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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization Path: sparky!uunet!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!grinstei From: grinstei@cs.ulowell.edu (Georges Grinstein) Subject: VISUALIZATION'92 CONFERENCE - ADVANCE PROGRAM Message-ID: <1992Aug14.010149.19292@ulowell.ulowell.edu> Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell) Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science Distribution: comp.graphics sci.image.process comp.graphics.avs comp.graphics.khoros comp.graphics.explorer sci.cognitive comp.soft-sys.khoros Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:01:49 GMT Lines: 1179 ======================================================================== IEEE VISUALIZATION '92 Email Advance Announcement ======================================================================== October 19-23, 1992 Boston Park Plaza Hotel Boston, Massachusetts After only two years, the annual IEEE Visualization Conference has become an important forum for the dissemination of research results in the area of scientific data visualization. The conference has been especially successful at fostering multi-disciplinary interaction among scientists, computer scientists, and perception specialists. The third Visualization Conference promises to be even more exciting and significant. The number of submitted papers is nearly double that of last year and the quality is very high. The other technical submissions for the conference have shown similar increases in quantity and quality. The technical program should be the best ever. The IEEE Visualization conference is rapidly becoming the highlight of the year for many visualization researchers and scientists. Join us in Boston and find out why!! Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts at Lowell Bruce E. Brown, Oracle IEEE Visualization '92 Co-Chairs ======================================================================== IEEE Visualization 92 At-a-Glance ======================================================================== Day 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sun 18 | | | l | | *-Half-day-Tutorial* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mon 19 *---Workshops-and-Full-Day-Tutorial------------* | | | | | | | | | *Half-day-Tutorials* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tue 20 *---Workshops-and-Full-Day-Tutorials-----------* | *How to | *--Half-day-Tutorial-* *-Half-day-Tutorial---* | Lie with | | | | | | | | | | | Vis* | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wed 21 Keynote Keynote | | *Papers**Papers* | *Conference | *Speaker* *--Panel-* | *Case--* | | *Reception* | | | | | | *Panel-** | | | | | | | | | *----Demonstrations------* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Thur 22 *Papers*|-*Papers----* | *-Papers-**Papers--* | | | | *Case--*|-*Papers----* | *-Papers-**Papers--* | | | | *Panel-*|-*Panel-----* | *-Case---**Panel---* | *Research | | | *--------Demonstrations----* | | | Problems* | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fri 23 *Papers*|-*Papers----* | Capstone | | | | | | *Papers*|-*Case------* | *Speaker* | | | | | | *Panel-*|-*Panel-----* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm ======================================================================== Workshops ======================================================================== Workshops listed below are now being organized. Please reach the workshop organizer listed below to indicate your interest in participation. Participants for Workshops 1,2, and 3 are expected to prepare a short paper that outlines their research and provide data to be shared by colleagues in this field. Participation in Workshops 1,2, and 3 is limited and participants are selected by the workshop organizer. Workshop 4 is open to anyone who wishes to register; the presenters have already been selected. Workshop 4 attendees are expected to contact the workshop organizer to indicate their interest in attending. The workshops will be scheduled on Monday and Tuesday. There will be a $50 fee for each workshop per day. Please pay the fee on-site to participate in the workshop at Visualization '92. Monday Workshops Tuesday Workshops -------------------------------------------------------------- | #2 Automated Design of | / #1 Education in| | Visualization | / Scientific Vis.| -------------------------------------------------------------- | #3 Multi Variate, | #4: Khoros Users' | | Multi-Dim. Visualization | Workshop | -------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop 1 Tuesday P.M. (half day): An Agenda for Education in Scientific Visualization --------------------------------------------------- Organizer/Contact: Gitta Domik, Ph.D. University of Colorado domik@wilkinson.cs.colorado.edu Phone: (303) 492-4062 Workshop Topics: - What are the core topics to include in the teaching of visualization? - What are the essential reference articles for this course? - Is there public domain software and data for this course? - Can we create/collect data for classic models of visualization? Workshop 2 Monday (one day): Automated Design of Visualizations ---------------------------------- Organizer/Contacts: Hikmet Senay, The George Washington University senay@seas.gwu.edu Phone: (202) 994-5910 Philip K. Robertson, CSIRO Divison of Information Technology phil@csis.dit.csiro.au Workshop Topics: - Establish a conceptual foundation for automation - Investigate alternative models for automating visualization - Identify and model knowledge needed for visualization - Discuss how types of knowledge can be utilized with alternative models Workshop 3 Monday (one day): Putting Together a Multivariate, Multidimensional Visualization (mDv) System ------------------------------------------------- Organizer/contact: Jeff Beddow, Hennepin County beddow@epx.cis.umn.edu Phone: (612) 348-3105 Workshop Topics: - Effectiveness of design choices - Elements of graphical perception and representation strategies - Defining the application task as mDv - Criteria for successful display - Criteria for successful integration of mDv with application Workshop 4 Tuesday (one day): Khoros User's Workshop ---------------------- Organizer/contact: Khoros Users Group khoros-request@chama.eece.unm.edu Phone:(505) 277-6563 Phone:(505) 277-1413 Workshop Topics: - Extending the Khoros system to include 3D geometry and data visualization - Khoros as a collaboration technology - Application Building and the Software Development Environment - Distributed Computing - The Khoros Data Model - Research projects completed or in progress using Khoros - Commercial applications built using Khoros - Comparison of Khoros to other systems ======================================================================== Tutorials ======================================================================== +----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Day | Morning | Afternoon +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sunday | | # 1 Introduction to Volume | Oct. 18 | | Visualization (Kaufman, | | | Lorensen & Yagel) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Monday | # 2 Virtual Environment Techniques in Scientific | Oct. 19 | Visualization (Bryson) |----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | # 3 Visual Perception for | | | Visualization and Imaging | | | (Gross) | | | | | | # 4 Interactive Visualization, | | | Molecular Dynamics, and | | | Molecular Modeling | | | (Ribarski & Hodges) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Tuesday | # 5 Color Theory and Models for Computer Graphics and | Oct. 20 | Visualization (Levkowitz, Robertson & Rogowitz) | | | | # 6 Topology, Vector Fields and Flows | | (Globus, Post, Asimov & Levit) | |------------------------------------------------------------+ | | # 7 Automating the Design | # 8 Designing a Visualization | | of Effective Graphics | Interface for Multi- | | (Feiner, Mackinlay & | dimensional and Multivariate | | Marks | Data (Beddow) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tutorial 1 - Sunday October 18: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Introduction to Volume Visualization ------------------------------------ Instructors: Arie Kaufman, William Lorenson, and Roni Yagel Description: Volume visualization is concerned with the tasks of representing, manipulating, and rendering volumetric data. This course provides an overview of the technology, the nomenclature, and the techniques for these tasks, emphasizing algorithms, architectures, and applications. The course covers and compares different approaches in volume representation, volume synthesis, volume and surface viewing, volume shading, and a variety of applications exemplifying the use of volume visualization techniques. Who Should Attend? This is an introductory course for scientists, engineers, computer graphicists, and graduate students who are new to the field of volume visualization or interested in expanding their knowledge in that field. Instructors: Arie Kaufman is a professor of computer science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the editor of Volume Visualization, an IEEE Computer Science Press tutorial. William Lorensen is a graphics engineer in the Information Systems Laboratory at General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center. Roni Yagel is an assistant professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at The Ohio State University. Tutorial 2 - Monday October 19: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Virtual Environment Techniques in Scientific Visualization ---------------------------------------------------------- Instructor: Steve Bryson Description: This course will introduce and discuss virtual environment techniques and their use in scientific visualization. These techniques encompass a variety of hardware and software technologies allowing natural display and control in 3D space. Implementation of virtual environment techniques as well as their application to various scientific visualization problems will be presented in detail. Relevant topics covered, among others, are human factors, system integration and performance, and user task design. The course will describe various example systems ranging from stereo workstations environments to fully immersive virtual reality systems. Who Should Attend? This course is for those interested in applying virtual environment techniques to their visualization projects. No previous familiarity with virtual environments, other than some familiarity with 3D graphics programming on workstations, is assumed. Instructor: Steve Bryson is a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. His work involves the design and application of virtual reality techniques for scientific visualization. Prior to joining NASA Ames, he worked on various virtual reality projects at VPL Research. Tutorial 3 - Monday October 19: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Visual Perception for Visualization and Imaging ----------------------------------------------- Instructor: Markus Gross Description: The human visual system is the most powerful image processing system known so far. In this course, an introduction to the human visual system will be given, considering both psychophysical and physiological results and showing implications for visualization problems. Applications of these aspects can be found in man-machine communication and virtual reality, gesture recognition, multidimensional data mapping, and visual interpretation of