Fall 2005

For the Fall 2005 semester, our seminar will be meeting every Wednesday at 4:00 in 3401 Siebel (except when it doesn't).

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Schedule

• Aug. 31 – Organizational meeting.

• Sep. 7 – David Forsyth's Motion Notions, a tutorial on motion capture and synthesis, Part 1.

• Sep. 14 – Motion Notions, Part 2.

• Sep. 21 – Yizhou Yu on Texture Synthesis.

• Sep. 28 – [[TextureMontage]:Seamless Texturing of Arbitrary Surfaces From Multiple Images|http://research.microsoft.com/users/kunzhou/publications/texturemontage.pdf], by Kun Zhou, et al (Shadi Ashnai)

• Oct. 5 Youngihn Kho on Sketching Camera Paths and Jared Hoberock on Ray Tracing Geometry Images with the GPU.

• Oct. 12 Matei Stroila on NPR of Medical Images.

• Oct. 19 Wavelet Noise

• Oct. 26 Scott Kircher on Meshless Deformation.

• Nov. 2 Vis Recap

• Nov. 9 Keenan Crane on a New Kind of Graphics.

• Nov. 16 Graphics and Methamphetamines.

• Nov. 23 I imagine some maybe baked pie.

• Nov. 30 Kelly Snapka from Volition Inc. on the art pipeline in videogame production.

On Deck

Interested in these papers or another? Share your enthusiasm with a seminar presentation.

• Meshless Deformations Based on Shape Matching
• Large Mesh Deformation Using the Volumetric Graph Laplacian
• Dual Photography (How does it work with refraction?)
• A Data-Driven Approach to Quantifying Natural Human Motion
• Photon accurate model of the human eye
• Cache-Oblivious Mesh Layouts
• Energy Redistribution Path Tracing
• Wavelet Importance Sampling: Efficiently Evaluating Products of Complex Functions
• Parallel texture synthesis (unavailable until the conference because of patent)
• Image completion and structure propagation
• Variational Tet Meshing
• SGP: Reconstruction of solid models from oriented point sets
• Wavelet Importance Sampling: Efficiently Evaluating Products of Complex Functions
• Texture Montage