ISTC-VC SIGGRAPH 2013 Events Schedule for papers with authors associated with the ISTC-VC (from Preliminary Program)
Technical Papers
Artistic Rendering & Stylization
Laplacians, Light Field & Layouts
NEWS
Updates, events and happenings from the visual computing center
SIGGRAPH 2013 – Anaheim
Visual Computing Retreat – April 2013
Members of the Intel Science and Technology Center at the April 2013 Retreat – Napa, CA.
Retreat Schedule
Congratulations to the winners of the Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Doug James, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, Theodore Kim, Nils Thuerey and Markus Gross of Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich have won a a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for wavelet turbulence software, which generates realistic swirling smoke and fiery explosions.
Technical Achievement Awards will be awarded Feb. 9, 2013. The awards were announced Jan. 4 and will be given at the annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation at The Beverly Hills Hotel.
Read more about the winners: Cornell News, The Ithaca Journal, The Spec
Visual Computing Retreat in Napa, CA
WHEN: APRIL 8-10, 2013
WHERE: MERITAGE RESORT AND SPA
TENTATIVE AGENDA:
Monday, April 8th – Welcome Reception in the evening
Tuesday, April 9th – All day meetings
Wednesday, April 10th – Half day meetings
Upcoming Workshops in 2013
PERCEPTION WORKSHOPS
Stanford University: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
University of Washington: Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Carnegie Melon University: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Upcoming video/Media SDK webinars
Accelerate Video with Intel(r) Media SDK Thursday, Nov 8th Programming for Video with Intel(r) Media SDK and the Intel(r) SDK for OpenCL* Applications Thursday, Nov 15th
SAVE THE DATE April 8-10, 2013 Visual Computing Retreat
We have started planning our next years retreat.
Currently, we are researching venues in Northern California to host the 3rd Annual ISTC-VC Retreat.
Retreat dates have been finalized:
Monday, April 8th - Welcome Reception in the evening
Tuesday, April 9th - All day meetings
Wednesday, April 10th - All day meetings
(Detailed agenda will be posted closer to date)
SIGGRAPH 2012 – Los Angeles
SIGGRAPH 2012 Intel Academic Reception
August 8th, 2012
Target Terrace LA Live
Kathleen was the lucky winner of the Ultrabook Giveway.
ISTC-VC SIGGRAPH 2012 Events
Schedule for papers with authors associated with the ISTC-VC (from Preliminary Program)
Character Locomotion
Monday, 6 August 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Optimizing Locomotion Controllers Using Biologically Based Actuators and Objectives
Jack M. Wang, Samuel R. Hamner, Scott L. Delp, Vladlen Koltun
Continuous Character Control With Low-Dimensional Embeddings
Sergey Levine, Jack M. Wang, Alexis Haraux, Zoran Popović, Vladlen Koltun
Shape Analysis
Monday, 6 August 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Schelling Points on 3D Surface Meshes
Xiaobai Chen, Abulhair Saparov, Bill Pang, Thomas Funkhouser
Image Processing
Monday, 6 August 2- 3:30 pm
Decoupling Algorithms From Schedules for Easy Optimization of Image-Processing Pipelines
Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Andrew Adams, Sylvain Paris, Marc Levoy, Saman Amarasinghe, Frédo Durand
Cloth
Monday, 6 August 2-3:30 pm
Specular Reflection From Woven Cloth
Piti Irawan, Steve Marschner
Stitch Meshes for Modeling Knitted Clothing With Yarn-level Detail
Cem Yuksel, Jonathan M. Kaldor, Doug L. James, Steve Marschner
Appearance