shapes. Who Should Attend? This is an introductory course for scientists, engineers, computer graphicists, and software developers who are interested in understanding the principles of visual perception as it relates to visualization and imaging. Instructor: Markus Gross is the director of the visual computing group at the Computer Graphics Center in Darmstadt, Germany. He is also a lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His research interests include scientific visualization, rendering techiques, human perception and neural network applications for visual pattern recognition and computer vision. Tutorial 4 - Monday October 19: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Interactive Visualization, Molecular Dynamics, and Molecular Modeling ------------------------------------------------------------ Instructors: Bill Ribarsky and Larry Hodges Tutorial Description: This course provides working knowledge of current methods of exploratory visualization and analysis. Attendees will become familiar with the state of the art (and see what is coming) in interactive visualization and learn about applications, in particular, molecular dynamics and molecular modeling. Topics covered will include 1) stereoscopic computer graphics methods; 2) incorporating motion, interactivity, and interactive devices; 3) visual representations for complex, multivariate data; 4) software tools and techniques for visualizing simulational or observational data; 5) what the future holds. Who Should Attend? The course is aimed at scientists or application programmers who might use interactive visualization techniques and at researchers who work with computer simulations or observational data from molecular dynamics, molecular structure, or other applications. Instructors: Bill Ribarsky is a senior research scientist and the director of Scientific Visualization Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also the associate director for service at Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, Office of Information Technology at Georgia Tech. Larry Hodges is an assistant professor and associate director for education at Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center in College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Tutorial 5 - Tuesday October 20: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Color Theory and Models for Computer Graphics and Visualization ------------------------------------------------- Instructors: Haim Levkowitz, Philip Robertson, and Bernice Rogowitz Description: Color is a powerful aid to visual representation, if used appropriately. It can be used to code qualitative or quantitative, single- or multi- parameter data. However, many of the large number of possibilities can degrade the representation rather than improve it. Because of this risk the use of color has become very controversial. This course introduces basic color theory and addresses issues of the use of color in graphics and visualization. In the first part, attendees will gain a basic understanding of color vision and theory. In the second part, they will learn how to apply that knowledge to computer graphics and visualization so as to be able to generate displays that are more efficient from the human vision point of view and avoid common problems. Who Should Attend? This course is aimed at those who lack the fundamental background of basic color theory and those who would like to improve their day-to-day graphics and visualization results (in research, development, implementation) by gaining a better understanding of the specific issues of color in graphics and visualization. Instructors: Haim Levkowitz is an assistant professor of computer science and a founding member of the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Philip Robertson is a principle research scientist at the CSIRO Division of Information Technology, Centre for Spatial Information Systems in Canberra, Australia. He also lectures in computer science at the Australian National University. Bernice Rogowitz is a member of the Virtual User Environment Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Tutorial 6 - Tuesday October 20: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Topology, Vector Fields, and Flows ---------------------------------- Instructors: Al Globus, Dan Asimov, Creon Levit, and Frits Post Description: Vector fields play a crucial role in relating differential equations to space transformations. As a result, vector fields have many uses in science, especially in computational fluid dynamics. This course provides the groundwork for understanding vector field topology and related visualization techniques. It discusses the mathematics of flow topology and the interactive visualization of underlying flow fields. In addition, the techniques for the visualization of fluid flow data will be surveyed in detail. Who Should Attend? Those interested in using state-of-the-art in vector and flow visualization, including stream lines, particle traces, topological techniques, etc., to visualize scientific data. Instructors: Al Globus and Creon Levit are research scientists at the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Systems Division at NASA Ames. They developed a FAST module using vector field topology to visualize computational fluid dynamics data. Dan Asimov is a senior computer scientist at the Computer Sciences Corporation (at NASA Ames Research Center) and an educator who has held positions at numerous schools includeing Harvard University, Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley. Frits Post is an associate professor of computer science at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. Tutorial 7 - Tuesday October 20: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Automating