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The UK Chapter of the Eurographics Association (EGUK) presents:-
Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2006


University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK

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Conference Programme (download as pdf)

Wednesday 19th June 2006

 

 

19:00 – 22:00

Informal Reception and Buffet

  Student Union Gallery Restaurant

 

 

Tuesday 20th June 2006

 

 

09:00 – 12:00

Conference Registration

  Centuria Building Main Foyer

 

 

TUTORIALS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

 

 

The following tutorial and demonstration sessions run concurrently:

 

09:30

Tutorial: GeoWall Construction and Multi-graphics Card Rendering Techniques: An Overview of Parallel Visualization Construction and Issues for Virtual Environments (H0.49)

 

Martin Turner, Anja Le Blanc & Louise Lever
Manchester Visualisation Centre, University of Manchester, UK

   

10:00

Virtual Reality Demonstration (VR Auditorium)

 

Gary Quinn
School of Computing, University of Teesside, UK

   

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

 

 

Tuesday Papers and Presentations

 

 

13:00

Opening Remarks

   

13:05

VizNET Showcase Results

   

13:30

Keynote talk: Large-Scale Scientific Visualization

 

Professor Charles Hansen
School of Computing and the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
University of Utah, USA

 

 

PLENARY SESSION ONE: Simulation (H0.53)

 

 

14:30

Physically Based Simulation and Visualization of Fire in Real-time using the GPU

 

S Rødal, G Storli & O E Gundersen,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

   

15:00

Computing Static Electricity on Human Hair

 

G Sobottka & A Weber
University of Bonn, Germany

   

15:30

Tea & Coffee Break

 

 

PLENARY SESSION TWO: Visualization & Web Graphics (H0.53)

 

 

16:00

HyperStreamball Visualization for Symmetric Second Order Tensor Fields

 

J Liu, M Turner, W T Hewitt & J S Perrin
University of Manchester, UK

   

16:30

Smarticles for Sampling and Rendering Implicit Models

 

P Jepp, B Wyvill & M Costa-Sousa
University of Calgary, Canada

   

17:00

GraSSML: Smart Schematic Diagrams, XML and Accessibility

 

Z ben Fredj & D A Duce
University of Oxford Brookes, UK

   

18:00

Evening Meal

   

19:00

Animex Student Animation Awards Showcase

   

20:00

Football match: England vs. Sweden

 

 

Wednesday 21st June 2006

 

 

PARALLEL SESSION THREE: Rendering I (H0.53)

 

 

09:00

Polynomial Approximation of Blinn-Phong Model

 

A Ozturk, A Bilgili & M Kurt
International Computer Institute-Ege University, Turkey

   

09:30

Perception-based Lighting Design

 

H N Ha & P Olivier
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

   

10:00

ATIP: A Tool for 3D Navigation inside a Single Image with Automatic Camera Calibration

 

K Boulanger, K Bouatouch & S Pattanaik
University of Central Florida, USA

   

10:30

Fast Rendering of Complex Dynamic Scenes

 

V Kovalcik & J Sochor
Masaryk University, Czech Republic

   

11:00

Tea & Coffee Break

 

 

PARALLEL SESSION FOUR: Work-In-Progress I (H0.49)

 

 

09:00

A State-of-the-Art Review of Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) for Visualisation

 

Rezwan Sayeed & Toby Howard
University of Manchester, UK

   

09:25

Hand Motion Capture and Tracking in 3D Animation

 

J Condell, G Moore & J Moore
University of Ulster, UK

   

09:50

Augmented Reality with Multilayer Occlusion

 

Y Feng & Y Chen
Shanghai University, P. R. China

   

10:15

Real-Time Modelling of the Action of Wind on Liquid Surfaces

 

Amanda Bristol & Thomas Varsamidis
University of Wales, Bangor, UK

   

10:40

Collision Detection for Deformable Objects Using Octrees

 

F Madera, AM  Day & SD Laycock
University of East Anglia, UK

   

11:00

Tea & Coffee Break

 

 

PLENARY SESSION FIVE: Rendering II (H0.53)

 

 

11:30

Automatic Stroke Extraction and Stroke Ordering Based on TrueType Font

 

H G Jang, S Ok Koo & S Ki Jung
Kyungpook National University, South Korea

   

12:00

Perceived Aliasing Thresholds for High-Fidelity Rendering on Small Screen Devices

 

M. Aranha, K. Debattista, V. Sundstedt & A. Chalmers
University of Bristol, UK

   

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

 

 

13:30

Keynote talk: Anatomy, Animation, Science, and Special Effects - Biology Meets Computer Graphics

 

Professor Stuart Sumida
California State University, San Bernandino, USA

   
PLENARY SESSION FIVE: Rendering II (cont.) (H0.53)
   

14:30

Out of core Polyhedral Union and its Application to Interactive Shadow Rendering

 

J. Fedorkiw, C Smith & S Ghali
University of Alberta, Canada

   

15:00

Structured Image Techniques for Efficient High-Fidelity Graphics

 

X Yang, K Debattista & A Chalmers
University of Bristol, UK

   

15:30

Tea & Coffee Break

 

 

PARALLEL SESSION SIX: Work-in-Progress II (H0.53)

 

 

16:00

Curvature-Based Segmentation for Sketch Understanding

 

Wentao Zheng & Zhiyu Liu
Nanjing University, P. R. China

   

16:25

A Mixed Reality Anatomy Teaching Tool

 

Rhys G. Thomas, Nigel W. John & Ik Soo Lim
University of Wales, Bangor, UK

   

16:50

An Interactive Multiscale Framework for Enhancement and Visualization of 2D & 3D Image Data

 

A. D. Graham, M. J. Turner & T. Hewitt
University of Manchester, UK

   

PARALLEL SESSION SEVEN: Work-in-Progress III (H0.49)

 

 

16:00

Visualisation of DNA - Does the Soul Have a Picture

 

M. Middleton & Y. Yue
University of Luton, UK

   

16:25

Visual Analysis of Packing Process for 3D Container Loading

 

Y. Yue, M. Middleton & J. Liu
University of Luton, UK

   

18:30

Coach Pickup for conference dinner

 

 

Thursday 22nd June 2006

 

 

PLENARY SESSION EIGHT: Animation & Virtual Environments (H0.49)

 

 

09:00

Flexible Interaction with Large Point-Based Datasets

 

A Rosiuta, G Reina & T. Ertl
University of Stuttgart, Germany

   

09:30

Evolving Body Kinematics for Virtual Characters

 

C Gatzoulis, W Tang & W J. Stoddart
University of Teesside, UK

   

10:00

Expressive and Dynamic Deformation of Animated Computer- Generated Characters

 

P Noble & W Tang
University of Teesside, UK

 

 

10:30

Tea & Coffee Break

 

 

11:00

Keynote talk: AI-based Interactivity

 

Professor Marc Cavazza
School of Computing, University of Teesside, UK

 

 

12:00

Presentation of TPCG'07

   

12:05

Closing Remarks and Prizes

   

12:30

AGM

   

12:45

Lunch

 

 

Programme ends (after lunch)