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Conference Program:
Papers, Works In Progress, Case Studies, Panels:
Wednesday, 10:15 - 12:15pm
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P1 Papers: Biomedial Visualization
(1) Extracting Regions of Interest Applying a
Local Watershed Transformation,
Stanislav L. Stoev and Wolfgang Stra_er,
University of T|bingen
(2) A Visibility Determination Algorithm for
Interactive Virtual Endoscopy, Rami Hietala
and Jarkko Oikarinen, University of Oulu
(3) 3D Digital Cleansing using Segmentation
Rays, Sarang Lakare, Ming Wan, Mie Sato,
and Arie Kaufman, State University of New
York at Stony Brook
(4) CEASAR: Accurate and Robust
Algorithm for Extracting a Smooth
Centerline, Ingmar Bitter, Mie Sato,
Michael Bender, Kevin T. McDonnell, Arie
Kaufman, and Ming Wan, State University
of New York at Stony Brook
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P2 Papers: Information Visualization
(1) Creating Reusable Visualizations with the Relational
Visualization Notation, Matthew C. Humphrey, Intellisure
(2) H-BLOB: A Hierarchical Visual
Clustering Method Using Implicit
Surfaces, T.C. Sprenger, R. Brunella, and
M.H. Gross, ETH Zurich
(3) A Spreadsheet Interface for Visualization
Exploration, T.J. Jankun-Kelly and Kwan-Liu
Ma, University of California, Davis
(4) Procedural Annotation of Uncertain
Information, Andrej Cedilnik and Penny
Rheingans, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
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C1 Cases: Techniques
(1) Fast Visualization Methods for Comparing
Dynamics: A Case Study in Combustion,
Kay A. Robbins and Michael Gorman,
University of Texas at San Antonio
(2) Mastering Interactive Surface Rendering
for Java-Based Diagnostic Applications,
Lukas Mroz, Rainer Wegenkittl, and Eduard
Grvller, Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna
(3) A Computational Steering System for
Studying Microwave Interactions with
Space-Borne Bodies, J. Edward Swan II,
Marco Lanzagorta, Doug Maxwell, Eddy
Kuo, Jeff Uhlmann, Wendell Anderson,
Haw-Jye Shyu, and William Smith, The
Naval Research Laboratory
(4) Four-Dimensional Non-Linear Ray Tracing
as a Visualization Tool for Gravitational
Physics, Daniel Weiskopf, University of
T|bingen
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Wednesday, 1:45 - 3:45pm
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P3 Papers: Tetrahadral Grids
(1) Simplification of Tetrahedral Meshes with
Accurate Error Evaluation, P. Cignoni, D.
Costanza, C. Montani, C. Rocchini, and R.
Scopigno, Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche, Pisa
(2) Tetrahedron Based, Least Squares, Progressive
Volume Models With Application to
Freehand Ultrasound Data, Tom
Roxborough and Gregory M. Nielson,
Arizona State University
(3) On-the-Fly Rendering of Losslessly
Compressed Irregular Volume Grids,
Chuan-kai Yang, Tulika Mitra, and Tzi-cker
Chiueh, State University of New York at
Stony Brook
(4) Hardware-Accelerated Volume and
Isosurface Rendering Based on Cell-Projection,
Stefan Rvttger, Martin Kraus,
and Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart
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P4 Papers: Visual & Haptic Displays
(1) Color Calibration of Projectors for Large
Tiled Displays, Aditi Majumder, Zhu He,
Herman Towles, and Greg Welch, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(2) Methods for Achieving Seamlessness on
High-Resolution Displays Using Uncalibrated
Cameras, Yuqun Chen, Douglas W. Clark,
Adam Finkelstein, Timothy Housel, and Kai
Li, Princeton University
(3) Shock and Vortex Visualization Using a
Combined Visual/Haptic Interface, Dale
A. Lawrence, Christopher D. Lee, Lucy Y.
Pao, and Roman Y. Novoselov, University of
Colorado, Boulder
(4) Six Degree-of-Freedom Haptic Display,
Arthur Gregory, Ajith Mascarenhas, Stephen
Ehmann, Ming C. Lin, and Dinesh Manocha,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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C2 Cases: Biomedical Applications
(1) Combining Local and Remote Visualization
Techniques for Interactive Volume Rendering
in Medical Applications, Klaus Engel, Peter
Hastreiter, Bernd Tomandl, Knut E.W. Eberhardt,
and Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart
(2) An Integrated Visualization and Design
Toolkit for Flexible Prosthetic Heart Valves,
A.J. Fenlon, T. David, and J.P.R.B. Walton, The
Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd.