the Design of Effective Graphics ------------------------------------------- Instructors: Steve Feiner, Jock Mackinlay, and Joe Marks Description: This course introduces the notion of a graphically articulate computer system--one that can design effective graphics automatically to communicate information. It will survey current research and describe themes and algorithmic techniques that have arisen in the develoment of such systems. The course will include a set of case studies of projects that address business graphics, 3D graphics for technical documentation, and automated cartography, and will explain how the techniques developed for these projects can be applied to visualization applications. Who Should Attend? This course is intended for programmers and researchers who are interested in learning how artificial intelligence techniques can be applied to automate the design of effective graphics. Working knowledge of 2D and 3D computer graphics, corresponding to an introductory course in computer graphics is required. Instructors: Steve Feiner is an associate professor of computer science at Columbia University. His research interests include image synthesis, applications of artificial intelligence to computer graphics, user interfaces, animation, hypermedia, virtual worlds, and visualization. Jock Mackinlay is a research scientist at Xerox PARC and a member of the User Interface Research Group. Joe Marks has recently joined the research staff at Digital Equipment Corporartion's Cambridge Research Center. Prior to his graduate studies, he was employed at BBN and Wang Laboratories. Tutorial 8 - Tuesday October 20: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Designing a Visualization Interface for Multidimensional, Multivariate Data --------------------------------------------------------- Instructor: Jeff Beddow and Cliff Beshers Description: This course offers an introduction to the technical and perceptual issues involved in the visualization of complex, multivariate data. It offers a solid foundation to the newcomer to the field, and useful information to the engineer or scientist with some knowledge of dimensional reduction and projection techniques. The emphasis is on the needs of the practitioner. Existing methods, including glyph-based, parallel coordinate, and hierarchal, are reviewed. Who Should Attend? Visualization center directors who are looking to offer state of the art visualization tools and techniques. Software developers, application specific engineers looking for tools, and discipline scientists looking for new methods. Instructor: Jeff Beddow is a graphic artist and visualization consultant currently employed by Hennepin County, in Minnesota. His clients for multidimensional visualization consulting include the State of Minnesota, National Car Rental, McGraw Hill Publishing, California Testing Bureau, and Lawrence Livermore's Magnetic Fusion project. Cliff Beshers is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University. He is the author or co-author of several visualization systems that use both analytic and synthetic methods to map higher dimensional or multivariate data to graphics displays. His research is widely published. ======================================================================== Keynote Address: High Performance Computing and Communications ======================================================================== Eugene Wong, the Associate Director for Industrial Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President will speak to Visualization 92 attendees. This talk will describe the presidential initiative on High Performance Computing and Communications and the strategic vision that it brings. Visualization is one of the key areas that will be profoundly affected by both the technological advances and the increased access to high performance computing and communications. ======================================================================== Keynote Panel Interactions Between Visualization and Science ======================================================================== The Keynote Panel will investigate the relationships between Visualization and Science. How can good visualization techniques help us to do science better? How can the needs of science influence visualization research more effectively? Panelists: Dr. Robert Langridge, Department of Parmaceutical Chemistry, UC San Francisco Dr. Jeff Dozier, Center for Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics, UC Santa Barbara Dr. John Conway, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University Dr. Stephen Benton, Media Laboratory, MIT Moderator: Dr. Larry Rosenblum, Naval Research Laboratory ======================================================================== Capstone Address Parallel Processing of Form, Color, Motion, and Depth: Anatomy, Physiology, Art, and Illusion ======================================================================== Capstone Speaker: Margaret Livingstone Harvard Medical School Seeing is much more complicated than most people realize. It is tempting to think of vision as just another way of making a picture. However, no camera or computer system can match the ability of the human visual system to make sense of an infinite variety of images. That ability is made possible by the brain's capacity to process huge amounts of information simultaneously. Recent studies suggest that form, color, and spatial information are processed along three independent pathways in the brain. That explains why certain images can create surprising visual effects. Taking into account these characteristics of the visual system could vastly improve the perceptual quality of the display of images. ======================================================================== Special