From: "CGI'97 secretariat" Subject: CONF: CGI'97, Hasselt Belgium, June 23-27 Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 12:08:23 +0000 Organization: Limburgs Universitair Centrum Call for participation - Please circulate http://edm.luc.ac.be/cgi97/ FROM: CGI'97 secretariat Dear colleague, Dear Madam / Sir, Attached you find the preliminary program of the 15th edition of the COMPUTER GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL '97 CONFERENCE, 23-27 June 1997 in Belgium. Please pass this information to colleagues that might be interested in the areas of virtual reality, multimedia, computer graphics and the internet. This conference is constituted of several parts: - the preconference tutorials (23-24 June) - an industrial seminar about JAVA en ActiveX (24 June) - the conference (25-27 June) consisting of lectures of invited speakers and papers - an exhibition (25-26 June) A social program is provided with e.g. a film about computer animation on Tuesday evening and a conference reception and dinner on Wednesday. An accompanying program is foreseen during the conference. This information is only part of the full information available on the internet at URL http://edm.luc.ac.be/cgi97/ Please note the DISCOUNT REGISTRATION RATE for bookings received by 15 May 1997. Thank you E. Flerackers, R. Earnshaw en D.Thalmann Co-chairs COMPUTER GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL 1997 "VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS AND MULTIMEDIA ON NETWORKS AND THE INTERNET" KINEPOLIS, Hasselt - Diepenbeek, Belgium June 23 - 27, 1997 CGI'97 organized by : CGS (Computer Graphics Society) EDM (Expertise Centre for Digital Media) LUC (Limburg University Centre) In Co-operation with : ACM SIGGRAPH, BCS (Britisch Computer Society, Eurographics, IFIP WG 5.10, IEEE TC Computer Graphics, VRS (Virtual Reality Society) With the support of : AGFA, ANDROME, BARCO, the towns Hasselt and Diepenbeek, COMPUSOFT, CONCENTRA Group, European Commission - DG III, FORD Genk, FWO Vlaanderen, KINEPOLIS, SGI (Silicon Graphics International), TANDEM, Touristic Service Limburg, Touristic Service of Hasselt COMMITTEE MEMBERS Honorary Conference Chair: T.L. Kunii Conference Co-Chairs: E. Flerackers, R. Earnshaw and D. Thalmann Program Co- Chairs: F. Van Reeth and J. Vince An INTERNATIONAL and DOMESTIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE are responsible for the content and practical organisation of this conference. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Prof. H. Fuchs Henry Fuchs is Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science and Adjunct Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is predominantly involved in the field of virtual reality in medicine through his work on the Medical Imaging Program Project and his research in head-mounted displays. Prof. Fuchs is one of the inventors of the Pixel-Planes high-performance graphics engine, currently the world's fastest graphics computer, and is a principal investigator for the work on its successor, PixelFlow. INVITED SPEAKERS Prof. B. Blumberg Bruce Blumberg is the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Career Development Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab where he is heading up a new group focused on the problem of building "Synthetic Characters". Prof. T.L. Kunii Tosiyasu L. Kunii is currently President and Professor at the University of Aizu. His research interests include computer graphics, database systems and software engineering. Mr. C. Machover Carl Machover is president of Machover Associates Corp(MAC) a consultancy and literary agency he founded in 1976 and which provides a broad range of management, engineering, marketing