5TH EUROGRAPHICS WORKSHOP ON VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

Monday, May 31st 1999

Registration

Monday, May 31st, 08.00-09.00
Registration takes place at the conference venue.

Symposium Opening and Invited Talk

Monday, May 31st, 09:00-10:15

• 09.00-09.15: M. Gervautz, A. Hildebrand:
  Symposium Opening Address
• 09:15-10:15: S. Feiner:
  Wearing it out: First steps toward mobile augmented reality systems

Coffee Break

Monday, May 31st, 10:15-10:45

Session A1: Levels of Detail

Monday, May 31st, 10.45-12.00
Session Chair: Bill Ribarsky, Georgia Tech (USA)

• C. Andújar, D. Ayala, P. Brunet (Spain):
  Validity-Preserving Simplification of Very Complex Polyhedral Solids
• J. El-Sana, A. Varshney (NY, USA):

View-Dependent Topology Simplification
• M. Krus, P. Bourdot, A. Osorio, F. Guisnel, G. Thibault (France):

Adaptive tessellation of connected primitives for interactive walkthroughs in complex industrial virtual environments

Lunch Break

Monday, May 31st, 12:00-13:30

Industrial Presentation

Monday, May 31st, 13:30-14:10
Session Chair: Axel Hildebrand, ZGDV Darmstadt (Germany)

• Andreas v. Erdmannsdorff, BARCO (Germany):
  A comparison of projection technologies

Session A2: Tracking

Monday, May 31st, 14.15-15.30
Session Chair: Axel Hildebrand, ZGDV Darmstadt (Germany)

• K. Dorfmüller (Germany):
  An Optical Tracking System for VR/AR-Applications
• T. Auer, S. Brantner, A. Pinz (Austria):

The integration of optical and magnetic tracking for multi-user augmented reality
• G. Klinker, D. Stricker, D. Reiners (Germany):

An Optically Based Direct Manipulation Interface for Human-Computer Interaction in an Augmented World

Coffee Break

Monday, May 31st, 15:30-16:00

Session A3: Interaction

Monday, May 31st, 16.00-17.15
Session Chair: Ron Azuma, HRL Laboratories (USA)

• R. van de Pol, W. Ribarsky, L. Hodges, F. Post (The Netherlands, USA):
  Evaluation of Interaction Techniques on the Virtual Workbench
• D. Margery, B. Arnaldi, N. Plouzeau (France):

A General Framework for Cooperative Manipulation in Virtual Environments
• A. Fuhrmann, G. Hesina, F. Faure, M. Gervautz (Austria):
  Occlusion in Collaborative Augmented Environments

Conference Reception

Monday, May 31st, 19:00: buses leave for the Heuriger "Feuerwehr-Wagner" in Grinzing (typical country-style wine restaurant)

Tuesday, June 1st 1999

Invited Talk

Tuesday, June 1st, 09:00-10:00
Session Chair: Michael Gervautz, Vienna Univ. of Technology (Austria)

• 09.00-10:00: R. Azuma:
  Hybrid Tracking for Outdoor Augmented Reality

Coffee Break

Tuesday, June 1st, 10:00-10:30

Session B1: Distributed Environments

Tuesday, June 1st, 10.30-11.45
Session Chair: Steve Feiner, Columbia Univ. (USA)

• Emmanuel Frécon, Gareth Smith (Sweden and UK):
  Semantic Behaviours in Collaborative Virtual Environments
• R. Behringer, S. Chen, K. Wang, V. Sundareswaran (CA, USA):

A Distributed Device Diagnostics System Utilizing Augmented Reality and 3D Audio
• K. Engel, T. Ertl (Germany):

Texture-based Volume Visualization for Multiple Users on the World Wide Web

Lunch Break

Tuesday, June 1st, 11:45-13:30

Industrial Presentation

Tuesday, June 1st, 13:30-14:10
Session Chair: Dieter Schmalstieg, Vienna Univ. of Technology (Austria)

• Eric Foxlin, InterSense Inc. (USA):
  InterSense Tracking Technology
  

Session B2: Systems and Applications

Tuesday, June 1st, 14.15-15.30
Session Chair: Dieter Schmalstieg, Vienna Univ. of Technology (Austria)

• R. van Liere, J. D. Mulder (The Netherlands):
  PVR An Architecture for Portable VR Applications
• A. Paoluzzi, S. Francesi, S. Portuesi, M. Vicentino (Italy):

Rapid Development of VRML Content via Geometric Programming
• D. Verna, A. Grumbach (France):

Augmented Reality, the other way around

Coffee Break

Tuesday, June 1st, 15:30-16:00

Session B3: Rendering of Virtual Environments

Tuesday, June 1st, 16.00-17:15
Session Chair: Amitabh Varshney, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (USA)

• C. Kardassevitch, J.P. Jessel, M. Paulin, R. Caubet (France):
  Improving the Illumination Quality of VRML 97 Walkthrough via Intensive Texture Usage
• M. Wimmer, M. Giegl, D. Schmalstieg (Austria):

Fast Walkthroughs with Image Caches and Ray Casting
• D.R.S. Boyd, J.R. Gallop, K.E.V. Palmen, R.T. Platon, C.D. Seelig (UK):

Using Virtual Environments to Enhance Visualization

Closing Address

Tuesday, June 1st, 17:15-17:20: M. Gervautz, A. Hildebrand