Features in the Evening at Vis '92 ======================================================================== How to Lie and Confuse with Visualization ----------------------------------------- Tuesday 7:00pm People have lied with statistics and maps for years. Now it's time to look into lying and confusing in the field of visualization. Your big chance to do just that, in the open, will be in this special session on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1992 at 7:00 pm. You are invited to bring with you visualization lies and confusing articles, yours or others, on 35mm slides or video. During this evening, it will be allowed to lie but not to borrow credit, so please do not forget to mention the producers' names. After the informal presentations and truthful debates, the audience will choose the biggest (visualization) lie for 1992. When the evening is over, lying will be outlawed again. Then, we will be all able to benefit from this teaching of what it takes to produce realistic and faithful visualizations. Reservations and advance submissions are now being accepted (c/o Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corporation, 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22102). Both are not required but are strongly recommended. For more information (genuine!), please email gershon@mitre.org or call (703) 883-7518. Research Problems in Visualization Session ------------------------------------------ Thursday 7:30pm This is an informal meeting to discuss results on any of the 1991 research problems or to present new research questions to be included in the 1992 research problem set. These problems will be published in the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Graphics Newsletter. Presenters should send their one page descriptions of results or the new research problem to grinstein@cs.ulowell.edu by October 1, 1992. ======================================================================== Visualization 92 Demonstrations ======================================================================== The Demonstration Sessions, to be held Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday, are designed as interactive showcases of current research activity in visualization. Groups representing a wide variety of industry and university research efforts will display recent innovations in visualization hardware and software technology. In addition, several workstation platforms will be made available to conference attendees on a time-shared basis who wish to display their novel tools, techniques, and applications of visualization. Persons interested in reserving a table or time on a shared system at the Demonstration Session should contact Matt Ward, Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 01609, 508-831-5671, matt@cs.wpi.edu. Space and time is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. The demos will open Wednesday afternoon from 12:00pm to 5:00pm. Demos will run simultaneously with technical sessions on Thursday from 10:00am to 3:00pm. The cost for a reserved table is $1750 for industrial organizations and $500 for non-profit organizations. There is no charge for use of the time-shared systems. The following companies and universities have already committed to give a demonstration at VIS '92: Boston University, demonstrating distributed visualization Harvard, Center for Astrophysics, with Wavemaker IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, showing IBM Visualization Data Explorer MIT, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, showing Visual3 NASA Ames Stanford, Department of Applied Earth Sciences, showing VisualSedsim University of Maryland, Computer Science Department, showing TreeViz University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Institute for Visualization and Perception Research, showing EXVIS AVS Inc. Digital Equipment Corp. Digital Image Design DSP Development Corporation, showing DADiSP ======================================================================= 1992 ACM Boston Volume Visualization Workshop ======================================================================= As a follow-on to the successful Chapel Hill and San Diego Workshops on Volume Visualization, this third workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE Visualization '92 in the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. The Workshop is sponsored by ACM-SIGGRAPH in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics. For information on registering for the Boston Volume Visualization Workshop, contact the Vol Vis registrar, Ed Council, at (508) 872-0796 or send email to volvis92@cs.ulowell.edu. You may also call the VIS92 phone, (510) 423-9368 to request a mailing of the registration info on 1992 Boston Volume Visualization. ======================================================================== Visualization 92 Parallel Sessions ======================================================================== Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1:30 - 3:30 1A Papers: Volume Visualization ---------------------------- Towards a Comprehensive Volume Visualization System, Ricardo Avila, Lisa Sobierajski, Arie Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony Brook Approximation and Rendering of Volume Data Using Wavelet Transforms, Shigeru Muraki, Electrotechnical Laboratory Interactive Visualization of Large Scalar Voxel Fields, Georgios Sakas, Jochen Hartig, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Interactive Splatting of Nonrectilinear Volumes, Peter Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1B Case Studies Session on Physics ------------------------------- Astrophysics: Mapping the Universe, Margaret Geller, Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Material