`Visualization '97 Late Breaking Hot Topics'

VISUALIZATION '97 LATE BREAKING HOT TOPICS

Come and be a part of the Late Breaking Hot Topics Sessions during the Visualization '97 Conference. Presentations of late breaking results, works in progress, innovative ideas, and applications of visualization will be given. These shorter talks allow for lively interaction. The sessions will be held Wednesday and Thursday from 4:00 - 5:30 P.M.

Wednesday, 4:00 - 5:30 P.M.

Session I: Volume Visualization

1.	Reducing Artifacts in Volume Rendering by Higher Order Integration
	Martijn W. de Boer, Alexander Gršpl, JŸrgen Hesser, Reinhart MŠnne
2.	Feature Preserving Volume Reconstruction
	Ranjit Desai, Jai Menon, Baining Guo, Jay Buckey, and John Pearce
3.	Interactive Segmentation and Visualization of Volume Data Sets
	Gerald Kuehne, Christoph Poliwoda, Christof Reinhart, Thomas Guenther, Juergen Hesser, Reinhard Maenner
4.	Sieve: A Java-Based Collaborative Visualization Environment
	Philip L. Isenhour, James Begole, Winfield S. Heagy, and Clifford A. Shaffer
5.	Using 3-Dimensional Seed Filling in View Space to Accelerate Volume Rendering
	Jarkko T Oikarinen
6.	Accelerating Volume Visualization by Exploiting Temporal Coherence
	Ilmi Yoon, Joe Demeres, Taeyong Kim, Ulrich Neumann

Thursday, 4:00 - 5:30 P.M.

Session II: Geometry for Visualization

1.	Fast Isocontouring for Structured and Unstructured Meshes in Any Dimension
	Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Valerio Pascucci, and Daniel R. Schikore
2.	Parameter Controlled Skeletons for 3D Visualization
	Nikhil Gagvani and Deborah Silver
3.	Physically Based Modeling and Visualiziation via Conformal Maps about Polynomial Curves
	Zafer Kadi and Alyn P. Rockwood
4.	On-line Conservative $\epsilon$-Visibility Culling for Client/Server Walkthroughs
	Daniel Cohen-Or and Eyal Zadicario
5.	Adaptive Triangulation of Objects Reconstructed from Multiple Range Images
	Peter J. Neugebauer and Konrad Klein
6.	Realtime Visualization of Large Images over a Thinwire
	Chee K. Yap, E. C. Chang, T. J. Yen

Friday, 8:30 - 10:30 A.M.

Session III: Information Visualization

1.	Information Pyramids (TM): A New Approach to Visualising Large Hierarchies
	Keith Andrews, Josef Wolte, and Michael Pichler
2.	Online Information Visualization of Very Large Data
	Robert F. Cohen and Mao L. Huang
3.	Automatic Shape Interpolation for Glyph-based Information Visualization
	David S. Ebert, James M. Kukla, Christopher D. Shaw, Amen Zwa, Ian Soboroff, and D. Aaron Roberts
4.	Visualization of Cyclic Multivariate Data
	Benjamin N. Lipchak
5.	Visualization of a Network Traffic Monitoring System
	Donald E Swing
6.	A Spatial Browsing Approach to Multimedia Information Retrieval: The TV Browsing Space
	Lira Nikolovska and Jacquelyn A. Martino