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  • 11/2003 - Holly Rushmeier is co-editing a special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications devoted to 3D Reconstruction and Visualization of Large Scale Environments. The paper submission deadline is March 1, 2003. See the Call for Papers for details.


  • 11/2003 - Holly Rushmeier will give an invited talk "3D Scanning in Egypt and Image-based Object Editing", at the Princeton Graphics Lunch seminar series on November 3, 2003.


  • 10/2003 - Our department's participation in IEEE Visualization 2003 includes Holly Rushmeier serving on the Program Committee and Greg Abram participating in a panel session. In conjunction with IEEE Vis, we are also participating in the IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics (PVG). Jim Klosowski had a technical paper accepted and also served on the Program Committee.

  • 9/2003 - Ioana Boier-Martin and Fausto Bernardini's ACM SIGGRAPH paper "Cut-and-Paste Editing of Multiresolution Surfaces" was selected as one of IBM Research's 2002 Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences Best Paper Awards.

  • 7/2003 - For ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, Ioana Boier-Martin served on the Sketches Committee and Holly Rushmeier served on the Papers Committee. Ioana will also be chairing several sketches sessions (details are here), and Holly will be a speaker at a course on perceptually based image synthesis.


  • 7/2003 - Laurent Balmelli, Bruce D'Amora, and Chris Morris are organizing a Special Session on Multimedia Technologies for Gaming at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), July 6-9, 2003, Baltimore, MD. 


  • 5/2003 - Fausto Bernardini is co-organizing with Nina Amenta of the University of Texas, a DIMACS Series workshop on Surface Reconstruction, April 30 - May 2, 2003 at DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University. 


  • 4/2003 - Fausto Bernardini presented an overview of research activities in imaging and 3D scanning and their application to cultural heritage at two conferences in Italy: Neverland in Rome on April 5, and Cultural Heritage and the Digital Revolution: new concepts and new tools for a web-based global community in Florence on April 7.

  • 11/2002 - The Visualization Systems team will demonstrate IBM's latest graphics and visualization technologies during the exhibition at SuperComputing 2002 in Baltimore. Jim Klosowski will also give a tutorial on high-performance visualization of complex scientific datasets.


  • 10/2002 - Our department was well represented at IEEE Visualization 2002. Holly Rushmeier served on the Program Committee and gave a tutorial on psychometrics. We also presented three technical papers, a case study, and a poster. One of our papers, co-authored by Chris Morris, won the IEEE Visualization Best Paper Award.


  • 10/2002 - Tom Jackman will give an invited talk "Deep View: A Cluster Based Rendering System with Network Delivery" at the DIMACS Workshop on Visualization and Data Mining, October 24-25, 2002 at the DIMACS Center, Rutgers University.


  • 10/2002 - Ioana Martin will give an invited talk "Interactive Shape Design with Multiresolution Subdivision Surfaces" for the MIT Computer Graphics Group, October 4, 2002.


  • 9/2002 - At Eurographics 2002, Laurent Balmelli, Gabriel Taubin, and Fausto Bernardini received the Günter Enderle Award (best technial paper) for their paper "Space-Optimized Texture Maps".


  • 7/2002 - For ACM SIGGRAPH 2002, Ioana Martin and Holly Rushmeier will serve on the Sketches Committee and Holly Rushmeier will also be on the Panels Committee. Two papers from the Visual Technologies department were accepted this year for presentation at the conference.


  • 6/2002 - At the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2002, Jose Gomes and Aleksandra Mojsilovic received a Best Paper Award for their paper "A Variational Approach to Recovering a Manifold from Sample Points".


  • 10/2001 - Holly Rushmeier is co-editing a special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications devoted to Computer Graphics in Art History & Archaeology. The paper submission deadline is January 15, 2002. See the Call for Papers for details.


  • 10/2001 - Bernice Rogowitz (manager, Visual Analysis Group) and Holly Rushmeier are two of the researchers featured in the article "Perceptual Graphics" in the October 2001 issue of Computer Graphics World.


  • 6/2001- HotMedia recently won another award: JavaPro Reader's Choice Award. 


  • 5/2001 - A new project has been initiated between IBM and the Egyptian government to develop an Egyptian cultural heritage web site. (Read an official announcement on the IBM Corporate Community Relations site.)