GRAPHITE 2004 Technical Program


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DAY 1, 16 JUNE 2004

8:00 - 9:00 Registration of Delegates
9:00 -9:30 Opening Ceremony
9:30 - 10:15 Keynote Speaker
Professor James Foley
Georgia Institute of Technology
10:15-10:30 Tea Break
10:30-12:10 Session 1 : Rendering (Location : LT15)

Point Based Rendering of Non-Manifold Surfaces with Contours
Ron Balsys, Kevin Suffern
Central Queensland University, Australia

Efficient Modeling and Rendering of Turbulent Water over Natural Terrain
Nathan Holmberg, Burkhard Wuensche
University of Auckland, New Zealand

Path Tracing using the AR350 processor
Christophe Cassagnabère, François Rousselle, Christophe Renaud
LIL - Université du Littoral Côte d`Opale France

Real-Time Painterly Rendering for MR Applications
Michael Haller, Daniel Sperl
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Recovery of Material under Complex Illumination Conditions
Enhua WU, Qimin SUN, Xuehui LIU
University of Macau & Inst. of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

12:10-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:10 Session 2 : Modelling (Location : LT15)

Watermarking Subdivision Surfaces Based on Addition Property of Fourier Transform
Li Li, Zhigeng Pan, Mingmin Zhang, Kai Ye
Zhejiang University, China

QEM-based Mesh Simplification with Global Geometry Features Preserved
Yong Wu, Yuanjun He, Hongming Cai
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Smooth constraints for Spline Variational Modeling
Lenoir, Grisoni, Meseure, Remion, Chaillou
LIFL, France

Merging a pair of Disk Bezier Curves
Yang Wu, Chen Falai
Zhejiang University, China

15:10-15:30 Tea Break
15:30-17:10 Session 3 : Visualization (Location : LT15)
Education Oriented Visualization Model For Buildings Cross Ventilation
Muqeem Khan , Ahmed Mokhtar
American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emarates

The 3D Visualization of Brain Anatomy from Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data
Burkhard Wuensche, Richard Lobb
University of Auckland, New Zealand

Animated Visual Vibrations as an Uncertainty Visualisation Technique
Ross Brown
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

The Visualization of Myocardial Strain for the Improved Analysis of Cardiac Mechanics
Burkhard C. Wuensche, Richard Lobb, Alistair A. Young
University of Auckland, New Zealand

A New Fractal-Based Approach for 3D Visualization of Mountains in VRML Standard
Mohsen Sharifi, Fatemeh Hashemi Golpaygani, Mehdi Esmaeli , Javad Sadeghi
Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

17:10 Welcome Reception at Nanyang Auditorium
19:00 Electronic Theatre (Location : LT19A)
 
DAY 2, 17 JUNE 2004
9:00 - 9:45 Keynote Speaker
Prof. Dr.-Ing. José L. Encarnação
Director, Fraunhofer Institut fuer Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Germany
9:45 - 10:00 Tea Break
10:00-11:40 Session 4 : Computer Human Interface (Location : LT15)
Object, function, action for tangible interface design
Marissa Díaz Pier, Isaac Rudomín Goldberg
ITESM-CEM, Mexico

Approaches to Interactive Art Systems
Ernest Edmonds, Greg Turner, Linda Candy
UTS, Australia

A Sense of Touch in Online Sculpting
Ian Creighton, Chris Ho-Stuart
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Handheld Devices for Applications Using Dynamic Multimedia Data
Binh Pham, On Wong
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Unit: Modular Development of Distributed Interaction Techniques for Highly Interactive User Interfaces
Alex Olwal, Steven Feiner
Royal Institute of Technology and Columbia University, Sweden /
Columbia University, U.S.A.

11:40-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:10 Session 5 : Modelling (Location : LT15)
3D Object Reconstruction and Representation Using Neural Networks
Lim Wen Peng, Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin
Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia

Dual Drawing Methods of Cones
Rena Ding, Yan Zhang
University of Western Sydney, Australia

Efficient Implementation of a Planar Point Location Method
Talib, A.Z., Ismail, A.I.M., Chen, M.
University of Science Malaysia, Malaysia

Fuzzy Blending Of Materials
Ahmet Cinar
Firat University, Turkey

Topological analysis of a Single Line Drawing for 3D shape recovery
Sun Yuan, Lee Y.T.
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

15:10-15:30 Tea Break
15:30-17:10 Session 6 : Animation (Location : LT15)
Rapid Modeling of 3D Faces for Animation Using An Efficient Adaptation Algorithm
Yu Zhang, Terence Sim, Chew Lim
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Animating Real-time Realistic Movements in Small Plants
Jason C. Wong, Amitava Datta
University of Western Australia, Australia

Human Face Detection Using Eigenface and Skin Color
Pengcheng Zou, Zhigeng Pan, Ronghua Liang
Hangzhou Institute of Electronics Engineering, China

Statistical Synthesis of Facial Expressions for the Portrayal of Emotion
Lisa Gralewski, Neill Campbell, Barry Thomas, Colin Dalton, David Gibson
Bristol University, U.K.

Building a Virtual Factory
Jochen Manfred Quick, Chao Zhu, Haibin Wang, Meehae Song, Dr. Wolfgang Mueller-Wittig
Centre for Advanced Media Technology
Nanyang Technologicla University, Singapore

19:30 Conference Dinner
(Location : Nanyang Executive Centre)
 
DAY 3, 18 JUNE 2004
9:00 - 9:45 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Jacki Morie

Institute of Creative Technology, University of Southern California
9:45 - 10:00 Tea Break
10:00-11:40 Session 7 : Virtual and Augmented Reality
(Location : LT15)
Through the Looking Glass: The use of Lenses as an interface tool for Augmented Reality interfaces.
Julian Looser, Mark Billinghurst, Andy Cockburn
HIT Lab, New Zealand

FingARtips – Gesture Based Direct Manipulation in Augmented Reality
Volkert Buchmann, Stephen Violich, Mark Billinghurst, Andy Cockburn
HIT Lab, New Zealand

Understanding Next-generation VR: Classifying Commodity Clusters for Immersive Virtual Reality
Alexander Streit, Ruth Christie, Andy Boud
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Augmenting the Science Centre and Museum Experience
Eric Woods, Mark Billinghurst, Julian Looser, Graham Aldridge, Claudia Nelles, Deidre Brown
HIT Lab, New Zealand

Force-based Velocity Control Technique in Immersive V.E.
Dong Hyun Jeong, Young Hye Jeon, Chang Geun Song
Hallym University, Republic of Korea

11:40-12:15 Lunch
12:15-13:35 Session 8 : Visualization (Location : LT15)
Interactive Stylized Silhouette for Point-Sampled Geometry
Nordin Zakaria, Hans-Peter Seidel
Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik, Germany

Robust, Geometry-Independent Shadow Volumes
Graham Aldridge, Eric Woods
HIT Lab, New Zealand

Accelerating the Ray tracing of Height Fields
Christian Henning, Peter Stephenson
Imedia, U.S.A.

Viscous Display: a transient adaptive interface for collective play in public space
Lily Shirvanee, Glorianna Davenport
Media Lab, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

13:35 Visit to the Broadcast Asia 2004 Exhibition
Conference Closes