WM 8.20-8.30 Welcome Address [video]

Session Chair: Giorgio Picci
WM 8.30-9.15 Keynote "Seeing Shape" [video]
      speaker: Pietro Perona

9.15-10.15 3D Photography

A Hierarchy of Cameras for 3D Photography [video]
     Jan Neumann, Cornelia Fermueller, and Yiannis Aloimonos

Implementation of a Shadow Carving System for Shape Capture [video]
     Silvio Savarese, Holly Rushmeier, Fausto Bernardini, and Pietro Perona

Rapid Shape Acquisition Using Color Structured Light, and Multi-pass Dynamic Programming [video]
     Li Zhang, Brian Curless, and Steven M. Seitz

WM 10.15-11.15 Poster Sessions

Session Chair: Yiannis Aloimonos
WM 11.15-12.00 Keynote "Why is 3D Scanning Hard?"
      speaker: Marc Levoy [video]

WM 12.00-13.00 Remote and Distributed Visualization of 3D Data II

3D Shape Estimation Based on Density Driven Model Fitting [video]
     Eugene Borovikov and Larry Davis

A Tensor Voting Approach for Hierarchical Segmentation of 3-D Acoustic Images [video]
     Linmi Tao, Vittorio Murino, and Gerard Medioni

A Depth Map Representation for Real-Time Transmission and View-Based Rendering of a Dynamic 3D Scene
     Bing-Bing Chai, Sriram Sethuraman, and Harpreet S. Sawhney

Session Chair: Hanan Samet
WA 14.30-15.15 Keynote "Content-Based Image Retrieval from Large Medical Databases"
      speaker: Avinash Kak [video]
     authors: Avi Kak and Christina Pavlopoulou

WA 15.15-15.55 3D View Registration I

A Volumetric Approach for Interactive 3D Modeling [video]
     Dragan Tubic, Patrick Hébert, and Denis Laurendeau

Multi-Stereo 3D Object Reconstruction [video]
     Carlos Hernandez and Francis Schmitt

WA 15.55 -16.40 Poster Sessions

Session Chair: J. Angelo Beraldin
WA 16.40 - 17.20 3D Video and Animation

Generation, Visualization, and Editing of 3D Video [video]
     Takashi Matsuyama and Takeshi Takai

From 3D Shape Capture to Animated Models [video]
     Adrian Hilton, Jonathan Starck, and Gordon Collins

Estimating the Principal Curvatures and the Darboux Frame from Real 3D Range Data [video]
     Eyal Hameiri and Ilan Shimshoni

The Virtual Boutique: a Synergic Approach to Virtualization, Content-based Management of 3D Information, 3D Data Mining and Virtual Reality for E-commerce [video]
     Eric Paquet, Herna Viktor, and Shawn Peters

Uncalibrated 3-D Metric Reconstruction and Flattened Texture Acquisition from a Single View of a Surface Revolution [video]
     Carlo Colombo, Alberto Del Bimbo, and Federico Pernici

20.00 Banquet

Session Chair: Larry Davis
TM 8.30-9.15 Keynote "Modeling Shapes and Textures from Images: New Frontiers"
     speaker: Luc Van Gool [video]
     authors: L. Van Gool, D. Vandermeulen, G. Kalberer, T. Tuytelaars, and A. Zalesny

TM 9.15-10.00 Keynote "New Imaging Frontiers: 3D and Mixed Reality"
     speaker: Eric Badique' [video]

TM 10.00-11.20 Poster Sessions

TM Poster Session: European IST Projects Related to 3D and Mixed Reality
(Invited session organized by Eric Badiquè )

Session Chair: Roberto Manduchi
TM 11.20-12.00 Image-Based Rendering

Texture at the Terminator [video]
     Jan J. Koenderink and Sylvia C. Pont

PDE-Based Multi-View Depth Estimation
     Christoph Stretcha and Luc Van Gool

Session Chair: Roberto Scopigno
TM 12.00-13.00 Surface Modelling II

Filling Holes in Complex Surfaces Using Volumetric Diffusion [video]
     James Davis, Steven R. Marschner, Matt Garr, and Marc Levoy

