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International Workshop on Immersive Telepresence (ITP 2002) 
December 6, 2002, Juan Les Pins, France
In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2002

8:00-8:30 Registration

8:30-8:40 Opening Remarks

8:40-10:00 Oral Session 1: Video Conferencing

8.40 Virtual Team User Environments: A Mixed Reality Approach for Immersive Tele-collaboration 

Peter Kauff, Oliver Schreer, Ralf Tanger

9.05 The Coliseum Immersive Teleconferencing System 

H. Harlyn Baker, Donald Tanguay, Irwin Sobel, Dan Gelb, Michael E. Goss, W. Bruce Culbertson, Thomas Malzbender

9.30 Creating Adaptive Views for Group Video Teleconferencing -- An Image-Based Approach 

Ruigang Yang, Celso Kurashima, Andrew Nashel, Herman Towles, Anselmo Lastra, Henry Fuchs

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Panel Session

The Next Five Years in Telepresence 

Panelists:

Austin Henderson, Pitney Bowes, Inc.

Ramesh Jain, Georgia Institute of Technology

Martin Reiser, Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication

Masao Sakauchi, University of Tokyo, and National Institute for Informatics, Japan

Herman Towles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Organizer:

Gopal Pingali, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-14:45 Oral Session 2: Data Modeling and Design

13.30 Modeling Data of Immersive Environments 

Cyrus Shahabi, Mehdi Sharifzadeh, Albert Rizzo

13.55 The Pitfalls in System Design for Distributed Virtual Environments: A Case Study 

Manuel Oliveira, Jesper Mortensen, Joel Jordan, Anthony Steed, Mel Slater

14.20 Immersive Telepresence of Dance Spatio-temporal Data 

D. Davcev, V. Trajkovic, S. Kalajdziski, S. Celakoski

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break/Poster Session (See Below)

16:00-17:15 Oral Session 3: Immersive Environments

16.00 3D Tele-Collaboration Over Internet2 

Herman Towles, Wei-Chao Chen, Ruigang Yang, Sang-Uok Kum, Henry Fuchs, Nikhil Kelshikar, Jane Mulligan, Kostas Daniilidis, Loring Holden, Bob Seleznik, Amela Sadagic, Jaron Lanier

16.25 Coupled Auralization and Virtual Video for Full-Room Tele-Performance Environments 

Paul Henderson, Brian Lonsway, Richard Radke

16.50 The Immersive Cockpit 

Wai-Kwan Tang, Tien-Tsin Wong, Pheng-Ann Heng

 

14:45-16:00 Poster Session: Virtual and Augmented Reality

Applied Immersive Telepresence Systems 

Urs Krafzig

An Information Presentation Method in the Augmented Reality World Using a Twist between User's Head and Body 

Masaki Omata, Kentaro Go, Atsumi Imamiya

Virtual Sculptor: A Feature Preserving Haptic Modeling System 

Yan-Hong Lu, Wei-Teh Wang, Rung-Huei Liang, Ming Ouhyoung

Empty Museum. An Immersive, Walkable VR Framework for Multiuser Interaction and Telepresence 

Luis Hernández, Javier Taibo, Antonio Seoane

Analyzing Interaction in Augmented Reality Systems 

Daniela Gorski Trevisan, Jean Vanderdonckt, Benoit Macq

Human Body Posture Inference for Immersive Interaction 

Isaac Cohen, Hongxia Li, Mun Wai Lee

Authoring Together in a 3D Spatio-Temporal Space 

Mee Young Sung, Do Hyung Lee, Seung Jin Rho, Sang-Yong Rhee


 

Questions and comments? Contact Gopal Pingali at gpingali@us.ibm.com.