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Visualization'92 Conference - Boston - October 19-23
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IEEE VISUALIZATION '92 Email Advance Announcement
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October 19-23, 1992
Boston Park Plaza Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
After only two years, the annual IEEE Visualization Conference has
already become an important forum for the dissemination of research
results in the area of scientific data visualization. The conference
has been especially successful at fostering multi-disciplinary
interaction among scientists, computer scientists, and perception
specialists. The third Visualization Conference promises to be even
more exciting and significant. The number of submitted papers is
nearly double that of last year and the quality is extremely high.
The other technical submissions for the conference have shown similar
increases in quantity and quality. The technical program should be
the best ever. The IEEE Visualization conference is rapidly becoming
the highlight of the year for many visualization researchers and
scientists. Join us in Boston and find out why!!
Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Bruce E. Brown, Oracle
IEEE Visualization '92 Co-Chairs
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IEEE Visualization 92 At-a-Glance
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Day 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm
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Sun 18 | | | l | | *-Half-day-Tutorial* | | |
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Mon 19 *---Workshops-and-Full-Day-Tutorial------------* | | |
| | | | | | *Half-day-Tutorials* | | |
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Tue 20 *---Workshops-and-Full-Day-Tutorials-----------* | | |
| *--Half-day-Tutorial-* *-Half-day-Tutorial---* | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | *How to
| | | | | | | | | | | Lie with
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Wed 21 Keynote Keynote | | *Papers**Papers* | *Conference
| *Speaker* *--Panel-* | *Case--* | | *Reception*
| | | | | | *Panel-**--Demonstrations-------*
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Thur 22 *Papers*|-*Papers----* | *-Papers-**Papers--* | | |
| *Case--*|-*Papers----* | *-Papers-**Papers--* | | |
| *Panel-*|-*Panel-----* | *-Case---**Panel---* | | |
| | | *--------Demonstrations----* | | | *Research
| | | | | | | | | | | Problems*
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Fri 23 *Papers*|-*Papers----* | Capstone | | | | |
| *Papers*|-*Case------* | *Speaker* | | | | |
| *Panel-*|-*Panel-----* | | | | | | | |
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8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm
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Workshops
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Workshops listed below are now being organized. Please reach the
workshop organizer listed below to indicate your interest in
participation. Participants are expected to prepare a short paper that
outlines their research and provide data to be shared by colleagues in
this field. The workshops will be scheduled on Monday and Tuesday.
There will be a $50 fee for each workshop. Participation is limited
and partcipants are selected by the workshop organizer.
Please pay the $50 fee to participate in the workshop on-site at
Visualization '92.
Monday Workshops Tuesday Workshops
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| | / #1 Education in|
| | / Scientific Vis.|
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| #2 Automated Design of Visualization |
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| #3 Multi Variate, | #4: Khoros Users' |
| Multi-Dim. Visualization | Workshop |
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Workshop 1 Tuesday P.M. (half day):
An Agenda for Education in Scientific Visualization
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Organizer/Contact:
Gitta Domik, Ph.D. University of Colorado
domik@wilkinson.cs.colorado.edu
Phone: (303) 492-4062
Workshop Topics:
- What are the core topics to include in the education of visualization?
- What are the essential reference articles for this course?
- Is there public domain software and data for this course?
- Can we create/collect data for classic models of visualization?