(3) Immersive Virtual Reality for Visualizing
Flow Through an Artery, Andrew Forsberg,
Mike Kirby, David Laidlaw, George Karniadakis,
Andries van Dam, and Jonathan Elion,
Brown University
(4) Mastering Interactive Virtual
Bronchioscopy on a Low-End PC, Rainer
Wegenkittl, Anna Vilanova, B. Heged|s, D.
Wagner, Martin Freund, and Eduard Grvller,
Vienna University of Technology
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Wednesday, 4:00 - 5:30pm |
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P10 Papers: Flow Visualization
(1) A Level-Set Method for Flow Visualization,
R|diger Westermann, University of Stuttgart,
Christopher Johnson, University of Utah,
and Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart
(2) Hardware-Accelerated Texture Advection
for Unsteady Flow Visualization, B. Jobard,
G. Erlebacher, and M.Y. Hussaini, Florida
State University
(3) A Flow-guided Streamline Seeding Strategy,
Vivek Verma, David Kao, and Alex Pang,
University of California, Santa Cruz, NASA
Ames Research Center
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N1 Panel: "The Impact of Computer Games on
Scientific & Information Visualization: 'If you
can't beat them, join them'"
Organizer: Theresa Marie Rhyne, Lockheed
Martin/U.S. EPA Visualization Center
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C3 Cases: Scientific Applications
(1) Interactive Visualization of Protein Dynamics,
Henk Huitema and Robert van Liere, CWI,
The Netherlands
(2) Interactive Visualization of Particle-In-Cell
Simulations, Patric Ljung, Mark
Dieckmann, Niclas Andersson, and Anders
Ynnerman, National Supercomputer Centre,
Linkvpings Universitet, Sweden
(3) Visualization of Time Dependent Confocal
Microscopy Data, Wim C. de Leeuw,
Robert van Liere, Pernette J. Verschure,
Astrid E. Visser, Erik M. M. Manders, and
Roel van Driel, CWI, The Netherlands
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Thursday, 8:30 - 10:00am |
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P6 Papers: Visual Perception
(1) Enabling Level-of-Detail Selection for
Exterior Scene Synthesis, Randy K. Scoggins,
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development
Center, Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State
University, and Robert J. Moorhead,
Mississippi State University
(2) Visual Cues for Imminent Object Contact
in Realistic Virtual Environments, Helen
H. Hu, Amy A. Gooch, William B. Thompson,
Brian E. Smits, , University of Utah, John J.
Rieser, Vanderbilt University, and Peter
Shirley, University of Utah
(3) Basic Research for Coloring Multichannel
MRI Data, Shigeru Muraki, Toshiharu
Nakai, and Yasuyo Kita, Electrotechnical
Laboratory, MITI
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W1 Work in Progress: InfoVis
Chair: Penny Rheingans
(1) ARCHAVE: A Virtual Environment for
Archaeological Research, Daniel Acevedo,
Eileen Vote, David H. Laidlaw, and Martha
S. Joukowsky, Brown University
(2) Bring back the past - reconstructing the history
of Homburg/Germany, Manfred Brill,
University of Applied Science, Germany
(3) Modifiable Treemaps Containing Boxes of
Variable Size, Frederic Vernier, and
Laurence Nigay
(4) Unified Content-based Video Retrieval Modeling,
Yi Wu, Yueting Zhuang, and Yunhe Pan,
Institute of Artificial Intelligence, ZheJiang
University, P.R. China
(5) Integrated segmentation, registration and visual-ization
of multimodal medical image datasets,
Ravi Bansal, Bernhard Geiger, Ali Banihashemi,
and Arun Krishnan, Department of Imaging
and Visualization, Siemens Corporate Research
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C4 Cases: Environmental Applications II
(1) Visual Data Fusion for Applications of
High-Resolution Numerical Weather,
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson
Research Center
(2) A Methodology for Plume Visualization with
Application to Real-Time Acquisition and Navigation, Karen
G. Bemis, Deborah Silver, Peter A. Rona,
and Chengwei Feng, Rutgers University
(3) Vector Fields Simplification - A Case
Study of Visualizing Climate Modeling
and Simulation Data Sets, Pak Chung
Wong, Harlan Foote, Ruby Leung, Elizabeth
Jurrus, Dan Adams, and Jim Thomas,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Thursday, 10:15 - 12:15pm |
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P7 Papers: Volume Rendering
(1) Volume Illustration: Non-Photorealistic
Rendering of Volume Models, David
Ebert and Penny Rheingans, University of
Maryland, Baltimore County
(2) Pen-and-Ink Rendering in Volume
Visualization, S.M.F. Treavett and M. Chen,
University of Wales, Swansea
(3) Two-Level Volume Rendering-Fusing
MIP and DVR, Helwig Hauser, Lukas
Mroz, Gian-Italo Bischi, and Eduard Grvller,
Vienna University of Technology
(4) Optimized Software Splatting Using
FastSplats on Rectilinear Grid, Jian Huang,
Klaus Mueller, State University of New York
at Stony Brook, Naeem Shareef, and Roger
Crawfis, The Ohio State University
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P8 Papers: Textures and Geometry
(1) Texturing Techniques for Terrain Visualization,
Jurgen Dollner, Konstantin Baumann, and
Klaus Hinrichs, University of M|nster
(2) Simplification of Surface Annotations,
Frank Suits, James T. Klosowski, William P.
