Program

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Friday July 19

12:00–12:45 Registration

1:00–1:15 Opening Remarks

1:15–2:30 Advanced Rasterization

• Moderator: Charles Loop, Microsoft Research

• Theory and Analysis of Higher-Order Motion Blur Rasterization
  • Carl Johan Gribel, Lund University
  • Jacob Munkberg, Intel Corporation
  • Jon Hasselgren, Intel Corporation
  • Tomas Akenine-Möller, Lund University/Intel Corporation
    
• PixelPie: Maximal Poisson-disk Sampling with Rasterization
  • Cheuk Yiu Ip, University of Maryland, College Park
  • M. Adil Yalçi, University of Maryland, College Park
  • David Luebke, NVIDIA Research
  • Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland, College Park
• Out-of-Core Construction of Sparse Voxel Octrees
  • Jeroen Baert, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven
  • Ares Lagae, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven
  • Philip Dutré, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven

2:30–3:20 Shadows

• Moderator: Samuli Laine, NVIDIA Research

• Screen-Space Far-Field Ambient Obscurance [ Video ]
  • Ville Timonen, Åbo Akademi University
• Imperfect Voxelized Shadow Volumes
  • Chris Wyman, NVIDIA
  • Zeng Dai, University of Iowa

3:30–4:00 Afternoon Break

4:00–5:30 Panel: High-Performance Graphics in Film

• Moderator: Matt Pharr

• Dreamworks, Eric Tabellion
• Weta Digital, Luca Fascione
• Disney Animation, David Adler / Rasmus Tamstorf
• Solid Angle, Thiago Ize / Marcos Fajardo

6:00–10:00pm Banquet at the Bowers Museum. Reception 6-7, Dinner at 7pm.

Busses will shuttle conference attendees from the Anaheim Hilton to the Bowers Museum starting at 5:45, and run until 6:15. Transportation from the museum begins at 9:45. Note that the last bus leaves at 10:15 sharp!

Saturday July 20

09:00–10:00 Keynote 1: Michael Shebanow (Samsung): An Evolution of Mobile Graphics

10:00–10:30 Morning Break

10:30–11:45 Fast Interactive Systems

• Moderator: Timo Alia, NVIDIA Research

• Lazy Incremental Computation for Efficient Scene Graph Rendering
  • Michael Wörister, VRVis Research Center
  • Harald Steinlechner, VRVis Research Center
  • Stefan Maierhofer, VRVis Research Center
  • Robert F. Tobler, VRVis Research Center
• Real-time Local Displacement using Dynamic GPU Memory Management
  • Henry Schäfer, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Benjamin Keinert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Marc Stamminger, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Real-Time High-Resolution Sparse Voxelization with Application to Image Based Modeling
  • Charles Loop, Microsoft Research
  • Cha Zhang, Microsoft Research
  • Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research

11:45–2:00 Lunch (Pacific B), Town Hall Meeting, and Poster Session

Posters:

• Screen Space Lighting Approximation
  • Yu-Jung Chen, National Taiwan University
  • Wei-Chao Chen, Skywatch Innovation Inc,
  • Ming-Lun Hsieh, National Taiwan University
  • Shao-Yi Chien, National Taiwan University
• Extracting Parallelism in Mobile GPUs/CPUs with Combinatorial Architecture
  • Ganapathy Mani, George Washington University
  • Simon Berkovich, George Washington University
  • Duoduo Liao, Computing for Geospatial Research Institute

2:00–3:15 Building Acceleration Structures for Ray Tracing

• Moderator: Warren Hunt, Google

• Efficient BVH Construction via Approximate Agglomerative Clustering
  • Yan Gu, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Yong He, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Kayvon Fatahalian, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Guy Blelloch, Carnegie Mellon University
• Fast Parallel Construction of High-Quality Bounding Volume Hierarchies
  • Tero Karras, NVIDIA
  • Timo Aila, NVIDIA
• On Quality Metrics of Bounding Volume Hierarchies
  • Timo Aila, NVIDIA
  • Tero Karras, NVIDIA
  • Samuli Laine, NVIDIA

3:15–4:00 Afternoon Break

4:00–5:30 Hot3D

• Michael Mantor, Senior Fellow Architect (AMD): The Kabini/Temash APU: bridging the gap between tablets, hybrids and notebooks
• Marco Salvi (Intel): Haswell Processor Graphics
• John Tynefield & Xun Wang (NVIDIA): GPU Hardware and Remote Interaction in the Cloud

Sunday July 21st

09:00–10:00 Keynote 2: Steve Seitz (U. Washington): A Trillion Photos

10:00–10:30 Morning Break

10:30–12:10 Ray Tracing Hardware and Techniques

• Moderator: Philipp Slusallek, Saarland University

• SGRT: A Mobile GPU Architecture for Real-Time Ray Tracing
  • Won-Jong Lee, SAMSUNG Advanced Institute of Technology
  • Youngsam Shin, SAMSUNG Advanced Institute of Technology
  • Jaedon Lee, SAMSUNG Advanced Institute of Technology
  • Jin-Woo Kim, Yonsei University
  • Jae-Ho Nah, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Seokyoon Jung, SAMSUNG Advanced Institute of Technology
  • Shihwa Lee, SAMSUNG Advanced Institute of Technology
  • Hyun-Sang Park, National Kongju University
  • Tack-Don Han, Yonsei University
• An Energy and Bandwidth Efficient Ray Tracing Architecture
  • Daniel Kopta, University of Utah
  • Konstantin Shkurko, University of Utah
  • Josef Spjut, University of Utah
  • Erik Brunvand, University of Utah
  • Al Davis, University of Utah
• Efficient Divide-And-Conquer Ray Tracing using Ray Sampling
  • Kosuke Nabata, Wakayama University
  • Kei Iwasaki, Wakayama University/UEI Research
  • Yoshinori Dobashi, Hokkaido University/JST CREST
  • Tomoyuki Nishita, UEI Research/Hiroshima Shudo University
• Megakernels Considered Harmful: Wavefront Path Tracing on GPUs
  • Samuli Laine, NVIDIA
  • Tero Karras, NVIDIA
  • Timo Aila, NVIDIA

12:10–2:00 Lunch (Pacific B)

2:00–3:30 Panel: Hardware/API Co-evolution

Moderator: Peter Glaskowsky

• ARM: Tom Olson
• Intel: Michael Apodaca
• Microsoft: Chas Boyd
• NVIDIA: Neil Trevett
• Qualcomm: Vineet Goel
• Samsung: Michael Shebanow

3:30–4:00 Best Paper Award, Closing Remarks