Workshop 2 Monday & Tuesday (2-days):
Automated Design of Visualizations
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Organizer/Contacts:
Philip K. Robertson, CSIRO Divison of Information Technology
phil@csis.dit.csiro.au
Hikmet Senay, The George Washington University
senay@seas.gwu.edu
Phone: (202) 994-5910
Workshop Topics:
- Establish a conceptual foundation for automating the design of
visualization
- Investigate alternative models for automating visualization
- Identify and model knowledge needed for visualization
- Discuss how types of knowledge can be utilized with alternative models
Workshop 3 Monday (one day):
Putting Together the Pieces of a Multi-Variate, Multi-
Parameter and Multi-Dimensional System
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Organizer/contact:
Jeff Beddow, Hennepin County
beddow@ux.acs.umn.edu
Phone: (612) 348-3105
Workshop Topics:
- What is multidimensional visualization
- Elements of graphical perception and representation
strategies
- Defining the application task as mDv
- Software issues: Build versus Buy
- Criteria for successful display
- Criteria for successful integration of mDv with application
Workshop 4 Tuesday (one day):
Khoros User's Workshop
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Organizer/contact:
Khoros Users Group
khoros-request@chama.eece.unm.edu
Phone:(505) 277-0806
Workshop Topics:
- Extending the Khoros system to include 3D visualization
- Khoros as a collaboration technology
- Porting issues
- Application Building and the Software Development
Environment
- Distributed Computing
- The Khoros Data Model
- Research projects completed or in progress using Khoros
- Commercial applications built using Khoros
- Comparison of Khoros to other systems
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Tutorials
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Day | Morning | Afternoon
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Sunday | | # 1 Introduction to Volume
| Oct. 18 | | Visualization (Kaufman,
| | | Lorensen & Yagel)
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| Monday | # 2 Virtual Environment Techniques in Scientific
| Oct. 19 | Visualization (Bryson)
| ---------------------------------------------------------+
| | | # 3 Visual Perception for
| | | Visualization and Imaging
| | | (Gross)
| | |
| | | # 4 Interactive Visualization,
| | | Molecular Dynamics, and
| | | Molecular Modeling
| | | (Ribarski & Hodges)
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Tuesday | # 5 Color Theory and Models for Computer Graphics and
| Oct. 20 | Visualization (Levkowitz, Robertson & Rogowitz)
| |
| | # 6 Topology, Vector Fields and Flows
| | (Globus, Post, Asimov & Levit)
| |------------------------------------------------------------+
| | # 7 Automating the Design | # 8 Designing a Visualization
| | of Effective Graphics | Interface for Multi-
| | (Feiner, Mackinlay & | dimensional and Multivariate
| | Marks | Data (Beddow)
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Tutorial 1 - Sunday October 18: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Introduction to Volume Visualization
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Instructors: Arie Kaufman, William Lorenson, and Roni Yagel
Description:
Volume visualization is concerned with the tasks of representing,
manipulating, and rendering volumetric data. This course provides an
overview of the technology, the nomenclature, and the techniques for
these tasks, emphasizing algorithms, architectures, and applications.
The course covers and compares different approaches in volume
representation, volume synthesis, volume and surface viewing, volume
shading, and a variety of applications exemplifying the use of volume
visualization techniques.
Who Should Attend?
This is an Introductory course for scientists, engineers, computer
graphicists, and graduate students who are new to the field of volume
visualization or interested in expanding their knowledge in that field.
Instructors:
Arie Kaufman is a professor of computer science at the State University
of New York at Stony Brook. He is the editor of Volume Visualization, an
IEEE Computer Science Press tutorial. William Lorensen is a graphics
engineer in the Information Systems Laboratory at General Electric
Corporate Research and Development Center. Roni Yagel is an assistant
professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at The Ohio
State University.
Tutorial 2 - Monday October 19: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Virtual Environment Techniques in Scientific Visualization
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Instructor: Steve Bryson
Description:
This course will introduce and discuss virtual environment techniques
and their use in scientific visualization. These techniques encompass a
variety of hardware and software technologies allowing natural display
and control in 3D space. Implementation of virtual environment
techniques
as well as their application to various scientific visualization
problems will be presented in detail. Relevant topics covered, among
others, are human factors, system integration and performance, and user
task design. The course will describe various example systems ranging
from stereo workstations environments to fully immersive virtual reality
systems.
Who Should Attend?
This course is for those interested in applying virtual environment
techniques to their visualization projects. No previous familiarity with
virtual environments, other than some familiarity with 3D graphics
programmig on workstations, is assumed.
Instructor:
Steve Bryson is a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. His
work involves the design and application of virtual reality techniques
for scientific visualization. Prior to joining NASA Ames, he worked on
various virtual reality projects at VPL Research.
Tutorial 3 - Monday October 19: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Visual Perception for Visualization and Imaging
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Instructor: Markus Gross
Description:
The human visual system is the most powerful image processing system
known so far. In this course, an introduction to the human visual system
will be given, considering both psychophysical and physiological results
and showing implications for visualization problems. Applications of
these aspects can be found in man-machine communication and virtual
reality, gesture recognition, multidimensional data mapping, and visual
interpretation of shapes.
Who Should Attend?
This is an introductory course for scientists, engineers, computer
graphicists, and software developers who are interested in understanding
the principles of visual perception as it relates to visualization and
imaging.
