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Brian A. Barsky – Berkeley, CA, United States

Computational Optometry: Optometry and Vision Science Meets Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling
We define computational optometry as multidisciplinary research integrating optometry and vision science with computer graphics and geometric modeling. This endeavor began with research on a...
Computer Aided Geometric Design and Modeling for Curve and Surface Representations
Computer aided geometric design and modeling is concerned with the mathematical techniques for the representation of curves and surfaces in the computer for image display and object fabrication....
Innovative Approaches to Teaching Animation
This presentation will discuss two innovative courses on animation. First, "The Art of Animation" explores the artistic, aesthetic, and cinematographic underpinnings of animation...
Simulating Human Vision and Vision Correcting Displays
Research on simulating human vision and on vision correcting displays that compensate for the optical aberrations in the viewer's eyes will be discussed. The simulation is not an...
The BLUR Project at Berkeley: Algorithms for Computer Generated Imagery, Computational Photography, and Aiding Human Vision
The multidisciplinary BLUR project at UC Berkeley combines computer graphics with optics, optometry, and photography. This research investigates mathematical models to describe the shape of...
Vision Realistic Rendering

Present Vision-realistic rendering (VRR) is the computer generation of synthetic images to simulate a subject's vision, by incorporating the characteristics of a particular...

Debnath Bhattacharyya – Visakhapatnam, India

Design and Analysis of Graphical Password

Most common computer authentication method is traditional ‘User Name’ and ‘password’. There are numerous Biometric authentication methods also proposed. In...
Unsupervised Learning in Data Mining
The meaning of Unsupervised learning is to find hidden structure in unlabeled data. Approaches of Unsupervised learning can be used in Data Mining. Clustering is an important and popular approach...

Christophe Bobda – Fayetteville, AR, United States

Architecture Virtualization on Field Programmable Gate Arrays For High-Performance Computing and Productivity Improvement
The continuous decreasing size of transistors and the capability of packing more transistors on smaller area has led the transition from high-clocked single processors to multicores....
Automatic Generation of Hardware Sandboxes for Hardware Trojan Mitigation in Systems on Chip
Embedded systems operate at the heart of many systems such as planes, unmanned aerial systems (UAS), autonomous ground vehicles, communication systems, and weaponry. The design of embedded...
Dynamic Legacy Code Migration Through Binary-Synthesis on Heterogeneous Multiprocessor on Chips
The constant improvement in chip and processor technology poses a major challenge to organizations with enterprise-class legacy software, which need to be run on constantly evolving...
System-Level Design of System-on-Chip-Based Embedded Smart Cameras
The use of cameras has become a promising alternative to conventional range sensors due to their advantages in size, cost, and accuracy. In many applications, particularly in camera sensor...

Michael Bronstein – Lugano, Switzerland

Geometric deep learning
In recent years, more and more data science applications have to deal with a somewhat unusual kind of data residing on non-Euclidean geometric domains such as manifolds or graphs. For...
Spectral methods for 3D data analysis
In recent years, geometric data is gaining increasing interest both in the academia and industry. In computer graphics and vision, this interest is owed to the rapid development of 3D acquisition...
Start thinking in 3D!
The last decade has witnessed a series of technological breakthroughs in the acquisition, processing, and analysis of 3D geometric data, enabling applications that are revolutionizing our way of...

Stefan Bruckner – Bergen, Norway

Navigating the Space of Visualizations
Considering the vast amounts of data involved in many scientific disciplines and industrial applications, it is essential to provide effective and efficient means for forming a mental model...
Smart Visualization in Medicine
Medicine has been a prominent driver for visualization research over many years with application areas ranging from diagnostics to intra-interventional guidance. Considerable success has been...
Visual Exploration and Analysis of Volumetric Data
Information technology has led to a rapid increase in the amount of data generated in areas as diverse as biology, medicine, astronomy, climate science, or engineering. In many cases the data -...

Erik Brunvand – UT, United States

A Tale of Two Rendering Algorithms: Ray Tracing, Rasterization, and their Supporting Hardware
The desire for ever more complex and realistic graphics drives the computer graphics hardware industry. This interest in high-quality rendering spans the range of computer hardware from...