Sciences: Visualization of Neutron Scattering Data Using AVS, Rajka Popovic, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Particle Physics: The Use of DEC AVS for High Energy Physics Event Viewing, Carola Clavi, European Center for High Energy Physics (CERN) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1C Panel: Managing Large Scientific Databases ------------------------------------------ Chair: William Campbell, NASA/GSFC Panel Members: Robert Cromp, NASA/GSFC, Gyorgy Fekete, NASA/GSFC, Ray Wall, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Michael Goldberg, The MITRE Corporation ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, Oct. 21, 3:45 - 5:15 2A Papers: Flow Visualization I ---------------------------- Virtual Smoke: An Interactive 3D Flow Visualization Technique, Kwan-Liu Ma, Philip J. Smith, University of Utah Rendering Surface-Particles, Jarke van Wijk, Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN A 3D Streamline Tracking Algorithm Using Dual Stream Functions, David Kenwright, Gordon Mallinson, The University of Auckland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, Oct. 22, 8:30 - 10:00 3A Papers: Surfaces Visualization ------------------------------ Generalized Focal Surfaces: A New Method for Surface Interrogation, Hans Hagen, Stefanie Hahmann, Universitat Kaiserslautern, Germany Massively Parallel Isosurface Extraction, Charles Hansen, Paul Hinker, Los Alamos National Laboratory Four-Dimensional Views of 3D Scalar Fields, Pheng Heng, Indiana University, Andrew Hanson, CERN and Indiana University ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3B Case Studies Session on Life Sciences ------------------------------------- Anthropology: Visualization in Anthropology: Reconstruction of Human Fossils from Multiple Pieces, Alan Kalvin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Cardiology: Visualization of Cardiac Bioelectricity, Robert MacLeod, University of Utah Electron Microscopy: The Microscopists' Workstation, Philip Mercurio, San Diego Supercomputer Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3C Panel: Grand Challenge Problems in Visualization Software --------------------------------------------------------- Chair: Lloyd Treinish, IBM J. Watson Research Center Panel Members: David M. Butler, Sandia National Lab, Hikmet Senay, George Washington University, Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and Steve T. Bryson, NASA-Ames ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, Oct. 22, 10:15 - 12:15 4A Papers: Visualization Systems ----------------------------- Volume Rendering on a Distributed Memory Parallel Computer, T. Todd Elvins, San Diego Supercomputer Center Direct Volumetric Visualization, Fred Wefer, The MITRE Corporation, R. Don Williams, Texas Instruments, Inc., T. E. Clifton III, US Air Force An Architecture for a Scientific Visualization System, Bruce Lucas, Gregory Abram, Nancy Collins, David Epstein, Donna Gresh, Kevin McAuliffe, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center Anatomical Atlases Based on Volume Visualization, K. H. Hoehne, M. Bomans, M. Riemer, R. Schubert, U. Tiede Institut fur Mathematik und Datenverabeitung in der Medizin, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4B Papers: Data Structures ----------------------- Improving the Visualization of Hierarchies with Treemaps: Design Issue and Experimentation, Brian Johnson, Dave Turo, University of Maryland An Efficient Range Search Algorithm for Visualizing Extrema of Volume Data, Xiaolin Wu, University of Western Ontario, Yonggang Fang, Tsinghua University, Beijing Display of Scientific Data Structures of Algorithm Visualization, William Hibbard, Charles Dyer, Brian Paul, University of Wisconsin- Madison Representing Medical Images with Partitioning Tree, Bruce Naylor, K. R. Subramanian, AT&T Bell Laboratories ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4C Panel: Improving Visualization: Perceptual Foundations ------------------------------------------------------ Chair: Stephen Kosslyn, Harvard University Panel Members: Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corporation, Haim Levkowitz, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Justin D. Pearlman, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, Oct. 22, 1:30 - 3:30 5A Papers: Flow Visualization II ----------------------------- Visualization of Simulated Airflow in a Clean Room, Koji Koyamada, IBM Japan Ltd. Flow Visualization as a Basic Tool to Investigate the Dynamics and Topology of Jets, Fernando Grinstein, U. R. Obeysekare, Naval Research Laboratory, G. Patnaik, Berkeley Research Associates Constructing Stream Surfaces in Steady 3D Vector Fields, Jeff Hultquist, NASA Ames Research Center Visualizing Wind Velocities by Advecting Cloud Textures, Nelson Max, R. Crawfis, D. Williams, Lawrence Livermore National Lab ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5B Papers: Visual Programming -------------------------- Logical Time in Visualizations Produced by Parallel Programs, Joydip Kundu, Janice Cuny, Alfred Hough, University of Massachusetts Visual Query Specification for a Multimedia DBMS, Daniel Keim, University of Munich, Vincent Lum, Chinese University of Hong Kong The State of the Art of Visual Languages for Visualization, John Rasure, The University of New Mexico, Chuck Hansen, Los Alamos National Lab Visualizing Code Profiling Line Oriented Statistics, Stephen Eick, Joseph Steffen, AT&T Bell Laboratories ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5C Case Studies Session on the Environment --------------------------------------- Oceanography: Visualization of Seafloor Structures through Gravitational Accretion, Jim McLeod, San Diego Supercomputer Center Atmospheres: Visualization Requirements in the Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Theresa Rhyne, Unisys Corporation, Mike Botts, University of Alabama, Eric Pepke, Florida State University, William Hibbard, University of Wisconsin, Lloyd Treinish, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, Oct. 22, 3:45 - 5:45 6A Papers: Visualization Software Systems -------------------------------------- VISAGE: An Object-Oriented Scientific Visualization System, William Schroeder, G. D. Montanaro, C. Volpe, GE Corporate Research and Development A Scientific Visualization Renderer, Bruce Lucas, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center A Characterization of the Scientific Data Analysis Process, Rebecca Springmeyer, Meera M. Blattner, Nelson L. Max, Lawrence Livermore National Lab SuperGlue: A Programming Environment for Scientific Visualization, Jeff Hultquist, Eric Raible, NASA Ames Research Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6B Papers: Visualization Techniques -------------------------------- Color, Change, and Control for Quantitative Data Display, Penny Rheingans, University of North Carolina Surface Curvature Analysis Using Color, Robert Jerard, Lee Seidenberg, University of New Hampshire, John Magewick, Ford Motor Company Visualization of Fuzzy Data Using Generalized Animation, Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corporation Visualization for the Document Space, Xia Lin, Pace University ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6C Panel: Real Virtual Environments Applications - Now -------------------------------------------------- Chair: Paul Breen, The MITRE Corporation Panel Members: Bradford Smith, University of San Francisco, David Zeltzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georges G. Grinstein, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, David W. Mizell, Boeing Computer Systems, Richard M. Satava, Silas B. Hays Army Hospital, and Michael M. Stephens, Computer Sciences Corporation ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, Oct. 23, 8:30 - 10:00 7A Papers: Virtual Reality & Multimedia ------------------------------------ Auto Design of Virtual Worlds for Visualizing Multivariate Relations, Clifford Beshers, Steven Feiner, Columbia University Virtual Spacetime: An Environment for the Visualization of Curved Spacetimes via Geodesic Flows, Steve Bryson, NASA Ames Research Center Network Video Device Control, David Nadeau, Michael J. Bailey, San Diego Supercomputer Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7B Papers: Visualization Methods ----------------------------- Volume Warping, Thomas True, Brown University, John Hughes Visualization of Second Order Tensor Fields and Matrix Data, Thierry Delmarcelle, Lambertus Hesselink, Stanford University Visualization of High Resolution Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Finite Element Analyses, Mark Christon, Thomas Spelce, Lawrence Livermore National Lab ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7C Panel: Visualization in the Neurosciences: Utility in Research, Training and Clinical Practice --------------------------------------------------------------- Chair: Stuart A. Tobet, Harvard Program in Neuroscience Panel Members: Joan C. King, Tufts University School of Medicine, Steven L. Wertheim, Harvard Medical School, and Frank H. Duffy, Children's Hospital, Boston ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, Oct. 23, 10:15 - 12:15 8A Papers: Terrain Visualization ----------------------------- Optimizing Triangulations by Curvature Equalization, Lori Scarlatos, Grumman Data Systems, Theo Pavlidis, State University of New York at Stony Brook A Voxel-Based, Forward Projection Algorithm for Rendering Surface and Volumetric Data, John Wright, Julia Hsieh, Hughes Training, Inc. Interactive Terrain Rendering and Volume Visualization on the Princeton Engine, James Matey, Jim Kaba, Gordon Stoll, Herb Taylor, Pat Hanrahan, David Sarnoff Research Center Visualizing N- Dimensional Implications of Two-Dimensional Design Decisions, Stephen Ervin, Harvard University Graduate School of Design ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8B Case Studies Session on Fluid Dynamics -------------------------------------- Classical CFD: Visualizing Classical Problems in CFD, Norman Zabusky, Rutgers University Weather: Simulation of Remotely Sensed Cloud Imagery, Maureen Cianciolo, TASC Hydrodynamics: Visualizing a Three Dimensional Hydrodynamics Model, Charles Jones, USACE Waterways Experiment Station ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8C Panel: Object-Oriented, Dataflow Visualization Systems -- A Paradigm Shift? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Chair: Bill Ribarsky, Georgia Institute of Technology Panel Members: Bob Brown, Silicon Graphics Inc., Richard Feldmann, National Institutes of Health, Terry Myerson, International AVS Center at North Carolina Supercomputer Center, Stuart Smith, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and Lloyd Treinish, IBM J. Watson Research Center ======================================================================== Conference Location: Boston ======================================================================== Visualization '92 will be held October 19-23, 1992 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference will be held during the peak of New England's fall season -- come and see the beautiful colors of the falling leaves. Located in the heart of historic Back Bay and overlooking the picturesque Public Gardens and Boston Common, the Boston Park Plaza Hotel recalls the grand hotels of yesteryear. A first-class hotel with 977 rooms, the Park Plaza is just a short walk from the boutiques and galleries of Newbury Street, the exclusive shops at Copley Place, the Theater District, Prudential