VISUALIZATION ’98
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Visualization 98 attendees who stay for the Awards Ceremony on Friday afternoon will receive a VIS 98 T-shirt on a first-come, first-served basis.
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VISUALIZATION ’98
CONFERENCE PROGRAM |
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Visualization 98 attendees who stay for the Awards Ceremony on Friday afternoon will receive a VIS 98 T-shirt on a first-come, first-served basis. |
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Wednesday, 8:00 - 10:00am |
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Keynote Session: Modern Trompe L’oeil, | |
| Pat Hanrahan | ||
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Wednesday, 10:15 - 12:15pm |
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| 2A | Panel: “Why is Real-Time Volume Rendering No | |
| Longer a Year Away?” | ||
| Moderator: | Arie Kaufman | |
| Panelists: | Marty Brady, Bill Lorensen, Fred Kitson, | |
| Hanspeter Pfister | ||
| 2B | Papers: Terrain Visualization and Level of Detail | |
| Techniques | ||
| Chair: | Bernd Hamann | |
| (1) | Large scale Terrain Visualization using the | |
| Restricted Quadtree Triangulation, Renato B. Pajarola | ||
| (2) | Contour Interpolation and Surface Reconstruction of | |
| Smooth Terrain Models, Jianyun Chai, | ||
| Takaharu Miyoshi, Eihachiro Nakamae | ||
| (3) | Smooth View-Dependent Level-of-Detail Control | |
| and Its Application to Terrain Rendering, | ||
| Hugues H. Hoppe | ||
| (4) | Efficient Implementation of Multi-Triangulations, | |
| Leila De Floriani, Paola Magillo, Enrico Puppo | ||
| 2C | Cases: Flow Visualization | |
| Chair: | Greg Nielson | |
| (1) | Task Specific Visualization Design: A Case Study | |
| in Operational Weather Forecasting, | ||
| Lloyd A. Treinish | ||
| (2) | Development of a Multi-Source Visualization | |
| Prototype, Leslie Keely, Sam Uselton | ||
| (3) | Data Level Comparison of Wind Tunnel and | |
| Computational Fluid Data Dynamics Data, | ||
| Qin Shen, Alex Pang, Sam Uselton | ||
| (4) | Selective Visualization of Vortices in | |
| Hydrodynamic Flows, I. Ari Sadarjoen, | ||
| Frits H. Post, Bing Ma, David C. Banks, | ||
| Hans-Georg Pagendarm | ||
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Wednesday, 1:45 - 3:45pm |
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| 3A | Papers: Surfaces and Level of Detail Techniques | |
| Chair: | David Banks | |
| (1) | Visualization of Scalar Topology for Structural | |
| Enhancement, Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Valerio Pascucci, | ||
| Daniel Schikore | ||
| (2) | A General Method for Recovering Attribute Values | |
| on Simplified Meshes, Paolo Cignoni, | ||
| Claudio Montani, Claudio Rocchini, Roberto Scopigno | ||
| (3) | Surface Reconstruction with Anisotropic | |
| Density-Scaled Alpha Shapes, Marek Teichmann, | ||
| Michael Capps | ||
| (4) | Level of Detail Visualization of Scalar Data Sets | |
| on Irregular Surface Meshes, | ||
| Georges-Pierre Bonneau, Alexandre Gerussi | ||
| 3B | Papers: Feature Detection and Visualization | |
| Chair: | David Ebert | |
| (1) | Tracking Features in Unstructured Datasets, | |
| D. Silver, X. Wang | ||
| (2) | Feature Detection in Linked Derived Spaces, | |
| Chris Henze | ||
| (3) | Extremal Feature Extraction from 3-D Vector and | |
| Noisy Scalar Fields, Chi-Keung Tang, | ||
| Gerard G. Medioni | ||
| (4) | Feature Comparisons of Vector Fields using Earth | |
| Mover’s Distance, Yingmei Lavin, | ||
| Rajesh Kumar Batra, Lambertus Hesselink | ||
| 3C | Cases: Medical Data Visualization | |
| Chair: | Ed Swan | |
| (1) | Visual Presentation of Magnetic Resonance Images, | |
| J. E. van der Heyden, M. S. T. Carpendale, K. Inkpen, | ||
| M. S. Atkins | ||
| (2) | Visualization in Corneal Topography, | |
| F. M. Vos, H. J. W. Spoelder | ||
| (3) | Case Study Using the Virtual Environment for | |
| Reconstructive Surgery, Kevin Montgomery, | ||
