SIGGRAPH 2010 Technical Papers Focus on Technology and
Advanced Techniques
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(Chicago,
IL) - The SIGGRAPH 2010 Technical Papers program is the premier
international forum for disseminating new scholarly work in
computer graphics and interactive techniques. Topics range from a
new application for browsing street-level imagery to new
advancements in architecture demonstrating that curved surfaces can
be just as rigid as traditional designs. A total of 390 submissions
were reviewed by a distinguished panel of 49 jurors, and 103 papers
were selected for presentation at SIGGRAPH 2010.
"SIGGRAPH 2010 will feature a vibrant field of technical
presentations," says Tony DeRose, SIGGRAPH 2010 Technical
Papers Chair from Pixar Animation Studios. "We are most
excited by the extraordinary breadth of topics as well as the
fascinating achievements in many fields from architecture to
photography."
Papers cover
core topics of computer graphics, such as modeling, animation,
rendering, imaging, and human-computer interaction, and also
explore related fields of audio, robotics, visualization, and
perception. Presenters are from all around the globe--from
Bangladesh to Switzerland.
Based upon
the popularity of the program at SIGGRAPH 2009, this year's
Technical Papers program is once again expanding to include 33
conference presentations for each paper published this year in the
journal ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). For the first time in
SIGGRAPH's history, the TOG Papers and the Technical Papers will be
combined to create sessions with more coherent themes.
Listed below
are a few highlights from the SIGGRAPH 2010 Technical Papers
program:
Street Slide: Browsing Street-Level Imagery
Street Slide is a novel browsing interface for street-level imagery
that combines the best aspects of the immersive nature of bubbles
with the overview provided by multi-perspective strip
panoramas.
Authors:
Johannes Kopf, Microsoft Research Redmond
Billy Chen, Microsoft Corporation
Richard Szeliski, Microsoft Research
Michael F. Cohen, Microsoft ResearchÂ
Parametric Reshaping of Human Bodies in Images
An easy-to-use image retouching system that allows users to easily
reshape a human body in a single image by simply manipulating a
small set of sliders corresponding to semantic attributes such as
height, weight, and waist girth.
Authors:
Shizhe Zhou, Zhejiang University
Hongbo Fu, City University of Hong Kong
Ligang Liu, Zhejiang University
Daniel Cohen-Or, Tel-Aviv University Â
Xiaoguang Han, Zhejiang University
Parametric Reshaping is a new technology being introduced at
SIGGRAPH 2010 that allows even novice users to easily manipulate a
subject's height, weight, and girth interactively while maintaining
proportions.
Video Tapestries with Continuous Temporal ZoomÂ
A novel approach for summarizing video in the form of a multi-scale
image that is continuous in both the spatial domain and across the
scale dimension: there are no hard borders between moments in time,
and one can zoom smoothly into the image to reveal additional
temporal details.
Authors:
Connelly Barnes, Princeton University
Dan Goldman, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Eli Shechtman, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adam Finkelstein, Princeton University
The
Frankencamera: An Experimental Platform for Computational
Photography
Experimentation in computational photography is hindered by a lack
of portable, flexible, and open photographic platforms. This paper
presents Frankencamera, an architecture for programmable cameras,
and demonstrates sample applications on two hardware
implementations, a custom F2 camera and the Nokia N900
smartphone.
Authors:
Andrew Adams, Stanford UniversityÂ
Eino-Ville Talvala, Stanford UniversityÂ
Sung Hee Park, Stanford UniversityÂ
David E. Jacobs, Stanford University Boris
Ajdin, Universität UlmÂ
Natasha Gelfand, Nokia Research Center Palo Alto Â
Jennifer Dolson, Stanford UniversityÂ
Daniel Vaquero, University of California, Santa BarbaraÂ
Jongmin Baek, Stanford UniversityÂ
Marius Tico, Nokia Research Center Palo AltoÂ
Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Universität Ulm Â
Wojciech Matusik, Disney Research ZürichÂ
Kari Pulli, Nokia Research Center Palo AltoÂ
Mark Horowitz, Stanford UniversityÂ
Marc Levoy, Stanford University
Multi-Scale Image HarmonizationÂ
Compositing images that differ significantly in appearance often
produces unrealistic results. This framework matches the visual
appearance of images, including contrast, texture, noise, and blur,
by manipulating their pyramid representations and blends them with
alpha-based and seamless boundary constraints to produce highly
realistic composites with minimal user interaction.
Authors:
Kalyan Sunkavalli, Harvard University
Micah K. Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wojciech Matusik, Disney Research
Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard University
OptiX: A General Purpose Ray Tracing
Engine Â
This paper presents the design and implementation of the OptiX
engine, a programmable architecture for interactive parallel ray
tracing. By exposing a small set of programmable operations for ray
generation, material shading, object intersection, and scene
traversal, OptiX enables a diverse set of rendering and
non-rendering algorithms.
Authors:
Steven Parker, NVIDIA Corporation
James Bigler, NVIDIA Corporation
Andreas Dietrich, NVIDIA Corporation
Heiko Friedrich, NVIDIA Corporation
Jared Hoberock, NVIDIA Corporation
David Luebke, NVIDIA Corporation
David McAllister, NVIDIA Corporation
Morgan McGuire, NVIDIA Corporation
R. Keith Morley, NVIDIA Corporation
Austin Robison, NVIDIA Corporation
Martin Stich, NVIDIA Corporation
A complete listing of all the papers presented in this year's
program will be available in late May at: http://www.siggraph.org/s2010/for_attendees/technical_papers.
About SIGGRAPH 2010 SIGGRAPH 2010 will
bring approximately 25,000 computer graphics and interactive
technology professionals from six continents to Los Angeles,
California, USA for the industry's most respected technical and
creative programs focusing on research, science, art, animation,
music, gaming, interactivity, education, and the web from Sunday,
25 July through Thursday, 29 July 2010 at the Los Angeles
Convention Center. SIGGRAPH 2010 includes a three-day exhibition of
products and services from the computer graphics and interactive
marketplace from 27-29 July 2010. More than 200 international
exhibiting companies are expected. More details are available at
www.siggraph.org/s2010
About ACM SIGGRAPH
The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive
Techniques www.siggraph.org, is an
interdisciplinary community interested in research, technology, and
applications in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
Members include researchers, developers and users from the
technical, academic, business, and art communities. SIGGRAPH
provides information to the computer graphics community through its
annual conference, publications and the SIGGRAPH Video Review.
About ACM
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery www.acm.org, is the world's largest
educational and scientific computing society, uniting educators,
researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources
and address the field's challenges. ACM strengthens the computing
profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion
of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence.
ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing
opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and
professional networking.
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