Graphics Reading Group

Graphics Reading Group

We meet every Thu at 12.00pm in the 3rd floor CIT lobby.

Online papers and courses
Code
Venues

Future Topics:
Geometric Algebras, Mesh Interaction, Applications of AI to computer graphics, Ig Noble Winners.

Date/Topic	Reading	Lead
Feb 16th 2006 Reprise	Agarwala et al. Interactive Digital Photomontage, SIG 2004. Agarwala et al. Panoramic Video Textures, SIG 2005. Project webpage w/ videos here.	jfh
December 14th, ACM Transactions on Graphics Oct'05	Liu Ren, Gregory Shakhnarovich, Jessica Hodgins, Hanspeter Pfister and Paul Viola, Learning Silhouette Features for Control of Human Motion, ACM Transactions on Graphics- Oct'05
December 5th ACM Transactions on Graphics Oct'05	J. Haber et. al. Physically-Based Simulation of Twilight Phenomena. A. Lagae et. al. A Procedural Object Distribution Function.
November 10 CHI 2005	Grossman, Balakrishnan The Bubble Cursor: Enhancing Target Acquisition by Dynamic Resizing of the Cursor's Activation Area, CHI 2005 (video) Fogarty, Ko, Aung, Golden, Tang, Hudson Examining Task Engagement in Sensor-Based Statistical Models of Human Interruptibility, CHI 2005	tm
November 7th Vis'05	van Wijk The Value of Visualization, IEEE Vis 2005 Svakhine et al. Illustration and Photography Inspired Visualization of Flows and Volumes, IEEE Vis 2005 (Project homepage)	prabhat?
October 24th Remeshing	Alliez et al. Recent Advances in Remeshing of Surfaces,Springer 2005	koa
October 17rd Seminal Papers - Rendering	James T. Kajiya The rendering equation, Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques. 143-150, 1986. Paul S. Heckber (Dessert Foods Division, Pixar) Ray tracing JELL-O^TM Brand Gelatin, Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques. 73-74, 1987. Tomas Akenine-Möller, Department of Computer Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology An introduction to global illumination, 2002.	pgs
October 3rd Seminal Papers - Animation	C. Reynolds Flocks,Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behanioral Model, Computer Graphics Vol. 21 No. 4, July 1987 , 25-34. (SIGGRAPH' 87 Proceedings) Michael Girard and A. A. Maciejewski Computational Modeling for the Computer Animation of Legged Figures, Computer Graphics Vol. 19, No. 3 , July 1985, 263-270 (SIGGRAPH '85)	gem
September 26 Information Visualization II	Ted Mihalisin, John Timlin, John Schwegler Visualizing Multivariate Functions, Data, and Distributions, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 1991. Harsha P. Kumar, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman Browsing hierarchical data with multi-level dynamic queries, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 1997.	tm
Sep 15 Information Visualization I	Card, Mackinlay, Shneiderman Information Visualization -- Using Vision to Think, Chapter 1 "A Framework for Information Visualization" (hard-copies by mailboxes)	gem
August 26 Deformable models Tutorial	A. Nealen, et. al. Physically Based Deformable Models in Computer Graphics, EG 2005 Extra reading (previous survey on this topic): S. Gibson and B. Mirtich A Survey of Deformable Modeling in Computer Graphics, MERL Tech Report 1997	koa
July 28 SIG'05 Video & Image Matting	Derek Hoiem, Alexei Efros, Martial Hebert Automatic Photo Pop-up, SIG'05 Jue Wang et. al. Interactive Video Cutout, SIG'05	morgan :)