Object Shape Modelling from Multiple Range Images by Matching Signed Distance Fields [video]
     Takeshi Masuda

Spherical Diffusion for 3D Surface Smoothing [video]
     Thomas Buelow

Session Chair: Francis Schmitt
TA 14.30-15.15 Keynote "Vision Without Perspective"
     speaker: Steven Seitz [video]

TA 15.15-16.15 Compression and Transmission of 3D Information II

Octree Approximation and Compression Methods [video]
     Hanan Samet and Andrzej Kochut

Multiresolution Distance Volumes for Progressive Surface Compression [video]
     Daniel Laney, Martin Bertram, Mark Duchaineau, and Nelson Max

Ellipsoid Decomposition of 3D Models [video]
     Stephan Bischoff and Leif Kobbelt

TA 16.15-17.15 Poster Sessions

Session Chair: Andrew Johnson
TA 17.15-18.15 Multi-View Image Processing I

Stochastic Mesh-Based Multiview Reconstruction [video]
     John Isidoro and Stan Sclaroff

Probabilistic 3D Data Fusion for Adaptive Multiresolution Surface Generation [video]
     Andrew E. Johnson Roberto Manduchi

Triangle Mesh-Based Surface Modeling Using Adaptive Smoothing and Implicit Texture Integration [video]
     Yiyong Sun, Joonki Paik, Andreas Koschan, and Mongi A. Abidi

18.30 Guided Tour of Palazzo del Bo'

Session Chair: Jan Koenderink
FM 8.30-9.15 Keynote "Advances in Mesh Signal Processing and Geometry Compression"
     speaker: Gabriel Taubin [video]

Session Chair: Gabriel Taubin
FM 9.15-9.55 3D Geometry Compression
(Invited Session organized by Gabriel Taubin )

Optimized Compression of Triangle Mesh Geometry Using Prediction Trees [video]
     Boris Kronrod and Craig Gotsman

Coding with ASCII: Compact, Yet Text-Based 3D Content [video]
     Martin Isenburg and Jack Snoeyink

FM 9.55-11.00 Poster Sessions

FM Poster Session: MultiImage Processing: From Stereo to Video, I
(Invited Poster Session organized by Stefano Soatto and Antony Yezzi )

Session Chairs:Stefano Soatto and Antony Yezzi
FM 11.00-13.00 MultiImage Processing: From Stereo to Video, II
(Invited Session organized by Stefano Soatto and Antony Yezzi )

Active Polygons for Object Tracking [video]
     Gozde Unal, Hamid Krim, and Antony Yezzi

A Model (In)Validation Approach to Gait Recognition [video]
     Cecilia Mazzaro, Mario Sznaier, Octavia Camps, Stefano Soatto, and A. Bissacco

Image-Based Photo Hulls [video]
     Greg Slabaugh, Ron Schafer, and Matt Hans

Geometry of Contour-Based Correspondence for Stereo [video]
     Steven W. Zucker and G. Li

RealTime Speech-Driven Face Animation [video]
     Pengyu Hong, Zhen Wen, Thomas S. Huang, and HeungYeung Shum

Human Action Recognition By Sequence of Movelet Codewords [video]
     Xiaolin Feng and Pietro Perona

Session Chairs: Giuseppe Lancia and Johan Montagnat
FM 14.30-15.50 Structural Bioinformatics
(Invited session organized by Giuseppe Lancia )

From Computer Vision to Structural Bioinformatics : Variations on the Theme of Spatial Pattern Detection [video]
Haim Wolfson

Protein Folding Using Inter-Residue Contacts [video]
     Michele Vendruscolo

The Meaning and Limitations of Protein Structure Alignments [video]
     B. Zhang and A.Godzik