Instructor:
Marcus Gross is the director of the visual computing group at the
Computer Graphics Center in Darmstadt, Germany. He is also a lecturer at
the Technical University of Darmstadt. His research interests include
scientific visualization, rendering techiques, human perception and
neural network applications for visual pattern recognition and computer
vision.
Tutorial 4 - Monday October 19: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Interactive Visualization, Molecular Dynamics, and Molecular
Modeling
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Instructors: Bill Ribarsky and Larry Hodges
Tutorial Description:
This course provides working knowledge on current methods of exploratory
visualization and analysis. Attendees will become familiar with the
state of the art (and see what is coming) in interactive visualization
and learn about applications, in particular, molecular dynamics and
molecular modeling. Topics covered will include 1) stereoscopic computer
graphics methods; 2) incorporating motion, interactivity, and
interactive devices; 3) visual representations for complex, multivariate
data; 4) software tools and techniques for visualizing simulational or
observational data; 5) what the future holds.
Who Should Attend?
The course is aimed at scientists or application programmers who might
use interactive visualization techniques and at researchers who work
with computer simulations or observational data from molecular dynamics,
molecular structure, or other applications.
Instructors:
Bill Ribarsky is a senior research scientist and the director of
Scientific Visualization Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology.
He is also the associate director for service at Graphics,
Visualization, and Usability Center, Office of Information Technology at
Georgia Tech. Larry Hodges is an assistant professor and associate
director for education at Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center
in College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Tutorial 5 - Tuesday October 20: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Color Theory and Models for Computer Graphics and
Visualization
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Instructors: Haim Levkowitz, Philip Robertson, and Bernice
Rogowitz
Description:
Color is a powerful aid to visual representation, if used appropriately.
It can be used to code qualitative or quantitative, single- or multi-
parameter data. However, many of the large number of possibilities can
degrade the
representation rather than improve it. Because of this risk the use of
color has become very controversial. This course introduces basic color
theory and addresses issues of the use of color in graphics and
visualization. In the first part, attendees will gain a basic
understanding of color vision and
theory. In the second part, they will learn how to apply that knowledge
to computer graphics and visualization so as to be able to generate
displays that are more efficient from the human vision point of view and
avoid common problems.
Who Should Attend?
This course is aimed at those who lack the fundamental background of
basic color theory and those who would like to improve their day-to-day
graphics and visualization results (in research, development,
implementation) by gaining a better understanding of the specific issues
of color in graphics and visualization.
Instructors:
Haim Levkowitz is an assistant professor of computer science and a
founding member of the Institute for Visualization and Perception
Research at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Philip Robertson
is a principle research scientist at the CSIRO Division of Information
Technology, Centre for Spatial Information Systems in Canberra,
Australia. He also lectures in computer science at the Australian
National University. Bernice Rogowitz is a member of the Virtual User
Environment Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Tutorial 6 - Tuesday October 20: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Topology, Vector Fields, and Flows
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Instructors: Al Globus, Dan Asimov, Creon Levit, and Frits
Post
Description:
Vector fields play a crucial role in relating differential equations to
space transformations. As a result, vector fields have many uses in
science, especially in computational fluid dynamics. This course
provides the groundwork for understanding vector field topology and
related visualization techniques. It discusses the mathematics of flow
topology and the interactive visualization of underlying flow fields. In
addition, the techniques for the visualization of fluid flow data will
be surveyed in detail.
Who Should Attend?
Those interested in using state-of-the-art in vector and flow
visualization, including stream lines, particle traces, topological
techniques, etc., to visualize scientific data.
Instructors:
Al Globus and Creon Levit are research scientists at the Numerical
Aerodynamic Simulation Systems Division at NASA Ames. They developed a
FAST module using vector field topology to visualize computational fluid
dynamics data. Dan Asimov is a senior computer scientist at the Computer
Sciences Corporation (at NASA Ames Research Center) and educator who has
held positions at IHES (France), Harvard University, University of
Minnesota, University of North Carolina, Haverford College, Smith
College, Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley. Frits Post is an
associate professor of computer science at Delft University of
Technology, Netherlands.
Tutorial 7 - Tuesday October 20: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Automating the Design of Effective Graphics
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Instructors: Steve Feiner, Jock Mackinlay, and Joe Marks
Description:
This course introduces the notion of a graphically articulate computer
system--one that can design effective graphics automatically to
communicate information. It will survey current research and describe
themes and algorithmic techniques that have arisen in the develoment of
such systems. The course will include a set of case studies of projects
that address business graphics, 3D graphics for technical documentation,
and automated cartography, and will explain how the techniques developed
for these projects can be applied to visualization applications.
