Program

 
Tuesday June 8th, 2004

 9:45              Bus leaves Grenoble train station 
10:00 - 10:30 Registration

10:30 - 10:45 Opening Address
10:45 - 11:45 Keynote Speaker Lawrence Rosenblum (NRL, USA)
11:45 - 12:45 Session 1: Updating Display (chair Jean-Louis Vercher)
                   "Foveated Stereoscopic Display for the Visualization of Detailed Virtual Environments" 
                         G. Godin, P. Massicotte and L. Borgeat, NRC, Canada
                      "Using Saccadic Suppression to Hide Graphic Updates"
                         J. Schumacher, R.S. Allison and R. Herpers, Canada, Germany

12:45 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 Session 2: Tracking (chair Doug A. Bowman)
                 "An Experimental Comparison of Three Optical Trackers for Model Based Pose Determination in Virtual Reality"
                         R. van Liere and A. van Rhijn, CWI, The Netherlands
                      "Optical Tracking using Line Pencil Fiducials"
                         A. van Rhijn and J.D. Mulder, CWI, The Netherlands
                      "Lateral Head Tracking in Desktop Virtual Reality"
                         B.R. Boschker, and J.D. Mulder, CWI, The Netherlands

16:00 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 18:00 Session 3: Navigation (chair Lawrence Rosenblum)
                      "Effect of visual cues on human performance in navigating through a virtual maze"
                         D. Vembar, I. Nikhil, D. Andrew, C. Kevin , P. Keith and H. Jason, Clemson University, USA
                      "A Reconfigurable VR Environment to Study Spatial Navigation in Humans Using EEG"
                         P. Boulanger, D. Torres and W. Bischof, University of Alberta, Canada
                      "Changes in Navigational Behaviour Produced by a Wide Field of View and a High Fidelity Visual Scene"
                         Simon Lessels and R.A. Ruddle, University of Leeds, UK

18:15             Bus leaves INRIA

Wednesday June 9th, 2004

8:00             Bus leaves Grenoble train station

8:30 - 9:30   Keynote Speaker Bernd Fröhlich, Germany
9:30 - 10:30 Session 4: Application sketches (chair Pascal Guitton)
                    "ENVIRON - Visualization of CAD Models in a Virtual Reality Environment"
                       E.T.L. Corseuil, A.B. Raposo, R.J.M. da Silva, M.H.G. Pinto, G.N.Wagner and M. Gattass, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
                    "Medical Augmented Reality based on Commercial Image Guided Surgery"
                       J. Fischer, M. Neff, D. Bartz and D. Freudenstein, Germany 
                    "Authoring of Mixed Reality Applications including Multi-Marker Calibration for Mobile Devices"
                       J. Zauner and M. Haller, Austria

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Session 5: Interface (chair Bernd Fröhlich)
                      "Interfaces for Cloning in Immersive Virtual Environments"
                         J. Chen, D.A. Bowman, J.F. Lucas and C.A. Wingrave, Virginia Tech, USA
                     "The DigiTracker, a Three Degrees of Freedom Pointing Device"
                         F. Martinot, P. Plenacoste and C. Chaillou, LIFL, France
                     "Multi-Finger Haptic Rendering of Deformable Objects"
                         A. Maciel, S. Sarni,  O. Buchwalder,  R. Boulic, and D. Thalmann,  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Session 6: System (chair Bruno Arnaldi)
                      "Digital Mock-up database simplification with the help of view and application dependent criteria for industrial Virtual Reality application"
                         M. Chevaldonné, M. Neveu, F. Mérienne, Michel Dureigne, Nicolas Chevassus and François Guillaume, France
                      "Live Tuning of Virtual Environments: The VR-Tuner"
                         S. Conrad, H.P. Küger, M. Haringer and F. Hasenbrink, Germany
                      "Integrating Real-time Binaural Acoustics into VR Applications"
                         I. Assenmacher and T. Lentz, Aachen University, Germany

15:30 - 16:00 Break

16:00 - 17:30 Session 7: Image-Based Techniques (chair Dirk Reiner)
                      "A Tele Immersive System Based On Binocular View Interpolation"
                         P. Boulanger, M. Benitez and W. Wong, Canada
                     "A Real-Time System for Full Body Interaction with Virtual Worlds"
                         J.M. Hasenfratz, M. Lapierre and François Sillion, GRAVIR, France
                      "Image-based Techniques for the Creation and Display of Photorealistic Interactive Virtual Environments"
                         G.Drettakis, M. Roussou, N. Tsingos, A. Reche and E. Gallo, UK, France

17:30 - 17:45 Closing Remarks

18:00             Bus leaves INRIA