ADVANCE PROGRAM

Tuesday 13th, June 2006

14:00 - 17:00	IFS Technical Tour, Tohoku University
17:00 - 19:00	Joint Reception with TFI2006 at IFS

Wednesday 14th, June 2006

09:00 - 09:30	Opening Session
09:30 - 10:30	Invited Talk [chair: Issei Fujishiro] - Shape Modeling for Dummies Alla Sheffer, University of British Columbia, Canada
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:50	Shape Analysis and Processing I [chair: Stefanie Hahmann] - Segmenting Point Sets Ichitaro Yamazaki, Vijay Natarajan, Zhaojun Bai, Bernd Hamann - Mesh Segmentation - A comparative study Marco Attene, Sagi Katz, Michela Mortara, Giuseppe Patané, Michela Spagnuolo, Ayellet Tal - Minimum Ratio Contours on Surface Meshes Andrew Clements, Hao Zhang - Smoothing by Example: Mesh Denoising by Averaging with Similarity-based Weights Shin Yoshizawa, Alexander Belyaev, Hans-Peter Seidel
12:50 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00	Shape Analysis and Processing II [chair: Bruno Levy] - Hardware Rendering of 3D Geometry with Elevation Maps Tilo Ochotta, Stefan Hiller - Curvilinear Spherical Parameterization Rhaleb Zayer, Christian Rössl, Hans-Peter Seidel
15:00 - :16:00	Shape Analysis and Processing (short papers) [chair: Ergun Akleman] - ReMESH: An Interactive Environment to Edit and Repair Triangle Meshes Marco Attene, Bianca Falcidieno - Towards Stable and Salient Multi-View Representation of 3D Shapes Hitoshi Yamauchi, Waqar Saleem, Shin Yoshizawa, Zachi Karni, Alexander Belyaev, Hans-Peter Seidel - Parameterization and Remeshing Over Dynamically Changing Domains Jordan Smith, Ioana Boier-Martin
16:00 - 18:30	Excursion: Visit to the Zuiganji Temple and Godaido and cruising Matsushima Bay

Thursday 15th, June 2006

09:00 - 10:00	Invited Talk [chair: Michela Spagnuolo] - Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunctions: Towards an algorithm that "understands" Geometry Bruno Levy, INRIA, France
10:00 - 11:00	Shape Matching, Classification and Retrieval I [chair: Remco C. Veltkamp] - Spherical Wavelet Descriptors for Content Based 3D Model Retrieval Hamid Laga, Hiroki Takahashi, Masayuki Nakajima - The Generalized Shape Distributions for Shape Matching and Analysis Yi Liu, Hongbin Zha, Hong Qin
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:50	Shape Matching, Classification and Retrieval (short papers) [chair: Ewald Günter Quak] - Enhanced 2D/3D Approaches Based on Relevance Index for 3D-Shape Retrieval Mohamed Chaouch, Anne Verroust-Blondet - Curves-on-Surface: A General Shape Comparison Framework Xin Li, Ying He, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin - Hierarchical Shape Classification Using Bayesian Aggregation Zafer Barutcuoglu, Christopher De Coro - Evolution of T-spline Level Sets with Distance Field Constraints for Geometry Reconstruction an Image Segmentation Huaiping Yang, Matthias Fuchs, Bert Juettler, Otmar Scherzer
12:50 - 14:20	Lunch Break
14:20 - 15:50	Shape Matching, Classification and Retrieval II [chair: Bianca Falcidieno] - Robust Alignment of Multi-view Range Data to CAD Model Xinju Li, Igor Guskov, Jacob Barhak - Selecting Distinctive 3D Shape Descriptors for Similarity Retrieval Philip Shilane, Thomas Funkhouser - Robust 3D Shape Correspondence in the Spectral Domain Varun Jain, Hao Zhang
15:50 - 16:20	Coffee Break
16:20 - 16:50	SHREC 3D Shape Retrieval Contest [chair: Remco C. Veltkamp]
16:50 - 17:50	Shape Transformation and Morphing I [chiar: Georges-Pierr Bonneau] - Length Constrained Multiresolution Deformation for Surface Wrinkling Basile Sauvage, Stefanie Hahmann, Georges-Pierre Bonneau - Material Aware Mesh Deformations Tiberiu Popa, Dan Julius, Alla Sheffer
19:00 -	Conference Banquet

Friday 16th, June 2006

09:00 - 10:00	Invited Talk [chair: Hiromasa Suzuki] - Shape Modeling in a Homogenized Geometric Paradigm Fujio Yamaguchi, Waseda University, Japan
10:00 - 11:20	Shape Representation and Modeling [chair: Takashi Kanai] - Regular Mesh Construction Algorithms using Regular Handles Ergun Akleman, Jianer Chen - Degree Reduction for NURBS Symbolic Computation on Curves Xianming Chen, Richard Riesenfeld, Elaine Cohen - BSP Shapes (short paper) Carsten Stoll, Marc Alexa, Hans-Peter Seidel
11:20 - 11:50	Coffee Break
11:50 - 12:50	Implicit Surfaces I [chair: Hao (Richard) Zhang] - A Laplacian Based Approach for Free-Form Deformation of Sparse Low-degree Implicit Surfaces Yutaka Ohtake, Takashi Kanai, Kiwamu Kase - Weak Approximate Implicitization Tor Dokken, Jan B. Thomassen
12:50 - 13:50	Lunch Break
13:50 - 15:10	Implicit Surfaces II [chair: Tor Dokken] - A Fast Particle System Framework for Interactive Implicit Modeling Eric Galin, Rémi Allègre - SIMS: A Multi-Level Approach to Surface Reconstruction with Sparse Implicits Giuseppe Patané - Fast sampling of implicit surfaces by particle systems  (short paper) Florian Levet, Xavier Granier, Christophe Schlick
15:10 - 15:40	Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:30	Shape Transformation and Morphing II [chair: Shigeo Takahashi] - A Constrained Least Squares Approach to Interactive Mesh Deformation Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Hiroshi Masuda, Yoshiyuki Furukawa - Semi-Interactive Morphogenesis (short paper) Jean Combaz, Fabrice Neyret
16:30 -	Closing Session

Last Update: 10 April, 2006