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for programmers and researchers who are
interested in learning how artificial intelligence techniques can be
applied to automate the design of effective graphics. Working knowledge
of 2D and 3D computer graphics, corresponding to an introductory course
in computer graphics is required.
Instructors:
Steve Feiner is an associate professor of computer science at Columbia
University. His research interests include image synthesis, applications
of artificial intelligence to computer graphics, user interfaces,
animation, hypermedia, virtual worlds, and visualization. Jock Mackinlay
is a research scientist at Xerox PARC and a member of the User Interface
Research Group. Joe Marks has recently joined the research staff at
Digital Equipment Corporartion's Cambridge Research Center. Prior to his
graduate studies, he was employed at BBN and Wang Laboratories.
Tutorial 8 - Tuesday October 20: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Designing a Visualization Interface for Multidimensional,
Multivariate Data
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Instructor: Jeff Beddow
Description:
This course provides a wide ranging overview of developments in several
fields, notably physiology of visual perception, use of imagery in
scientific inference, multidimensional issues in statistics, physics,
mathematics and applied fields. It also surveys the state of the art
methods by describing current research and existing systems.
Who Should Attend?
Visualization center directors who are looking to offer state of the art
visualization tools and techniques. Software developers. Application
specific engineers loking for tools. Discipline scientists loking for
methods.
Instructor:
Jeff Beddow is a graphic artist and visualization consultant at
University of Minnesota.
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Keynote Address:
High Performance Computing and Communications
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Eugene Wong, the Associate Director for Industrial Technology, Office of
Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President will
speak to Visualization 92 attendees. This talk will describe the
presidential initiative on High Performance Computing and Communications
and the strategic vision that it brings. Visualization is one of the
key areas that will be profoundly affected by both the technological
advances and the increased access to high performance computing and
communications.
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Keynote Panel
Interactions Between Visualization and Science
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The Keynote Panel will investigate the relationships between
Visualization and Science. How can good visualization techniques help
us to do science better? How can the needs of science influence
visualization research more effectively?
Panelists:
Dr. Robert Langridge, Department of Parmaceutical Chemistry,
UC San Francisco
Dr. Jeff Dozier, Center for Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics,
UC Santa Barbara
Dr. John Conway, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
Dr. Stephen Benton, Media Laboratory, MIT
Moderator: Dr. Larry Rosenblum, Naval Research Laboratory
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Capstone Address
Parallel Processing of Form, Color,
Motion, and Depth: Anatomy, Physiology, Art, and Illusion
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Capstone Speaker: Margaret Livingstone
Harvard Medical School
Seeing is much more complicated than most people realize. It is tempting
to think of vision as just another way of making a picture. However, no
camera or computer system can match the ability of the human visual system
to make sense of an infinite variety of images. That ability is made
possible by the brain's capacity to process huge amounts of information
simultaneously.
Recent studies suggest that form, color, and spatial information are
processed along three independent pathways in the brain. That explains
why certain images can create surprising visual effects. Taking into
account these characteristics of the visual system could vastly
improve the perceptual quality of the display of images.
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Special Features in the Evening at Vis '92
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How to Lie and Confuse with Visualization
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Tuesday 7:00pm
People have lied with statistics and maps for years. Now
it's time to look into lying and confusing in the field of
visualization. Your big chance to do just that, in the open, will
be in this special session on Tuesday, October 20, 1992 at 7:00
pm. You are invited to bring with you visualization lies and
confusing articles, yours or others, on 35 mm slides or video.
During this evening, it will be allowed to lie but not to borrow
credit, so please do not forget to mention the producers' names.
After the informal presentations and truthful debates, the
audience will choose the biggest (visualization) lie for 1992.
When the evening is over, lying will be outlawed again. Then,
we will be all able to benefit from this teaching of what it takes
to produce realistic and faithful visualizations.
Reservations and advance submissions are now being
accepted (c/o Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corporation, 7525
Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22102). Both are not required but
are strongly recommended. For more information (genuine!),
please email gershon@mitre.org or call (703) 883-7518.
