Capture of Dance Movement to Objects and Environments   Vita Berezina-Blackburn, Ohio State University   Brian Windsor, ACCAD/OSU

Raytracing and PhotoMaps   Implementing Lightcuts   Bruce Walter, PCG - Cornell University   Interactive Ray Tracing of Point-Based Models   Ingo Wald, Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science   Optimized Photon Tracing Using Spherical Harmonic Light Maps   Otavio Good, Secret Level Inc.   Ray Tracing Depth Maps Using Precomputed Edge Tables   Kevin Egan, Rhythm & Hues Studios

Relighting   Joint Motion and Reflectance Capture for Relightable 3D Video   Christian Theobalt, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik   Optimal Illumination for Image and Video Relighting   Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya   Jack Tumblin, Computer Science Dept., Northwestern University   Performance Geometry Capture for Spatially Varying Relighting   Andrew Jones, University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies   Tabletop Computed Lighting for Practical Digital Photography   Ankit Mohan, Northwestern University

Simulations for Artistic Effect   MoXi: Real-Time Ink Dispersion in Absorbent Paper   Nelson Chu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   Real-Time Simulation of Thin Paint Media   Tom Van Laerhoven, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Expertise Centre Digital Media   Spring-Bead Animation of Viscoelastic Materials   Nobuhiko Tamura, Chiba University   Visual Simulation of Melting Ice Considering the Natural Convection   Masaaki Matsumura, Kyushu University

Sketch-Based Modeling   Geometric Clustering for Line Drawing Simplification   Pascal Barla, ARTIS GRAVIR/IMAG INRIA   Interactive Design and Visualization of Tensor Fields on Surfaces   Eugene Zhang, Oregon State University   Non-Photorealistic Motion Blur for 3D Animation   Syoichi Obayashi, Saitama University   Ken-Ichi Iwamoto, Saitama University   Stylizing 2.5D Video   Noah Snavely, Univeristy of Washington

Tangible/Ambient   Future Cast System   Shigeo Morishima, Waseda University   Hako-ne: An Augmented Musical Dollhouse   Saaya Itabashi, Inakage Lab, Keio University   Yoshine Nakayama, Inakage Lab, Keio University   Kenji Iguchi, Keio University   Heterogeneous Character Animation: How to Make an Interactive Character Jump Between Stationary and Mobile Graphical Computers   Bill Tomlinson, University of California, Irvine   Location-Aware Interactive Applications   Kirsten Cater, University of Bristol

Textures   Efficient Magnification of Bi-Level Textures   Jorn Loviscach, Hochschule Bremen   NRT-Based Texture Replacement in Real Videos   Wen-Chieh Lin, Carnegie Mellon University   Real-Time Image-Based Control of Skin Melanin Texture   Norimichi Tsumura, Chiba University, PRESTO Japan Science and Technology Corporation   Koichi Takase, Chiba Univ.   Time-Varying Textures: Definition, Acquisition, and Synthesis   Sebastian Enrique, Columbia University

Twisted Perspectives   "ZECTO" Cinematography for Depth-Based Live-Action Imaging   Go Fujimoto, Keio University imgl/Inakage Lab, Tokyo Broadcasting System/CG   Masahiro Kawakita, NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories / NHK Engineering Service   Masa Inakage, Keio University imgl / Inakage lab   Media Mirror   Jefferson Han, New York University, Media Research Lab   Multiperspective Collages   Jon Meyer, www.cybergrain.com   Twisted City   Samantha Meisels, Bournemouth University

Visualization   Data-Visualization Strategies for Tsunami Research   Roger Edberg, University of Alaska Fairbanks   Real-Time Data Fusion and Visualization for the Mars Exploration Rovers   Justin Wick, Cornell University   VolumeShop: Interactive Direct Volume Illustration   Stefan Bruckner, Vienna University of Technology

Disc 3 Panels

Believable Characters: Are AI-Driven Characters Possible, and Where Will They Take Us?   Stephen Gray, Electronic Arts   Gregory Garvey, Quinnipiac University   Andrew Stern, Procedural Arts

International CG Collaboration: Good, Bad, or Just Impossible?   Frank Foster, Tigar Hare Studios   Carlos Arguello, StudioC   Evan Hirsch, Immaginare   Jai Natarajan, CG Consultant   Bill Schultz, Taffy Entertainment/Mike Young Productions   Rajesh Turakhia, Maya Entertainment Ltd.