| Michael Stephanides, Stephen Schendel, Muriel Ross | ||
| (4) | Interactive Virtual Angioscopy, | |
| Enrico Gobbetti, Piero Pili, Antonio Zorcolo, | ||
| Massimiliano Tuveri | ||
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Wednesday, 4:00 - 5:30pm |
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| 4A | Papers: Multi-Dimensional Visualization | |
| Chair: | Holly Rushmeier | |
| (1) | Building Perceptual Textures to Visualize | |
| Multidimensional Datasets, Christopher G. Healey, | ||
| James T. Enns | ||
| (2) | Efficient Co-Triangulation of Large Data Sets, | |
| Henrik Weimer, Joe Warren, Jane Troutner, | ||
| Wendell Wiggins, John Shrout | ||
| (3) | Visualizing Diffusion Tensor Images of the Mouse | |
| Spinal Cord, David H. Laidlaw, Eric T. Ahrens, | ||
| David Kremers, Matthew J. Avalos, Carol Readhead, | ||
| Russell E. Jacobs | ||
| 4B | Papers: Flow and Streamlines | |
| Chair: | Hans Hagen | |
| (1) | Image-Guided Streamline Placement on | |
| Curvilinear Grid Surfaces, Xiaoyang Mao, | ||
| Yuji Hatanaka, Hidenori Higashida, Atsumi Imamiya | ||
| (2) | A Higher-Order Method For Finding Vortex Core | |
| Lines, Martin Roth, Ronald Peikert | ||
| (3) | Automatic Detection of Open and Closed | |
| Separation and Attachment Lines, | ||
| David N. Kenwright | ||
| 4C | Hot Topics Session I: Volume Manipulations, | |
| Textures, and Flow | ||
| Chair: | Craig M. Wittenbrink | |
| (1) | Stereoscopic Volume Rendering Using Templates, | |
| Yun-Mo Koo, Cheol-Hi Lee, Yeong Gil Shin | ||
| (2) | Octree-based Volume Sculpting, | |
| Andreas Būrentzen | ||
| (3) | High Resolution Textures, | |
| Tobias Httner | ||
| (4) | Multi-modal Flow Animation with the Motion Map, | |
| Claire Chdot, Wilfrid Lefer | ||
| (5) | Time-Critical Computational Algorithms for Particle | |
| Advection in Flow Visualization, | ||
| Steve T. Bryson | ||
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Thursday, 8:30 - 10:00am |
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| 5A | Papers: Isosurface Extraction | |
| Chair: | Polly Baker | |
| (1) | Isosurface Extraction from Time-Varying Fields | |
| Using a Temporal Hierarchical Index Tree, | ||
| Han-Wei Shen | ||
| (2) | Interactive Out-Of-Core Isosurface Extraction, | |
| Yi-Jen Chiang, Claudio T. Silva, William J. Schroeder | ||
| (3) | View Dependent Isosurface Extraction, | |
| Yarden Livnat, Charles Hansen | ||
| 5B | Papers: Information Visualization | |
| Chair: | Michael Gerald-Yamasaki | |
| (1) | The Gridfit Approach: An Efficient and Effective | |
| Approach to Visualizing Large Amounts of Spatial | ||
| Data, Daniel A. Keim, Annemarie Herrmann | ||
| (2) | TOPIC ISLANDS - A Wavelet-Based Text | |
| Visualization System, Nancy E. Miller, Pak C. Wong, | ||
| Mary Brewster, Harian Foote | ||
| (3) | Continuous Cartogram Construction, | |
| Donald H. House, Christopher J. Kocmoud | ||
| 5C | Cases: 3D Modeling and Visualization | |
| Chair: | Stas Klimenko | |
| (1) | Volumetric Visualization of Acoustic Fields in | |
| CNMAT’s Sound Spatialization Theatre, | ||
| Sami Khoury, Adrian Freed, David Wessel | ||
| (2) | Supporting Detail-in-Context for the DNA | |
| Representation, H-Curves, M. L. Lantin, | ||
| M. S. T. Carpendale | ||
| (3) | Visualizing Hilbert Curves, | |
| Nelson Max | ||
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Thursday, 10:15 - 12:15pm |
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| 6A | Panel: “Multi-Source Data Analysis Challenges” | |
| Panelists: | Sam Uselton, Jim Ahrens, Wes Bethel, Lloyd Treinish, | |
| Andrei State | ||
| 6B | Papers: Interactive Visualization / VR / Animation | |
| Chair: | Russell Taylor | |
| (1) | A Concept for Virtual Reality Tools for Design | |
| Reviews, Klaus Kremer | ||
| (2) | Efficient Warping for Architectural Walkthroughs | |
| using Layered Depth Images, Voicu S. Popescu, | ||
| Anselmo Lastra, Daniel G. Aliaga, | ||
| Manuel M. de Oliveira Neto | ||
| (3) | Visualizing Differences in Movies of Cortical | |