Research Problems in Visualization Session
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Thursday 7:30pm
This is an informal meeting to discuss results on any of the 1991
research problems or to present new research questions to be included
in the 1992 research problem set. These problems will be published in
the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Graphics Newsletter.
Presenters should send their one page descriptions of results or the
new research problem to grinstein@cs.ulowell.edu by October 1, 1992.
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Visualization 92 Demonstrations
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The Demonstration Sessions, to be held Wednesday afternoon and all day
Thursday, are designed as interactive showcases of current research
activity in visualization. Groups representing a wide variety of
industry and university research efforts will display recent
innovations in visualization hardware and software technology. In
addition, several workstation platforms will be made available to
conference attendees on a time-shared basis who wish to display their
novel tools, techniques, and applications of visualization. Persons
interested in reserving a table or time on a shared system at the
Demonstration Session should contact Matt Ward, Computer Science
Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 01609,
508-831-5671, matt@cs.wpi.edu. Space and time is limited and on a
first-come, first-served basis.
The demos will open Wednesday afternoon from 3:00pm to 8:00pm and will
be open during the Reception. Demos will run simultaneously with
technical sessions on Thursday.
The cost for a reserved table is $1750 for industrial organizations
and $500 for non-profit organizations. There is no charge for use of
the time-shared systems.
The following companies and universities have already committed to give
a demonstration at VIS '92:
Boston University, demonstrating distributed visualization
Harvard, Center for Astrophysics, with Wavemaker
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, showing IBM Visualization Data Explorer
MIT, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, showing Visual3
NASA Ames
Stanford, Department of Applied Earth Sciences, showing VisualSedsim
University of Maryland, Computer Science Department, showing TreeViz
University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Institute for Visualization and
Perception Research, showing EXVIS
AVS Inc.
Digital Equipment Corp.
Digital Image Design
DSP Development Corporation, showing DADiSP
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1992 ACM Boston Volume Visualization Workshop
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As a follow-on to the successful Chapel Hill and San Diego Workshops on
Volume Visualization, this third workshop will be held in conjunction
with IEEE Visualization '92 in the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. The Workshop
is sponsored by ACM-SIGGRAPH in cooperation with the IEEE Computer
Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics.
For information on registering for the Boston Volume Visualization
Workshop, please send email to volvis92@cs.ulowell.edu.
You may also call the VIS92 phone, (510) 423-9368 to request a mailing
of the registration info on Boston Volume Visualization.
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Visualization 92 Parallel Sessions
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Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1:30 - 3:30
1A
Papers: Volume Visualization
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Towards a Comprehensive Volume Visualization System,
Ricardo Avila, Lisa Sobierajski, Arie Kaufman, State University of
New York at Stony Brook
Approximation and Rendering of Volume Data Using Wavelet
Transforms, Shigeru Muraki, Electrotechnical Laboratory
Interactive Visualization of Large Scalar Voxel Fields, Georgios Sakas,
Jochen Hartig, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Interactive Splatting of Nonrectilinear Volumes, Peter Williams,
University of Illinois at Urbana
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1B
Case Studies Session on Physics
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Astrophysics: Mapping the Universe, Margaret Geller, Harvard-
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Material Sciences: Visualization of Neutron Scattering Data Using
AVS, Rajka Popovic, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Particle Physics: The Use of DEC AVS for High Energy Physics Event
Viewing, Carola Clavi, European Center for High Energy Physics
(CERN)
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1C
Panel: Managing Large Scientific Databases
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Chair: William Campbell, NASA/GSFC
Panel Members:
Robert Cromp, NASA/GSFC
Gyorgy Fekete, NASA/GSFC
Ray Wall, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Michael Goldberg, The MITRE Corporation
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Wednesday, Oct. 21, 3:45 - 5:15
2A
Papers: Flow Visualization I
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Virtual Smoke: An Interactive 3D Flow Visualization Technique,
Kwan-Liu Ma, Philip J. Smith, University of Utah
Rendering Surface-Particles, Jarke van Wijk, Netherlands Energy
Research Foundation ECN
A 3D Streamline Tracking Algorithm Using Dual Stream Functions,
David Kenwright, The University of Auckland, Gordon Mallinson
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Thursday, Oct. 22, 8:30 - 10:00
