GraphiCon 2003 Proceedings

Keynote Address

• 50th anniversary of M.V.Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (KIAM) 40 years of Computer Graphics in KIAM
  Dr. Yury Bayakovskiy, Dr. Vladimir Galaktionov
  Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics RAS, Russia

Invited Talks

• Bayesian Methods in Graphics
  Dr. Philip H.S. Torr
  with A. Blake, R. Cipolla, A Criminisi, A. Dick, C. Rother, B. Stenger, J. Shotton, A.Thayananthan
  Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
• Advances in Virtual Environments
  Prof. Martin Reiser
  Fraunhofer Institute for Mediacommunication, IMK, Germany

STAR Reports

• Reverse Construction of Cultural Heritage
  Vilbrandt C.¹, Pasko G.², Vilbrandt T.¹, Fayolle P.-A.¹, Kazakov M.³, Adzhiev V.⁵, Pasko A.⁴, Kunii T.^{2
  1} University of Aizu, Japan
  ² IT Institute, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
  ³ Digital Media Professionals
  ⁴ Hosei University, Japan
  ⁵ Bournemouth University, UK
• Exploring virtual worlds: current techniques and future issues
  Plemenos D.
  University of Limoges, MSI laboratory, Limoges, France

Physically Based Simulation

• Distance Fields for Rapid Collision Detection in Physically Based Modeling
  Fuhrmann A.¹, Sobottka G.², Gross C.^{1
  1} Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany
  ² Institute of Computer Science II, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
• Physically-based Particle Simulation and Visualization of Pastes and Gels
  Guilbaud C., Luciani A., Castagne N.
  ACROE/ICA, INPG, Grenoble, France
• A Physically-Based Particle Model of Emergent Crowd Behaviors
  Heigeas L., Luciani A.², Thollot J.¹, Castagne N.^{2
  1} Artis project-GRAVIR, CNRS-INPG-INRIA-UJF, Grenoble, France
  ² Laboratory, INPG, Ministere de la Culture, France

Facial Feature Detection and Reconstruction

• Robust and Accurate Eye Contour Extraction
  Vezhnevets V., Degtiareva A.
  Graphics and Media Lab, CMC, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• A Survey on Pixel-Based Skin Color Detection Techniques
  Vezhnevets V., Sazonov V., Andreeva A.
  Graphics and Media Lab, CMC, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• Creating Personalized Head Models from Image Series
  Ivanov D., Lempitsky V., Shokurov A., Khropov A., Kuzmin Ye.
  Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Data Visualization and Compression

• Texture Advection for 3D Flow Visualization
  Anikanov A.A., Potiy O.A.
  Computer Center, Rostov State University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
• Robust Parameter Estimation for Tone Mapping Operator
  Barladian B.
  Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics RAS, Russia
• View-Dependent Octree Image Rendering
  Zhirkov A.
  Graphics and Media Lab, CMC, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Modelling and Simulation

• An Architectural Design System for the Early Stages
  Pranovich S., Wijk J.J.V., Wetering H.V.D.
  Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Modeling in 2D Enabling Fluid Stylized Animation
  Fiore F.D., Reeth F.V.
  Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Expertisecentre for Digital Media and Transnationale Universiteit Limburg, School for Information Technology, Diepenbeek, Belgium
• Real-time simulation of water surface
  Belyaev V.
  Applied Math. Department, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Geometry Processing

• 3D Sketch Stroke Segmentation and Fitting in Virtual Reality
  Fiorentino M., Monno G., Renzulli P.A., Uva A.E.
  D.Dis - Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
• High-Quality Simplification with Generalized Pair Contractions
  Borodin P.¹, Gumhold S.², Guthe M.¹, Klein R.^{1
  1} University of Bonn
  ² University of Tubingen
• Target Curvature Based Automatic Fairing of Planar B-Spline Curves
  Xu S. H., Li W. S., Zhao G.
  Software and Computing Program, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

Short Papers (Work in Progress Reports)

• Color Ridges on Implicit Polynomial Surfaces
  Bogaevsky I.¹, Lang V.³, Belyaev A.², Kuni T.L.^{3
  1} Independent University of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
  ² University of Aizu, Japan
  ³ IT Institute, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
• Voxel-Based Terrain Generation Using Scalar Perturbation Functions
  Vyatkin S.I., Dolgovesov B.S.
  Institute of Automation and Electrometry SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
• A Framework for Depth Image-Based Modeling and Rendering
  Ignatenko A., Konushin A.
  Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• Statistical Error Model of Active Triangulation Method for CAI
  Volodine I.
  Department of Robotics and Complex Automation, CAD Systems, Moscow State Technical University n.a. N.E. Bauman, Moscow, Russia
• Feature Tracking in Images and Video
  Khropov A.¹, Shokurov A.¹, Ivanov D.^{2
  1} Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
  ² RL Labs JSC, Moscow, Russia
• Image Deblocking With 2-D Hermite Transform
  Najafi M., Krylov A., Kortchagine D.
  Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• Kinematic geometric models in conceptual design
  Kuchuganov V., Kharin V.
  Izhevsk State Technical University, Izhevsk, Russia
• Continuous skeletal representation of image with controllable accuracy
  Mestetskii L.M., Reyer I.A.
  Tver State University, Tver, Russia
• Human body edge detection in orthopedics
  Tsibanov V.N., Krylov A.S.
  Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• Lip Reading: Preparing Feature Vectors
  Soldatov S.
  Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• The self calibrated 3D vision system and analysis of its applicability in robotics and Earth relief recover from satellites images
  Sveshnikova N.V., Chernyshev N.V., Yurin D.V
  Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, FGUP Opteks, Moscow, Russia
• Finite-Difference Schemes Design and Optimization by Visualization Methods
  Bondarev A.
  Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics RAS, Russia

