IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume and Point-Based Graphics
10 – 11 August, 2008 (co-located with SIGGRAPH 2008)
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Please consider:
- Conference material and badges will be issued to registered attendees at the conference venue, starting on Sunday, Aug 10, at 8:00 am.
- Onsite registration for VG/PBG'08: This will be possible only at the SIGGRAPH 2008 registration booths, located in the Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC), on Saturday, Aug 9, at 7:30 am - 5:00 pm and on Sunday during normal SIGGRAPH registration hours.
- SIGGRAPH registration hours (for SIGGRAPH 2008 registration, merchandise pickup and store) are on Sunday, 1:00 - 7:00 pm, and Monday 7:30 am - 6:00 pm.
- SIGGRAPH hotel shuttle service starts on Sunday, 10 August, at 12:30 pm. It is not yet available on Sunday morning!
- The SIGGRAPH shuttle service is available only to attendees who registered at official conference hotels through the SIGGRAPH 2008 hotel reservation system. Those attendees will receive a wristband upon check-in that allows them to board the shuttle buses.
PROGRAM
Sunday, August 10
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:15 Opening & Welcome
Hans-Christian Hege, Anders Ynnerman
09:15 - 10:45 Session I – Point-Based Techniques
Session Chair: Renato Pajarola
A Graph-Based Approach to Symmetry Detection
Alexander Berner, Martin Bokeloh, Michael Wand, Andreas Schilling, Hans-Peter Seidel
A Survey of Methods for Moving Least Squares Surfaces
Zhi-Quan Cheng, Yan-Zhen Wang, Bao Li, Kai Xu, Gang Dang, Shi-Yao Jin
Parallel Construction of k-Nearest Neighbor Graphs
Michael Connor, Piyush Kumar
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15 Session II – Design of Color Maps and Transfer Functions
Session Chair: Patric Ljung
Harmonic Colormaps for Volume Visualization
Lujin Wang, Klaus Mueller
Stroke-Based Transfer Function Design
Timo Ropinski, Jörg-Stefan Praßni, Frank Steinicke, Klaus Hinrichs
12:15 - 02:00 Lunch
02:00 - 03:30 Session III – Isosurfaces, Interval Volumes
Session Chair: Hans-Christian Hege
On Accuracy of Marching Isosurfacing Methods
Cuilan Wang, Timothy S. Newman, Jong Kwan Lee
Isosurface Ambient Occlusion and Soft Shadows with Filterable Occlusion Maps
Eric Penner, Ross Mitchell
Multiresolution Interval Volume Meshes
Kenneth Weiss, Leila De Floriani
03:30 - 04:00 Coffee Break
04:00 - 05:30 Session IV – Volume Rendering Techniques I
Session Chair: Markus Hadwiger
Stereo Pseudo 3D Rendering for Web-based Display of Scientific Volumetric Data
Daniel Chern-Yeow Eng, Yoonsuck Choe
Layers for Effective Volume Rendering
Sundaresan Raman, Oleg Mishchenko. Roger Crawfis
GPU-based Particle Systems for Illustrative Volume Rendering
Roy F.P. van Pelt, Anna Vilanova, Huub M.M. van de Wetering
07:00 Conference Dinner
Monday, August 11
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Lecture (free access for Siggraph 2008 attendees)
10 Years of Point Based Graphics – Achievements and Challenges
Speaker: Markus Gross
Chair: Arie Kaufman
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session V – Volume Rendering Techniques II
Session Chair: Torsten Möller
Pre-Integrated Volume Rendering for Multi-Dimensional Transfer Functions
Martin Kraus
Interactive Global Light Propagation in Direct Volume Rendering using Local Piecewise Integration
Frida Hernell, Patric Ljung, Anders Ynnerman
Obscurance-based Volume Rendering Framework
Marc Ruiz, Imma Boada, Ivan Viola, Stefan Bruckner, Miquel Feixas, Mateu Sbert
12:00 - 01:30 Lunch
01:30 - 03:00 Session VI – Applications
Session Chair: Nelson Max
Decomposition and Visualization of Fourth-Order Elastic-Plastic Tensors
Alisa G. Neeman, Rebecca Brannon, Boris Jeremić, Allen Van Gelder, Alex Pang
Pseudorandom Noise for Real-Time Volumetric Rendering of Fire in a Production System
Yuri Vanzine, Dana Vrajitoru
Adaptive Sampling and Rendering of Fluids on the GPU
Yanci Zhang, Barbara Solenthaler, Renato Pajarola
03:00 - 03:30 Coffee Break
03:30 - 05:00 Session VII – GPU Based Techniques
Session Chair: Klaus Mueller
Accelerating Volume Raycasting using Occlusion Frustums
Jörg Mensmann, Timo Ropinski, Klaus Hinrichs
Memory Efficient GPU-Based Ray Casting for Unstructured Volume Rendering
Andre Maximo, Saulo Ribeiro, Cristiana Bentes, Antonio Oliveira, Ricardo Farias
Smooth Mixed-Resolution GPU Volume Rendering
Johanna Beyer, Markus Hadwiger, Torsten Möller, Laura Fritz
05:00 - 05:30 Best Paper Award & Concluding Remarks
Matthias Zwicker
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