3A
Papers: Surfaces Visualization
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Generalized Focal Surfaces: A New Method for Surface Interrogation,
Hans Hagen, Stefanie Hahmann, Universitat Kaiserslautern, Germany
Massively Parallel Isosurface Extraction, Charles Hansen, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Paul Hinker
Four-Dimensional Views of 3D Scalar Fields, Pheng Heng, Indiana
University, Andrew Hanson, CERN and Indiana University
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3B
Case Studies Session on Life Sciences
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Anthropology: Visualization in Anthropology: Reconstruction of
Human Fossils from Multiple Pieces, Alan Kalvin, IBM T.J.Watson
Research Center
Cardiology: Visualization of Cardiac Bioelectricity, Robert MacLeod,
University of Utah
Electron Microscopy: The Microscopists' Workstation, Philip Mercurio,
San Diego Supercomputer Center
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3C
Panel: Grand Challenge Problems in Visualization Software
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Chair: Lloyd Treinish, IBM J. Watson Research Center
Panel Members:
David M. Butler, Sandia National Lab
Hikmet Senay, George Washington University
Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Steve T. Bryson, NASA-Ames
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Thursday, Oct. 22, 10:15 - 12:15
4A
Papers: Visualization Systems
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Volume Rendering on a Distributed Memory Parallel Computer, T. Todd
Elvins, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Direct Volumetric Visualization, Fred Wefer, The MITRE Corporation,
R. Don Williams, Texas Instruments, Inc., T. E. Clifton III, US Air
Force
An Architecture for a Scientific Visualization System, Bruce Lucas,
Gregory Abram, Nancy Collins, David Epstein, Donna Gresh, Kevin
McAuliffe, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Anatomical Atlases Based on Volume Visualization, K. H. Hoehne,
Institut fur Mathematik und Datenverabeitung in der Medizin,
M. Bomans, M. Riemer, R. Schubert, U. Tiede
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4B
Papers: Data Structures
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Improving the Visualization of Hierarchies with Treemaps: Design
Issue and Experimentation, Brian Johnson, Dave Turo, University of
Maryland
An Efficient Range Search Algorithm for Visualizing Extrema of
Volume Data, Xiaolin Wu, University of Western Ontario, Yonggang
Fang, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Display of Scientific Data Structures of Algorithm Visualization,
William Hibbard, Charles Dyer, Brian Paul, University of Wisconsin-
Madison
Representing Medical Images with Partitioning Tree, Bruce Naylor, K.
R. Subramanian, AT&T Bell Laboratories
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4C
Panel: Improving Visualization: Perceptual Foundations
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Chair: Stephen Kosslyn, Harvard University
Panel Members:
Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corporation
Haim Levkowitz, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Justin D. Pearlman, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
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Thursday, Oct. 22, 1:30 - 3:30
5A
Papers: Flow Visualization II
-----------------------------
Visualization of Simulated Airflow in a Clean Room, Koji Koyamada,
IBM Japan Ltd.
Flow Visualization as a Basic Tool to Investigate the Dynamics and
Topology of Jets, Fernando Grinstein, U. R. Obeysekare, Naval
Research Laboratory, G. Patnaik, Berkeley Research Associates
Constructing Stream Surfaces in Steady 3D Vector Fields, Jeff
Hultquist, NASA Ames Research Center
Visualizing Wind Velocities by Advecting Cloud Textures, Nelson
Max, R. Crawfis, D. Williams, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
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5B
Papers: Visual Programming
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Logical Time in Visualizations Produced by Parallel Programs, Joydip
Kundu, Janice Cuny, Alfred Hough, University of Massachusetts
Visual Query Specification for a Multimedia DBMS, Daniel Keim,
University of Munich, Vincent Lum, Chinese University of Hong
Kong
The State of the Art of Visual Languages for Visualization, John
Rasure, The University of New Mexico, Chuck Hansen, Los Alamos
National Laboratory
Visualizing Code Profiling Line Oriented Statistics, Stephen Eick,
Joseph Steffen, AT&T Bell Laboratories
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5C
Case Studies Session on the Environment
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Oceanography: Visualization of Seafloor Structures through
Gravitational Accretion, Jim McLeod, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Atmospheres: Visualization Requirements in the Atmospheric and
Environmental Sciences, Theresa Rhyne, Unisys Corporation, Mike
Botts, University of Alabama, Eric Pepke, Florida State University,
William Hibbard, University of Wisconsin, Lloyd Treinish, IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center
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Thursday, Oct. 22, 3:45 - 5:45
6A
Papers: Visualization Software Systems
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VISAGE: An Object-Oriented Scientific Visualization System, William
Schroeder, G. D. Montanaro, C. Volpe, GE Corporate Research and
Development
A Scientific Visualization Renderer, Bruce Lucas, IBM - Thomas J.