Horn, and Frank Barral, IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center
(3) Uniform Frequency Images: Adding
Geometry to Images to Produce Space-Efficient
Textures, Adam Hunter and
Jonathan Cohen, The Johns Hopkins
University
(4) Image Based Rendering with Stable Frame
Rates, Huamin Qu, Ming Wan, Jiafa Qin,
and Arie Kaufman, State University of New
York at Stony Brook
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W2 Work in Progress: Vector and
Tensorfields
Chair: David Kenwright
(1) Adaptive LIC Image Generation Based on
Significance Map, Li Chen, Research Organization
for Information Science & Technology, Japan,
State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang
University, and Qunsheng Peng, State Key
Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University
(2) Streamtubes and Streamsurfaces for
Visualizing Diffusion Tensor MRI Volume
Images, Song Zhang, Charles T. Curry, Daniel
S. Morris, David H. Laidlaw, Brown University
(3) Towards Optimizing Local Feature Metric
for Simplifying Colored Interval Volumes,
Hiroko Nakamura, Yuriko Takeshima, and
Issei Fujishiro, Ochanomizu University
(4) Visualizing Gradient Descent in Probability
Space, Geoffrey Matthews, Western
Washington University
(5) Line Integral Convolution with Prickly Texture,
Koji Koyamada, Iwate Prefectural University
(6) Restricted Line Integral Convolution, Koji
Koyamada, Iwate Prefectural University
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Thursday, 1:45 - 3:45pm |
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P9 Papers: Isosurfaces
(1) Topology Preserving and Controlled
Topology Simplifying Multiresolution
Isosurface Extraction, Thomas Gerstner,
University of Bonn and Renato Pajarola,
University of California, Irvine
(2) Isosurfacing in Higher Dimensions,
Praveen Bhaniramka, Rephael Wenger, and
Roger Crawfis, The Ohio State University
(3) Semi-Regular Mesh Extraction from
Volumes, Zoe Wood, Caltech, Mathieu
Desbrun, University of Southern California,
Peter Schrvder, and David Breen, Caltech
(4) Scanline Surfacing: Building Separating
Surfaces from Planar Contours, David
Weinstein, University of Utah
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P10 Papers: Multi-Dimensional & Visualization
Systems
(1) Navigating High-dimensional Spaces to
Support Design Steering, Helen Wright,
University of Hull, Ken Brodlie, and Tim
David, University of Leeds
(2) Visualization of Multi-Dimensional Data
with Vector-fusion, Robert R. Johnson,
University of Utah
(3) Real-World Relativity: Image-Based
Special Relativistic Visualization, Daniel
Weiskopf, Daniel Kobras, and Hanns Ruder,
University of T|bingen
(4) Visualizing Geodesics, Ingrid Hotz and
Hans Hagen, University of Kaiserslautern
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C5 Cases: Physics, Information, and Fields
(1) WEAVE: A System for Visually Linking
3-D and Statistical Visualizations Applied
to Cardiac Simulation and Measurement
Data, D.L. Gresh, B.E. Rogowitz, R.L.
Winslow, D.F. Scollan, and C.K. Yung, IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center
(2) Visualizing High-Dimensional Predictive
Model Quality, Penny Rheingans and Marie
desJardins, University of Maryland
Baltimore County
(3) Visualizing Volume Data using Physical
Models, David R. Nadeau and Michael J.