Optimal and Near-Optimal Solutions to 3D Structure Comparisons [video]
     Alberto Caprara and Giuseppe Lancia

FA 15.50-17.00 Poster Sessions

Session Chair: Kiyoharu Aizawa
FA 17.00-17.40 Modeling of Architectural Structures

How Can We Exploit Typical Architectural Structures to Improve Model Accuracy? [video]
     Petko Faber and Bob Fisher

Data Processing Algorithms for Generating Textured 3D Building Façade Meshes From Laser Scans and Camera Images [video]
     Christian Frueh and Avideh Zakhor

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

WEDNESDAY JUNE 19

WM 10.15-11.15 Poster Sessions

WM Poster Session: Remote and Distributed Visualization of 3D Data I

Remote Machinery Maintenance System with the use of Virtual Reality.
     Moez Bellamine, Norihiro Abe, Kazuaki Tanaka, and Hirokazu Tak

Network Protocol for Interaction and Scalable Distributed Visualization
     Jan-Michael Frahm, Jan-Friso Evers-Senne, and Reinhard Koch

3WPS : a 3D Web-based Process Visualization Framework
     Delfina Malandrino, Gennaro Meo, Giuseppina Palmieri, and Vittorio Scarano

An Approach to Using Image-Based Techniques Across Unreliable
Peer-to-Peer Networks
     Emmanuel Jay, Paul. F. Lister, and Martin White

WM Poster Session: 3D Imaging in Biomedicine I

Distributed Quantitative Evaluation of 3D Patient Specific Arterial Models
     Andrea Giachetti, Massimiliano Tuveri, Gianluigi Zanetti

Neuroanatomical Imaging: Constrained 3D Reconstruction Using
Variational Implicit Techniques
     Jean-Marie Bouteiller and Michel Baudry

Visual Data Navigators "Collaboratories"
     Mikael Jern, Staffan Palmberg, and Magnus Ranlöf

Volume Rendering on Internet
     Wen Qi, Zhijian Song, and Guoqiang Wu

3D Objects Visualization for Remote Interactive Medical Applications
     Johan Montagnat, Eduardo Davila, and Isabelle E. Magnin

Motion-Induced Error Correction in Ultrasound Imaging
     David Lloret, Joan Serrat, Antonio M. López, and Juan J. Villanueva

3D Volume Extraction and Mesh Generation Using Energy Minimization Techniques
     A. Doi, S. Fujiwara, K. Matsuda, and M. Kameda

Focal Region-Guided Feature-Based Volume Rendering
     Jianlong Zhou, Manfred Hinz, and Klaus D. Tönnies

Automated Multi-view 3D Image Acquisition in Human Genome Research
     Michal Kozubek, Petr Matula, Heinz Eipel, and Michael Hausmann

High-Resolution Cytometry Network Project: Towards Remote and Distributed
Acquisition, Processing and Visualisation of 3D Image Data in Human Genome Research
     Michal Kozubek, Petr Matula, Pavel Matula, and Petr Mejzlik

WA 15.55 -16.40 Poster Sessions

WA Poster Session: Image-Based Rendering I

Computational Experiments with Area-Based Stereo for Image-Based Rendering
     Ebroul Izquierdo

Fast 3D Model Acquisition from Stereo Images
     Louis-Philippe Morency, Ali Rahimi and Trevor Darrell

Mosaic Construction from a Sparse Set of Views
     Jana Kosecka, Wei Zhang, and Faylin Li

WA Poster Session: Man/Machine Interaction With 3D Data

Uncalibrated Narrow Baseline Augmented Reality
     Annie Yao and Andrew Calway

Super High Resolution 3D Imaging and Efficient Visualization
     Irene Cheng and Anup Basu

A Gesture Recognition System Using 3D Data
     Sotiris Malassiotis, Niki Aifanti, and Michael G. Strintzis

