CGVR'07: June 25, 2007 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'07 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  Humans in Real and Virtual Space
                  Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
                  University of California, Berkeley, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Innovation
                  Prof. John H. Holland
                  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:55 - 11:55am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Challenges in Consumer Electronics for 21st Century
                  Steve Leibson
                  Tensilica, Inc.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:55a - 12:40p:  LUNCH (On Your Own)

12:40 - 01:20pm:  GENERAL DISCUSSION SESSIONS  (Refreshments will be available)
                  June 25 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5 and 6-8)


SESSION 1-CGVR:   RENDERING TECHNIQUES AND ALGORITHMS
                  Chair: Dr. Ramesh Kumar Rayudu, Massey University, New Zealand
                  June 25, 2007 (Monday); 01:20pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 6)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Real-Time Soft Shadow Generation through Penumbra Estimation
                  R. Rountree, R. Rayudu, and D. Brebner
                  Massey University, New Zealand;
                  Unlimited Realities, New Zealand

01:40 - 02:00pm:  A Hierarchical Occlusion Culling Method Reducing Query Delay
                  Ji-Won Choo, Moon-Hee Choi, Hoon-Mo Yang, and Shin-Dug Kim
                  Yonsei University, Korea

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Evaluation of Stereoscopy and Lit Shading for a Counting Task
                  in Knot Visualization
                  Nicholas G. Lipari and Christoph W. Borst
                  University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Simplified Muscle Dynamics for Appealing Real-Time Skin Deformation
                  Keng Siang Lee and Golam Ashraf
                  National University of Singapore, Singapore

02:40 - 03:00pm:  FREE SLOT

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK

03:20 - 06:00pm:  During this period, CGVR'07 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to IPCV'07, MSV'07, MSA'07, or FECS'07.
                  These sessions discuss topics that overlap the scope of CGVR'07.


06:00 - 09:00pm:  FIVE TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  Robust Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Parallel and
                  Distributed Computing Systems
                  Prof. H. J. Siegel
                  Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE & Professor of CS;
                  Director, ISTeC Center; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 6

                  Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems
                  Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
                  Chief Executive Officer, Cyndeo LLC, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 7

                  Intelligent Pattern Recognition and Applications
                  Prof. Patrick Wang, IAPR Fellow
                  Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
                  Location: Gold Room

                  Introduction to Uncertainty and Fuzzy Logic with Data Mining Applications
                  (Mini-Tutorial - one hour)
                  Ashu M. G. Solo
                  Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA
                  Location: Ballroom 1

                  Systems Biology in Present Day Bioinformatics: Tools, Tricks, Ticks and Traps
                  Prashanth Suravajhala
                  Roskilde University, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark
                  Location: Ballroom 8


09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - June 25 (Monday)
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery of Human Genome and Competitive
                  Genomes, Past, Future, and the Impact on the Science and Medicine
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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