CG International 2002 1- 5 July 2002
University of Bradford
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, UK

Theme: "State of the Art in Computer Graphics"

Invited Speakers

"What is Your Relationship with Your Information Space?"
Jim Thomas (Principal Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, USA)

"Visualizing 3D Human Articulations: Problems and Solutions"
Prof Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (Director, MIRALab University of Geneva, Switzerland)

"Image Indexing and Retrieval in the Compressed Domain"
Prof Jianmin Jiang (University of Bradford, UK)

"Visual Data Navigators - 'Collaboratories'"
Prof M.Jern (ITN, University of Linköping, Sweden)

"Cobwebs in a Virtual Attic"
Prof Tom Furness (Director HIT Laboratory, University of Washington, USA)

"Simulating a Human Society: the Challenges"
Prof Daniel Thalmann (Director, Computer Graphics Lab, EPFL, Switzerland)

"State of the Art in Digital Media"
Dr Jon Peddie (Jon Peddie & Associates, USA)

Duration:
The Conference will run from Wednesday 3 July to Friday 5 July. A parallel Courses and Industrial programme will run from Monday 1 July to Friday 5 July. The Conference Reception will be on the evening of Thursday 4 July.

In view of the attractiveness and relevance of the programme to current issues and challenges in computer graphics and computing, you are advised to book early to avoid disappointment.

Exhibitions and Demonstrations:
The foyer area of the Conference suite will include exhibitions and displays. This is expected to include Yorkshire Forward (e-campus), Yorkshire Forward (Digital Cluster), Yorkshire Universities, Virtual College PLC & Bradford Technology PLC, Bmedi@ (Bradford Association of ICT organisations), MO (Sheffield Hallam University - Database and streaming media from Y&H companies), GRID, Advanced Knowledge Technologies Project, SIMULA, CHIPS (University of Bradford), plus exhibits on a number of other areas of computer related activities.

Poster Displays:
A poster exhibition of the graphics and computing related activities in the Yorkshire and Humber region will be presented for delegates to view over the period of the Conference. The poster exhibition will be complemented during the Conference registration period and Conference lunch periods by exhibitors demonstrating or answering questions about their exhibits. The University of Bradford will demonstrate the activities of the ERDF funded SIMULA 3D CGI project and the EU funded CHIPS database of European projects in Ambient Intelligence. If you wish to have a space at this poster exhibition please contact the Secretariat.

Venue and Logistics:
The University of Bradford and the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television are located immediately adjacent to the centre of Bradford and within walking distance of good city centre hotels. The train station is in the city centre. Train connections from Leeds take about 20 mins and run every 30 mins. Leeds/Bradford airport is a 20 min taxi ride from the hotel and has regular shuttle connections to London (Heathrow), Brussels and Amsterdam, which in turn have excellent international connections. An NCP multi-story car park is immediately adjacent to the hotel. The venue has good motorway connections via M1/M62/M606. The M606 spur brings you to within 10 mins of the centre of Bradford.

National Museum of Photography, Film & Television:
The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television is close to the city centre (5 mins walk) and is a collaborator in the Electronic Imaging and Media Communications degree courses run by the School of Informatics in the University of Bradford. For information on the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, see http://www.nmpft.org.uk/

It is a national facility with a prime city centre position. It has a 3D Imax theatre and a Pictureville Cinema. Galleries are devoted to the history, science and art of photography, film and television, and feature special exhibitions, including artists such as Bradford-born David Hockney. The Museum has become a major tourist attraction with nearly 1 million visitors per year. A recent investment of £16 million has moved the Museum into the digital age with exciting galleries devoted to digital and media technology. The Museum is open every day in the week apart from Monday. Entrance is free but payment has to be made for entrance to the cinema and Imax.

