CGVR'08: July 15, 2008 Schedule

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6:45am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:00 - 11:20am:  During this period, CGVR'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to ICWN'08, IPCV'08, MSV'08, ICOMP'08,
                  SWWS'08, ESA'08, or FECS'08.  These sessions discuss topics
                  that overlap the scope of CGVR'08.

11:20a - 12:20p:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


SESSION 1-CGVR:   VIRTUAL REALITY (Chair: TBA)
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday); 12:20pm - 01:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Titanium Room)

12:20 - 12:40pm:  FREE SLOT

12:40 - 01:00pm:  Virtual Reality Technology Assisting Communication Apprehension
                  Max M. North, Jeremy Hill, Ainonehi Aikhuele, and Sarah M. North
                  Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, Georgia, USA;
                  Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

01:00 - 01:20pm:  Generating Smooth Virtual Reality Maps Using 3D Building Blocks
                  Bradley J. Wimpey and Walter D. Potter
                  University of Georgia Athens, USA

01:20 - 01:40pm:  A New Approach for Adding Facial Expression to Neutral Face
                  Ripon Kumar Saha, Naresh Chandra Biswas and Rameswar Debnath
                  Khulna University, Bangladesh


SESSION 2-CGVR:   VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS (Chair: TBA)
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday); 01:40pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Titanium Room)

01:40 - 02:00pm:  River and Coastal Action in Automatic Terrain Generation
                  Soon Tee Teoh
                  San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Adapting the Storage of Large Medical Datasets to Enable Interactive Display
                  Anupam Agrawal*, Josef Kohout*, Gordon J. Clapworthy*,
                  Nigel J. B. McFarlane*, Feng Dong*, Marco Viceconti**,
                  Fulvi Taddei**, and Debora Testi***
                  *University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK
                  **Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
                  ***BioComputing Compentence Centre, SCS s.r.l., Italy

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Visualizing Platonic Solids with Shading, Colour Interpolation
                  and Textures Using OpenGL
                  A. Arokiasamy
                  Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Interactive Tracking of Three-Dimensional Critical Points in
                  Unsteady, Large-Scale CFD Datasets
                  Andreas Gerndt*, Torsten Kuhlen**, and Carolina Cruz-Neira***
                  *Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise, USA;
                  **Aachen Univ., Germany; ***Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA


03:00 - 03:40pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION A-CGVR (Refreshments will be available)
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. Simulation and Certification for Collision Between Satellites
                     in Solar System Celestial Model
                     Guofeng Qin, Qiyan Li, and Xiuying Deng
                     Tongji University, Shanghai, P. R. China
                     Chinese National CAD Application Technology Training Center
                     for Engineering Design, ShangHai, P. R. China
                  O. Development of a Cost Effective, High Quality 3D Screen for
                     3D Visualization Without Attachments to the Eyes or to the Monitor 
                     M. N. Rao*, M. Karthikeyan, T. Geethanjali, E. Arun Sabastin,
                     and J. Karthik; St. Josephs College of Engineering & Tech., India
                  O. 3D Model Retrieval Using Convex Hull and Curvature
                     Ami Kim, JuWhan Song, and OuBong Gwun
                     Chonbuk National University, Korea; JeonJu University, Korea
                  O. Decoupled Agent Architecture for Virtual Operating Room Training
                     Simulations
                     Emre Baydogan, Lee A Belfore II, and Saurav Mazumdar
                     Old Dominion University, USA
                  O. Matrix Operations Simulator Application in Java Using OpenGL
                     Thomas Sullivan and Benjamin A. Ring
                     United States Military Academy, USA
                  O. Accelerating Motion Compensation of H.264 Video Decoder with GPU
                     Xiao Yuan, Jianbin Song, Bo Li, and Qinglei Meng
                     Beihang University, P. R. China
                  O. L System and Fractal Canopies
                     Munesh Chandra and S. S. Sarangdevot
                     Institute of Management Studies, India
                  O. RECOLLVE - REpresenting COLLaboration in Virtual Environments
                     Jose Valentim dos Santos Filho, Roberta Lima Gomes,
                     Aloysio de Castro Pinto Pedroza, and Jean-Pierre Courtiat
                     CECOMP/UNIVASF, Brazil


03:40 - 06:00pm:  During this period, CGVR'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to ICWN'08, IPCV'08, MSV'08, ICOMP'08,
                  SWWS'08, ESA'08, or FECS'08.  These sessions discuss topics
                  that overlap the scope of CGVR'08.


06:00 - 09:30pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)

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