Network-Based Traditonal Japanese Crafting Presentation System Using Agent and
Virtual Reality Technologies
     Akihiro Miyakawa, Kunimitu Sugimoto, Mikako Hosokawa, and Yoshitaka Shibata

Architecture of a 3D-Simulation Environment for Active Vision Systems and Mobile Robots
     Andreas Baudry, Michael Bungenstock, and Baerbel Mertsching

Visualizing I/O Predictability
      Alison Luo, Ahmed Amer, Scott Speidel, Darrell Long, and Alex Pang

Archiving Technology of the Plant Inspection Images captured by Mobile Active Cameras
     Nobuyuki Kita, Yasuyo Kita, and Hai-quan Yang

Audio Effects to Enhance Spatial Information Displays
     Davide Rocchesso

Browsing 3-D Spaces with 3-D Vision: Body-Driven Navigation Through the Internet City
     Flavia Sparacino, Christopher Wren, Ali Azarbayejani, and Alex Pentland

CAD-Guided Automatic Surface Digitizing
     Fernando A. Rodrigues Martins J. G. García-Bermejo, E. Zalama Casanova, J. R. Perán González

TM 10.00-11.00 Poster Sessions

Poster Session: European IST Projects Related to 3D and Mixed Reality
(Invited session organized by Eric Badiquè )

The ORIGAMI Project: Tools and Techniques for High-End Mixing and Interaction Between Real and Virtual Content
     Giovanni Bazzoni, Enrico Bianchi, Oliver Grau, Alec Knox, Reinhard Koch, Fabio Lavagetto, Alex Parkinson, Federico Pedersini, Augusto Sarti, Graham Thomas, and Stefano Tubaro

ATTEST, Advanced Three-Dimensional Television System Technologies
     André Redert, Marc Op de Beeck, Christoph Fehn, Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Marc Pollefeys, Luc van Gool, Eyal Ofek, Ian Sexton, Philip Surman

3D Image Sequence Acquisition for TV and Film Production
     Oliver Grau and GrahamThomas

A Real-time Realization of Geometrical Valid View Synthesis for Tele-Conferencing with Viewpoint Adaptation
     B.J. Lei and E.A. Hendriks

3D Interactive, On-Site Visualization of Ancient Olympia
     V. Vlahakis, J. Karigiannis, N.Ioannidis, M.Tsotros,M.Gounaris, Didier Sticker, Patrick Daehne, Luis Almeida

TM Poster Session: Surface Modeling I

Edge-Constrained Marching Triangles
     N. H. McCormick and R. B. Fisher

Direct and Robust Voxelization and Polygonization of Free-Form CSG Solids
     J. Ruiz de Miras F.R. Feito

Second Order Local Analysis for 3D Reconstruction of Specular Surfaces
     Silvio Savarese, Min Chen, and Pietro Perona

Modeling Closed Surfaces in a Multi-Resolution Fashion
     Augusto Sarti and Stefano Tubaro

f3d -A File Format and Tools for Storage and Manipulation of Volumetric Data Sets
     Milos Sramek and Leonid I. Dimitrov

Surface Reconstruction from Multiple Views Using Rational B-Splines and Knot Insertion
     Matheen Siddiqui and Stan Sclaroff

TM Poster Session: Compression and Transmission of 3D Information I

Concentric Strips: Algorithms and Architecture for the Compression/Decompression
of Triangle Meshes
     P. N. Mallon, M. Boo, M. Amor, and J.D. Bruguera

Compression of Isosurfaces for Structured Volumes with Context Modelling
     Dietmar Saupe and Jens-Peer Kuska

3D Mesh Wavelet Coding Using Efficient Model-Based Bit Allocation
     Frédéric Payan and Marc Antonini

TM Poster Session: Surface Reflectance Recovery and Modeling

Shape Distortion Analysis of the Shape-from-Shading Algorithm Using Jacobi Iterative Method
     Osamu Ikeda

