Vision and Graphics Group Published a Total of 10 SIGGRAPH Papers in 2008

The Vision and Graphics Group at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has a record number of total of ten papers accepted in SIGGRAPH-US (Los Angeles) and SIGGRAPH-Asia (Singapore) in 2008. These ten papers will be published in the revered ACM Transactions on Graphics (ToG) journal.

Last year, our group published 6 papers at SIGGRAPH'07 at San Diego.

SIGGRAPH is the number 1 international conference in computer graphics and interactive techniques, and has been dubbed as the "Academy Award in Computer Graphics" by a local newspaper. Many algorithms and techniques, which were first reported in SIGGRAPH, have a long-lasting impact on animation movie, computer game, digital cockpit and flight simulation, just to name a few important industrial applications.

The inaugural SIGGRAPH-Asia is equivalent to SIGGRAPH at all fronts. Two-third of the program committee members of SIGGRAPH-Asia comprises of veteran SIGGRAPH PC members, while the rest are first timers and/or invited from Asia (one VG faculty was invited to the SIGGRAPH-Asia program committee). The submissions received by both SIGGRAPHs were comparable in terms of quality and quantity and were truly international. Every decision the SIGGRAPH-Asia program committee made has been conducted in the same SIGGRAPH way, as papers from both SIGGRAPH-US and SIGGRAPH-Asia are published in the same top journal. The acceptance rates of both SIGGRAPHs are 18% this year.

Skeleton Extraction by Mesh Contraction

Oscar Kin-Chung Au, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Chiew-Lan Tai, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hung-Kuo Chu, National Cheng Kung University
Daniel Cohen-Or, Tel Aviv University
Tong-Yee Lee, National Cheng Kung University

Optimized Scale-and-Stretch for Image Resizing

Yu-Shuen Wang, National Cheng Kung University
Chiew-Lan Tai, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Olga Sorkine, New York University
Tong-Yee Lee, National Cheng Kung University

Progressive Inter-scale and Intra-scale Non-blind Image Deconvolution

Lu Yuan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jian Sun, Microsoft Research Asia
Long Quan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Heung-Yeung Shum, Microsoft

Image-based Facade Modeling

Jianxong Xiao, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Tian Fang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Peng Zhao, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Ping Tan, The National University of Singapore
Eyal Ofek, Microsoft
Long Quan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Single Image Tree Modeling

Ping Tan, The National University of Singapore
Tian Fang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jianxong Xiao, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Peng Zhao, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Long Quan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Fast Image/Video Upsampling

Qi Shan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zhaorong Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jiaya Jia, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chi-Keung Tang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Texture Amendment: Reducing Texture Distortion in Constrained Parameterization

Yu-Wing Tai, National University of Singapore
Michael S. Brown, National University of Singapore
Chi-Keung Tang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Heung-Yeung Shum, Microsoft

Interactive Normal Reconstruction from a Single Image

Tai-Pang Wu, Microsoft Research Asia
Jian Sun, Microsoft Research Asia
Chi-Keung Tang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Heung-Yeung Shum, Microsoft

Efficient Traversal of Mesh Edges using Adjacency Primitives

Pedro V. Sander, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Diego Nehab, Microsoft Research
Eden Chlamtac, Princeton University
Hugues Hoppe, Microsoft Research

Automated Reprojection-Based Pixel Shader Optimization

Pitchaya Sitthi-amorn, University of Virginia
Jason Lawrence, University of Virginia
Yang Lei, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Pedro V. Sander, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Diego Nehab, Microsoft Research
Jiahe Xi, Zhejiang University