Monday 9th June 2008
11.30 Book Launch – Geographic Visualization - Wiley (Editors: Martin Dodge, Mary McDerby, Martin Turner)
12.00 Lunch and Registration
12.45 Welcome and vizNET Showcase winners announcement
KEYNOTE TALK
13.00 The Illusion of Virtual Reality
Mary Whitton, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
14.00 Coffee
SESSION 1: RENDERING
14.30 Interactive Out-of-Core Exploration of Large Volume Datasets
A Agrawal, J Kohout, G J Clapworthy, N McFarlane, F Dong, M Viceconti, F Taddei, D Testi
15.00 Efficient Representation of Layered Depth Images for Real-Time Volumetric Tests
Matthias Trapp and Jürgen Döllner
15:30 A Physical Model for the Polarized Scattering of Light
D Brayford, M Turner, W T Hewitt
16.00 Light Field Rendering for Games
S Todt, C Rezk-Salama and A Kolb
16.30 AGM
18.00 Meet to walk to the Museum of Science and Industry at Kilburn Building
18.30 Museum of Science and Industry – Manchester Baby 60th Birthday Tour
20.30 Evening Meal at Dukes 92
Tuesday 10th June 2008
SESSION 2: VISUALIZATION AND IMAGE PROCESSING
09.00 Interactive Grid Based Binning for Information Visualization
S M Longshaw, M J Turner and W T Hewitt
09.30 Segmenting the External Surface of a Human Skull in MR Data
M Salas and S Maddock
10.00 Image Abstraction by Structure Adaptive Filtering
Jan Eric Kyprianidis and Jürgen Döllner
10.30 Contouring with Uncertainty
R S Allendes Osorio, and K W Brodlie
11.00 Coffee
SESSION 3: GRAPHICS FOR UNCONVENTIONAL DISPLAYS
11.15 A Fast Algorithm for Painterly Rendering on Mobile Devices
R. Mukundan, C Han
11.45 A New Method for Interacting with Multi-Window Applications on Large, High Resolution Displays
Chris Rooney and Roy A Ruddle
12.15 Lunch
KEYNOTE TALK
13.15 R&D in Film Production
Martin Preston, Framestore CFC
PARALLEL SESSION 1: WORK-IN-PROGRESS I
14.15 Time-varying Image Data Visualization Framework for Application in Cardiac Catheterization Procedures
YingLiang Ma, Kawal S Rhode, Andy P King, Gang Gao, Phani Chinchapatnam, Tobias Schaeffter, Reza Razavi and Kurt Saetzler
14.35 Towards Image Rendering using models of Image Manifolds
Alan Woodland, and F Labrosse
14.55 Space-free shader programming: Automatic space inference and optimization for real-time shaders
Calle Lejdfors, Lennart Ohlsson
15.15 Time Handling in Inverse Daylighting for CAAD
Vincent Tourre, Jean-Yves Martin and Gérard Hégron
PARALLEL SESSION 2 : GEOMETRY PROCESSING
14.15 Self-Organising Maps for Implicit Surface Reconstruction
Mincheol Yoon, Ioannis Ivrissimtzis, Seungyong Lee
14.45 Localised Topology Correction for Hypertextured Terrains
Manuel N. Gamito, Steve C. Maddock
15.15 A Lemon is not a Monstar: Visualization of Singularities of Symmetric Second Rank Tensor Fields in the Plane
J Liu, W T Hewitt, W R B Lionheart, J Montaldi and M Turner
15.45 Coffee
SESSION 4: WORK-IN-PROGRESS II
16.00 16.20 A Haptic Rendering Algorithm for Drilling into Volume Data
Yu Liu and S D Laycock
Grammatical Evolution for Gait Retargeting
James Edmond Murphy, Hamish Carr, and Michael O'Neill
16.40 Generation and GPU-Based Tessellation of Tree Stems
Jo Skjermo
17.00 Game-Based Training in an Interactive Environment by Means of OpenCrimeScene
Angela Brennecke, Stefan Schlechtweg and Heidrun Schumann
17.20 Introduction to X-Ray imaging and visualization for palaeontology - including remote viewing from the HP SVA (Scalable Visualization Array)
Phil Manning and James Perrin
18.00 Meet Stan
19.30 Conference Dinner
Wednesday 11th June 2008
SESSION 5: ANIMATION AND SIMULATION
09.00 A Benchmarking Framework for Static Collision Detection
Engin Deniz Diktas, Ali Vahit Sahiner
09.30 GPU-based Visualisation of Protein Secondary Structure
Katrin Bidmon, Michael Krone, Thomas Ertl
10.00 Efficient Path Matching Motion Generation Algorithm for Multi Agent Environment
Newman Lau, Chapmann Chow, Bartholomew Iu, Pouro Lee
10.30 Modes of Virtual Environments Integrated within Collaborative Environments
M J McDerby, M J Turner, G W Leaver
11.00 Coffee
KEYNOTE TALK
11.30 3D visualisation of digital outcrop data and its application in the Earth Sciences
Dr David Hodgetts, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester
12.30 Awards and Close
12.50 TP.CG’09
13.00 Lunch
14.00-17.00 Associated ACM SIGGRAPH University of Manchester Professional Chapter Event Mary Whitton Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Special post TP.CG session on “VEs, Illusions and Presence” Kilburn Building, The University of Manchester