Sponsor:
ACM SIGGRAPH

Hosting supporter:
Electronic Arts

Title supporter:
ATI

Supporters:
HP

MERL

Registration fees are unusually low this year due to the generosity of our hosting supporter, Electronic Arts. Fees may rise to their former levels next year. Early registration ends 2/15. Late registration ends 3/13. Cancellation deadline is 3/1. Cancellations have $50 processing fee. Online registration can be accomplished by clicking on the appropriate link in the following table.



	Early	Late	Onsite
ACM Members	$325	$375	$400
Non-ACM Member	$375	$425	$450
Student	$150	$200	$225
Package*	$475	$575	$625


*Package allows member faculty and two of their students to attend for the price of one faculty and one student.

Register by clicking here


Address : 223 Twin Dolphin Drive 94065 REDWOOD CITY USA

Tel : (+1)650/598-9000 Fax : (+1)650/598-0459 E-mail : H0922@accor.com Webpage: http://www.sofitel.com/sofitel/fichehotel/gb/sof/0922/fiche_hotel.shtml

The hotel is within walking distance of EA. A google map of the route is available by clicking here .
The rate is $149, the cutoff date for reservations is 2/21/2006.
The hotel will honor reservations at the group rate after the cutoff date,
pending availability of guest rooms. Guests who would like to call the
hotel to make reservations may call 650-598-9000 and ask for
the reservations department.

• Will Wright, (Maxis Chief Designer, co-founded Maxis, and worked on SimCity) will speak!
• This year, the conference enjoys the hospitality of Electronic Arts. Come mingle with academics and game designers in one convenient setting!
• NEW doctoral symposium!
• Combined posters and live demos format

• Doctoral symposium submissions: February 4, 2006
• Poster submissions: February 4, 2006
• Notifications: TBA
• Conference: March 14-17, 2006
  
  (deadlines are 11:59 pm EST)

• Electronic Arts: Hosting supporter
• Hewlett-Packard: supporter
• Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories: supporter

Reception 7:00 pm

Registration 8:00 - 8:45

Welcome 8:45 - 9:00

Keynote Talk: Will Wright, EA/Maxis 9:00 - 10:00

Break 10:00 - 10:30

Precomputed Transfer 10:30 - 12:00 SESSION

View-Dependent Precomputed Light Transport Using Nonlinear Guassian Function Approximations.
    Paul Green, Jan Kautz, Wojciech Matusik, Fredo Durand.

Photorealistic Lighting with Offset Radiance Transfer Mapping.
    Ben Sunshine-Hill, Petros Faloutsos.

Normal Mapping for Precomputed Radiance Transfer.
    Peter-Pike Sloan.

Lunch break 12:00 - 1:30

Modeling and Animating Humans 1:30 - 3:30 SESSION

Human Hand Modeling from Surface Anatomy.
    Taehyun Rhee, Ulrich Neumann, J.P . Lewis.

Human Motion Estimation from a Reduced Marker Set.
    Guodong Liu, Jingdan Zhang, Wei Wang, Leonard Mcmillan.

Animating Blendshape Faces by Cross-Mapping Motion Capture Data.
    Zhigang Deng, Pei-Ying Chiang, Pamela Fox, Ulrich Neumann.

Knowing When to Put Your Foot Down.
    Leslie Ikemoto, Okan Arikan, David Forsyth.

Break 3:30 - 4:00

Shader-based Rendering 4:00 - 6:00 SESSION

Relief Mapping of Non-Height-Field Surface Details.
    Fabio Policarpo, Manuel Oliveira.

Dynamic Parallax Occlusion Mapping with Approximate Soft Shadows.
    Natalya Tatarchuk.

Fast Scene Voxelization and Applications.
    Elmar Eisemann, Xavier DŽcoret.

Abstract Shade Trees.
    Morgan McGuire, George Stathis, Hanspeter Pfister, Shriram Krishnamurthi.

Doctoral Seminar 6:00 - 8:00

Realism 8:30 - 10:00 SESSION

Approximate Ambient Occlusion for Trees.
    Kyle Hegeman, Simon Premoze, Michael Ashikhmin, George Drettakis.

Splatting Indirect Illumination.
    Carsten Dachsbacher, Marc Stamminger.

Interactive Sound Synthesis for Large Scale Environments.
    Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Ming C. Lin.

Break 10:00 - 10:30

Distance Fields 10:30 - 12:00 SESSION
Jump Flooding in GPU with Applications to Voronoi Diagram and Distance Transform.
    Guodong Rong, Tiow-Seng Tan.

Interactive 3D Distance Field Computation using Linear Factorization.
    Avneesh Sud, Naga Govindaraju, Dinesh Manocha, Russell Gayle.

Real-Time Texture-Mapped Vector Glyphs.
    Zheng Qin, Michael McCool, Craig Kaplan.


Lunch break 12:00 - 1:30

Non-traditional Rendering 1:30 - 2:30 SESSION

The Depth Discontinuity Occlusion Camera.
    Voicu Popescu, Daniel Aliaga.

Multi-scale Line Drawings from 3D Meshes.
    Alex Ni, Kyuman Jeong, Seungyong Lee, Lee Markosian.


Poster fast-forward 2:30 - 3:30

Break + POSTER AND DEMO SESSION 3:30 - 5:00

Doctoral Seminar 5:00 - 7:00

Reception 7:00

Caustics and Shadows 8:30 - 10:00 SESSION:

Interactive Refraction on Complex Static Geometry Using Spherical Harmonics.
    Olivier Genevaux, Frederic Larue, Jean-Michel Dischler.

Interactive Image-Space Techniques for Approximating Caustics.
    Chris Wyman, Scott Davis.

Variance Shadow Maps.
    William Donnelly, Andrew Lauritzen.


Break 10:00 - 10:30

Navigation and Interaction 10:30 - 12:00 SESSION:

ShowMotion - Camera Motion based 3D Design Review.
    Nicolas Burtnyk, Azam Khan, George Fitzmaurice, Gorden Kurtenbach.

Assisted and Automatic Navigation in Black Oil Reservoir Models Based on Probabilistic Roadmaps.
    Antonio Calomeni, Waldemar Celes.

Two-D or not Two-D: Gender Implications of Visual Cognition in Electronic Games.
    Tina Ziemek.

Lunch break 12:00 - 1:30

Meshes 1:30 - 3:00 SESSION

Hardware Accelerated Multi-Resolution Geometry Synthesis.
    Martin Bokeloh, Michael Wand.

Perceptually Driven Interactive Geometry Remeshing.
    Lijun Qu, Gary Meyer.

Triangle Order Optimization for Graphics Hardware Computation Culling.
    Diego Nehab, Joshua Barczak, Pedro Sander.


Break 3:00 - 3:30

Capstone Talk 3:30 - 4:30

Closing Remarks 4:30 - 4:45