| Jan 5 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Spring '07 Kick-Off Meeting: Generating Random Points in Triangles by Turk from Graphics Gems
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| Jan 12 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Jake Lee: New Method for Opacity Correction in Oversampled Volume Ray Casting (WSCG07)
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| Jan 19 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Paper discussion: Integrating Pre-integration into the Shear-warp Algorithm
by Schulze et al. from 3rd Int'l Workshop on Volume Graphics 2003 (Jake Lee, discussion leader)
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| Jan 26 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Paper discussion: Isosurface Extraction on the Cell Processor
by O'Conor et al. from Irish Workshop on Comp. Graphics 2006 (Brian Wood, discussion leader)
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| Feb 2 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Paper discussion: A Simple and Flexible Volume Rendering Framework for Graphics-Hardware-based Raycasting by
Stegmaier et al. from the 4th Int'l Workshop on Volume Graphics 2005 (Vijaya Gummadi, discussion leader)
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| Feb 9 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Paper discussion: Splat-based Ray Tracing of Point Clouds by Lisen et al. from Journal of WSCG 2007 (Jake Lee, discussion leader)
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| Feb 16 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Vijaya Gummadi: Improving the Marching Cubes Algorithm Performance using GPU
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| Feb 23 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Paper discussion: Tetra-Cubes: An Algorithm to Generate 3D Isosurfaces Based Upon Tetrahedra by Carneiro et al. from IX SIBGRAPI Int'l Conference 1996 (Praveenkumar Elango, discussion leader)
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| Mar 2 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Phani Cherukuri: New Caching-based Optimizations to Improve Shadow Generation in Ray Tracing
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| Mar 9 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful by Borland and Taylor II, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, March/April 2007, pp. 14-17.
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| Mar 16 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Paper discussion: Compatible Triangulations of Spatial Decompositions by W. Schroeder et al. from Visualization '04 (Praveen Elango, discussion leader)
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| Mar 23 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
No Meeting (Spring Break!)
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| Mar 30 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Paper discussion: Experiments with Volumetric Data Interpolation by Kolcun and Pravda from WSCG 2007 (Praveen Elango, Vijaya Gummadi, Jake Lee, discussion leaders)
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| Apr 6 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Paper discussion: Using Simplied Meshes for Crude Registration of Two Partially Overlapping Range Image by Marquez and Wu from WSCG 2007 (Chun Dong, discussion leader)
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| Apr 13 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Paper discussion: Design Patterns for Multithreaded Software Pipelines in Real Time Applications by Preuss and Schmitt from WSCG 2007 (Ken Cao, discussion leader)
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| Apr 20 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Paper discussion: Measuring and Segmentation in CT data using Deformable Models by Krajicek et al. from WSCG 2007 (Xiang Zhang, discussion leader)
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| Apr 27 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Paper discussion: A Study of Incremental Update of Global Illumination Algorithm by Garcia et al. from WSCG 2007 (Phani Cherukuri, discussion leader)
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| May 4 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Brian Wood: Marching Cubes Mesh Compression and Decompression
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| June 1 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Summer '07 Kick-Off. Paper discussion: Real-Time Rendering of Planets with Atmospheres by Schafhitzel et al. from WSCG 2007 (Cuilan Wang, discussion leader)
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| June 8 |
11:45am-12:45pm |
Jake Lee: Voxel Averaging-based Opacity Correction for Oversampled Volume Ray Casting
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| June 15 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
C. "Ken" Cao: Advancing Data Discovery through New Elliptic and Related Higher-order Shape-based Processing
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| June 22 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Manil Maskey: Introduction to Visual Analytics
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| June 29 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Paper discussion: Toward Measuring Visualization Insight
by C. North and Getting to the Point? by M. Gross from IEEE CG&A 2006 (P. Elango, co-leader on discussion of
M. Gross's paper)
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| July 6 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Paper discussion: Point-Based Multiscale Surface Representation by Pauly et al. from ACM TOG, April 2006 (Jung Im "Amy" Choi, co-leader)
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| JulY 13 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Paper discussion: Hardware-Accelerated Extraction and Rendering of Point Set Surfaces by Tejada et al. from EUROVIS '06 (Vijaya Gummadi, discussion co-leader)
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| July 20 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Ken Cao: New Hypothesis Distinctiveness Measure for Better Ellipse Extraction by Cuilan Wang et al. (ICIAR '07)
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| July 27 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Paper discussion: Accurate Detection of Symmetries in 3D Shapes by Martinet et al. from ACM TOG, April 2006 (Manil Maskey and Cuilan Wang, discussion co-leaders)
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| Aug 3, 10, 17 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
No Meetings (Term Break!)
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| Aug 24 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Fall '07 Kick-off. Paper discussion: Shear Image Order Ray-casting Volume rendering by Wu et al. from Symp. on Interactive 3D Graphics, 2003. (Jake Lee, discussion leader)
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| Aug. 31 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Paper discussion: (1) Virtual Reality: How Much Immersion Is Enough? by Bowman and McMahan and (2) Ammersidata Analysis: Four Case Studies by Shahabi et al. from IEEE Computer, July, 2007.
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| Sep. 7 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Guest Speaker, Nathan Hanish: Game Application Architecture - My "Big Picture" Overview of Game Application Design
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| Sep. 14 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Paper discussion: 3D Display Using Passive Optical Scatterers by Nayar et al. from IEEE Computer, July, 2007.
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| Sep. 21 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Paper presentation: From Pixels to Semantic Spaces: Advances in Content-Based Image Retrieval by Vasconcelos in IEEE Computer, July, 2007 (Sreenvivas Pasumarthi, Presenter).
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| Sep. 28 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Presentation on GL2PS- Converting OpenGL Images to Postscript Files by Cuilan Wang and Paper discussion: Google's Geospatial Organizing Principle by Jones from IEEE CG&A, July, 2007.
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| Oct. 5 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Paper discussion: Surface Capture for Performance-Based Animation by Starck and Hilton from IEEE CG&A, May, 2007.
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| Oct. 11 (Thursday) |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Brian Wood: Metasymbol Coding for HPC Visualization of Structured Grid Physical Simulation Datasets
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| Oct. 19 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Paper presentation: Navigation and Discovery in 3D CAD Repositories by Pu et al. from IEEE CG&A, July, 2007 (Chun Dong, presenter).
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| Oct. 26 | 12:00pm-01:00pm | Paper discussion: Phong Shading Optimization Studies from Graphics Gems IV (Xiang Zhang, discussion leader).
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| Nov. 2 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Paper presentation: Volume Illustration using Wang Cubes by Lu et al from ACM Trans. on Graphics, Vol. 26, June, 2007 (Cuilan Wang, presenter).
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| Nov. 9 |
12:00pm-01:00pm |
Paper presentation: Representing Interwoven Surfaces in 2-1/2D Drawings by Wiley and Williams from IEEE CG&A, July, 2007 (Praveen Elango, presenter).
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| Nov. 16 | 12:00pm-01:00pm | Srinivasa Manne: Overview of Cloud Rendering
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| Nov. 23 | 12:00pm-01:00pm | No Meeting (Thanksgiving Break!)
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| Nov. 30 | 12:00pm-01:00pm | Paper presentation: Content-based 3D Object Retrieval by Bustos et al. from IEEE CG&A, July, 2007 (Sussan Einakian, presenter).
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