Amlan Chakrabarti – Kolkata, India

Computer Aided Design for Quantum Computing Circuits
In order to realize a quantum algorithm in quantum machines, at first we need to design its equivalent quantum circuit. The initial circuit will be decomposed into fundamental quantum...
Medical Image Processing: Analysis and Visualization
Imaging has become an essential component in many fields of bio-medical research and clinical practice. Radiologists identify and quantify tumors from MRI and CT scans, and neuroscientists...
Software-Hardware Co-design for New Generation IoTs
Hardware-software codesign is a recent technological trend among the system designers and design engineers to facilitate the design of small embedded systems especially in the internet of...
Task Scheduling and Hardware Design in Reconfigurable Space
Reconfigurable systems are increasingly being employed in a large class of today’s heterogeneous real-time embedded systems which often demand satisfaction of stringent timeliness...

Alain Chesnais – Toronto, ON, Canada

3D Content For The Web
One of the most exciting developments in browser technology is the ability to present and interact with 3D assets in a web page. This talk will focus on the introduction of WebGL since 2011...
Managing Your ACM Chapter
Alain Chesnais will talk about his experience working in chapter leadership for the past 25 years. He started out his ACM experience volunteering to stuff envelopes for the Paris chapter in...

Luca Chittaro – Udine, Italy

Design and Evaluation of Serious Games for Training and Education
Serious games, i.e. video games to further training and education objectives, are increasingly used to prepare people for a variety of possibly difficult situations and activities. However,...
Virtual Reality, Real Effects: Training and Changing People through Virtual Experiences
Thanks to the availability of new consumer hardware for virtual reality (VR), applications of immersive VR are accessible to an increasing number of users, and can also appeal to the general...

Cristina Conati – Vancouver, BC, Canada

Mining User Behaviors for Providing Personalized Support to Learning from Interactive Simulations
The field of Intelligent Tutoring System has successfully delivered techniques and environments that provide adaptive coaching and feedback for problem solving in variety...
Toward User-Adaptive Visualizations
As digital information continues to accumulate in our lives, information visualizations have become an increasingly relevant tool for discovering trends and shaping stories from this...

George Drettakis – Sophia-Antipolis, France

Is Simulation (still) the Future of Rendering, or will it be Capture and Learning?
In this talk we will examine recent evolutions in traditional, simulation-based rendering, and those in capture and learning based solutions. Based on several concrete examples, we will discuss...
Perception-Based Techniques for Graphics and VR
Human perception is a key element for Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality: using solid perceptual principles is indispensable for a truly realistic interactive and immersive experience. In...

Henry Duh – Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Augmented Reality: Current Research Development and Future Directions
Augmented Reality (AR) is one of the emerging technologies and prevailing research areas in recent years. It gives numerous opportunities to create new interaction style...
User Experience Design for Internet of Things
Internet of Things is recently mentioned as one of the disruptive technologies to change our daily life. For the economical development in regional areas, how IoTs can be...

Eduard Gröller – Vienna, Austria

A Matter of Scale - Scale Matters
Scale and scalability have been recurring topics in visualization and visual computing. Multi-scale techniques have been efficient strategies to cope with complexity in various areas of our field....
Adaptive Visual Computing
Visual computing uses computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of (abstract) data to amplify cognition. In recent years data complexity concerning volume, veracity, velocity, and...
Comparative Visualization
Visualization uses computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of (abstract) data to amplify cognition. In recent years data complexity and variability has...
Interactive Visual Analysis in the Material and Computational Sciences
Visualization and visual computing use computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of (abstract) data to amplify cognition. In recent years data complexity concerning volume, veracity,...
Simplifying Medical Visualization through Sparse Interaction and Reformation
Interpreting and interacting with 3D medical visualizations can pose significant cognitive challenges. In this talk we will discuss several approaches to facilitate 3D manipulations through...
Visual Computing and Analysis of Complex Systems
Visualization and visual computing use computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of (abstract) data to amplify cognition. In recent years data complexity and variability has...
Visual Data Exploration
Visualization and Visual Computing use computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of (abstract) data to amplify cognition. In recent years data complexity and variability has...

