WSCG 2008

Advanced Conference Program


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    Opening session, Room UP 108  
       
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Session F1, Room UP 108

Chair: Ivana Kolingerova (Czech Republic)
 
F1 C97 Lorenz,H., Doellner,J.: Dynamic Mesh Refinement on GPU using Geometry Shaders (Germany)
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F1 G07 Rozen,T., Boryczko,K., Alda,W.: GPU Bucket Sort Algorithm with Applications to Nearest-neighbour Search (Poland)
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F1 A37 Ropinski,T., Kasten,J., Hinrichs,K.: Efficient Shadows for GPU-based Volume Raycasting (Germany)
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F1 D11 Mensmann,J., Ropinski,T., Hinrichs,K.: Interactive Cutting Operations for Generating Anatomical Illustrations from Volumetric Data Sets (Germany)
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Session F2, Room UP 108

Chair: Jiri Sochor (Czech Republic)
 
F2 B13 Feichtinger,R., Yang,H., Jüttler,B.: Particle-based T-Spline Level Set Evolution with Range and Volume Constraints (Austria)
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F2 E29 Havemann,S., Fellner,D.: Progressive Combined BReps - Multi-Resolution Meshes for Interactive Real-Time Shape Design (Austria)
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F2 B43 Schlattmann,M., Degener,P., Klein,R.: Scale Space Based Feature Point Detection on Surfaces (Germany)
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F2 C43 Sobottka,G., Lay,T., Weber,A.: Stable Integration of the Dynamic Cosserat Equations with Application to Hair Modeling (Germany)
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F2 F31 Cords,H.: Moving with the Flow: Wave Particles in Flowing Liquids (Germany)
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Session F3, Room UP 108

Chair: Sven Havemann (Austria)
 

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Schreck,T., Schuessler,M., Zeilfelder,F., Worm,K.: Butterfly Plots for Visual Analysis of Large Point Cloud Data (Germany)
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F3 D17 Luboschik,M., Schumann,H.: Discovering the Covered: Ghost Views in Information Visualization (Germany)
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F3 G29 Wolfe,T., Semwal,S.K.: Acousting Modeling of Reverberation using Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (United States)
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F3 E79 Dodo,M., Andriamanampsisoa,F., Torguet,P., Jessel,J.P.: New Method to Optimize Force-directed Layouts of Large Graphs (France)
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F3 F29 Lawlor,O., Page,M., Genetti,J.: MPIglut: Powerwall Programming Made Easier (United States)
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    Keynote talk, Room UP 108
Chair: Vaclav Skala (Czech Republic)
 
F3a F07 Rizzo,A., Pair,J., Graap,K., Rothbaum,B.O., Difede,J., Reger,G., Parsons,T., Mclay,R.N., Perlman,K.: Virtual Iraq: Initial Results from a VR Exposure Therapy Application for Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (United States)
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Session F4, Room UP 108

Chair: Oliver Bimber (Germany)
 
F4 D43 Rianto,S., Li,L., Squelch,A., Hartley,B.M.: Fluid Dynamic Simulation for Multilayer Cutting in Virtual Environment (Australia)
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F4 D53 Pignatel,A., Farella,E., Brevi,F., Benini,L., Gaiani,M.”: On the Use of a Palm Computer for Design Review Interaction in a Virtual Room (Italy)
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F4 A53 Brennecke,A., Panzer,C., Schlechtweg,S.: vSLRcam -- Taking Pictures in Virtual Environments (Germany)
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F4 D02 Redmond,N, Dingliana,J.: A Hybrid Technique for Creating Meaningful Abstractions of Dynamic 3D Scenes in Real-Time (Ireland)
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F4 D67 Nurminen,A.: Managing Dynamic Entities in Mobile, Urban Virtual Environments (Finland)
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Session F5, Room UP 108

Chair: Sudhanshu Semwal (USA)
 
