VISUALIZATION '97 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
| Wednesday, 8:00 - 10:00 A.M. | ||
| KN | Keynote Session: | |
| Keynote Address: Global Tele-Immersion | ||
| Speaker: Thomas A. DeFanti | ||
| Wednesday, 10:15 - 12:15 P.M. | ||
| 2A | Panel: "Terascale Visualization: Approaches, Pitfalls, and Issues" | |
| Chairs: | C. Hunter, R. Crawfis | |
| Panelists: | M. Cox, R. Crawfis, B. Hamann, C. Hansen, M. Miller | |
| 2B | Papers: Volume Rendering I | |
| (1) | A Comparison of Normal Estimation Schemes, | |
| T. Mšller, R. Machiraju, K. Mueller, R. Yagel | ||
| (2) | Collision Detection for Volumetric Objects, | |
| T. He, A. Kaufman | ||
| (3) | The VSBUFFER: Visibility Ordering of Unstructured Volume Primitives by Polygon Drawing, | |
| R. Westermann, T. Ert | ||
| (4) | Volume Rendering of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms, | |
| R.C. Tam, C.G. Healey, B. Flak | ||
| 2C | Cases: Flow Visualization | |
| (1) | Vortex Identification - applications in aerodynamics, | |
| D. Kenwright, R. Haimes | ||
| (2) | exVis 1.0: Developing a Wind Tunnel Data Visualization Tool, | |
| S.P. Uselton | ||
| (3) | Visualizing 3D Flow with Volume LIC: issues and insights, | |
| V. Interrante | ||
| (4) | Towards Efficient Visualization Support for Single-block and Multi-block Datasets, | |
| J.M. Favre | ||
| Wednesday, 1:45 - 3:45 P.M. | ||
| 3A | Papers: Vector Fields | |
| (1) | Auralization of Streamline Vorticity in Computational Fluid Dynamics Data, | |
| C.R. Volpe, E.P. Glinert | ||
| (2) | Singularities in Nonuniform Tensor Fields, | |
| Y. Lavin, Y. Levy, L. Hesselink | ||
| (3) | Visualization of Higher Order Singularities in Vector Fields, | |
| G. Scheuermann, H. Hagen, H. Krueger, M. Menzel, A. Rockwood | ||
| (4) | Principal Stream Surface, | |
| W. Cai, P.A. Heng | ||
| 3B | Papers: Terrain Visualization | |
| (1) | ROAMing Terrain, | |
| M.A. Duchaineau, M. Wolinsky, D.E. Sigeti, M.C. Miller, C. Aldrich, M. Mineev | ||
| (2) | Visualization of Height Field Data with Physical Models and Texture Photomapping, | |
| D. Clark, M.J. Bailey | ||
| (3) | Visualization of Large Terrains in Resource-Limited Computing Environments, | |
| B. Rabinovitch, C. Gotsman | ||
| (4) | Building and Traversing a Surface at Variable Resolution, | |
| L. De Floriani, P. Magillo, E. Puppo | ||
| 3C | Cases: Medical Visualization | |
| (1) | Brushing Techniques for Exploring Volume Datasets, | |
| P. C. Wong, R.D. Bergeron | ||
| (2) | Interactive Volume Rendering for Virtual Colonoscopy, | |
| S. You, L. Hong, K. Junyaprasert, A. Kaufman, S. Muraki, Y. Zhou | ||
| (3) | DNA Visual and Analytic Data Mining: A Case Study, | |
| P. Hoffman, G. Grinstein, K. Marx, I. Grosse, E. Stanley | ||
| (4) | An Interactive Cerebral Blood Vessels Exploration System, | |
| A. Puig, D. Tost, I. Navazo | ||
| Wednesday, 4:00 - 5:30 P.M. | ||
| 4A | Papers: Information Visualization | |
| (1) | Multivariate Visualization Using Metric Scaling, | |
| P.C. Wong, R.D. Bergeron | ||
| (2) | Visualizing the Behavior of Higher Dimensional Dynamical Systems, | |
| R. Wegenkittl, H. Loeffelmann, E. Groeller | ||
| (3) | Displaying Data in Multidimensional Relevance Space with 2D Visualization Maps, | |
| J. Assa, D. Cohen-Or, T. Milo | ||
| 4B | Papers: Multiresolution | |
| (1) | Multiresolution Tetrahedral Framework for Visualizing Volume Data, | |
| Y. Zhou, B. Chen, A. Kaufman | ||
