Ivan Viola, Andreas Traxler, Helwig Hauser

Final Program of CESCG 2004

the preliminary program is still available also. The press release is now also available (only in slovak language): PDF, DOC.

Note, that also this year, CESCG is co-organized with the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG), which takes place right after the seminar.

Monday, 19 April 2004, afternoon

1330 - CESCG 2004 Opening by the seminar organizers   Session 1: Virtual Reality and Cultural Heritage (Chair: Jirí ZÁRA) 1400 Ivana RUDOLFOVÁ and Veronica SUNDSTEDT (Brno, Czech Republic, Bristol, United Kingdom) High fidelity rendering of the interior of an egyptian temple Gerald BINDER (Hagenberg, Austria) PocketHouseAR - An approach to use a Pocket PC as interaction tool for augmented reality Zsolt TÓTH (Bratislava, Slovakia) Towards an optimal texture reconstruction Alexander TERBU (Graz, Austria) Virtual Cockpit: An alternative augmented reality user interface 1540 - Coffee Break -   Session 2: Visualization (Chair: Alan CHALMERS) 1610 Matej NOVOTNÝ (Vienna, Austria) Visually effective information visualization of large data Stefan BRUCKNER (Vienna, Austria) Efficient volume visualization of large medical datasets Krisztián OLLÉ (Szeged, Hungary) A computer assisted planning and simulation system for orthopedic-trauma surgery Martin GASSER (Vienna, Austria) Fast Focus+Context visualization of large scientific data 1730 Opening Ceremony of Ehibition: "Virtual Heart of Central Europe"   - Spare Time - 1830 - Welcome Party -

Tuesday, 20 April 2004, morning

730 - Breakfast -   Session 3: Photorealistic Rendering (Chair: Helwig HAUSER) 830 Miroslav SABO (Maribor, Slovenia) Improving advanced particle system by adding property milestones to particle life cycle Martin SCHNEIDER (Bonn, Germany) Real-Time BTF rendering Attila BARSI and Gábor JAKAB (Budapest, Hungary) Stream processing in global illumination Dorota ZDROJEWSKA (Szczecin, Poland) Real time rendering of heterogenous fog based on the graphics hardware acceleration 1010 - Coffee Break -   Session 4: Computational Geometry & Image Processing (Chair: Andrej FERKO) 1040 Vid DOMITER (Maribor, Slovenia) Constrained delaunay triangulation using plane subdivision Michal KRAUS (Prague, Czech Republic) Human motion and emotion parameterization Jirí VENERA (Brno, Czech Republic) Searching for simple geometric shapes in raster image Marián SEDLÁCEK (Bratislava, Slovakia) Evaluation of RGB and HSV models in human faces detection 1220 - Lunch -

Tuesday, 20 April 2004, afternoon

Session 5: Modelling (Chair: Martin Sperka) 1400 Gavin ELLIS (Bristol, United Kingdom) A conversion pipeline: From laser-scanned data to high fidelity rendering Peter DRAHOS and Peter KAPEC (Bratislava, Slovakia) Animating human faces using modified waters muscle model Piotr KUREK (Szczecin, Poland) A novel representation of 3D shapes based on modified sphere equation Sanjin JEGINOVIC (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Interactive 3D models -- From 3ds max to VRML 1540 - Coffee Break -   Session 6: Invited Talk (Chair: Radoslaw MANTIUK) 1610 Jirí ZÁRA (Prague, Czech Republic) Web-based presentations of large urban scenes 1750 - IPC Meeting - - Spare Time - 1830 - Social Program -

Wednesday, 21 April 2004, morning

730 - Breakfast -   Session 7: Hardware-Accelerated Rendering (Chair: Laszlo SZIRMAY KALOS) 830 Tomás BUJNÁK (Bratislava, Slovakia) Extended shadow maps Márton SZABÓ (Budapest, Hungary) Hardware generated shadows Oliver MATTAUSCH (Vienna, Austria) Practical reconstruction and hardware-accelerated direct volume rendering on body-centered cubic grids Joachim HARABASZ (Bonn, Germany) Out-of-core terrain rendering with reparameterized textures 1010 - Coffee Break - 1040 - IPC Meeting -   Session 8: Invited Talk (Chair: Ivan VIOLA) 1100 Alan CHALMERS (Bristol, United Kingdom) Recreating the past: Graphics and archaeology 1220 - Closing Ceremony (Seminar Organizers)- 1300 - Lunch - The 8th Central European Seminar on Computer Graphics is sponsored by the following companies: SOFTIP Visegrad Fund Ministry of Education of Slovakia OCG Tiani Medgraph VRVis Caligari A.K. Peters our official partner this year:      COFAX Popper and is orgainzed under the auspices of the Austrian ambassador in Slovakia Martin Bolldorf.