F5 B07 Gaitatzes,A., Chrysanthou,Y., Papaioannou,G.: Presampled Visibility for Ambient Occlusion (Cyprus)
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F5 A83 Hulusic,V., Aranha,M., Chalmers,A.: The Influence of Cross-modal Interaction on Perceived Rendering Quality Thresholds (United Kingdom)
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F5 A47 Wallner,G.: GPU Radiosity for Triangular Meshes with Support of Normal Mapping and Arbitrary Light Distributions (Austria)
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F5 G17 Langerak,T.R.: Geometric Feature Deletion Through Freeform Feature Recognition (Netherlands)
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F5 C17 Mustafa,G., Abad,A. Shah, Asim,M.R.: Constrained Shepard Method for Modeling and Visualization of Scattered Data (Pakistan)
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F5 D03 Csébfalvi,B.: BCC-Splines: Generalization of B-Splines for the Body-Centered Cubic Lattice (Hungary)
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Session F6, Room UP 108

Chair: Steve Cunningham (USA)
 
F6 F89 Lucena,M.J., Fuertes,J.M., Pérez,N.: Spatially Constrained Model for Mean Shift (Spain)
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F6 E67 Wang,H., Zhang,T., Li,P.: From Bag of Categories to Tree of Object Recognition (China)
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F6 A23 Khan,M., Ohno,Y.: Compression of Temporal Video Data by Catmull-Rom Spline and Quadratic Bezier Curve Fitting (Japan)
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F6 C31 Elmezain,M., Al-Hamadi,A., Michaelis,B.: Real-Time Capable System for Hand Gesture Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models in Stereo Color Image Sequences (Germany)
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F6 G23 Guan,Y., Fei,X., GuoCan,F., Ching.Y.S.: Robust Face Recognition under Varying Lighting Based on 3D Recovery (China)
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F6 D37 Kahlesz,F., Klein,R.: Libugrab - A Versatile Grabbing Library (Germany)
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    Keynote talk, Room UP 108
Chair: Vaclav Skala (Czech Republic)
 
F6a G31 Lécuyer,A.: Perception-Based Integration of Vision and Touch in Virtual Environments (France)
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Session F7, Room UP 104

Chair: Anatole Lécuyer (France)
 
F7 F71 Barandiaran,I.; Cottez,Ch., Paloc,C., Graña,M.: Comparative Evaluation of Random Forest and Ferns Classifiers for Real-Time Feature Matching (Spain)
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F7 B31 Schoor,W.,Bollenbeck,F., Hofmann,M., Mecke,R., Seiffert,U., Preim,B.: Automatic Zoom and Pseudo Haptics to Support Semiautomatic Segmentation Tasks (Germany)
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F7 B41 Ihrke,I., Stich,T., Gottschlich,H., Magnor,M., Seidel,H.-P.: Fast Incident Light Field Acquisition and Rendering (Germany)
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F7 B23 Wessel,R., Bluemel,I., Klein,R.: The Room Connectivity Graph: Shape Retrieval in the Architectural Domain (Germany)
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F7 B19 Schnabel,R., Wessel,R., Wahl,R., Klein,R.: Shape Recognition in 3D Point-Clouds (Germany)
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Session F8, Room UP 108

Chair: Pavel Zemcik (Czech Republic)
 
F8 E73 Sampaio,A.Z., Henriques,P.G.: Visual Simulation of Civil Engineering Activities: Didactic Virtual Models (Portugal)
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F8 A31 Park,A., Mukovskiy,A., Omlor,L., Giese,M.: Synthesis of Character Behavior by Dynamic Interaction of Synergies Learned from Motion Capture Data (Germany)
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F8 F73 Bayer, A.O., Sevinc, A.M., Can, T.: Human Skeletal and Muscle Deformation Animation Using Motion Capture Data (Turkey)
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F8 B53 Quirion,S., Duchesne,C., Laurendeau,D., Marchand,M.: Comparing GPLVM Approaches for Dimensionality Reduction in Character Animation (Canada)
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F8 E89 Dumazet,S., Callet,P., Genty,A.: Spectral Modeling and Virtual Restoratoration on a Polychrome Medieval Sculpture (France)
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Session F9, Room UP 104

Chair: Josef Pelikan (Czech Republic)
 