| Activity, Kay A. Robbins, David M. Senseman | ||
| (4) | A Distributed Blackboard Architecture for | |
| Interactive Data Visualization, Robert van Liere, | ||
| Jan A. Harkes, Wim C. de Leeuw | ||
| 6C | Cases: Terrain & Large Data Visualization | |
| Chair: | Michael Cox | |
| (1) | Rear-Projecting Virtual Data onto Physical Terrain: | |
| An Exercise in Two Senses Being Better Than One, | ||
| Dru Clark, Rosemarie McKeon, Richard Marciano, | ||
| Michael Bailey | ||
| (2) | Intent, Perception, and Out-of-Core Visualization | |
| Applied to Terrain, Douglass Davis, T. Y. Jiang, | ||
| William Ribarsky, Nickolas Faust | ||
| (3) | Production Visualization for the ASCI One | |
| TeraFLOPS Machine, Philip D. Heermann | ||
| (4) | Battlefield Visualization on the Responsive | |
| Workbench, Jim Durbin, J. Edward Swan II, | ||
| Brad Colbert, Chris Scannell, John Crowe, Rob King, | ||
| Tony King, Terry Welsh, Zachary Wartel | ||
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Thursday, 1:45 - 3:45pm |
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| 7A | Papers: Isosurface & Volume Rendering | |
| Chair: | Kwan-Liu Ma | |
| (1) | Interactive Ray Tracing for Isosurface Rendering, | |
| Steven Parker, Peter Shirley, Yarden Livnat, | ||
| Charles Hansen, Peter-Pike Sloan | ||
| (2) | Fast, Pop-Free Sheet Buffer-Based Splatting with | |
| Grid Warping for Volumes with Unequal Grid | ||
| Scaling, Klaus Mueller, Roger Crawfis | ||
| (3) | Accelerated Ray-Casting for Curvilinear Volumes, | |
| Lichan Hong, Arie E. Kaufman | ||
| (4) | High Quality Rendering of Attributed Volume Data, | |
| Ulf Tiede, Thomas Schiemann, Karl Heinz Hoehne | ||
| 7B | Papers: Simplification | |
| Chair: | Daniel Cohen-Or | |
| (1) | Simplifying Surfaces with Color and Texture using | |
| Quadric Error Metrics, Michael Garland, | ||
| Paul S. Heckbert | ||
| (2) | A Unified Approach for Simplifying Polygonal and | |
| Spline Models, M. Gopi, Dinesh Manocha | ||
| (3) | Fast and Memory Efficient Polygonal Simplification, | |
| Peter Lindstrom, Greg Turk | ||
| (4) | Efficient and Robust Simplification of Tetrahedral | |
| Meshes, Issac J.Trotts, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy, | ||
| David F. Wiley | ||
| 7C | Cases: Marine Data Visualization | |
| Chair: | Robert Moorhead | |
| (1) | Scientific Visualization and Data Modeling of | |
| Scattered Sediment Contaminant Data in New | ||
| York/New Jersey Estuaries, Hong Ma, | ||
| Keith W. Jones, Eric A. Stern | ||
| (2) | POPTEX: Interactive Ocean Model Visualization | |
| Using Texture Mapping Hardware, Allen McPherson, | ||
| Mathew Maltrud | ||
| (3) | Acoustic Imaging and Visualization of Plumes | |
| Discharging from Black Smoker Vents on the Deep | ||
| Seafloor, P. Rona, K. Bemis, D. Kenchammana-Hosekote, | ||
| D. Silver | ||
| (4) | Seabed Visualization, | |
| Paul Chapman, Peter Stevens, Derek Wills, | ||
| Graham Brookes | ||
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Thursday, 4:00 - 5:30pm |
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| 8A | Papers: Tensor / Flow | |
| Chair: | Val Watson | |
| (1) | Interactive Deformations from Tensor Fields, | |
| Ed Boring, Alex Pang | ||
| (2) | Real-Time Techniques for 3D Flow Visualization, | |
| Anton L. Fuhrmann, Eduard Groeller | ||
| (3) | Wavelets Over Curvilinear Grids | |
| Gregory M. Nielson, Il-Hong Jung, Junwon Sung | ||
| 8B | Panel: “Key Problems and Thorny Issues in | |
| Multidimensional Visualization” | ||
| Panelists: | Georges Grinstein, Alfred Inselberg, Sharon Laskowski | |
| 8C | Hot Topics Session II: Surface Manipulations | |
| and Glyphs | ||
| Chair: | Amitabh Varshney | |
| (1) | Out-of-Core Interval Trees for Fast Isosurface | |
| Extraction, Peter D. Sulatycke, Kanad Ghose | ||
| (2) | Surface Segmentation Using Morphological | |
| Watersheds, Alan P. Mangan, Ross T. Whitaker | ||
| (3) | Visualization by Metamorphosis, | |
| Marc Alexa, Wolfgang Mller | ||
| (4) | Progressive Iso-surfaces on the Web, | |