Networked Performance: How Does Art Affect Technology and Vice Versa?   Michelle Riel, California State University, Monterey Bay   Helen Thorington, turbulence.org   Julian Bleecker, University of Southern California   Susan Kozel, Simon Fraser University   Martin Rieser, Bath Spa University College   Andrea Zapp, Manchester Metropolitan University

The Open-Source Movement and the Graphics Community: How Can Open-Source, Third Party, and Proprietary Software Models Coexist?   Gil Irizarry, Conoa, Inc.   Florian Kainz, Industrial Light & Magic   James Mainard, DreamWorks Animation   Daniel Maskit, Digital Domain   Ton Roosendaal, Blender Foundation   William Schroeder, Kitware, Inc.

The Ultimate Display: What Will It Be?   Oliver Bimber, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany   Neil Dodgson, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory   Gregg Favalora, Actuality Systems, Inc.   David Luebke, University of Virginia   Ramesh Raskar, MERL   Chris Slinger, QinetiQ

Ubiquitous Music: How Are Sharing, Copyright, and Really Cool Technology Changing the Roles of the Artist and the Audience?   Lars Erik Holmquist, Viktoria Institute   Atau Tanaka, Sony CSL Paris   Akseli Anttila, Nokia Corporation   Arianna Bassoli, London School of Economics and Political Sciences   Gideon D'Arcangelo, New York University   Lalya Gaye, Viktoria Institute, Future Application Lab

WWAI: How is the Web Growing? Into a Social Super-Organism or a Mass of Disconnected Information?   Robert Lisek, Fundamental Research Lab   Hans Bernhard, UBERMORGEN.COM   Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Trinity College Dublin   Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel, Universidade de São Paulo   Monika May, DigitalMAY

Special Sessions

A Star Wars Retrospective From Industrial Light & Magic: Environments, Space Battles, and the Characters Who Fought Them From 1977 to 2005   Rob Coleman, Industrial Light & Magic   John Knoll, Industrial Light & Magic   Dennis Muren, Industrial Light & Magic

Cyber Fashion Show   Isa Gordon, Psymbiote   Thomas Wall, LightView   Janet Hansen, Enlighted Designs   Robert Craig McCollough, strangeattractorfashions.com   Susan Jones, eMagin Corp.   Vanessa Bonet, Psycho Girlfriend   Kasey McMahon, Psycho Girlfriend   Drew Bird, Cyber Fashion Show   Leah Thompson, Charmed Technology   Jim Bunkelman, Galatea Production   Alyssa Gross, Oakley   Louis Fleishauer, Cyber Fashion Show   John Bell, Nicco LLC   Michael Wilson, Mutech   Katrin Reifeiss, Fossil   The Mutaytor, Cyber Fashion Show

Extreme Fashion: Designers, Artists, and Technologists Present a Glimpse Into the Place Where High Fashion Collides With High Technology   Elise Co, mintymonkey   Margaret Orth, International Fashion Machines, Inc.   Katherine Moriwaki, Trinity College Dublin   Thad E. Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology   Jenny Tillotson, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design

From the Earth to Infinity: Scientists From Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Reveal Secrets of the Universe Through Remarkable Images of Mars, Saturn, Earth, and the Deepest Reaches of Space   Daniel McCleese, Jet Propulsion Laboratory   Ronald Blom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory   Eric De Jong, Jet Propulsion Laboratory   Torrence Johnson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory   Michael Werner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Web Programs