Monday, 6 August 3:45-5:35 pm
Printing Spatially Varying Reflectance for Reproducing HDR Images
Yue Dong, Xin Tong, Fabio Pellacini, Baining Guo
Hand, Eye, and Face
Monday, 6 August 3:45-5:35 pm
Session Chair – Vladlen Koltun
Discovery of Complex Behaviors through Contact-Invariant Optimization
Igor Mordatch, Emanuel Todorov, Zoran Popovic
Sketching
Monday, 6 August 3:45-5:35 pm
HelpingHand: Example-Based Stroke Stylization
Jingwan Lu, Fisher Yu, Adam Finkelstein, Stephen DiVerdi
Fabrication
Tuesday, 7 August 9-10:30 am
Fabricating Articulated Characters From Skinned Meshes
Moritz Bächer, Bernd Bickel, Doug L. James, Hanspeter Pfister
Sampling, Reconstructing, and Filtering Light
Tuesday, 7 August 10:45 am-12:15 pm
A Theory of Monte Carlo Visibility Sampling
Ravi Ramamoorthi, John Anderson, Mark Meyer, Derek Nowrouzezahrai
Reconstructing the Indirect Light Field for Global Illumination
Jaakko Lehtinen, Timo Aila, Samuli Laine, Frédo Durand
Geometry Reconstruction & Tracking
Tuesday, 7 August 10:45 am-12:15 pm
Temporally Coherent Completion of Dynamic Shapes
Hao Li, Linjie Luo, Daniel Vlasic, Pieter Peers, Jovan Popovic, Mark Pauly, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Sets of Shapes
Tuesday, 7 August 2-3:30 pm
Exploring Collections of 3D Models Using Fuzzy Correspondence
Vladimir G. Kim, Wilmot Li, Niloy J. Mitra, Stephen DiVerdi, Thomas Funkhouser
A Probabilistic Model for Component-Based Shape Synthesis
Evangelos Kalogerakis, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Daphne Koller, Vladlen Koltun
Light Rays
Tuesday, 7 August 2-3:30 pm
Manifold Exploration: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique for Rendering Scenes With Difficult Specular Transport
Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner
Bidirectional Lightcuts
Bruce Walter, Pramook Khungurn, Kavita Bala
Fun With Video
Tuesday, 7 August 3:45-5:35 pm
Session Chair Noah Snavely
Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World
Hao-Yu Wu, Michael Rubinstein, Eugene Shih, John Guttag, Frédo Durand, William T. Freeman
Selectively De-Animating Video
Jiamin Bai, Aseem Agarwala, Maneesh Agrawala, Ravi Ramamoorthi
Tools for Placing Cuts and Transitions in Interview Video
Floraine Berthouzoz, Wilmot Li, Maneesh Agrawala
Noise and Texture
Tuesday, 7 August 3:45-5:35 pm
Structure-Aware Synthesis for Predictive Woven Fabric Appearance
Shuang Zhao, Kavita Bala, Steve Marschner, Wenzel Jakob
Symmetry-Guided Texture Synthesis and Manipulation
Vladimir Kim, Yaron Lipman, Thomas Funkhouser
Shape Transformation
Wednesday, 8 August 9:00 – 10:30 AM
An Algebraic Model for Parameterized Shape Editing
Martin Bokeloh, Michael Wand, Hans-Peter Seidel, Vladlen Koltun
Stitching
Wednesday, 8 August 10:45 am-12:15 pm
Exposing Photo Manipulation With Inconsistent Reflections
James F. O’Brien, Hany Farid
Maps, Surfaces, and Shapes
Wednesday, 8 August 10:45 am-12:15 pm
Simple Formulas For Quasiconformal Plane Deformations
Yaron Lipman, Vladimir G. Kim, Thomas Funkhouser
Interactive Systems & Hardware
Wednesday, 8 August 2-3:30 pm
Position-Correcting Tools for 2D Digital Fabrication
Alec Rivers, Ilan E. Moyer, Frédo Durand
Collisions
Wednesday, 8 August 3:45-5:35 pm
Energy-Based Self-Collision Culling for Arbitrary Mesh Deformations
Changxi Zheng, Doug L. James
All About Images
Thursday, 9 August 9-10:30 am
A Framework for Content-Adaptive Photo Manipulation Macros: Application to Face, Landscape, and Global Manipulations
Floraine Berthouzoz, Wilmot Li, Mira Dontcheva, Maneesh Agrawala
Sound and Elements
Thursday, 9 August 9-10:30 am
Motion-Driven Concatenative Synthesis of Cloth Sounds