Bradford and its Environs:
With new café/bar and club developments close to the University, new sculptures throughout the city centre and conversions taking place in the Little Germany area of the city, Bradford is shaking off its image of a northern industrial town. Big investors are moving in to regenerate the City centre and Bradford is being transformed. Nearby Salts Mill in Saltaire has an exhibition of David Hockney's work and also a notable restaurant (go to http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ to see more information and the galleries). The surrounding countryside is almost within walking distance of the city and within half an hour you can be in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, with walking, climbing and much more. Favourite places to visit are Ilkley, Haworth (Bronte country), Harrogate, and Knaresbrough. A 20 min train journey takes you Leeds - famous for shopping, restaurants and clubs - and a further 40 min to York with its famous Minster and walled Roman city. Further tourist and cultural information is at - http://www.bradford.gov.uk/

You are invited to extend your stay in association with the Conference and take advantage of the local amenities and attractions.

CG International 2002

ADVANCE PROGRAMME

Courses Programme

Courses include the following -

1. "3D Java"
2. "Real-Time Virtual Humans"
3. "2D Web (SVG) Graphics"
4. "Perception Driven Efficient Rendering and Realistic Display"
5. "Mobile Computing - Industry Update"
6. "Digital Rights Management"
7. "CGI and Film Special Effects"
8. "MPEG-4"

Monday 1st July
"3D Java"
An intensive Course on 3D Java, designed for Java programmers who want to increase their knowledge of 3D Java and its applications. Based on the textbook written by the Lecturer.

Monday 1st July
"Real-Time Virtual Humans"
State of the art in facial animation, body animation, autonomy, locomotion, and real-time clothing.

Tuesday 2nd July (am)
"2D Web (SVG) Graphics"
An advanced course on 2D Web (SVG) graphics led by Professor Duce and Professor Hopgood of Oxford Brookes University and W3C. The course will look at new standards and developments in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format and their application to the construction of animated web pages.

Tuesday 2nd July (pm)
"Perception Driven Efficient Rendering & Realistic Display"
State of the art in the use of visual perception for efficient modelling, rendering and realistic display of synthetic images.

Wednesday 3rd July
"Mobile Computing - Industry Update"
A number of international speakers will present papers on developments in the mobile world. Speakers will include Kathleen Maher, Vice President, Peddie Research, a specialist US organisation looking at developments in mobile and 3D computing. Speakers from Singapore and China will present developments in the use of WAP for GIS.

Wednesday 3rd July
"Digital Rights Management"
Two linked half day sessions which will enable the participants to understand the DRM implication for any content providers. The morning session will look to the legal and standard issue with speakers from the European Commission, and major industry standards bodies. The afternoon session will look to the current technology and practical implementation of DRM in the market.

Thursday 4th July
"CGI and Film Special Effects"
Two linked half day session which will enable the participants to look to the developments in Computer Graphics Technology and Techniques. The morning session will look at the hardware and software developments that are changing the market, with leading speakers from the USA. The afternoon session will look at the special effects and techniques being used by the film and TV producers. The session will include speakers from the leading London SFx studios.

Friday 5th July
"MPEG-4"
A detailed course on MPEG-4 and its applications. The morning session will be led by Professor Jianmin Jiang and will cover the theory of MPEG4. The afternoon session will be provided by a leading technology supplier who will demonstrate the use of MPEG4 in the broadcast environment.

Reviewed Papers accepted by the Conference

"A Body and Garment Creation Method for an Internet Based Virtual Fitting Room"
D. Protopsaltou, C. Luible, M. Arevalo, N. Magnenat Thalmann (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

"Explosive Impact on Real-time Deformable Terrain"
T. R. Wan (University of Bradford, UK) and W. Tang (University of Teesside, UK)

"Reconstructing Surface Discontinuities by Intersecting Tangent Planes of Advancing Mesh Frontiers"
L. Zhou, I. Atmosukarto, W. K. Leow, Z. Huang (National University of Singapore)

"Progressive Gap Closing for Mesh Repairing"
P. Borodin, M. Novotni, R. Klein (University of Bonn, Germany)

"Image-Based Modelling using Viewpoint Entropy"
P. P. Vazquez, M. Feixas, M. Sbert (University of Girona, Spain), W. Heidrich (University of British Columbia, Canada)