Bailey, San Diego Supercomputer Center
(4) Visualizing DIII-D Tokamak Magnetic
Field Lines, Greg Schussman, Kwan-Liu
Ma, David Schissel, and Todd Evans,
University of California, Davis
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Thursday, 4:00 - 5:30pm |
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P11 Papers: Collaboration and Network Visualization
(1) Geometric Compression for Interactive
Transmission, Olivier Devillers and Pierre-Marie
Gandoin, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis Cedex
(2) Toward a Compelling Sensation of
Telepresence: Demonstrating a Portal to a
Distant (Static) Office, Wei-Chao Chen,
Herman Towles, Lars Nyland, Greg Welch,
and Henry Fuchs, The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
(3) Multi-User View-Dependent Rendering,
Jihad El-Sana, Ben-Gurion University
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N2 Panel: "The Transfer Function Bake-Off"
Organizer: Hanspeter Pfister, MERL - A
Mitsubishi Electric Research
Laboratory
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W3 Work in Progress:
Frameworks, Visualization Systems, Volume Rendering
Chair: Rachael Brady
(1) A Visualization System using Multi Agent
Technologies, Achim Ebert, Andreas Divivier,
DFKI GmbH, Michael Bender, University of
Kaiserslautern, and Henning Barthel, DFKI GmbH
(2) Remote Rendering Using Vtk and Vic,
Robert Olson, Argonne National Laboratory,
and Michael Papka, Argonne National
Laboratory, University of Chicago
(3) Design Issues in the AVS/Express Multi-Pipe
Edition, Paul G. Lever, George W. Leaver, Ian
Curington, James S. Perrin, Andrew, W. Dodd,
Nigel W. John, and W. T. Hewitt, University
of Manchester
(4) Speed-up of Volume Rendering by Adaptive
Distance Sampling, H. Chen, J. Hesser, and
R. Messnner
(5) Segmentation and Volume Rendering of
Human Brain Cryosections, Ikuko Takanashi,
Eric Lum, University of California, Davis,
Joerg Meyer, Mississippi State University,
Kwan-Liu Ma, Bernd Hamann, University of
California, Davis, and Arthur J. Olson, The
Scripps Research Institute
(6) A Shading Function for Projection-based
Direct Volume Rendering, Andreas Werner,
and Roland Ruehle, University of Stuttgart
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Friday, 8:30 - 10:00am |
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P14 Papers: Clustering Vector Fields
(1) Topology Preserving Compression of 2D
Vector Fields, Suresh Kumar Lodha, Jose
C. Renteria, and Krishna M. Roskin,
University of California, Santa Cruz
(2) A Continuous Clustering Method for
Vector Fields, Harald Garcke, Tobias
Preu_er, Martin Rumpf, University of Bonn,
Alexandru Telea, Eindhoven University of
Technology, Ulrich Weikard, University of
Bonn, and Jarke van Wijk, Eindhoven
University of Technology
(3) A Topology Simplification Method for 2D
Vector Fields, Xavier Tricoche, Gerik
Scheuermann, and Hans Hagen, University
of Kaiserslautern
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N3 Panel: "Next-Generation Visualization
Displays: The Research Challenges of Building
Tiled Displays"
Organizers: Mike Papka and Rick Stevens,
ANL/University of Chicago
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C6 Cases: Environmental Applications I
(1) Real-time Visualization of the Clear-up of
a Former U.S. Naval Base, Paul Chapman,
Derek Wills, Peter Stevens, and Graham
Brookes, Hull, UK
(2) Scientific Visualization of Water Quality
in the Chesapeake Bay, Robert J. Stein,
Alan M. Shih, M. Pauline Baker, Carl F.
Cerco, and Mark R. Noel, National Center
for Supercomputer Applications
(3) Multi-Resolution Visualization
Techniques for Nested Weather Models,
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center
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Friday, 10:15 - 12:15pm |
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P13 Papers: Reconstruction and Modeling
(1) Constructing Material Interfaces From Data
Sets with Volume-Fraction Information,
Kathleen S. Bonnell, University of California,
Davis, Mark A. Duchaineau, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Daniel R.
Schikore, Computational Engineering
International, Bernd Hamann, and Kenneth
I. Joy, University of California, Davis
(2) New Techniques for Topologically Correct
Surface Reconstruction, Udo Adamy, Joachim
Giesen, and Matthias John, ETH Zurich
(3) Polyhedral Modeling, Georges-Pierre Bonneau,
and Stefanie Hahmann, Laboratoire LMC-CNRS,
Grenoble
(4) Bicubic Subdivision-Surface Wavelets for
Large-Scale Isosurface Representation and
Visualization, Martin Bertram, Mark A.
Duchaineau, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, Bernd Hamann, and Kenneth I.
Joy, University of California, Davis
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P14 Papers: Polygon Meshes
(1) Anisotropic Geometric Diffusion in Surface
Processing, Ulrich Clarenz, Udo Diewald,
and Martin Rumpf, University of Bonn
(2) Fairing of Non-Manifolds for
Visualization, Andreas Hubeli and Markus
Gross, ETH Zurich
(3) Interior/Exterior Classification of
Polygonal Models, F.S. Nooruddin, and
Greg Turk, Georgia Institute of Technology
(4) Multi-Resolution Dynamic Meshes with
Arbitrary Deformation, Ariel Shamir,
Valerio Pascucci, and Chandrajit Bajaj,
University of Texas, Austin
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Friday, 1:00 - 3:00pm |
CAPSTONE
Capstone Session: Awards for Best Paper,
Best Panel, Best Hot Topics, and Best Case Study
Capstone Address:
Variational Methods in Medical Imagery: Application to the
Segmentation of Anatomical Structures, Olivier Faugeras, INRIA
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