F9 C29 Domonkos,B., Ralovich,K.: Parallel Visualization of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 (Hungary)
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F9 G13 Blasco,J., Escriva,M., Abad,F., Quiros,R., Camahort,E., Vivo,R.: A Generalized Light-Field API and Management System (Spain)
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F9 B59 Hernandez,J.T., CalderonJ.M.: Axis Automatic Extraction from `Tubular` Structures in CT Images - An Application in Virtual Colonoscopy (Colombia)
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F9 D31 Bastos,R., Dias,M.S.: Automatic Camera Pose Initialization, using Scale, Rotation and Luminance Invariant Natural Feature Tracking (Portugal)
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F9 B17 Bayar,A., Sami,K.: An Optimal Way to Encode the Outlines of Variable Sized Arabic Letters in a PostScript Font (Morocco)
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F9 A61 Klimenko,S., Mestetskiy,L., Semenov,A.: Handwritten Fonts Modeling Based on Fat Lines of Variable Width (Russia)
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    Keynote talk, Room UP 108
Chair: Vaclav Skala (Czech Republic)
 
F9a F11 Bimber,O.: The Visual Computing of Projector-Camera Systems (Germany)
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Session SH 1, Room UP 104

Chair: Libor Vasa (Czech Republic)
 
SH1 A05 Hassanpour,R., Birdal,A.: Region Based Hand Gesture Recognition (Turkey)
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SH1 E37 Guerchouche,R., Coldefy,F.: Camera Calibration Methods Evaluation Procedure for Images Rectification and 3D Reconstruction (France)
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SH1 A41 Deviatkov,V., Alfimtsev,A.: Optimal Fuzzy Aggregation of Secondary Attributes in Recognition Problems (Russia)
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SH1 E47 Koehler,H., Pruzinec,M., Feldmann,T., Woerner,A.: Automatic Human Model Parametrisation from 3D Marker Data (Germany)
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SH1 G03 Lee,S.W., Nestler,A.: 5 Axis Milling Simulation using a Swept Volume via Gauss Map (Germany)
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SH1 C67 Jung,Y.: Building Blocks for Virtual Learning Environments (Germany)
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SH1 C02 Juang,G.-H., Chen,Y.-J., Peng,J.-Y., Chen Lin,I.-Ch., Chao,J.-H.: Partial Motion Blending and Assembly for Interactive Motion Synthesis (Taiwan)
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SH1 B03 Vergeest,J.S.M., Song,Y.: Automatic 3D Scan View Registration Using 6D Scene Differentials (Netherlands)
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SH1 A13 Sacristan,A.: Graphism recognition in Goya's work (Spain)
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SH1 F43 Sonnet,H., Unger,A., Schumann,H.: Interactive Images using Illustration Watermarks: Techniques, Studies, and Applications (Germany)
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Session SH 2, Room UP 104

Chair: Martin Janda (Czech Republic)
 
SH2 B79 Miller,J.R.: Multivariate Visualization with Attribute Block Displays (United States)
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SH2 C83 Fryazinov,O., Pasko,A.: Interactive Ray Shading of FRep Objects (United Kingdom)
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SH2 E05 Baldacci,F., Desbarats,P.: Parallel 3D Split and Merge Segmentation with Oriented Boundary Graph (France)
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SH2 E13 Recur,B., Desbarats,P., Domenger,J.P.: Radon and Mojette Projections' Equivalence for Tomographic Reconstruction using Linear Systems (France)
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SH2 A67 Murotani,K., Yagawa,G.: Noise Filtering of Images Using Generalized Singular Spectrum Analysis (Japan)
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SH2 E11 Bottino,A., Laurentini,A., Rosano,L.: A new Computer-aided Technique for Planning the Aesthetic Outcome of Plastic Surgery (Italy)
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SH2 D79 Oyamada,Y., Saito,H.: Estimation of Projector Defocus Blur by Extracting Texture Rich Region in Projection Image (Japan)
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SH2 F19 Sluzek,A.: Keypatches: A New Type of Local Features for Image Matching and Retrieval (Singapore)
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Schreck,T., Schneidewind,J., Keim,D.: An Image-Based Approach to Visual Feature Space Analysis (Germany)
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Session SH 3, Room UP 104

Chair: Slavomir Petrik (Czech Republic)
 