Diego Gutierrez – Zaragoza, Spain

Computational imaging: Seeing the invisible
The field of computational imaging combines optics and computation to overcome the physical limitations of current cameras, to be able to capture visual information of the world that would be...
Reinventing movies: how do we tell stories in VR?
Traditional cinematography has relied for over a century on a well-established set of editing rules, called continuity editing, to create a sense of situational continuity. Despite massive...

Tsung-Yi Ho – Hsinchu, Taiwan

Digital Microfluidic Biochips: Towards Hardware/Software Co-Design and Cyberphysical System Integration
Advances in droplet-based digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs) have led to the emergence of biochips for automating laboratory procedures in biochemistry and molecular biology. These...
The Coming of Age of Flow-Based Microfluidics: EDA Solutions for Enabling Biochemistry on a Chip
As the design complexity rapidly increases, the manufacture and the biochemical analysis of flow-based microfluidic biochip become more complicated. According to recent study, the biochips...

Shiyan Hu – Houghton, MI, United States

Nanoscale Interconnect Optimizations for Emerging Technologies
As the VLSI technology enters the nanoscale regime, interconnect delay becomes the bottleneck of circuit performance. Interconnect synthesis which includes buffer insertion and layer assignment is...
Smart Energy Cyber-Physical Systems: Big Data Analytics and Cyber Security
A smart energy cyber-physical system is characterized by the interactions among the sensing devices and the physical energy system. Such a system leverages big data analytics techniques in...
Smart Home Cybersecurity: Threat and Defense in a Cyber-Physical System
The massive deployment of advanced metering infrastructure and home energy management system has mandated a transformative shift of the classical grid into a more reliable and secure grid. Smart...

Nigel W John – Chester, United Kingdom

Bits, Bytes and Blood
This talk explores the role of computer graphics and related technologies (such as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality) in supporting some of the latest products to be used in hospitals: from...
Can we build the Star Trek Holodeck yet?
This lecture explores the development of Virtual Reality technologies from the 1960s to the present day. The question of how close we are to achieving the Star Trek Holodeck (first introduced as...
State of the Art of Mixed Reality in Medicine
Mixed Reality (MR) is of increasing interest within technology- driven modern medicine but is not yet used in everyday practice. This situation is changing rapidly, however, and this talk explores...

Joaquim A Jorge – Lisboa, Portugal

Adding More Than Two Dimensions to Tabletop Interfaces. Is Tony Stark home?
Work on interactive tabletops and surfaces has focused mostly on two-dimensional issues, such as multi-finger gestures and tangible interaction. Interesting as it is however, this picture is...
Full contact - Beyond 2D Interactive Surfaces
We live in a post-WIMP world. Indeed, more and more users access information, communicate with and operate on interactive surfaces foregoing the still common mouse and keyboard of yonder....
How to get your paper rejected from a Computer Graphics Journal
This is a tongue-in-cheek lecture about what NOT to do to publish a paper in an international scientific journal dedicated to Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Writing papers is...
The Future of Media Interfaces
We are living in a post-WIMP world. Indeed, more and more users access information, communicate and operate mobile information appliances foregoing the still common mouse and keyboard of yonder....

David J Kasik – Sammamish, WA, United States

Massive Model Visualization Basics
The fundamentals of computer-aided design systems have been in place since the early 1960's. The earliest systems computerized the drafting table techniques used to produce engineering...

Hai Li – Durham, NC, United States

Neuromorphic Computing and Deep Learning - Technology, Hardware and Implementation
As big data processing becomes pervasive and ubiquitous in our lives, the desire for embedded-everywhere and human-centric information systems calls for an "intelligent" computing...

Aditi Majumder – Irvine, CA, United States

Imparting New Degrees of Freedom to Next Generation Displays and Cameras
We have seen a tremendous advancement in the past decade by which we will soon find cameras and projectors everywhere in diverse sizes, form factors and resolutions. More importantly, with...