Optimized Spectral Estimation Methods for Improved Colorimetry with Laser Scanning Systems
     Réjean Baribeau

TA 16.15 -17.15 Poster Sessions

TA Poster Session: Remote and Distributed Visualization of 3D Information II

Effects of Joystick Mapping and Field-of-View on Human Performance in Virtual Walkthroughs
     Jean-François Lapointe, and Norman G. Vinson

Half-Edge Multi-Tessellation: a Compact Representation for Multi-Resolution Tetrahedral Meshes
     Emanuele Danovaro and Leila De Floriani

Network-Based Traditonal Japanese Crafting Presentation System Using Agent and Virtual Reality Technologies
     Akihiro Miyakawa, Kunimitu Sugimoto, Mikako Hosokawa, and Yoshitaka Shibata

Combining Fringe Projection Method of 3D Object Monitoring with Virtual Reality Environment: Concept and Exemplary Algorithms
     Piotr Garbat and Ma³gorzata Kujawiñska

Design of a Service-Based Framework for Generic 3D Information Visualization
     Xiangchuan Wang, Gerald Jaeschke, and Matthias Hemmje

IBR-Based Compression for Remote Visualization
     Riccardo Bernardini, Guido M. Cortelazzo, and Giampaolo Tormen

TA Poster Session: 3D View Registration II

Accurate and Robust Marker Localization Algorithm for Camera Calibration
     André Redert, Emile Hendriks, and Jan Biemond

Towards Automatic Modeling of Monuments and Towers
     Sabry El-Hakim, J. Beraldin, and J. Lapointe

Reconstruction of Spherical Representation Models From Multiple Partial Models
     Antonio Adan, Santiago Salamanca, Carlos Cerrada, and P. Merchan

Wavelet Coding of Structured Geometry Data Considering Rate-Distortion Properties
     Tetsu Kajita, Hiroyuki Kaneko, Koichi Fukuda, and Akira Kawanaka

A Multi-Resolution Scheme ICP Algorithm for Fast Shape Registration
     Timothée Jost and Heinz Hügli

Fast Landmark-Based Registration Via Deterministic and Efficient Processing
     Fred DePiero

TA Poster Session: 3D Photography II

Reconstruction of Three Dimensional Models from Real Images
     Ulas Yilmaz, Adem Y. Mulayim Volkan Atalay

A Calibration Method for Adding Colour to Range Images
     C. Robertson and R. B. Fisher

Weaver, an Automatic Texture Builder
     Marco Callieri, Paolo Cignoni, Claudio Rocchini, and Roberto Scopigno

FRIDAY JUNE 21

FM 9.55-11.00 Poster Sessions

FM Poster Session: MultiImage Processing: From Stereo to Video, II
(Invited poster session organized by Stefano Soatto and Antony Yezzi)

A Surface Evolution Approach to Probabilistic Space Carving
     Greb Slabaugh, Adrian Broadhurst, Anthony Yezzi, Ron Schafer, Roberto Cipolla, and Stefano Soatto

Inpaiting From Multiple Views
     Sung-Ha Kang and Tony Chan

Variational Stereo in the Presence of Specular Reflections
     Hailin Jin, Anthony J. Yezzi, and Stefano Soatto

FM Poster Session: 3D Data Recognition

Mathematical Aspects of Shape Reconstruction from an Image Sequence
     Atsushi Imiya and Kazuhiko Kawamoto

Posture Recognition and Segmentation from 3D Human Body Scans
     Naoufel Werghi and Yijun Xiao

Efficient Algorithm for the Computation of 3D Fourier Descriptors
     Jan Sijbers and Dirk Van Dyck

A Practical Approach for 3D Model Indexing by Combining Local and Global Invariants
     Jean-Philippe Vandeborre, Vincent Couillet, and Mohamed Daoudi

Object Classification by Functional Parts
     Guy Froimovich, Ehud Rivlin, and Ilan Shimshoni