Short Papers (Computer Graphics Applications)

• Firmware complex for real-time volume rendering based on VolumePro 1000 accelerator
  Dolgovesov B.S., Vyatkin S.I., Shevtsov M.Y.
  Ugra Research Institute of Information Technologies, Institute of Automation and Electrometry SB RAS
• Computer-Assistant Design Verification
  Inozemtsev A.N.¹, Troitsky D.I.¹, Grigorieva N.S.¹, Bannatyne M.W.McK.^{2
  1} Department of Automated Manufacturing System, Tula State University, Tula, Russia
  ² Purdue University, West Lafayete, Indiana, USA
• Technological Aspects of Development of the Web-trainer on Crystallography
  Debelov V.A.¹, Devyatova A.Yu.², Sattarov M.A.¹, Smirnov S.Z.², Zhmulevskaya D.R.^{3
  1} Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
  ² United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
  ³ Ugra Research Institute of Informational Technology, Khanty-Mansyisk, Russia
• Principles of Automatic Generation And Parsing of Device-Independent Metafiles by the Example of Object-Oriented VTK Library Adaptation
  Manakov D., Komarovsky I.
  Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics UB RAS, Ural State University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
• Visualization of the Distributed Data of Huge Volume. Assembly, Filtration, Sorting.
  Manakov D., Mukhachev A., Shinkevich A.
  Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics UB RAS, Ural State University, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Image Analysis and Processing

• Image resampling comparison method and rescaling methods comparison results
  Vatolin D., Putilin S.
  Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• Current maps update on a basis of regularly incoming images of earth surface
  Nepomnyaschy P.V.
  Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia
• Creation of hierarchical detail tree of image segmentation via solving minimum cut problem
  Nepomnyaschy P.V., Yurin D.V.
  Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia

Image Synthesis and Processing

• Problems of Ray Tracing while Rendering of Crystals
  Debelov V.A., Sattarov M.A.
  Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics of SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
• Language for boundary-skeletal representation of binary images
  Reyer I.A., Petrovtseva M.A.
  Center of Computing n.a. A.A.Dorodnitsin RAS, Moscow, Russia
• Color bitmap transforms based at B-spline fat curves
  Mestetskii L.M., Semenov A.B.
  Tver State University, Tver, Russia

Multimedia Presentations

• Talking Head: Synthetic Video Facial Animation in MPEG-4
  Fedorov A., Firsova T., Kuriakin V., Martinova E., Rodyushkin K., Zhislina V.
  Intel Russian Research Center, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
• VEonPC - Virtual Environment on PC-Linux-cluster: Research, Development and Demonstration
  Video Presentation (AVI, 87 Mb)
  Afanasiev V.¹, Baigozin D.², Brusentsev P.³, Bugaev A.², Foursa M.², Frolov P.³, Gobel M.⁴, Klimenko S.⁵, Kolomeetz E.², Nikitin I.³, Nikitina L.³, Reiser M.⁴, Slobodyuk E.⁵, Zhirnov A.^{2
  1} Center of Mission Control, Russia
  ² Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
  ³ Institute of Computing for Physics and Technology, Russia
  ⁴ Fraunhofer Institute of Mediacommunication, Sankt Augustin, Germany
  ⁵ Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Science

   

• The System for Interactive Virtual Teaching Based on "Focus" Virtual Studio
  Dolgovesov B.S.¹, Morozov B.B.¹, Shevtsov M.Yu.¹, Debelov V.A.², Zhmulevskaya D.R.^{3
  1} Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Novosibirsk, Russia
  ² Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Novosibirsk, Russia
  ³ Ugra Research Institute of Informational Technologies, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia

Industrial Presentations

• Graphics Generation as a means to support Simulation Applications and Synthetic Environment in Alenia Aeronautica
  Allocca M., Montrucchio C.
  Systems and Simulation Laboratories, Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A., Turin, Italy
• IP2: Generating Simple Polygonal Objects From Point Cloud
  Turchyn P.
  Department of Mathematical Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland

Round Table

• Scientific Visualization and its practical applications
  Materials of Round Table at GraphiCon'2000
  coordinated by Bondarev A.E.
  Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics RAS, Russia

Tutorials and Workshops

• Media Data Compression
  Dr. Dmitry Vatolin, Alexander Zhirkov
  Graphics and Media Lab, CMC, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• Creating Personalized 3D Heads for Virtual Environments
  Dr. Denis Ivanov
  Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow State University, Russia
• Introduction to OpenGL
  Sergey Berezin¹, Alexey Ignatenko^{2
  1} Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Russia
  ² Graphics and Media Lab, CMC, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• 3D Modelling and Animation
  Dr. Mark W. McK. Bannatyne¹, Professor Clarke A. Cory¹, Professor Kellen R. Maicher¹, Dr. Dmitri I. Troisky^{2
  1} Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University, USA
  ² Dept. Of Automated Manufacturing Systems, Tula State University, Russia