July 21 SIG'05 Meshes	Yaron Lipman, et. al. Linear Rotation-Invariant Coordinates for Meshes Diego Nehab, et. al. Efficiently Combining Positions and Normals for Precise 3D Geometry	pgs
July 8 SIG'05 Deformable Models	Y. Zhu and R. Bridson Animating sand as a fluid, SIG'05. J. Barbič and D. James Real-Time Subspace Integration for St.Venant-Kirchhoff Deformable, SIG'05	gem
July 1 SIG'05 Plants	Adam Runions et. al. Modeling and Visualization of Leaf Venation Patterns, SIG-05 Takashi Ijiri et. al. Floral Diagrams and Inflorescences: Interactive Flower Modeling Using Botanical Structural Constraints, SIG-05	koa
June 24 SIG'05 Motion Capture	Jackie Assa, Yaron Caspi, Daniel Cohen-Or Action Synopsis: Pose Selection and Illustration SIGGRAPH'05 Jinxiang Chai, Jessica K. Hodgins Performance Animation From Low-dimensional Control Signals SIGGRAPH'05	gem
June 10 SIG'05 Image and Video	Eric P. Bennett and Leonard McMillan Video Enhancement Using Per-Pixel Virtual Exposures SIGGRAPH'05 Sen, Chen, Garg, Marchner, Horowitz, Levoy, and Lesch Dual Photography SIGGRAPH'05	tm
June 3 SIG'05 Illustration and Image-Based Modeling	Nelson S.-H. Chu, Chiew-Lan Tai, MoXi: Real-Time Ink Dispersion in Absorbent Paper Michael Burns et. al. Line Drawings From Volume Data
May 27 SIG'05 Shape and Texture	Takeo Igarashi, Tomer Moscovich, John Hughes. As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation Andie Nealen et. al. A Sketch-Based Interface for Detail-Preserving Mesh Editing
May 20 SIG'05 Mesh Manipulation	M. Mueller et. al. Meshless Deformations Based on Shape Matching Robert W. Sumner et. al. Mesh-based Inverse Kinematics
May 13 SIG'05 Texture Synthesis	V. Kwatra, I. Essa, A. Bobick, and N.Kwatra Texture Optimization for Example-Based Synthesis (SIGGRAPH'05)
May 6 CS224 Demo day	No Meeting. CS224 demo day @ 2:00 in Lubrano.
Apr 29	Amy A. Gooch, Sven C. Olsen, Jack Tumblin, and Bruce Gooch Color2Gray: Salience-Preserving Color Removal. SIGGRAPH'05 (Project Page)	tm
Apr 22 Geodesics on meshes	V. Surazhsky, T. Surazhsky, D. Kirsanov, S. Gortler, H. Hoppe Fast exact and approximate geodesics on meshes. submitted to SIGGRAPH'05	pgs
Mar 25 Subdivision surfaces	Zorin et al. Subdivision for modeling and animation course notes SIGGRAPH'00 Siggraph'99 course slides	pgs
Mar 18 I3D	Billy Chen, Eyal Ofek, Heung-Yeung Shum, Marc Levoy Interactive Deformation of Light Fields I3D'05 Youngihn Kho and Michael Garland Sketching Mesh Deformations I3D'05
Mar 4 Multilinear PCA	Rene Vidal, Yi Ma, Shankar Sastry Generalized Principal Component Analysis CVPR (2004) M. Alex O. Vasilescu and Demetri Terzopoulos TensorTextures Siggraph (2004) M. Alex O. Vasilescu and Demetri Terzopoulos Multilinear Analysis of Image Ensembles: TensorFaces ECCV'02
Dec 17 Image-Based Object Editing	H. Rushmeier et al. Image-Based Object Editing
Dec 10 Registration of 3D shapes	P.J. Besl et al. A Method for Registration of 3-D Shapes
Dec. 3 Kernel-based learning	K-R. Mueller et al. An Introduction to Kernel-Based Learning Algorithms Extra reading: The original Kernel PCA paper
Nov. 26 Topology matching	M.Hilaga et al. Topology Matching for Fully Automatic Similarity Estimation of 3D Shapes.