| Klaus Engel, Roberto Grosso, Thomas Ertl | ||
| (5) | Clustering-Based Generation of Hierarchical | |
| Surface Models, Bjoern Heckel, Antonio C. Uva, | ||
| Bernd Hamann | ||
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Friday, 8:30 - 10:00am |
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| 9A | Papers: Image-based Techniques and Volume Analysis | |
| Chair: | Chuck Hansen | |
| (1) | Image-Based Transfer Function Design for Data | |
| Exploration in Volume Visualization, Shiaofen Fang, | ||
| Tom Biddlecome | ||
| (2) | Image-Based Rendering with Occlusions via Cubist | |
| Images, Andrew J. Hanson, Eric A. Wernert | ||
| (3) | Hierarchical Volume Analysis and Visualization Based | |
| on Morphological Operators, Christoph Luerig, | ||
| Thomas Ertl | ||
| 9B | Cases: Engineering & Design | |
| Chair: | Chris Johnson | |
| (1) | Configuration Space Visualization for Mechanical | |
| Design, Elisha Sacks, Leo Joskowicz | ||
| (2) | Metallurgical Application of Three Dimensional | |
| Visualization Techniques, Marco Lanzagorta, | ||
| Milo V. Kral, J. Edward Swan II, George Spanos, | ||
| Rob Rosenberg, Eddy Kuo | ||
| (3) | Visualization for Multiparameter Aircraft Designs, | |
| Cliff A. Shaffer, Duane L. Knill, Layne T. Watson | ||
| 9C | Hot Topics Session III: Perception, User | |
| Interaction, and Toolkits | ||
| Chair: | Larry Rosenblum | |
| (1) | Towards the Subjunctive Interface: General | |
| Support for Parameter Exploration by | ||
| Over-laying Alternative Application States, | ||
| Aran Lunzer | ||
| (2) | Psychophysical Validation of the Visible | |
| Differences Predictor for Global Illumination | ||
| Applications, William L. Martens, Karol Myszkowski | ||
| (3) | Visualization Of Complex Physical Phenomena | |
| and Mathematical Objects in Virtual Environment, | ||
| Stanislav V. Klimenko, Igor N. Nikitin | ||
| (4) | Declarative Specification of Visualization and | |
| Interaction, Calum Grant, Peter Robinson | ||
| (5) | LIMBO/VTK: ATool for Rapid Tele-Immersive | |
| Visualization, Jason Leigh, Paul J. Rajlich, | ||
| Robert J. Stein, Andrew E. Johnson, Thomas A. DeFanti | ||
| (6) | Applications of Chebyshev Bases to Cylindrical | |
| Volume Grids: Direct Section Computation and | ||
| Robust Volume Reconstruction, Ranjit P. Desai, | ||
| Jai Menon | ||
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Friday, 10:15 - 12:15pm |
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| 10A | Papers: Texturing and Rendering | |
| Chair: | Rachael Brady | |
| (1) | Interactive Display of Very Large Textures, | |
| David Cline, Parris K. Egbert | ||
| (2) | Pixel Masks for Screen-Door Transparency, | |
| Jurriaan D. Mulder, Frans C.A. Groen, Jarke J. van Wijk | ||
| (3) | Comparing LIC and Spot Noise, | |
| Wim C. de Leeuw, Robert van Liere | ||
| (4) | Size Preserving Pattern Mapping, | |
| Yair Kurzion, Torsten Mller, Roni Yagel | ||
| 10B | Panel: “Art and Visualization: Oil and Water?” | |
| Organizer: | David Laidlaw | |
| Panelists: | David Kremers, Victoria Interrante, Felice Frankel, | |
| Thomas Banchoff | ||
| 10C | Papers: Surfaces II | |
| Chair: | Kelly Gaither | |
| (1) | Constrained Optimal Framings of Curves and Surfaces | |
| Using Quaternion Gauss Maps, Andrew J. Hanson | ||
| (2) | Converting Sets of Polygons to Manifold Surfaces by | |
| Cutting and Stitching, Andr P. Gueziec, Gabriel Taubin, | ||
| Francis Lazarus, William Horn | ||
| (3) | Interpolation of Triangle Hierarchies, Axel Friedrich, | |
| Konrad Polthier, Markus Schmies | ||
| (4) | Progressive Tetrahedralizations, Oliver G. Staadt, | |
| Markus H. Gross | ||
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Friday, 1:00 - 3:00pm |
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| CS | Capstone Session: Awards for Best Paper, Best Panel, | |
| Best Hot Topics, and Best Case Study | ||
| Capstone Address: Draw on the Wall, Turner Whitted | ||
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