Alessio Malizia – London, United Kingdom

Challenges for the development of digitally-enhanced ubiquitous environments.
Ubiquitous Computing is considered as an extension of physical environment capabilities, allowing a computational infrastructure to be present everywhere in the form of networked processing...
The Artificiality of Natural User Interfaces - Toward user-defined gestural interfaces.
The road to natural interfaces is still long and we are now witnessing an artificial naturality. These interfaces are natural, in the sense they employ hand gestures, but they are also artificial,...

Oge Marques – Boca Raton, FL, United States

Image Processing and Computer Vision in iOS
This lecture provides directions for developers and researchers interested in developing iOS applications with image processing and computer vision capabilities. It is divided into three main...
Practical Image Processing and Computer Vision Using MATLAB
This lecture presents an overview of useful image processing and computer vision algorithms and demonstrates how to quickly use them to build practical solutions implemented with MATLAB. It...

Prabhat Mishra – Gainesville, FL, United States

Design Automation for Embedded Systems
Embedded systems are everywhere. They run the computing devices hidden inside a vast array of everyday products such as mobile phones, gadgets, cameras, and smart appliances. Cars are full of...
Energy-Aware Dynamic Reconfiguration in Real-Time Systems
Energy is one of the key design considerations in embedded systems. Optimization techniques based on dynamic reconfiguration are widely employed for achieving various design objectives. While...
High-level Modeling and Validation of Embedded Systems
Design validation is a major bottleneck in System-on-Chip (SoC) design – up to 70% of the time (cost) is spent in functional and timing validation. To drastically reduce overall validation...
Post-Silicon Validation and Debug
Post-silicon validation is widely acknowledged as a major bottleneck for complex integrated circuits. Due to increasing design complexity coupled with shrinking time-to-market constraints, it is...

Jacquelyn F Morie – Los Angeles, CA, United States

Creating Meaningful Works of Virtual Reality (VR) Experiences
Drawing on my 25 year history of creating meaningful virtual reality experiences, I will discuss the techniques I have developed to help evoke emotional responses from participants in such...
History of Virtual Reality
This talk introduces the basics of early VR history, including the people and inventions that enabled it. I define what fully immersive VR means and look at the factors that support full...
The Ultimate Selfie: Musings on the Future of Our Human Identity
Identity in today's world is being radically redefined by our access to sophisticated technologies that allow us to share images of ourselves ubiquitously, don a variety of avatars to...

James F. O'Brien – Berkeley, CA, United States

Adaptive Simulation with Triangle Meshes
This talk will discuss the development of high-fidelity finite element simulation methods based on adaptive mesh refinement. These methods dynamically refine and coarsen meshes so that they...
Image and Video Forensics through Content Analysis
Advances in computational photography, computer vision, and computer graphics allow for the creation of visually compelling photographic forgeries. Forged images have appeared in tabloid...

Jon G Peddie – Tiburon, CA, United States

Augmented Reality, where we all will live
Philosophers, scientists, futurists, and other have speculated about the moment in time when computers will match, and quickly exceed, human processing speed, memory access, and ultimately...
Exploiting Machine Learning in Gaming
If you want to exploit ML, this session will give ideas on how to use the next wave of technology.

We will discuss ideas for enhancement and differentiation of gaming...
Future computing
How will compute evolve over the next ten years

These panel members get paid the big bucks to figure that out

Anything that uses electricity will be a...
Learning Deeply
Can an AI make a movie?

The first step was training it on trailers of 100 horror movies. Each trailer was segmented into...
Mixed (up?) reality
The realities of virtual reality. Who is (was) using it, who will use it, and why.

This was followed by a panel discussion.
Real Time Experiences
Realtime is being built with a collection of tools. Some are being adapted from the game industry. Others are adapted from other disciplines like mo-cap, mobile technology,...
Visual Computing
We want/need very high-resolution, fast, color accurate cameras in stationary locations (transportation and shopping centers, sports arenas, etc.) and mobile (on first-responders and law...

Hanan Samet – College Park, MD, United States

Sorting in Space
The representation of spatial data is an important issue in computer graphics, computer vision, geographic information systems, and robotics. A wide number of representations is currently in use....