Nov. 19 Shape Analysis	Thomas Funkhouser, Michael Kazhdan Shape-Based Retrieval and Analysis of 3D Models Siggraph Course Notes (2004)
Nov. 12 Quasi-rigid deformation	M.Pauly, D.Pai, L.Guibas Quasi-rigid Objects in Contact Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (2004)
Nov. 5 Inference	Jojic and Frey Learning Flexible Sprites in Video Layers CVPR 2001 (related papers)
Oct. 29 ADF	Frisken et al. "Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields: A General Representation of Shape for Computer Graphics SIGGRAPH 2000 (Frisken's Homepage)	gem
Oct. 21 Light Collages	Lee et al. "Light Collages: Lighting Design for Effective Visualization" Vis 2004 (project page)	gem
Oct. 15 Flow-based Video Synthesis	Bhat et al. "Flow-based Video Synthesis and Editing", SIGGRAPH 2004	Joe
Oct. 8 Laplacian Surface Editing	Sorkine et al. Laplacian Surface Editing, SGP 2004 Webpage.	tm
Oct 1 Parition of Unity Methods	Ohtake et al. Multi-level Partition of Unity Implicits, SIGGRAPH 03	koa
Sept. 24 Moving Least Squares II	Shen et al. Interpolating and Approximating Implicit Surfaces from Polygon Soup, SIGGRAPH 04	koa
Sept. 17 Moving Least Squares	Alexa et al. Point Set Surfaces, IEEE Visualization 2001 Supplement Alexa et al. Computing and Rendering Point Set Surfaces, IEEE TVCG 2003 (Longer version of conf. paper above, more details about computation) David Levin Mesh Independent Surface Interpolation, In "Geometric Modeling for Scientific Visualization" Edited by Brunnett, Hamann and Mueller, Springer-Verlag, 2003, 37-49. (More general mathematical treatment of MLS and its application in surface interpolation) Andrew Nealen An As-Short-As-Possible Introduction to Lease Squares. Weighted Least Squares and Moving Least Squares Methods for Scattered Data Interpretation A three page discussion of least squares including the detailed equations.	pgs
Sept. 10 SIGGRAPH 04	Lucas Kovar and Michael Gleicher Automated Extraction and Parameterization of Motions in Large Data Sets, SIGGRAPH 2004	?
Sep 3 SIG 04	Alla Safonova,Jessica Hodgins, Nancy Pollard Synthesizing Physically Realistic Human Motion in Low-Dimensional, Behavior-Specific Space
Aug 27 SIG 04	Keith Grochow, Steven L. Martin, Aaron Hertzmann, Zoran Popović "Style-Based Inverse Kinematics", SIGG2004 Lawrence, N.D., "Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models for Visualisation of High Dimensional Data",NIPS'04 Matlab Software and Data for the NIPS GPLVM paper above: project webpage
Aug 20 SIG 04	Ko Nishino, Shree K. Nayar "Eyes for Relighting", SIGG2004
Aug. 6 SIG 04 Mesh Parameterization	Nathan A. Carr, John C. Hart "Painting Detail", SIGG2004 Marco Tarini, Kai Hormann, Paolo Cignoni, Claudio Montani "PolyCube-Maps", SIGG2004 . Movie Vladislav Kraevoy, Alla Sheffer "Cross-Parameterization and Compatible Remeshing of 3D Models", SIGG2004, Movie John Schreiner, Arul Prakash, Emil Praun , Hugues Hoppe "Inter-Surface Mapping", SIGG2004	gem?
July 30 SIG 04 Dynamics and Modeling	Mark Carlson, Peter J. Mucha, Greg Turk, "Rigid Fluid: Animating the Interplay Between Rigid Bodies and Fluid", SIGG2004 Neil Molino, Zhaosheng Bao, Ronald P. Fedkiw A Virtual Node Algorithm for Changing Mesh Topology During Simulation", SIGG2004 Doug L. James, Dinesh K. Pai "BD-Tree: Output-Sensitive Collision Detection for Reduced Deformable Models", SIGG2004 Robert W. Sumner, Jovan Popovic"Deformation Transfer for Triangle Meshes", SIGG2004	gem?