Application Track   An Ubiquitous Approach to Mobile Applications   Dennis Crowley, dodgeball.com   CellMailGraph   Laura Garcia-Barrio, New York University   e-Stadium: Wireless Football Infotainment Applications   Ronald J. Glotzbach, Purdue University   Kanji Block   Miho Aoki, University of Alaska Fairbanks   Mobile Content-Delivery Technologies   Ezra Freedman, Schematic   Jonathan Barsook, Schematic   Moovl, Doodles That Move   Ed Burton, Soda Creative Ltd.   placeMap: Building Community Through Active Context Mapping   Rob Gens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab   Matthew Hockenberry, MIT   Processing.org: A Networked Context for Learning Computer Programming   Casey Reas, University of California, Los Angeles Design | Media Arts

Paradigm Track   A New Kind of Programmer   Amit Pitaru, New York University   Designing an Interactive Experience for Ease of Use   Howard Tiersky, Capgemini US, LLC   Experience Design Unplugged   Peter Morville, Semantic Studios

Technical Track   Exploiting an Evolutionary Accident in Web3D Communications to Integrate Application Components   Chris Thorne, University of Western Australia   Perceptually Optimized 3D Transmission Over Wireless Networks   Anup Basu, University of Alberta   Irene Cheng, University of Alberta   The Fourth Party in Online Arbitration as a Shared Virtual Workspace   Dimitrios Protopsaltou, Universite de Geneve, MIRALab   Web-Based Molecular Visualization Using Procedural Shaders in X3D   Feng Liu, Georgia State University

Disc 4 Courses

Advanced Topics on Clothing Simulation and Animation   Hyeong-Seok Ko, Seoul National University   Kwang-Jin Choi, Seoul National University   Ronald Fedkiw, Stanford Computer Science Department   Donglinag Zhang, Digital Fashion Ltd   Robert Bridson, The University of British Columbia

An Interactive Introduction to OpenGL Programming   Dave Shreiner, SGI   Ed Angel, University of New Mexico   Vicki Shreiner, SGI

Anyone Can Make Quality Animated Films! (The Eight Basic Steps to Success)   Eric Vanhamersveld, Art Institute of California, San Diego   Debra Miller, Art Institute of California, San Diego   Bob Hanon, Art Institute of California, San Diego   Questions and Answers  , -

Computational Photography   Ramesh Raskar, MERL   Jack Tumblin, Computer Science Dept., Northwestern University

Digital Face Cloning   Frederic Pighin, University of Southern California   David Bennett, Sony Pictures ImageWorks   Paul Debevec, University of Southern California   Jack Brooks, Walt Disney Company   Li Zhang, The University of Washington   Lance Williams, Applied Minds Inc.

Introduction to Articulated Rigid Body Dynamics   Vangelis Kokkevis, Sony Computer Entertainment

Introduction to SIGGRAPH and Computer Graphics   Mike Bailey, Oregon State University   Andrew Glassner, Coyote Wind Studios

Line Drawings from 3D Models   Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Princeton University   Doug DeCarlo, Rutgers University   Adam Finkelstein, Princeton University

Modern Techniques for Implicit Modeling   James F. O’Brien, University of California, Berkeley   Terry Yoo, OHPCC / NLM / NIH   Marc Alexa, DGM, TU Darmstadt   Haixia Du, National Library of Medicine, NIH   John C. Hart, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Realistic Materials in Computer Graphics   Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Stanford University   Michael Goesele, MPI Informatik   Tim Hawkins, University of Southern California   Gero Mueller, University of Bonn   Steve Marschner, Cornell University   Questions and Answers  , -

Recent Advances in Haptic Rendering & Applications   Ming Lin, University of North Carolina   Miguel Otaduy, ETH Zurich   David Johnson, University of Utah   Bill McNeely, Boeing Research   Dinesh Pai, Rutgers University   William V. Baxter, OLM Digital   Federico Barbagali, Stanford University

