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Rendering Workshop Programme

Registration

• Sunday, 18.00-20.00
  at the Institute of Computer Graphics, in the building to the right of the main building of the University (see access plan)
• Monday, 8.00-9.00
  in the conference room, in the main building of the university (see access plan)

Session 1: Opening

Monday, 9.00-10.15
Session Chair: George Drettakis

• Keynote Invited Speaker:
  Tomoyuki Nishita, Fukuyama University

Session 2: Local Illumination and BRDFs

Monday, 10.45-12.30
Session Chair: Pierre Poulin

• Szymon Rusinkiewicz:
  A New Change of Variables for Efficient BRDF Representation
• David Gargan and Francis Neelamkavil:
  Approximating Reflectance Functions using Neural Networks
• Robert F. Tobler, Laszlo Neumann, Mateu Sbert, and Werner Purgathofer:
  A new Form Factor Analogy and its Application to Stochastic Global Illumination Algorithms

Session 3: Acceleration and Approximation Techniques

Monday, 14.30-16.15
Session Chair: Philipp Slusallek

• Sergej Zhukov, Andrej Iones, and Grigorij Kronin:
  An Ambient Light Illumination Model
• A. James Stewart and Tasso Karkanis:
  Computing the approximate visibility map, with applications to form factors and discontinuity meshing
• Leif P. Kobbelt, Katja Daubert, and Hans-Peter Seidel:
  Ray Tracing of Subdivision Surfaces

Session 4: Real World Models Acquisition and Display

Monday, 16.45-18.30
Session Chair: Greg Ward Larson

• Holly Rushmeier, Fausto Bernardini, Joshua Mittleman, and Gabriel Taubin:
  Acquiring Input for Rendering at Appropriate Levels of Detail: Digitizing a Pieta
• Pierre Poulin, Mathieu Ouimet, and Marie-Claude Frasson:
  Interactively Modeling with Photogrammetry
• Paul E. Debevec, Yizhou Yu, and Georgi D. Borshukov:
  Efficient View-Dependent Image-Based Rendering with Projective Texture-Mapping

Session 5: Image-Based Rendering

Tuesday, 8.30-10.30
Session Chair: Francois Sillion

• Emilio Camahort, Apostolos Lerios, and Donald Fussell:
  Uniformly Sampled Light Fields
• Hansong Zhang:
  Forward Shadow Mapping
• Ramesh Raskar, Matt Cutts, Greg Welch, and Wolfgang Stuerzlinger:
  Efficient Image Generation for Multiprojector and Multisurface Displays
• Gernot Schaufler:
  Per-Object Image Warping with Layered Impostors

Session 6: Alternative Rendering Techniques

Tuesday, 11.00-13.00
Session Chair: Nelson Max

• Alexandre Meyer and Fabrice Neyret:
  Interactive Volumetric Textures
• Jean-Michel Dischler:
  Efficiently Rendering Macro Geometric Surface Structures with Bi-Directional Texture Functions
• J.P. Grossman and William J. Dally:
  Point Sample Rendering
• Gavin Miller and Marc Mondesir:
  Rendering Hyper-Sprites in Real Time

Session 7: Finite Element Global Illumination

Tuesday, 15.00-16.15
Session Chair: Kadi Bouatouch

• Cyril Soler and Francois X. Sillion:
  Automatic Calculation of Soft Shadow Textures for Fast, High Quality Radiosity
• Marc Stamminger, Philipp Slusallek, and Hans-Peter Seidel:
  Three Point Clustering for Radiance Computations

Session 8: Perception

Tuesday, 16.45-18.00
Session Chair: Holly Rushmeier

• Karol Myszkowski:
  The Visible Differences Predictor: Applications to Global Illumination Problems
• Ann McNamara, Alan Chalmers, Tom Troscianko, and Erik Reinhard:
  Fidelity of Graphics Reconstructions: A Psychophysical Investigation

Session 9: Stochastic Global Illumination Methods

Wednesday 9.00-10.45
Session Chair: Philip Dutre

• Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos and Werner Purgathofer:
  Global Ray-bundle Tracing with Hardware Acceleration
• Philippe Bekaert, Laszlo Neumann, Attila Neumann, Mateu Sbert and Yves D. Willems:
  Hierarchical Monte Carlo Radiosity
• Ingmar Peter and Georg Pietrek:
  Importance Driven Construction of Photon Maps

Session 10: Image-Based Rendering for Illumination

Wednesday 11.15-13.00
Session Chair: Alexander Keller

• Gavin Miller, Steven Rubin and Dulce Poncelen:
  Lazy Decompression of Surface Light Fields for Precomputed Global Illumination
• Wolfgang Heidrich, Jan Kautz, Philipp Slusallek and Hans-Peter Seidel:
  Canned Lightsources
• Dani Lischinski and Ari Rappoport:
  Image-Based Rendering for Non-Diffuse Synthetic Scenes

Session 11: Invited Speaker

Wednesday 14.45-16.00
Session Chair: Nelson Max

• Anthony A. Apodaca (PIXAR Animation Studios):
  Photosurrealism

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