July 23 SIG 04 Shape Analysis	Y. Ohtake, A. Belyaev, and H-P. Seidel, "Ridge-Valley Lines on Meshes via Implicit Surface Fitting", SIG 2004. Xinlai Ni, Michael Garland, John C. Hart, "Fair Morse Functions for Extracting the Topological Structure of a Surface Mesh", SIG 2004. Michael Kazhdan, Thomas Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, "Shape Matching and Anisotropy", SIG 2004.	gem?
July 16 SIG 04 Interacting with Images	A. Agarwala et al., "Interactive Digital Photomontage", SIG 2004. C. Rother et al., "GrabCut - Interactive Foreground Extraction Using Iterated Graph Cuts", SIG 2004. J. Sun et al., "Poisson Matting", SIG 2004.	koa
July 9 SIG 04 Video-Based Rendering	J. Wang et al., "Video Tooning", SIG 2004. A. Agarwala et al., "Keyframe-Based Tracking for Rotoscoping and Animation", SIG 2004. P. Sand et al., "Video Matching", SIG 2004.	Prabhat
July 2 SIG 04	M Thorne, D Burke, M van de Panne, "Motion Doodles: An Interface for Sketching Character Motion", SIG 2004. T Funkhouser, M Kazhdan, P Shilane, P Min, W Kiefer, A Tal, S Rusinkiewicz, D Dobkin, "Modeling by Example", SIG 2004.	Olya
June 25 Dimension reduction: a. PCA b. Factor Analysis	Duda/Hart/Stork "Pattern Classification" Ch. 3.8 and 3.9 B.S.Everett "An Introduction to Latent Variable Models" Ch 2 S. Roweis "EM algorithms for PCA and Sensible PCA", CNS-TR-97-02.	gem
June 18 Dimension reduction: Locally Linear Embeddings	J. H. Ham, D. D. Lee & L. K. Saul, "Learning high dimensional correspondences with low dimensional manifolds", ICML 2003. Sam Roweis & Lawrence Saul, "Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding", Science 2000.	pgs
June 11 AI for graphics: Dimension reduction	Aaron Hertzmann "Machine Learning for Computer Graphics: A Manifesto and Tutorial", Pacific Graphics 2003. W Matusik, H Pfister, M Brand, L McMillan, "A data-driven reflectance model", SIG 2003.	psar / gem / Prabhat
June 4 SIG 04	Y Yu, K Zhou, D Xu, X Shi, H Bao, B Guo, H Shum "Mesh Editing with Poisson-Based Gradient Field Manipulation", SIG 2004.	koa
May 21 Surface design	Gabriel Taubin, "A Signal Processing Approach to Fair Surface Design", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 95. pp. 351-358, 1995.	gem / psar / Joe
May 7 Level Sets: applications	N. Foster et al., "Practical Animation of Liquids",SIGGRAPH 01. J.A. Sethian, "Level Set Methods: an Act of Violence", American Sci. 1997?. R. Whitaker et al., "Segmentation of Biological Datasets Using a Level-Set Framework", Volume Graphics 2001.	Joe
Apr 30 Level Sets: fluid dynamics and image inpainting	M. Bertalmio, A. Bertozzi, G. Sapiro, "Navier-Stokes, Fluid Dynamics, and Image and Video Inpainting",ICCVPR 01. M. Bertalmio et al., "Image Inpainting",SIG 00. R. Fedkiw et al., "Visual Smoke Simulation",SIG 01.	koa
Apr 23 Level Set Methods: theory	S. Osher, R. Fedkiw, "Level Set Methods", Ch. 1 - Ch. 10 .	gem, tm
Apr 16 NPR 2004	D. DeCarlo et al., "Interactive Rendering of Suggestive Contours with Temporal Coherence", NPAR 2004. A. Selle et al., "Cartoon Rendering of Smoke Animations", NPAR 2004.	tm, morgan
Apr 07 PDEs	P. Perez et al., "Poisson Image Editing", SIG 2003.	koa