and financial services world-wide to computer graphics users, suppliers and investors. Application areas served include CAD, CAM, CAE, CIM, business, slidemaking, art, animation, graphic arts, multimedia, virtual reality, process control, technical documentation, engineering and scientific visualization. Prof. N. Magnenat-Thalmann Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann is Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and Adjunct Professor at HEC Montreal, Canada. More information about the speakers is mentioned on our homepage at the web (URL: http:// edm.luc.ac.be/cgi97/ ) PRELIMINARY PROGRAM CGI'97 MONDAY, JUNE 23TH 1997 9:00-9:30 Registration 9:30-13:00 Tutorial 1: "Participants and Virtual Humans in Virtual Reality" Part 1 N. Magnenat- Thalmann, D. Thalmann (Univ. of Geneva, EPFL - Switzerland) 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-17:30 Tutorial 1: "Participants and Virtual Humans in Virtual Reality" Part 2 N. Magnenat- Thalmann, D. Thalmann (Univ. of Geneva, EPFL - Switzerland) TUESDAY, JUNE 24TH 1997 9:00-9:30 Registration 9:30-13:00 Tutorial 2: "Envisioning for Computer Graphics" Part 1 B. Parslow, G. Wyvill (Univ. of Otago - New Zealand) 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-17:30 Tutorial 2: "Envisioning for Computer Graphics" Part 2 B. Parslow, G. Wyvill (Univ. of Otago - New Zealand) TUESDAY, JUNE 24TH 1997 9:00-9:30 Registration 9:30-12:00 Industrial seminar "Active X" by Microsoft 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-15:30 Industrial seminar "JAVA" by Sun 15:30-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-17:30 Panel Discussion 18:00-19:30 Registration Welcome reception 19:30-22:00 Film festival CA'97 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25TH 1997 8:30-9:20 Registration 9:20-9:45 Welcome H. Martens, Vice-chancellor of the Limburg University Centre Opening Session E. Flerackers, CGI'97 Co-Chair, Limburg Univ. Centre 9:45-10:45 Session 1: Keynote lecture Chair: T.L. Kunii (Univ. of Aizu - Japan) "Enabling Superman's X-ray Vision - Seeing is believing" H. Fuchs (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 10:45-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 -12:30 Session 2: Rendering Chair: F. Van Reeth (Limburg Univ. Centre) "An algorithm for polygon subdivision based on vertex normals" K. van Overveld, B. Wyvill (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology - the Netherlands, Univ. of Calgary - Canada) "Calligraphic Character Synthesis using a Brush Model" H.H.S. Ip, H.T.F. Wong (City Univ. of Hong Kong) "Representing and Rendering Sweep Objects using Volume Models" G. Sealy, G. Wyvill (Univ. of Otago - New Zealand) 12:30-14:00 lunch 14:00-14:45 Session 3: Invited lecture Chair: T. D'Hondt (V.U.Brussels - Belgium) "Autonomous Animated Interactive Characters: Do We Need Them? B. Blumberg (MIT Media Lab - USA) 14:45-16:00 Session 4: HCI in Virtual Environments Chair: N. Magnenat-Thalmann (Univ. of Geneva - Switzerland) "Integrating Flying and Fish Tank Metaphors with Cyclopean Scale" C. Ware, D. Fleet (Univ. of New Brunswick - Canada) "A Hybrid 2D/3D User Interface for Immersive Object Modeling" K. Coninx, F. Van Reeth, E. Flerackers (Limburg Univ. Centre - Belgium) "Sketching Shadows and Highlights to Position Lighs" P. Poulin, K. Ratib, M. Jacques (Universiti de Montreal - Canada) 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-17:45 Session 5: Modeling Chair: B. Blumberg (MIT Media Lab - USA) "An Automatic Description of Volumetric Objects Using Metaballs" J. J. Kim, E.-S. Kim, S.