The Web as a Procedural Sketchbook   Ken Perlin, New York University

Disc 5 Courses

Computer Generated Medical, Technical and Scientific Illustration   David Ebert, Purdue University   Mario Costa Sousa, University of Calgary   Amy Gooch, Northwestern University   Nikolai Svakhine, Purdue University

Crowd and Group Animation   Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)

Developing Mobile 3D Applications with OpenGL ES and M3G   Kari Pulli, Nokia   Tomi Aarnio, Nokia   Mark Callow, HI Corporation   Ville Miettinen, Hybrid Graphics   Jani Vaarala, Nokia

Discrete Differential Geometry: An Applied Introduction   Eitan Grinspun, Columbia University   Mathieu Desbrun, Caltech   Peter Schroder, Caltech

High Dynamic Range Imaging and Image-Based Lighting   Paul Debevec, University of Southern California   Erik Reinhard, University of Central Florida   Greg Ward, AnyHere Software

Hot topics in 3D medical visualization   Luis Ibanez, KITWARE Inc.

Layered Manufacturing as a Graphics Display Device   Mike Bailey, Oregon State University   Richard Crawford, University of Texas at Austin

Manifolds and modeling   Cindy Grimm, Washington Univ. in St. Louis   Denis Zorin, New York University

Performance OpenGL - Platform Independent Techniques   Dave Shreiner, SGI   Bob Kuehne, Blue Newt Software   Tom True, NVIDIA   Alan Commike, SGI   Questions and Answers  , -

Precomputed Radiance Transfer: Theory and Practice   Jan Kautz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Peter-Pike Sloan, Microsoft Corporation   Jaakko Lehtinen, Helsinki University of Technology and Remedy Entertainment Ltd.

Quantum Rendering: An Introduction to Quantum Computing, Quantum Algorithms and their Applications to Computer Graphics   Marco Lanzagorta, NCI / US Naval Research Laboratory   Jeffrey K. Uhlmann, University of Missouri – Columbia

Resumes and Demo Reels: If Yours Aren't Working, Neither are You!   Pamela Thompson, Ideas to Go

Spatial Augmented Reality: Merging Real and Virtual Worlds   Oliver Bimber, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany   Ramesh Raskar, MERL

The M.U.P.P.E.T.S. System: A Case Study in Open-Source Computer Graphics   Andrew Phelps, Rochester Institute of Technology   Christopher Egert, Rochester Institute of Technology   Kevin Bierre, Rochester Institute of Technology

Video-based Rendering   Marc Pollefeys, University of North Carolina   German Cheung, Neven Vision Inc. (formerly Carnegie Mellon University CMU)   Christian Theobalt, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik   Questions and Answers  , -

Visualizing Quaternions   Andrew Hanson, Indiana University

Disc 6 Courses

GPGPU: General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware   Mark Harris, NVIDIA Corporation   David Luebke, University of Virginia   Ian Buck, Stanford University   Naga Govindaraju, University of North Carolina   Jens Kruger, TU-Munich Computer Graphics & Visualization group   Aaron Lefohn, University of California Davis   Tim Purcell, NVIDIA Corporation   Cliff Woolley, University of Virginia   Questions and Answers  , -

Introduction to Realtime Ray Tracing   Peter Shirley, University of Utah   Philipp Slusallek, Saarland University   Bill Mark, University of Texas, Austin   Gordon Stoll, Intel   Ingo Wald, Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science   Tim Foley, Stanford University

Real-Time Shading and GPU Rendering   Marc Olano, UMBC   Avi Bleiweiss, ATI Research   Larry Gritz, NVIDIA Corp   John C. Hart, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign   Mark Kilgard, NVIDIA Corp   Michael McCool, University of Waterloo   Pedro Sander, ATI Research   Questions and Answers  , -

Three-dimensional displays and computer graphics   Michael Halle, Harvard Medical School   Joshua Napoli, Actuality Systems

Disc 7 Keynote DVD-Video

George Lucas: A Keynote Q&A With the Father of Digital Cinema   George Lucas, Lucasfilm Ltd.