"Mesh Smoothing with Shape or Feature Preservation"
H. Zhang and E. Fiume (University of Toronto, Canada)

"Acceleration of Elastic Model Motion Computation based on Elastic Element Reduction"
S. Miyazaki and J. Hasegawa (Chukyo University, Japan)

"An Approach to Blend Surfaces"
V. Savchenko and N. Kojekine (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

"An Isosurface Continuity Algorithm for Super Adaptive Resolution Data"
R. S. Laramee (VRVis, Austria) and R. D. Bergeron (University of New Hampshire, USA)

"Borders, Semi-sharp Edges and Adaptivity for Hexagonal Subdivision Surface Schemes"
K. Beets, J. Claes, F. Van Reeth (Limburgs University, Belgium)

"Procedural Simulation of Interwoven Structures"
F. Drago and N. Chiba (University of Iwate, Japan)

"Factoring a Specular Reflection Field into Added Diffuse Reflection Fields"
A. L. Thomas (University of Sussex, UK)

Rendering

"A System for Image-Based Rendering of Walk-throughs"
G. Agarwal, D. Rathi, P. K. Kalra, S. Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, India)

"A Sky Light Illumination Model in Specular Environment"
T. Manabe, K. Kaneda, H. Yamashita (Hiroshima University, Japan)

"New Contrast Measures for Pixel Supersampling"
J. Rigau, M. Feixas, M. Sbert (University of Girona, Spain)

"Rendering Natural Water: Merging Computer Graphics with Physics and Biology"
E. Cerezo and F. J. Seron (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

"A Hardware based Implementation of the Multipath Method"
R. Martinez, L. Szirmay-Kalos, M. Sbert (University of Girona, Spain)

"High Quality Final Gathering for Hierachical Monte Carol Radiosity for General Environments"
F. Perez, I. Martin, X. Pueyo (GGG/IIiA-UdG, Spain)

"Realtime Shading of Folded Surfaces"
B. Ganster, R. Klein, M. Sattler, R. Sarlette (University of Bonn, Germany)

"Visibility Maps: A Topological Structure for Fast Antialiased Ray Tracing"
J. Grasset, D. Plemenos, O. Terraz (University of Limoges, France)

"Shadow Mapping for Hemispherical and Omnidirectional Light Sources"
S. Brabec, T. Annen, H. P. Seidel (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany)

"Fuzzy Random Walk"
F. Castro, M. Feixas, M. Sbert (University of Girona, Spain)

Animation

"Real-time Animation of Running Water based on Spectral Analysis of Navier-Stokes Equations"
S. Thon and D. Ghazanfarpour (University of Limoges, France)

"Experimental Investigation of Linguistic and Parametric Descriptions of Human Motion for Animation"
J. Harrison, K. S. Booth, B. D. Fisher (University of British Columbia, Canada)

"A Novel Multiresolution Anthropometry Algorithm for Realistic Simulation and Manipulation of Facial Appearance"
H. Karam, A. Bastanfard, M. Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

"Automatic Generation of Non-Verbal Facial Expressions from Speech"
I. Albrecht, J. Haber, H. P. Seidel (University of Saarbrucken, Germany)

Visual Interaction

"Interaction in Virtual Worlds: Application to Music Performers"
J. Esmerado, F. Vexo, D. Thalmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)

"Enhancing Archive Television Programmes for Interactivity"
M. Carey, A. Watson, D. Paget (University of Sunderland, UK)

Biographies of the Invited Speakers

Professor Tom Furness (HIT Laboratory, University of Washington, USA)
Dr. Furness is a pioneer in virtual interface technology and virtual reality. He received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University and the Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science from the University of Southampton, England. Dr. Furness is currently a Professor of Industrial Engineering and adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering and Technical Communication at the University of Washington, and is the founding director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory at the Washington Technology Center. Prior to joining the faculty at the University, he served a combined 23 years as an officer and civilian at the Armstrong Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where he developed advanced cockpits and virtual interfaces for the Department of Defense. He is the author of the Super Cockpit program and served as the Chief of Visual Display Systems and Super Cockpit Director until he joined the University in 1989.