-K. Park (Chonnam National Univ. - Korea) "Reversibly visible polygons and polygonal approximation in two dimensional space" S.V.S.Rao, K. Harada (Hiroshima Univ. - Japan) "VUEMS: A Virtual Urban Environment Modeling System" S. Donikian (Campus Univ. de Beaulieu - France) 19:30-22:30 Conference Reception and Dinner in the Orangerie of Bokrijk THURSDAY, JUNE, 26TH 1997 9:00-9:45 Session 6: Invited lecture Chair: N. Patrikalakis (MIT Cambridge - USA) "Characterizing Images Based on Lines for Image Indexing " T.L. Kunii (University of Aizu - Japan) 9:45-10:35 Session 7: Networked Virtual Environments Chair: D. Thalmann (EPFL - Switzerland) "Model-Based View Extrapolation for Interactive VR Web-Systems" D. Cohen-Or (Tel-Aviv Univ. - Israel) "DOOViE: An Architecture for Networked Virtual Environment Systems" J. Ahn, M. Lee, H. Lee (LG Electronics Research Center - Korea) 10:35-11:05 Coffee Break 11:05-12:20 Session 8: Curves and Surfaces I Chair: F.E. Wolter (Univ. of Hannover - Germany) "Curve and Surface Design Using Multiresolution Constraints" S. Takahashi, Y. Shinagawa, T.L. Kunii (The Univ. of Tokyo - Japan) "An Interpolation Subspline Scheme Related to B- Spline Techniques" O. Rvschel (Technische Univ. Graz - Austria) 12:20-14:00 lunch (CGS board meeting) 14:00-14:45 Session 9: Invited lecture Chair: W. Lamotte (Limburg Univ. Centre) "Internet Business Opportunities" C. Machover (Machover Associates Corporation-USA) 14:45-16:00 Session 10: Panel on European Commission research projects in Computer Graphics 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-17:45 Session 11: Graphics Architectures Chair: J. Vince (Bournemouth Univ. - UK) "A Cached Frame Buffer System for Object-Space Parallel Processing Systems" H. Kobayashi, T. Maeda, H. Yamauchi, T. Nakamura (Tohoku Univ. - Japan) "An Advanced Graphics Chip with Phong and Bump- mapped Shading" T. Ikedo, J. Ma (The University of Aizu - Japan) 19:30-21:00 Reception in the Japanese Garden of Hasselt FRIDAY, JUNE 27TH 1997 9:00-9:45 Session 12: Invited lecture Chair: G. Wyvill (Univ. of Otago - New Zealand) "A Flexible Texture-Fitting Model for Virtual Humans" N. Magnenat - Thalmann (University of Geneva - Switzerland) 9:45-10:35 Session 13: Simulation Chair: R. Earnshaw (Univ. of Bradford - UK) "Controlling Fluid Animation" N. Foster, D. Metaxas "Sensor Based Synthetic Actors in a Tennis Game Simulation" H. Noser, D. Thalmann (Univ. of Geneva - Switzerland) 10:35-11:05 Coffee Break 11:05-12:20 Session 14: Virtual Reality support systems Chair: E. Flerackers (Limburg Univ.Centre) "The Virtual Display Case" G. Wyvill, T. Mason (University of Otago - New Zealand) "The Visorama System: A Functional Overview of a New Virtual Reality Environment" A. M. Matos, L. Velho, J. Gomes, A. Parente, H. Siffert (IMPA - Rio de Janeiro) "Distortion Correction of Magnetic Fields for Position Tracking" G. Zachmann (Frauenhofer Institute for Comp. Graphics - Germany) 12:20-14:00 lunch 14:00-14:45 Session 15: Invited lecture Chair: Y. Willems (K.U. Leuven - Belgium) "VRML and web authoring" SGI-speaker 14:45-16:00 Session 16: Curves and Surfaces II Chair: F. Arickx (Univ. of Antwerp - Belgium) "Modifying Curvatures at Design Points for Convex B- spline Curves" H. Guan, T. Torii (Nagoya Univ. - Japan) "Geodesic Voronoi Diagrams on Parametric Surfaces" R. Kunze, F.-E. Wolter, T. Rausch (Universitdt Hannover - Germany) "Rational Spline Interpolation Preserving the Shape of the Monotonic Data" M. Sarfraz (King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum and Minerals - Saudi Arabia) 16:00 Award for the best paper of young researchers The REGISTRATION FEES and REGISTRATION FORM are available on the internet at the http://edm.luc.ac.be/cgi97/ Information about the HOTEL ACCOMODATION and respective REGISTRATION INFORMATION can also be found on the internet.