SH3 B73 Fujimoto,K., Moriya,T., Nakayama,Y.: Surface Reconstruction from High-density Points Using Deformed Grids (Japan)
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SH3 A97 Beltowska,J., Museth,K., Breen,D.E.: Investigations of Tensor Voting Modeling (United States)
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SH3 E17 Synave,R., Desbarats,P., Gueorguieva,S.: Toolkit for Registration for 3D Laser Scanner Acquisition. (France)
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SH3 A29 Raabe,A., Zavelberg,F.: Defying the Memory Bottleneck in Hardware Accelerated Collision Detection (Germany)
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SH3 E02 Malerczyk,C.: Dynamic Gestural Interaction with Immersive Environments (Germany)
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SH3 F03 Nassiri,N., Powell,N., Moore,D.: Human Computer Interactions and Task Performance (United Arab Emirates)
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SH3 F67 Moreno,A., Heukamp,J., Posada,J., García-Alonso,A.: VDesktop: Event Management and Physically Based Behaviour in Tabletops Displays (Spain)
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SH3 B11 Olmedo,H., Escudero,D., Cardenoso,V.: A Framework for the Development of Applications Allowing Multimodal Interaction with Virtual Reality Worlds (Spain)
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SH3 B47 Pina,J.L., Serón,F., Cerezo,E.: Accelerating Urban Scenes Visualization Using a Quadtree Decomposition of Urban Blockes (Spain)
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Session SH 4, Room UP 104

Chair: Ivo Hanak (Czech Republic)
 
SH4 B29 González,C., Gumbau,J., Chover,M., Castelló,P.: Mesh Simplification for Interactive Applications (Spain)
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SH4 B05 Silva,F., Yadav,P.: Compression and Progressive Visualization of Geometric Models (Portugal)
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SH4 F37 de Sorbier,F., Nozick,V., Biri,V.: Accelerated Stereoscopic Rendering using GPU (France)
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SH4 B71 Reis,C.D.G., Bagatelo,H., Martino,J.M.: Real-time Simulation of Wrinkles (Brazil)
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SH4 G05 Raspe,M., Müller,S.: Controlling GPU-based Volume Rendering using Ray Textures (Germany)
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SH4 A59 Christensen,N.-J., Mark Gjol,M., Larsen,B.D.: Final Gathering using Ray Differentials (Denmark)
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SH4 B37 Dubla,P., Chalmers,A., Debattista,K.: An Analysis of Cache Awareness for Interactive Selective Rendering (United Kingdom)
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SH4 E07 Sakalauskas,T.: Hybrid Terrain Shadow Ray Casting (Lithuania)
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SH4 F79 Abert,O., Brocker,M., Spring,R.: Accelerating Rendering of NURBS Surfaces by Using Hybrid Ray Tracing (Germany)
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SH4 A19 Biniaz,A., Dastghaibyfard,Gh.: Slope Fidelity in Terrains with Higher-order Delaunay Triangulations (Iran)
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    Wednesday, February 6  
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P A07 Pajorová,E,. Hluchý,L., Anthes,Ch.: POSTER: 3D Geovisualization Service for Grid-oriented applications of Natural Disasters (Slovakia)
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P F83 Oslejsek,R.: POSTER: Virtual Scene as a Software Component (Czech Republic)
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P A11 Hebaishy,M.A.: POSTER: Optimized Daugman's Algorithm for Iris Localization (Egypt)
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P C59 Zeng,Ch., Liu,X., Wang,H.: POSTER: Video High-level Semantic Recognizing (China)
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P A73 Takeuchi,T., Saito,H., Mochimaru,M.: POSTER: 3D-Face model Reconstruction Utilizing Facial Shape Database from Multiple Uncalibrated Cameras (Japan)
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P D71 Thibault,G., Devic,C., Fertil,B., Mari,J.L., Sequeira,J.: POSTER: Shape Indexes: From 2D to 3D. Application to Cells' Nuclei Classification. (France)
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P C53 Zeng,Ch., Wang,H.: POSTER: User's Dynamic Interest Description Model Based on Cross-Media (China)
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P F47 Suzuki,H.: POSTER: Introduction of Animation Assignment in Graphic Science Education making Use of CG Application of Data Describing Type (Japan)
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P C03 Kang,B., Cho,S.: POSTER: Effective Object Sorting Technique for Developing 3D GUI Including Translucent Objects (Korea)
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García,R., Perales,J.F.: Adaptive Templates in Biometrical Authentication (Spain)
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