10.00-11.00 Keynote Speech I
Henry
Fuchs
Department of Computer
Science
Sitterson Hall
University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
11.00-11.30
The HiBall Tracker: High-Performance Wide-Area Tracking for Virtual and Augmented Environments
Greg Welch, Gary Bishop, Leandra Vicci, Stephen Brumback, Kurtis Keller
Department of Computer
Science
Sitterson Hall
University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
D'nardo
Colucci
Alternate
Realities Corporation
27 Maple Place
Minneapolis, MN 55401, USA
11.30-11.40 BREAK
11.40-12.10
Karl-Petter
Åkesson and Kristian Simsarian
The Interactive
Collaborative Environments Laboratory
Swedish Institute of
Computer Science, Sweden
12.10-12.40
A Video-based Virtual Reality System
Haruo Takeda, Masami Yamasaki, Masami Yamasaki, Toshio Moriya,
Tsuyoshi Minakawa, Fumiko Beniyama, Takafumi Koike
Systems Development Laboratory
Hitachi, Ltd.
Kawasaki, Japan
12.40-01.10
Testbed Evaluation of VE Interaction Techniques
Doug Bowman,
Department of Computer
Science
Virginia Polytechnic and
State University
USA
Donald Johnson, Larry F. Hodges
Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
01.10-02.30 LUNCH
02.30-03.00
Patterns of Network and User Activity in an Inhabited Television Event
Chris Greenhalgh, Steve.Benford
and Mike
Craven
Communications
Research Group
School of Computer
Science and Information Technology
University of
Nottingham
UK
03.00-03.30
Coping with Inconsistency Due to Network Delays in Collaborative Virtual Environments
Ivan Vaghi, Chris
Greenhalgh, Steve.Benford
Communication
Research Group
School of Computer
Science and Information Technology
The University
of Nottingham
UK
03.30-04.00
The London Travel Demonstrator
Anthony
Steed
Department of
Computer Science
University College London
Gower Street, London, UK
Emmanuel
Frécon,
The Interactive
Collaborative Environments Laboratory,
Swedish Institute of
Computer Science, Sweden
Gareth Smith and Duncan Pemberton
Department of Computer Science
University of Lancaster
Anneli Avatare
The Interactive
Collaborative Environments Laboratory,
Swedish Institute of
Computer Science, Sweden
04.00-04.30 BREAK
04.30-05.00
The DiveBone - An Application-Level Communication Infrastructure for Internet-Based CVEs
Emmanuel
Frécon,
The Interactive
Collaborative Environments Laboratory,
Swedish Institute of
Computer Science, Sweden
Chris Greenhalgh,
Communications
Research Group,
School of Computer
Science and Information Technology
The University
of Nottingham, UK
Mårten Stenius,
The Interactive
Collaborative Environments Laboratory,
Swedish Institute of
Computer Science , Sweden
05.00-05.30
MAVERIK -- A micro-kernel for large-scale virtual environments
Roger Hubbold, Jon Cook, Martin Keates, Simon Gibson,Toby Howard, Alan
Murta, Adrian West,
Steve Pettifer
Advanced Interfaces
Group
Department of
Computer Science
University of
Manchester, UK
05.00-06.00
Distributed Open Inventor: A Practical Approach to Distributed 3D Graphics
Gerd Hesina, Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, and Werner Purgathofer
Institute of Computer Graphics
Vienna University of Technology
Austria
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After dinner talk by
Professor John A. Vince,
National Centre for Computer Animation
Bournemouth
University
09.00-10.00 Keynote Speech II
Daniel
Cohen-Or ,
Department
of Computer Science,
School of
Mathematical Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
10.00-10.30
Navigating Through Sparse Views
Shachar
Fleishman,
Department
of Computer Science,
School of
Mathematical Science,
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Baoquan Chen,
Department of
Computer Science,
State University of New
York at Stony Brook, USA
Arie Kaufman,
Department of
Computer Science,
State University of New
York at Stony Brook, USA
Daniel
Cohen-Or ,
Department
of Computer Science,
School of
Mathematical Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
10.30-11.00 BREAK
11.00-11.30
A Method for Progressive and Selective Transmission of Multi-Resolution Models
Danny
S.P. To, Rynson W.H. Lau
Department of
Computing Science
City University of
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Mark Green
Deptartment of
Computer Science
University of Alberta
Canada
11.30-12.00
A Market Model for Level of Detail Control
J.Howell, Y.Chrysanthou, A.Steed, M.Slater
Department of
Computer Science
University College London
UK
12.00-12.30
Levels of Detail(LOD) Engineering of VR Objects
Jinseok Seo, Gerard Jounghyun
Kim, Kyo Chul Kang