Watson Research Center
A Characterization of the Scientific Data Analysis Process, Rebecca
Springmeyer, Meera M. Blattner, Nelson L. Max, Lawrence Livermore
National Lab
SuperGlue: A Programming Environment for Scientific Visualization,
Jeff Hultquist, Eric Raible, NASA Ames Research Center
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6B
Papers: Visualization Techniques
--------------------------------
Color, Change, and Control for Quantitative Data Display, Penny
Rheingans, University of North Carolina
Surface Curvature Analysis Using Color, Robert Jerard, Lee
Seidenberg, University of New Hampshire, John Magewick, Ford
Motor Company
Visualization of Fuzzy Data Using Generalized Animation, Nahum
Gershon, The MITRE Corporation
Visualization for the Document Space, Xia Lin, Pace University
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6C
Panel: Real Virtual Environments Applications - Now
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Chair: Paul Breen, The MITRE Corporation
Bradford Smith, University of San Francisco
David Zeltzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Georges G. Grinstein, University of Lowell
David W. Mizell, Boeing Computer Systems
Richard M. Satava, Silas B. Hays Army Hospital
Michael M. Stephens, Computer Sciences Corporation
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Friday, Oct. 23, 8:30 - 10:00
7A
Papers: Virtual Reality & Multimedia
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Auto Design of Virtual Worlds for Visualizing Multivariate Relations,
Clifford Beshers, Steven Feiner, Columbia University
Virtural Spacetime: An Environment for the Visualization of Curved
Spacetimes via Geodesic Flows, Steve Bryson, NASA Ames Research
Center
Network Video Device Control, David Nadeau, Michael J. Bailey, San
Diego Supercomputer Center
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7B
Papers: Visualization Methods
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Volume Warping, Thomas True, Brown University, John Hughes
Visualization of Second Order Tensor Fields and Matrix Data, Thierry
Delmarcelle, Lambertus Hesselink, Stanford University
Visualization of High Resolution Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Finite
Element Analyses, Mark Christon, Thomas Spelce, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
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7C
Panel: Visualization in the Neurosciences: Utility in Research,
Training and Clinical Practice
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Chair: Stuart A. Tobet, Harvard Program in Neuroscience
Panel Members:
Joan C. King, Tufts University School of Medicine
Steven L. Wertheim, Harvard Medical School
Frank H. Duffy, Children's Hospital, Boston
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Friday, Oct. 23, 10:15 - 12:15
8A
Papers: Terrain Visualization
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Optimizing Triangulations by Curvature Equalization, Lori Scarlatos,
Grumman Data Systems, Theo Pavlidis, State University of New York
at Stony Brook
A Voxel-Based, Forward Projection Algorithm for Rendering Surface
and Volumetric Data, John Wright, Julia Hsieh, Hughes Training, Inc.
Interactive Terrain Rendering and Volume Visualization on the
Princeton Engine, James Matey, Jim Kaba, Gordon Stoll, Herb Taylor,
Pat Hanrahan, David Sarnoff Research Center
Visualizing N- Dimensional Implications of Two-Dimensional Design
Decisions, Stephen Ervin, Harvard University Graduate School of
Design
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8B
Case Studies Session on Fluid Dynamics
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Classical CFD: Visualizing Classical Problems in CFD, Norman Zabusky,
Rutgers University
Weather: Simulation of Remotely Sensed Cloud Imagery, Maureen Cianciolo,
TASC
Hydrodynamics: Visualizing a Three Dimensional Hydrodynamics
Model, Charles Jones, USACE Waterways Experiment Station
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8C
Panel: Object-Oriented, Dataflow Visualization Systems -- A Paradigm
Shift?
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Chair: Bill Ribarsky, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panel Members:
Bob Brown, Silicon Graphics Inc.
Richard Feldmann, National Institutes of Health
Terry Myerson, International AVS Center at North Carolina
Supercomputer Center
Stuart Smith, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Lloyd Treinish, IBM J. Watson Research Center
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Conference Location: Boston
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Visualization '92 will be held October 19-23, 1992 at the Boston Park
Plaza Hotel & Towers in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference will be
held during the peak of New England's fall season -- come to see the
beautiful colors of the falling leaves.