Using Principal Curvatures and Darboux Frame to Recover 3D Geometric Primitives from Range Images
     Eyal Hameiri and Ilan Shimshoni

Extraction and Description of 3D (Articulated) Moving Objects
     Karl J Sharman, Mark S Nixon, and John N Carter

3D Data Acquisition and Elaboration for Classification and Recognition of Objects and People
     S. Arrighetti, S. Guanziroli, G. Mauri, E. Ottaviani, Shuangquan Zhou, R. Schettini, and
I. Zoppis

Improving Environment Modelling by Edge Occlusion Surface Completion
     Umberto Castellani, Salvatore Livatino, and Robert B. Fisher

3D Object Modelling in Mobile Robot Environment Using B-Spline Surfaces
     Pawel Drapikowski and Tomasz Nowakowski

FM Poster Session: Multi-View Image Processing II

Tracking Densely Moving Markers
     N. Alberto Borghese and Paolo Rigiroli

Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Depth Estimation and Segmentation
of Multi-View Images
     N. Grammalidis, L. Bleris, and M.G. Strintzis

Robust Identification and Matching of Fiducial Points for the Reconstruction of 3D Human
Faces from Raw Video Sequences
     Raffaella Lanzarotti, Alberto Borghese, and Paola Campadelli

FA 15.50-16.50 Poster Sessions

FA Poster Session: Cultural Heritage

A Content-Based Retrieval System with a Customizeable 3D Output Visualizer
     G. Ciocca and R. Schettini

Visualizing Legacy Stratagraphic Data from Archeological Handbooks
     D. Green, J. Cosmas, and T. Itagaki

Octree-Based Fusion of Shape from Silhouette and Shape from Structured Light
     Martin Kampel, Srdan Tosovic, and Robert Sablatnig

Improvement of Metric Accuracy of Digital 3D Models Through Digital
Photogrammetry. A Case Study: Donatello's Maddalena
     J. -A. Beraldin, G. Guidi, S. Ciofi, and C. Atzeni

Comparison of 3D Measurement Techniques in Cultural Heritage Application:
User Point of View
     Francesca Pozzi

Archiving 3D Cultural Objects with Surface Point-Wise Database
Information
     N. Tsirliganis, G. Pavlidis, A. Koutsoudis, D. Papadopoulou, A.
Tsompanopoulos, K. Stavroglou, Z. Loukou, C. Chamzas

FA Poster Session: 3D View Registration III

Construction of Large-Scale Virtual Environment by Fusing Range Data,
Texture Images, and Airborne Altimetry Data
     Conny Riani Gunadi, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Kazuya Kodama and Kiyoharu Aizawa

3D Reality Modelling: Photo-Realistic 3D Models of Real World
Scenes
     V. Sequeira and J.G.M. Gonçalves

Multiresolution Approach to Three-Dimensional Stereo Vision
     Guy Caspary, Rafael Yehoshua, and Y. Zeevi

Tele-3D - Developing a Handheld Scanner Using Structured Light
Projection
     João Filipe Ferreira, Jorge Lobo, and Jorge Dias

FA Poster Session: 3D Imaging in Biomedicine II

Effectivity of Spherical Object Reconstruction Using Star-Shaped Simplex Meshes
     Pavel Matula

Colon Centerline Calculation for CT Colonography Using Optimised 3D
Topological Thinning
     Robert J.T. Sadleir and Paul F. Whelan

Descriptiom of Simple Method in 3D Reconstruction by Projection in Medical Imaging
     Cédric Marchessoux, Noël Richard, and Christine Fernandez

Applications of 3D Medical Imaging in Orthopaedic Surgery : Introducing the HIP-OP System
     Riccardo Lattanzi, Marco Petrone, Paolo Quadrani, Cinzia Zannoni, and Marco
Viceconti

Analysis of Secondary Structure Elements of Proteins Using Indexing Techniques
     Concettina Guerra, Stefano Lonardi, and Giuseppe Zanotti