Department
of Computer Science and Engineering
Pohang University of
Science and Technology(POSTECH)
Korea
12.30-02.00 LUNCH
02.00-02.30
Xiaodong
Jiang,
Department of
Computer Science
Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210093, P.R. China
Yunlai Wang, Nanjing Oral School Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210026, P.R. China
02.30-03.00
A Method for Sharing Interactive Deformations in Collaborative 3D Modeling
Hiroaki Nishino , Atsunori Sakamoto, Kouichi Utsumiya, Kazuyuki Yoshida
Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems,
Oita University,
Japan
Kazuyoshi Korida
Department of Communication,
Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture,
Japan
03.00-03.30
Direct 3D interaction with Smart Objects
Marcelo
Kallmann and Daniel Thalmann,
Computer
Science Department
Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Switzerland
03.30-04.00 BREAK
04.00-04.30
Real Time Rendering of Deformable Parametric Free-Form Surfaces
Frederick
W. B. Li and Rynson W.H. Lau
Department of
Computer Science
City University of
Hong Kong
Kowloon
Hong Kong
04.30-05.00
Modeling and Animation of Botanical Tree for Interactive Virtual Environment
Tatsumi
Sakaguchi and Jun Ohya
ATR Media
Integration and Communications Research Laboratories
Kyoto, Japan
05.00-05.30
Software Architecture for a Constraint-based Virtual Environment
Terrence
Fernando, Norman Murray, Kevin Tan, Prasad Wimalaratne
The Centre for
Virtual Environments
The University of
Salford
UK
05.30-06.00
Sketching a Virtual Environment: Modeling Using Line-Drawing Interpretation
Alasdair
Turner
VR Centre for the
Built Environment
University College London
Gower Street, London, UK
Dave
Chapman
Department of
Geomatic Engineering
University College London
Gower Street, London, UK
Alan Penn Bartlett School of
Architecture
University College London
Gower Street, London, UK
Formations and Collaborative Virtual Environments
Dave Lloyd & Steve Benford
Communications Research Group
University of Nottingham
UK
Meetings for real - Experiences from a series of VR-based project meetings
Olov Stahl
Interactive Collaborative Environments Laboratory
Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Sweden
Bengt Serenius
Communication Services
Telia Research AB
Sweden
Gustav Taxén
Centre for User Oriented IT Design
KTH
Stockholm
Sweden
Simple User-Centered HMD Calibration for Augmented Reality
Anton L. Fuhrmann, Dieter Schmalstieg and Werner
Purgathofer
Institute of Computer Graphics
Vienna University of Technology
Austria
The Kahun Project: CVE technology development based on real world application and user needs
Daphne Economou, William L. Mitchell, Steve Pettifer,
Adrian West
Department of Computing and Mathematics
Manchester Metropolitan University
UK
and
Advanced Interfaces Group
The University of Manchester
UK
Perceptual continuity, and the relaxing of synchronisation in networked virtual environments
Steve Pettifer and Adrian West
Department of Computer Science
The University of Manchchester
UK
Interactive Virtual Studio & Immersive Viewer Environment
Laehyun Kim, Heedong Ko , *Moonho Park, *Hyeran Byun
Korea Institute of Science and Technology and *Yonsei
University
Korea
Constraint-based Task Planning in Virtual Assembly
Hanqiu Sun, Tong Ngai Man, Wu Lam Fai
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Networking Components for Distributed Virtual Environments
M. Oliveira*, D. Brutzman+, J. Crowcroft*
*University College London, UK
+Naval Postgraduate School, USA
A Real-Time Generation Algorithm of Progressive Mesh With Multiple Properties
Guangzheng Fei [1] Enhua Wu*[1,2]
[1] Lab. of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
[2] Faculty of Science & Technology, University of
Macao, Macao
Collision Detection and Response
G. Hotz, A. Kerzmann, C. Lennerz, R. Schmid, E. Schmer,
T. Warken
Computer Science Department,
Saarland University
Germany
Rudiments for a 3D Freehand-Sketch based Human-Computer-Interface for Large-Scale Virtual Environments
Oliver Bimber
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Rostock
Germany
Using Virtual Reality For Network Management: Automated Construction of Dynamic 3D Metaphoric worlds
P.Gros, P.Abel, D.Loisel, C.Russo Dos Santos (*), J.P. Paris(**)
(*)Eurecom Institute, (**)CNET France Telecom
Visualising Logic Programs in Virtual Worlds
T.Panayiotopoulos, S.Vosinakis, S. Kousidou, L. Balafa
University of Piraeus, Dept. of Informatics
Piraeus, Greece.
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