Located in the heart of historic Back Bay and overlooking the
picturesque Public Gardens and Boston Common, the Boston Park Plaza
Hotel recalls the grand hotels of yesteryear. A first-class hotel
with 977 rooms, the Park Plaza is just a short walk from the boutiques
and galleries of Newbury Street, the exclusive shops at Copley Place,
the Theater District, Prudential Center, Hynes Convention Center, and
the Waterfront.
New England's largest city, Boston has something for everyone. You
can visit famous Revolutionary War sites on the Freedon Trail, as well
as Paul Revere's house, the city's oldest structure. Other sites to
visit include the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Gardner
Museum and the Boston Museum of Science. Shoppers will enjoy the many
shops on Newbury and Boylston Streets and Quincy Market, a lively
waterfront development.
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Travel Discounts
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Delta Airlines is the official carrier for Visualization '92.
Attendees will receive a 40% discount on Delta's unrestricted round-
trip coach fares. A 5% discount off any of Delta's domestic published
fares applies, provided all rules and conditions of the air fare are
met. For information and reservations call 1-800-221-1212. Attendees
must make reservations under the group number Q12387 and the group
name IEEE Visualization '92.
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Visualization '92 Conference Committee
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Conference Co-Chairs:
Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Bruce Brown, Oracle Corporation
Program Co-Chairs:
R. Daniel Bergeron, University of New Hampshire
Carol Hunter, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Papers Co-Chairs:
Gregory Nielson, Arizona State University
Arie Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Panels Co-Chairs:
Larry Rosenblum, Naval Research Laboratory
Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corporation
Case Studies Co-Chairs:
Lloyd Treinish, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Deborah Silver, Rutgers University
Tutorials Co-Chairs:
Hikmet Senay, George Washington University
Roni Yagel, Ohio State University
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Mike Rhodes, Toshiba America Corporation
Jerome Cox, Washington University
Videos Co-Chairs:
Eric Grosse, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Ed Council, Timberfield Systems
Demonstrations Co-Chairs:
Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Paul Hazan, John Hopkins University
Science Advisory Group Chair:
David Salzman, Harvard University
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Jeff Beddow, Hennepin County
Kay Howell, Naval Research Laboratory
Finance Chair:
Michael Danchak, Hartford Graduate Center
Registration Chair:
Haim Levkowitz, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
Susan Stearman, Digital Equipment Corporation
Stu Smith, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
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Visualization '92 Program Committee
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Mike Bailey, San Diego Supercomputing Center
H. Harlyn Baker, SRI International
Andreas Buja, Bellcore
Susan Chipman, Office of Naval Research
Donna Cox, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Rae A. Earnshaw, University of Leeds
Jose Encarnacao, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
William Feeney, San Diego State University
Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina
Richard S. Gallagher, Swanson Data Analysis
Michel Grave, ONERA
Hans Hagen, Universitaet Kaiserslautern
Roger D. Hersch, Peripheral Systems Lab, EPFL
Lambertus Hesselink, Stanford University
William Hibbard, University of Wisconsin - Madison
F.R.A. Hopgood, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories
Ron Jacob, Naval Research Laboratory
David Kamins, Application Visual Systems Inc.
Fred Kitson, Hewlett Packard Labs
Stanislav Klimenko, Institute for High Energy Physics
Tosiyasu Kunii, University of Tokyo
Gary Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Marc Levoy, Stanford University
Robert McDermott, Utah Supercomputer Institute, University of Utah
Ted Mihalisin, Mihalisin Associates, Inc.
Art Olson, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic
Richard L. Phillips, Los Alamos National Lab
Ron Pickett, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Jeffrey Posdamer, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Frits Post, TU Delft
Bill Ribarsky, Georgia Tech
Phil Robertson, Australia National University
Alyn Rockwood, Arizona State University
Bernice Rogowitz, IBM Research
Azriel Rosenfeld, University of Maryland
John Staudhammer, University of Florida
Ken Stewart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Werner Stuetzle, University of Washington
Craig Upson, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Don Vickers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Gary Watkins, Evans & Sutherland
Stephen Watson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Val Watson, NASA Ames Research Center
Elizabeth M. Wenzel, NASA Ames Research Center
Peter Wilson, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
Allan R. Wilks, AT&T Bell Laboratories
James M. Winget, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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