| (2) | Haar Wavelets over Triangular Domains with Applications to Multiresolution Models for Flow over a Sphere, | |
| G.M. Nielson, I.H. Jung, J. Sung | ||
| (3) | Wavelet-based Multiresolutional Representation of Computational Field Simulation Datasets, | |
| Z. Zhu, R. Machiraju, B. Fry, R.J. Moorhead | ||
| 4C | Hot Topics Session I | |
| Thursday, 8:30 - 10:00 A.M. | ||
| 5A | Papers: User Interfaces & Interaction | (1) | Dynamic Color Mapping of Bivariate Qualitative Data, |
| P. Rheingans | ||
| (2) | The Contour Spectrum, | |
| C.L. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, D.R. Schikore | ||
| (3) | Constrained 3D Navigation with 2D Controllers, | |
| A.J. Hanson, E. Wernert | ||
| 5B | Papers: Volume Rendering II | |
| (1) | Two-Phase Perspective Casting for Interactive Volume Navigation, | |
| M.L. Brady, K. Jung, H.T. Nguyen, T. Nguyen | ||
| (2) | Accelerated Volume Rendering Using Homogenous Region Encoding, | |
| J.L. Freund, K. Sloan | ||
| (3) | An Anti-Aliasing Technique for Splatting, | |
| J.E. Swan II, K. Mueller, T. Mšller, N. Shareef, R.A. Crawfis, R. Yagel | ||
| 5C | Cases: Educational Visualization | |
| (1) | Instructional Software for Visualizing Optical Phenomena, | |
| D.C. Banks, J.T. Foley, K.N. Vidimce, M.H. Kiu | ||
| (2) | Wildfire Visualization, | |
| J. Ahrens, P. McCormick, J.Bossert, J. Reisner, J. Winterkamp | ||
| (3) | Visualization of Geometric Algorithms in an Electronic Classroom, | |
| M. Shneerson, A. Tal | ||
| Thursday, 10:15 - 12:15 P.M. | ||
| 6A | Papers: Isosurfaces | |
| (1) | A Topology Modifying Progressive Decimation Algorithm, | |
| W.J. Schroeder | ||
| (2) | Efficient Subdivision of Finite-Element and CFD Datasets into Consistent Tetrahedra, | |
| G. Albertelli, R.A. Crawfis | ||
| (3) | Interval Volume Tetrahedralization, | |
| G.M. Nielson, J. Sung | ||
| (4) | Computing the Separating Surface for Segmented Data, | |
| G.M. Nielson, R. Franke | ||
| 6B | Papers: Visualization Systems | |
| (1) | Application-Controlled Demand Paging for Out-of-Core Visualization, | |
| M.B. Cox, D. Ellsworth | ||
| (2) | GADGET: Goal-Oriented Application Design Guidance for Modular Visualization Environments, | |
| I. Fujishiro, Y. Takeshima, Y. Ichikawa, K. Nakamura | ||
| (3) | Collaborative Visualization, | |
| J.D. Wood, H. Wright, K.W. Brodlie | ||
| (4) | VizWiz: A Java Applet for Interactive 3D Scientific Visualization on the Web, | |
| C.K. Michaels, M.J. Bailey | ||
| 6C | Cases: Web & Virtual Reality | |
| (1) | Collaborative Augmented Reality: Exploring Dynamical Systems, | |
| A. Fuhrmann, H. Loeffelmann, D. Schmalstieg | ||
| (2) | Visualizing Customer Segmentations Produced by Self Organizing Maps, | |
| H. Rushmeier, R. Lawrence, G. Almasi | ||
| (3) | Pearls Found on the way to the Ideal Interface for Scanned-probe Microscopes, | |
| R.M. Taylor, J. Chen, S. Okimoto, N. Llopis-Artime, V.L. Chi, F.P. Brooks Jr., M. Falvo, S. Paulson, P. Thiansanthaporn, D. Glick, S. Washburn, R. Superfine | ||
| (4) | Viewing IGES Files Through VRML, | |
| Jed Marti | ||
| Thursday, 1:45 - 3:45 P.M. | ||
| 7A | Papers: Data Extraction | |
| (1) | View Synthesis from a Sparse Set of Views, | |
| Q. Chen, G.G. Medioni | ||
| (2) | Virtualized Reality: Constructing Time- Varying Virtual Worlds from Real World Events, | |
| P.W Rander, P.J. Narayanan, T. Kanade | ||
| (3) | Extracting Feature Lines from 3D Unstructured Grids, | |
| K.L. Ma, V.L. Interrante | ||