Karan Singh – Toronto, ON, Canada

Expressive Facial Modeling and Animation
Humans are hard-wired to see and interpret minute facial detail. The rich signals we extract from facial expressions imposes high expectations for computer generated facial imagery. This talk...
Perception, Drawing and Interactive Modeling
Sketch and sculpt interfaces have often been touted as “natural” approaches to interactive design. While this metaphor is indeed a promising medium of visual communication,...

David G. Stork – Sunnyvale, CA, United States

Computational imaging: Using computing for optics and optics for computing
The discipline of computational imaging involves the design of both the optics and the digital signal processing to achieve a desired digital output. The electro-optical system is hence best...
Computer vision in the study of art: New rigorous approaches to the study of paintings and drawings
New rigorous computer algorithms have been used to shed light on a number of recent controversies in the study of art. For example, illumination estimation and shape-from-shading methods...

Aida Todri-Sanial – Montpellier, France

Physical Design Challenges and Solutions for Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits
Three-dimensional (3-D) ICs offer dense integration of heterogeneous technologies with a small footprint. Interconnection of the various tiers by means of through-silicon...
Toward Carbon Nanotube Interconnects for Nanoelectronics
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) due their unique electrical, thermal and mechanical properties are being investigated as promising candidate material for on-chip and off-chip interconnects. The...

Jean Vanderdonckt – Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

Animated Transitions in User Interface Design.
Animated transitions are widely used in many different domains of human activity, ranging from cartoons and movies to computer science for powerfully conveying a message more effectively and...
Context-aware adaptation of user interfaces.
Efficient adaptation aims at ensuring that a user interface is adapted to a user’s task according to the context of use, since the end user is carrying out a task with one or several...
Model-based and Model-driven engineering of user interfaces: The UsiXML experience.

In order to be relieved from empirical and opportunistic development of user interfaces and to promote a genuine and rigorous approach throughout the development life cycle,...
Pen-based gestures and sketching.
Incorporating pen-based gestures in a graphical user interface induces several questions: which gesture should represent which command? What is the most appropriate gesture set when all gestures...

Yu Wang – Beijing, China

Deep Learning on Hardware: Compression and Acceleration
Deep learning, and especially convolutional neural networks (CNN), has been the most successful and powerful techniques in computer vision. Applications of CNN range from...
Hardware Acceleration for Big Data Era
Integration of more processing element and memory is an important way to integrate more transistors, so that one single IC can have more functions. However, how to map...
Neural Network on Emerging Memory: From Applications to Circuits on ReRAM
The world is experiencing a data revolution to discover knowledge in big data. Large scale neural networks are one of the mainstream tools of big data analytics. However,...

Bebo White – San Francisco, CA, United States

The Future of User Interaction Design
User interaction design is one of the most active and exciting research and development areas in computer science. As IT becomes more pervasive in every aspect of day-to-day life, interaction...

Tao Xie – Raleigh, IL, United States

Teaching and Learning Programming and Software Engineering via Interactive Gaming
Pex4Fun (http://www.pex4fun.com/) and Code Hunt (https://www.codehunt.com/), released by Microsoft Research, offer a web-based educational gaming platform for teaching and learning programming and...

Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti – Nicosia, Cyprus

"Telco Big Data: Current State & Future Directions"
A Telecommunication company (Telco) is traditionally only perceived as the entity that provides telecommunication services, such as telephony and data communication access to users. However, the...

Hao Zhang – Burnaby, BC, Canada

Shape compaction for design and fabrication
Compact shape *representations*, e.g., compression, is a well-studied problem. We are interested in compaction at the shape *configuration* level. The term shape configuration refers...

Kang Zhang – Richardson, TX, United States

Spatial Specification and Reasoning Using Grammars: From Theory to Application
This talk introduces grammatical formalisms that are capable of supporting spatial specification and reasoning and their wide range of applications. We will cover two typical grammars, i.e., Shape...

Hao Zhang – Burnaby, BC, Canada

Why is Computer Graphics Hard?
Computer graphics is traditionally defined as a field which covers all aspects of computer-assisted image synthesis. Is computer graphics hard? An introductory class to graphics mainly...