Dr. Furness lectures widely, teaches courses in virtual reality and interface design and supervises graduate students. He is a senior editor of the MIT Press Journal Presence and is the co-editor with Professor Woodrow Barfield of a book published by Oxford University Press titled: "Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design". He is the inventor of the personal eyewear display, the virtual retinal display, the HALO display and other display and interface technologies. Recently Dr. Furness recently received the Discover Award for Technology Innovation for his invention of the Virtual Retinal Display.

The overall mission of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory is to empower humans by building better interfaces to advanced machines that will unlock the power of human intelligence and link minds globally. The HIT Lab consists of 124 members including faculty, professional staff, students and visiting scholars. The Lab is supported in part by the Virtual Worlds Consortium, a group of 42 companies who provide funding and in-kind annual contributions to the research agenda of the Laboratory. The work of the HIT Lab encompasses the development of hardware and software technologies, human factors and applications development associated with advanced interfaces with a focus on virtual reality. The HIT Lab has also spun off 14 companies as result of technology and student transitions from the University of Washington.
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/

Professor Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (MIRALab, University of Geneva)
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann is currently full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and Adjunct Professor at HEC Montreal, Canada. She has served on a number of government advisory boards and program committees in Canada. She has received several awards, including the 1985 Communications Award from the Government of Quebec and the Moebius Award from the European Community in 1992. In l997, she was elected to the Swiss Academy of the technical Sciences. She received a BS in psychology, and MS in biochemistry, and a PhD in quantum chemistry and computer graphics from the University of Geneva.

Professor Magnenat-Thalmann has authored or co-authored over 200 papers and written and edited several books on computer animation and virtual humans. She is editor of several journals and associate editor-in-chief of the Visual Computer and the Visualization and Computer Animation journal. She was the co-director of several computer generated films, among them: "Dream Flight"(1982), "Rendez-vous a Montreal"(1987), "Flashback"(1990), "Fashion show" (1992), and "the Xian Terra Cotta Army" (1996). She devotes her time to mixing Research and real-time interactive Performances such as "Cyberdance" (l997), "Fashion Dreams" (1998) and "Marilyn speaks at Orbit" (1998).
http://miralabwww.unige.ch/

Professor Jianmin Jiang (University of Bradford, UK)
Jianmin Jiang received the B.Sc degree from Shandong Mining Institute, China, in 1982, M.Sc degree from China University of Mining and Technology in 1984, and PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK, in 1994. From 1985 to 1989, he was a lecturer at Jiangxi University of Technology, China. In 1989, he joined Loughborough University, UK, as a visiting scholar and later moved to the University of Nottingham as a Research Assistant. In 1992, he was appointed a Lecturer in electronics at Bolton Institute, UK, and moved back to Loughborough University in 1995 as a Lecturer in computer science.

From 1997 to 2001, he worked as a Full Professor at the School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, where he established and headed a research group on digital imaging and data compression. In February of 2002, he joined the Department of Electronic Imaging & Media Communications, University of Bradford, as a Professor of Digital Media. He is a chartered engineer, fellow of RSA, and a consulting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include data compression, information retrieval, image processing in the compressed domain, Internet video coding, stereo image coding and neural network applications. He has published over 130 refereed research papers and one European patent filed by British Telecom Research Lab on pixel extraction from compressed videos without decompression.
http://imaging.comp.glam.ac.uk

Prof Mikael Jern (Linkoping University, Sweden)
Prof Jern worked during 1970-1976 with Professor Hertz at the University of Lund (Sweden). Together they invented the Color Graphics System based on the first ink jet plotter for raster based visualization software in the world. The first high-resolution colour images were produced in 1972 using pioneer raster technique. In 1980, he founded UNIRAS to address the industry with general-purpose raster graphics software. UNIRAS became a leading supplier of Visual Data Analysis and Presentation graphics software for scientists and engineers. Prof Jern served UNIRAS as the Vice President of Technology since its start. In 1993, Advanced Visual Systems (AVS), a leading 3D visualization company, acquired UNIRAS. He has remained in the merged company serving in leading technology positions.

