Breakfast will be served each day at 7:00am - 8:30am at Rum Bullion's Patio. All workshop sessions will be held in Silver Baron Ballroom D.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
SESSION I -- Modeling of Urban Landscape
| 8:30am | Introduction and Overview | Lin & Selfridge |
| 9:00am | A Mobile 3D City Reconstruction System | Jan-Michael Frahm and Marc Pollefeys (UNC Chapel Hill & ETH Zurich) |
| 9:30am | Fast, Automated, 3D, Airborne Modeling of Large Scale Urban Environments | Avideh Zakhor (UC Berkeley) |
| 10:00am | BREAK | Rum Bullion's Patio |
SESSION II -- Generating Virtual Landscapes
| 10:30am | Taking and Serving 100 Billion Photos | Sebastian Thrun (Google, Inc. and Stanford University) |
| 11:00am | Efficient Creation of Urban Environments through Procedural Techniques | Pascal Mueller (ETH Zurich & Procedural Inc.) |
| 11:30am | Visualization of Real Cities Based on Procedural Modeling | J. Ricard, J. Royan, and O. Aubault (France Telecom Orange Labs) |
| 11:45am | Towards Rapid Generation And Visualisation Of Large 3D Urban Landscapes for Mobile Device Navigation | C. Gatzidis, V. Brujic-Okretic, F. Liarokapis, and S. Baker (CU, Coventry, Alcatel) |
| 12:00pm | LUNCH | Individual Arrangement |
SESSION III -- Rendering & Visualizing Urban Scenes
| 1:30pm | Light and Materials in Virtual Cities | Julie Dorsey and Holly Rushmeier (Yale University) |
| 2:00pm | Relief Impostor Selection for Large Scale Urban Rendering | C. Andujar, J. Diaz, and P. Brunet (UPC) |
| 2:15pm | Visualizing an Amusement Park - A Case Study | M. Naef, D. Pritchard, C. McMahon, and P. Anderson (Glasgow School of Art) |
| 2:30pm | Real-Time Urban Visualization: Virtual London Case Study | Anthony Steed (University College London) |
| 2:45pm | Special Presentation | TBA |
| 3:00pm | BREAK | Rum Bullion's Patio |
SESSION IV -- Industrial and Government Perspectives on Key Challenges
| 3:30pm | Invited Panel Presentations & Discussions | Moderator: Peter Selfridge |
Sunday, March 9, 2008
SESSION V -- Scenario Authoring & Crowd Tracking
| 8:30am | Interactive Scenarios and Stories for Virtual Cityscapes | Bryan Loyall (BAE Systems) |
| 9:00am | Measuring Human Movement form Video | Larry Davis (UMD College Park) |
| 9:30am | Visual Analysis of Crowded Scenes | Mubarak Shah (Univ. of Central Florida) |
| 10:00am | BREAK | Rum Bullion's Patio |
SESSION VI -- Agent-Based Modeling & Multi-Agent Planning
| 10:30am | Real-Time Motion Planning For Agent-Based Crowd Simulation | Dinesh Manocha (UNC Chapel Hill) |
| 11:00am | Path Planning using Corridors and its Applications | Arno Kamphuis and Mark Overmars (Utrecht University) |
| 11:20am | Geosimulation as an Engine for Synthetic Actors in Urban Models | Paul Torrens (Arizona State University) |
| 11:40am | Global Navigation for Agent-based Simulations and Platforms for Virtual Cityscapes | Avneesh Sud (Microsoft Corporation) |
| 12:00pm | LUNCH | Individual Arrangement |
SESSION VII -- High-level Behavior Modeling & Crowd Animation
| 1:30pm | From Crowds to Inhabitants: Simulating an Animated Community | Norman Badler (UPENN) |
| 2:00pm | Metropolis - Multisensory Crowd Simulation | Carol O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin) |
| 2:30pm | A Reality Emulator Featuring Autonomous Virtual Pedestrians & its App. to Distributed Visual Surveillance | Demetri Terzopoulos (UCLA) |
| 3:00pm | BREAK | Rum Bullion's Patio |
SESSION VIII -- Applications in Edutainment and Cyber-Social Experiences
| 3:30pm | Invited Panel Presentations & Discussions | Moderator: Peter Selfridge |
| 6:00pm | CONFERENCE RECEPTION | Exposition Hall C |