Steven S. An, Doug L. James, Steve Marschner
Precomputed Acceleration Noise for Improved Rigid-Body Sound
Jeffrey N. Chadwick, Changxi Zheng, Doug L. James
Interactive Sound Propagation Using Compact Acoustic Transfer Operators
Lakulish Antani, Anish Chandak, Lauri Savioja, Dinesh Manocha
Updated Sparse Cholesky Factors for Corotational Elastodynamics
Florian Hecht, Yeon Jin Lee, Jonathan R. Shewchuk, James F. O’Brien
Geometry & Viewing
Thursday, 9 August 2-3:30 pm
Perceptual Models of Viewpoint Preference
Adrian Secordm Jingwan Lu, Adam Finkelstein, Manish Singh, Andrew Nealen
Faces and Hair [Closing Session]
Thursday, 9 August 3:45-5:15 pm
Coupled 3D Reconstruction of Sparse Facial Hair and Skin
Thabo Beeler, Bernd Bickel, Gioacchino Noris, Paul Beardsley, Steve Marschner, Robert W. Sumner, Markus Gross
Physical Face Cloning
Bernd Bickel, Peter Kaufmann, Melina Skouras, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Derek Bradley, Thabo Beeler, Philip Jackson, Steve Marschner, Wojciech Matusik, Markus Gross
SIGGRAPH Courses
Optimizing Realistic Rendering With Many-Light Methods
Sunday, 5 August, 2-5:15 pm
Jaroslav Krivanek, Milos Hasan, Adam Arbree, Carsten Dachsbacher, Alexander Keller, Bruce Walter
State of the Art in Photon-Density Estimation
Thursday, 9 August, 2-5:15 pm
Toshiya Hachisuka, Wojciech Jarosz, Guillaume Bouchard, Per Christensen, Jeppe Revall Frisvad, Wenzel Jakob, Henrik Wann Jensen, Jared M. Johnson, Michael Kaschalk, Claude Knaus, Andrew Selle, Ben Spencer
SIGGRAPH Talks
Silence! Eliminate the Noise
Thursday, 9 August 9-10:30 am
Importance Sampling for Hair Scattering
Jiawei Ou, Feng Xie, Parashar Krishnamachari, Fabio Pellacini
SIGGRAPH Exhibitor Sessions
Intel Corporation
Wednesday, 8 August 4:30-5:30 pm, room 402B
The Future of Visual Computing as Viewed by Intel Visual Computing Research Centers
Intel is offering webinars on OpenCL for Intel platforms.
3-Part Webinar Series: OpenCL* Programming on 3rd Gen Intel Core Processors * July 11- Getting Started with Intel(r) SDK for OpenCL Applications * July 18- Writing Efficient Code for OpenCL Applications * July 25- Creating and Optimizing OpenCL Applications
ISTC-VC PI Zoran Popovic’s student, Seth Cooper, has been named the winner of the 2011 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
(Edited from the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Site)
2011 UW Ph.D. Seth Cooper, now Creative Director of UW CSE’s Center for Game Science, has been named the winner of the 2011 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
The award is presented annually to the top Ph.D. dissertation in the field. (Roughly 1,500 Ph.D.s in computer science were awarded last year in the United States alone.)
Seth’s dissertation, “A Framework for Scientific Discovery through Video Games,” was advised by UW CSE professor Zoran Popovic. The dissertation explores how the video game environment can be used for solving difficult scientific problems. Seth is the co-creator and lead designer and developer of Foldit. Employing the collective efforts of tens of thousands of gamers, Foldit players solved the structure of a key protein in the fight against HIV, putting the combined power of humans and computers toward solving problems that neither could solve alone.
Congratulations to Seth, and to Zoran!
Doug James interview on NPR
SIGGRAPH Mixer
ISTC-VC hosted a mixer at SIGGRAPH on Tuesday – Aug 9th, 2011 @ The Ironworks, Vancouver.
Visual Computing Retreat – June 2011
Members of the Intel Science and Technology Center at the June 2011 Retreat – Pacific Grove.
