International Workshop on Volume Graphics

24 - 25 March 1999

Swansea, United Kingdom

ADVANCE PROGRAMME

Wednesday 24 March 1999

OPENING SESSION and KEYNOTE LECTURE, 9:15–10:35

Welcome Address
Peter Townsend, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Administration)

State of the Art in Volume Graphics
A. Kaufman

COFFEE, followed by PAPER SESSION I (RENDERING), 10:55–13:00

Voxels Versus Polygons: A Quantitative Approach to Volume Graphics
D. Bartz and M. Meißner

Multi-Resolution Volume Rendering Based on Shear-Warp Factorization
Y. Yuting, L. Feng and S. H. Soon

High-Quality Volume Rendering Using Seed Filling in View Lattice
J. Oikarinen, R. Hietala and L. Jyrkinen

Extending Hypertextures to Non-Geometrically Definable Volume Data
R. Satherley and M. Jones

Voxel Texture Mapping for Volumetric 3D Artistic Text Modeling
W. Zhongke and E. C. Prakash

LUNCH, 13:00–14:00

KEYNOTE LECTURE, followed by PAPER SESSION II (MODELLING), 14:00–16:05

Discrete Modeling and its Applications
R. Yagel

Optimally Thin Tunnel-Free Triangular Meshes
V. E. Brimkov, R. P. Barneva and P. Nehlig

Smooth Boundary Surfaces from Binary 3D Datasets
D. Cohen-Or, A. Kadosh, D. Levin and R. Yagel

Manufacturing Isovolumes
M. Bailey

TEA, followed by TWO PARALLEL PAPER SESSIONS III, 16:20–18:05

PARALLEL PAPER SESSION III (HIGH PERFORMANCE VOLUME GRAPHICS)

Multiresolutional Parallel Isosurface Extraction Based on Tetrahedral Bisection
T. Gerstner and M. Rumpf

A Shading and Compositing Processor Based on Crossbar Switches and SRAM Memory
M. Deyssenroth, M. de Boer, A. Gropl, J. Hesser and R. Manner

Solving the Hazard Problem for Algorithmically Optimized Real-Time Volume Rendering
B. Vettermann, J. Hesser and R. Manner

Hardware Accelerated Voxelization
S. Fang and H. Chen

PARALLEL PAPER SESSION IV (DATA MANIPULATION AND APPLICATIONS)

A Morphological Approach to Volume Synthesis of Weathered Stones
N. Ozawa and I. Fujishiro 

Interactive Deformable Volume Graphics in Surgical Simulation
A. Radetzky, C. Wimmer, M. Brukner, L. M. Auer and D. P. Pretschner

Computer Aided Facial Reconstruction
S. D. Michael

InViVo-IORT — A System for Quality Control in Intra-Operative Radio Therapy
S. Walter, G. Straßmann and M. Schmitt

Conference Dinner, 19:30-21:00

Thursday 25 March 1999 

KEYNOTE LECTURE, followed by PAPER SESSION V (MODELLING), 8:45–10:25

A STAR REPORT on Volume Modelling
G. Nielson

CROVE — A Rendering System for Constructive Representations of Volumetric Environments
M. Chen, J. V. Tucker and A. Leu

vxt: A C++ Class Library for Object Voxelization
M. Srámek and A. Kaufman

COFFEE, followed by PAPER SESSION VI (MODELLING AND ANIMATION), 10:55–13.00

Generating Shaded Offset Surfaces with Distance, Closest-Point and Color Volumes
D. E. Breen and S. Mauch

NURBS-Based Volume Modelling
W. Zhongke, S. H. Soon and L. Feng

Fast Animation of Amorphous and Gaseous Volumes
S. King, R.A. Crawfis and W. Reid

Visible Human Walk: Bringing Life Back to the Dead Body
W. Zhongke and E. C Prakash

Realistic Volume Animation with Alias
N. Gagvani and D. Silver

LUNCH, 13:00–14:00

KEYNOTE LECTURE, followed by PAPER SESSION VI (INTERNET-BASED VOLUME GRAPHICS), 14:00–15:40

Volume Graphics and the Internet
K. Brodlie

An Unified Architecture for Deployment of Volume Graphics on the WWW
O. C. Siong and E. C. Prakash

A PC Based Collaborative Visualization System
S. V. Warusavithana, S. Venkataraman and R. Mullick

TEA, followed by INVITED INDUSTRIAL SPEECHES, 16:00–17:20

OpenGl Volumizer: Breaking Down the Barriers in Volume Visualization
R. Grzeszczuk, Silicon Graphics, Inc., USA<

The VolumePro Real-Time Ray-Casting System
Hanspeter Pfister, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, USA

Workshop Close 
Buses leave for Swansea High Street Railway Station and Quadrant Coach Station at 18:00