| (4) | I/O Optimal Isosurface Extraction, | |
| Y.J. Chiang, C.T. Silva | ||
| 7B | Papers: Flow Visualization | |
| (1) | CAVEvis: Distributed Real-Time Visualization of Time-Varying Scalar and Vector Fields Using the CAVE Virtual Reality Theater, | |
| V.S. Jaswal | ||
| (2) | Fast Oriented Line Integral Convolution for Vector Field Visualization via the Internet, | |
| R. Wegenkittl, E. Groeller | ||
| (3) | UFLIC: A Line Integral Convolution Algorithm for Visualizing Unsteady Flows, | |
| H.W. Shen, D.L. Kao | ||
| (4) | The Motion Map: Efficient Computation of Steady Flow Animations, | |
| B. Jobard, W. Lefer | ||
| 7C | Cases: Engineering and Computational Geometry | |
| (1) | Visualization of Plant Growth, | |
| J. Loomis, X. Liu, Z. Ding, K. Fujimura | ||
| (2) | Determination of Unknown Particle Charges in a Thunder Cloud Based Upon Detected Electric Field Vectors, | |
| D. Drake, T. Simpson, L. Smithmeir, P. Rheingans | ||
| (3) | Interactive Visualization of large Polygonal Environments, | |
| L. Sobierajski Avila, W. Schroeder | ||
| (4) | Efficient visualization of Physical and Structural Properties in Crash-worthiness Simulations, | |
| S. Kuschfeldt, T. Ertl, M. Holzner | ||
| Thursday, 4:00 - 5:30 P.M. | ||
| 8A | Papers: Compression | |
| (1) | Integrated Volume Compression and Visualization, | |
| T.C. Chiueh, C.K Yang, T. He, H. Pfister, A. Kaufman | ||
| (2) | Multiresolution Compression and Reconstruction, | |
| O.G. Staadt, M.H Gross, R. Weber | ||
| (3) | Optimized Geometry Compression for Real-time Rendering, | |
| M.M. Chow | ||
| 8B | Panel: "Information Exploration Shootout Project and Benchmark Data Sets: Evaluating how Visualization does in Analyzing Real-World Data Analysis Problems" | |
| Moderator: | G. Grinstein | |
| Panelists: | S. Laskowski | |
| B. Rogowitz | ||
| G. Wills | ||
| other unnamed panelists | ||
| 8C | Hot Topic Session II | |
| Friday, 8:30 - 10:00 A.M. | ||
| 9A | Papers: Polygonal Surfaces | |
| (1) | Visibility Culling using Portal Textures, | |
| D.G. Aliaga, A.A. Lastra | ||
| (2) | Repairing CAD Models, | |
| G. Barequet, S. Kumar | ||
| (3) | Dynamic Smooth Subdivision Surfaces for Data Visualization, | |
| C. Mandal, H. Qin, B.C. Vemuri | ||
| 9B | Cases: Math & Statistics | |
| (1) | Visualization of Rotation Fields, | |
| M.A. Livingston | ||
| (2) | Isosurface Extraction Using Particle Systems, | |
| P. Crossno, E.S. Angel | ||
| (3) | A Visualization of Music, | |
| S.M. Smith, G.N. Williams | ||
| 9C | Hot Topic Session III | |
| Friday, 10:15 - 12:15 P.M. | ||
| 10A | Papers: Surface Simplification | |
| (1) | Smooth Hierarchical Surface Triangulations, | |
| T.S. Gien, B. Hamann, K.I. Joy, G.L. Schlussmann, I.J. Trotts | ||
| (2) | The Multilevel Finite Element Method for Adaptive Mesh Optimization and Visualization of Volume Data, | |
| R. Grosso, C. Luerig, T. Ertl | ||
| (3) | Simplifying Polygonal Models Using Successive Mappings, | |
| J. Cohen, D. Manocha, M. Olano | ||
| (4) | Controlled Simplification of Genus for Polygonal Models, | |
| J. El-Sana, A. Varshney | ||
| 10B | Panel: "Perceptual Measures for Effective Visualizations" | |
| Moderator: | H. Rushmeier | |
| Panelists: | H. Barrett | |
| P. Rheingans | ||
| S. Uselton | ||
| A. Watson | ||
| Friday, 1:00 - 3:00 P.M. | ||
| CS | Capstone Session: | |
| Awards for Best Paper, Best Panel, Best Hot Topics and Best Case Study | ||
| Capstone Address: | ||
| Speaker: M. Pesce | ||