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