Since 1997, Prof Jern is managing several large EC projects in the domain of visualization. These projects have developed innovative Web-based visualization technology based on both VRML and downloadable Web components. His recent areas of research interest include Web-based collaborative visualisation technology within information visualization, medical imaging and 3D terrain mapping. His last awarded EC project started in September 2001 and is called "SmartDoc". Prof Jern has participated in numerous graphics standard committees and presented papers at international meetings and conferences. He has published more than 150 technical papers and several books in visual computing and visualization application areas. At SIGGRAPH 93, he was elected "pioneer of computer graphics". In Sept 1999, he was appointed Professor at Linkoping University, Sweden.
E-Mail: mikael.jern@telia.com or mikje@itn.liu.se
http://servus.itn.liu.se/smartdoc/

Dr Jon Peddie (Jon Peddie Associates)
Jon Peddie is one of the pioneers of the computer graphics industry. He began his career in computer graphics in 1962. After the successful launch of several graphics manufacturing companies, he began JPA in 1984 to provide comprehensive data, information, and management expertise to the computer graphics industry. Peddie lectures at numerous conferences on topics pertaining to graphics technology and the emerging trends in digital media technology. He is frequently quoted in trade and business publications, and contributes articles to various publications. Peddie is also the author of several books including "Graphics User Interfaces and Graphics Standards", "High Resolution Graphics Display Systems", and "Multimedia and Graphics Controllers".
JonPeddie@compuserve.com
http://www.jpa.com/

Professor Daniel Thalmann (EPFL, Switzerland)
Daniel Thalmann is Full Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, where he is Director of the Computer Graphics Laboratory (LIG). LIG includes an expert team of about forty engineers, researchers, and designers and is involved in many European and National Projects. Daniel Thalmann's research interests include Virtual Humans, Computer Animation, Networked Virtual Environments, and Artificial Life. He is Co-editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation and an editorial board member of several publications including The Visual Computer and the CADDM Journal of the China Engineering Society. He has organized several courses at SIGGRAPH and is Co-chair of the Eurographics working group on animation and simulation. He has published more than 250 papers and is co-editor of 25 books, and coauthor of several including the recent book on "Avatars in Networked Virtual Environments", published by John Wiley and Sons. Daniel Thalmann was member of numerous Program Committees, Program Chair of several conferences including IEEE VR 2000, and chair of the Computer Graphics International '93, Pacific Graphics '95, ACM VRST '97, and MMM '98 conferences.
http://ligwww.epfl.ch/

James J. Thomas (Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, USA)
Jim Thomas is Chief Scientist for Information Technologies at Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with over 30 years' experience. He specialises in the research, design, and implementation of innovative information visualization, multimedia, and human computer interaction technology. He has received several international science awards including "Top 100 Scientific Innovators" (Science Digest), and twice the Research and Development's Industrial Research 100 Significant Scientific and Industry Accomplishment's "Top 100 Innovators in Science and Industry". In addition, he was awarded the Federal Laboratories Consortium Technology Transfer Award for innovation in tranferring research technology to industry and universities.

Mr Thomas has taught courses at ACM SIGGRAPH, is an adjunct Lecturer at Washington State University, and within the last 5 years has given 19 Keynote Lectures at major Conferences and Symposia. He served on the Academy of Sciences Panel on Virtual Reality and has held many positions in ACM SIGGRAPH, including Chair, Vice-Chair, and Co-Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH 87. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. He is an interdisciplinary scientist and technology motivator, bringing together interdisciplinary teams, providing the vision, and enabling the creative processes. He serves as a science adviser on several boards for government, academia, and industry with over 150 publications.
http://www.pnl.gov/infoviz

Rae Earnshaw
CGI2002 Co-Chair
Dean, School of Informatics
University of Bradford
R.A.Earnshaw@bradford.ac.uk
18 February 2002