NPAR 2004
The 3rd International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
June 7-9, Annecy, France

Advance Program

Monday, 7 June 2004

9:30 - 10:30 Registration and coffee
10:30 - 11:00 Welcome

Craig Kaplan and Aaron Hertzmann

11:00 - 12:00 Invited talk: Ted Adelson

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Papers: Real-time rendering
Chair: Fredo Durand

Suggestive Contours in Dynamic Scenes
Doug DeCarlo, Adam Finkelstein and Szymon Rusinkiewicz (Rutgers University and Princeton University)

Stylized Rendering of 3D Scanned Real World Environments
Hui Xu and Baoquan Chen (University of Minnesota)

NPR on Programmable Hardware
Morgan McGuire and John F. Hughes (Brown University)

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:30 Papers: Simulation
Chair: Ronen Barzel

IMPaSTo: A Realistic, Interactive Model for Paint
William Baxter, Jeremy Wendt and Ming Lin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Cartoon Rendering of Smoke Animations
Andrew Selle, Alex Mohr and Stephen Chenney (Stanford University, Pixar and University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Creating Cracks for Batik Renderings
Brian Wyvill, Kees van Overveld and Sheelagh Carpendale (University of Calgary and Eindhoven University of Technology)

Tuesday, 8 June 2004

9:00 - 10:30 Invited talk: Golan Levin

College of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Papers: Visual perception and communication
Chair: Maneesh Agrawala

Visual Interest and NPR: an Evaluation and Manifesto
Anthony Santella and Doug DeCarlo (Rutgers University)

Is That A Smile? Gaze Dependent Facial Expressions
Vidya Setlur and Bruce Gooch (Northwestern University)

Image Fusion for Context Enhancement
Ramesh Raskar, Adrian Ilie and Jingyi Yu (MERL, University of North Carolina and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch
2:30 - 4:00 Papers: Animation and complexity
Chair: David Salesin

Rendering Complexity in Computer-Generated Pen-and-Ink Illustrations
Brett Wilson and Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis)

Unsupervised Colorization of Black-and-White Cartoons
Daniel Sykora, Jiri Zara and Jan Burianek (Czech Technical University in Prague and Digital Media Production)

RYAN: Rendering Your Animation Nonlinearly projected
Patrick Coleman and Karan Singh (University of Toronto)

4:00 - 5:00 Open mic session

See instructions on the main NPAR web page.

Wednesday, 9 June 2004

9:30 - 10:30 Papers: Drawing and painting
Chair: Doug DeCarlo

Example-Based Composite Sketching of Human Portraits
Hong Chen, Ziqiang Liu, Chuck Rose, Ying-Qing Xu, Harry Shum and David Salesin (Microsoft Research Asia, UCLA, Microsoft Research and University of Washington)

Image and Video Based Painterly Animation
James Hays and Irfan Essa (Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Institute of Technology)

10:30 - 11:30 Invited talk: Chris Landreth

Academy Award nominated director of "Ryan," "Bingo," and "The End."

11:30 - 12:00 Closing

Aaron Hertzmann and Craig Kaplan
Questions? Send mail to npar2004@npar.org