Eurographics UK Chapter

EG-UK'99, Cambridge

17th Annual Conference

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

13-15 April 1999


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Tutorial and Lecture Programme

Are near as we can manage, this is the final programme.
7th April: Wednesday dinner time shifted by 15 minutes.

Tuesday 13th
Time Reddaway Room Trust Room
0900-1230 Session chair: Malcolm Austen Session Chair: Jonathan Roberts
Web Graphics
Chris Lilley, World Wide Web Consortium
Image Processing
Fuad Rahman, University of Kent
1330-1700 Session Chair: Jonathan Roberts Session chair: Malcolm Austen
Techniques for Processing and Visualising Large Data Sets
Steve Larkin, Advanced Visual Systems Ltd
Andrew Grant, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems Ltd
Human Computer Interaction
William Mitchell, Manchester Metropolitan University

TimeTuesday Social
1745-Walking tour of Cambridge
1915-Dinner in St.John's College

Wednesday 14th
Note: an asterisk (*) below the title of a paper indicates the paper has been refereed by our panel (see the conference proceedings). We wish to stress that the lack of an asterisk indicates that the paper is "Work-in-Progress" and not that it failed the refereeing process.
Plenary sessions will be in the Reddaway Room
Time Reddaway Room Trust Room
0910-0915 Session Chair: Malcolm Austen
Welcome
0915-1010 Steps Toward Digital Convergence: The Single Creative App
Alvy Ray Smith, Microsoft Graphics Fellow
1015-1045 A VRML Simulator for Ventricular Catheterisation
* N W John, N Phillips, R Vawda and J Perrin
1045-1115coffee
1115-1245 Session Chair: Gordon Watson Session Chair: Steve Morgan
Visual Aids for the Analysis of Visualisation Algorithms
M Simper, J Cooper, A James and A M Day
Adaptive Refinement and Decimation under Free-Form Deformation
* J E Gain and N A Dodgson
Cognitive Immersion in CVEs: A Hybrid Avatar/Agent Model for User Representation in Virtual Learning Environments
M Gerhard, M Fabri, D Moore and D Hobbs
Computer Simulation of Flexible Fabrics
* J J Zhang, L You and P Comninos
Virtual Environments as Hybrid Systems
S Smith and D Duke
Glove based interaction with a virtually deformable object
* K C Hui
1245-1400lunch
1400-1530 Session Chair: Jian Zhang Session Chair: Paul Hatton
Graphics and Visualization within Cross-Stitch
K R Atkinson and J C Roberts
Colour figures and paper online
Ball Catching: An Example of Psychologically-based Behavioural Animation
M F P Gillies and N A Dodgson
NURBS Based Freeform Deformation Control of a Parametric Lip Model
J P Macey, R Sahandi, J J Zhang and P Comninos
Integrating a multiagent communications architecture with the videotape metaphor for scripting animations
T Polichroniadis
Direct Surface Rendering of General and Genetically Bred Implicit Surfaces
* M W Jones
Colour figures online
Keyframe Animation of Articulated Figures Using Autocollision-Free Interpolation
J-C Nebel
Paper online
1530-1600tea
1600-1730 Session Chair: Anne Mumford Session Chair: Malcolm Austen
Example Motions for Interactive Animation
* G Leaver and W T Hewitt
Design of Fast Fractal Texture Mapping
M J Turner
Building 3D human models from captured images
D Beresford, A Hilton, T Gentils, R Smith and W Sun
Extending Lossless Image Compression
A J Penrose and N A Dodgson
Density Distribution Function Model Extraction from 3D Data
A V Garcia-Serrano, D M Acosta and A L Thomas
An Analysis of Perspective Geometry and Antialiasing
J D Pfautz & P Robinson
1730-1800 Chapter AGM

TimeWednesday Social
1930-Dinner in Fitwilliam College
NB: This is 15 minutes later than had previously been listed here

Thursday 15th
Note: an asterisk (*) below the title of a paper indicates the paper has been refereed by our panel (see the conference proceedings). We wish to stress that the lack of an asterisk indicates that the paper is "Work-in-Progress" and not that it failed the refereeing process.
Plenary sessions will be in the Reddaway Room
Time Reddaway Room Trust Room
0915-1010 Sesssion Chair: Jonathan Roberts
What's the payoff for the user?
The critical parameters of interactive performance

William Newman, Xerox Research Center Europe
1015-1045 A Wavelet Radiance Solution for Global Illumination in Scenes Containing NURBS Surfaces
* G Williams and W T Hewitt
Abstract and colour figures online
1045-1115coffee
1115-1245 Session Chair: Nigel John Session Chair: Jonathan Roberts
Parallel Algorithms for Visibility Computations
F Dévai
Flow visualisation & Animation using results from Flow Analyses
* F M Sinclair, P Birkby, A M Savill and W N Dawes
Towards Interactive Caustics
R Hougs and A M Day
Controlling computers by whistling
* R Watts and P Robinson
Perceiving the Others: Cognitive Processes in Collaborative Virtual Environments
M Fabri, M Gerhard, D J Moore and D J Hobbs
Enhanced Terrain Fly-throughs Using Ground-based Photography
G Watson and C Wills
1245-1400lunch
1400-1420 Session Chair: Anne Mumford
UK Chapter: Swansea 2000 presentation
Eurographics: Milan 1999 presentation
Ken Brodlie award ceremony (for best paper & presentation)
1420-1520 From Vision to Reality - 10 years of Virtual Engineering
David Wheeldon, Head of Product Direction, Cadcentre Group
1520-1525Thanks
1525-tea & departure