Center, Hynes Convention Center, and the Waterfront. New England's largest city, Boston has something for everyone. You can visit famous Revolutionary War sites on the Freedon Trail, as well as Paul Revere's house, the city's oldest structure. Other sites to visit include the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Gardner Museum and the Boston Museum of Science. Shoppers will enjoy the many shops on Newbury and Boylston Streets and Quincy Market, a lively waterfront development. ======================================================================= Hotel Reservations for Visualization '92 ======================================================================= Boston Park Plaza Hotel Attn: Reservations Manager 64 Arlington Street Boston, MA 02116-3912 Please call the hotel directly to make your reservation. Specify that you are part of the IEEE Visualization 92 room block (ACM Volume Visualization also acceptable) to receive the conference rate. 800-225-2008 or 617-426-2000 Rate: $95 Single/$105 Double This rate is available Saturday, Oct. 17, 1992 through Saturday, October 24, 1992. Reservations must be received by the hotel by Sunday, September 27. After that date reservations will be confirmed on a space and rate available basis only. All rooms are subject to a 9.7% tax. Reservations for arrival after 4:00 pm must be guaranteed via AMEX, VISA, MasterCard or Diner's Club (card number, expiration date, and cardholder's name) or by company or personal check. Checks must be received 7 days prior to arrival. If plans change or you need to cancel, call 800-225-2008 before 4:00 pm EST on the day of reservation to avoid billing. Retain the cancellation number given by Boston Park Plaza agent at point of cancellation. Check-in is after 2:00 pm. Check-out is prior to 12 noon. ======================================================================== Travel Discounts ======================================================================== Delta Airlines is the official carrier for Visualization '92. Attendees will receive a 40% discount on Delta's unrestricted round- trip coach fares. A 5% discount off any of Delta's domestic published fares applies, provided all rules and conditions of the air fare are met. For information and reservations call 1-800-221-1212. Attendees must make reservations under the group number Q12387 and the group name IEEE Visualization '92. ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Please complete this form and return via the route of your choice. Addresses and phone numbers can be found at the bottom of the form. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-cut here-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Name: ______________________________________________________________________ Organization: ______________________________________________________________ Mailing Address: ___________________________________________________________ City/State/ZIP/Country: ____________________________________________________ Phone: _____________________________ Fax: __________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________________________________ Tutorials: circle first choices 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 circle alternate choices 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 * Pay in advance for first choice selections. If changes are necessary, adjustments will be made at the conference. Tutorial cost. Early Fee Late Fee (on or before Sept. 30) (after Sept. 30) Status full day half day full day half day IEEE/ACM member: 220 115 285 150 Non-Member: 290 175 330 190 Student: 60 30 100 50 __# of half day tutorials x ___ half day fee = $______ __# of full day tutorials x ___ full day fee = $______ Conference Cost. Early Fee Late Fee (on or before Sept.30) (after Sept. 30) Status cost cost IEEE/ACM member: 275 375 Non-Member: 420 500 Student: 95 120 Conference Fee: $_______________ Additional Fees. Additional reception tickets at $30.00 each $______ ACM Volume Visualization reception at $30.00 each $______ *****Total amount being sent in US currency***** ** $______________** (check or money order or credit accepted) Credit Card info: ___AmEx ___MC ___Visa Expiration Date: ____________ Credit Card number: ____________________________________ Card Holder's Name (print): ____________________________ Signature:______________________________________________ Additional INFORMATION we need: 1 IEEE or ACM membership number: ________________________________________ 2 How did you hear about this conference? __email __Magazine Ad __Flier __Colleague __Other__________________ 3 Are you a presenter? __yes __no 4 ___ Do *NOT* include my name, address or telephone number on a published list of attendees. 5 ___ Do *NOT* include my telephone number on a published list of attendees. 6 ___ If IEEE member, check to become IEEE Technical Committee Member (courtesy of your VIS92 registration). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-cut here-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Additional INFORMATION you need: Requests for refunds must be received by September 30, 1992. Refunds are subject to a $50 service charge. Participants with confirmed registration who fail to attend or notify Haim Levkowitz of cancellation prior to the refund date are subject to the full fee. Participant substitutions are allowed at any time. Registration will also be accepted on site at the late fee rate. Please either email this form to: vis92@cs.ulowell.edu or fax this form to: 1 508-934-0143 (E-mail/Fax registrants: or send this form to: Haim Levkowitz Institute for Visualization & Perception Research Univ. of Mass. at Lowell Lowell, MA 01854 U.S.A. Note to email and fax registrants: To avoid double billing, do not send a second copy of your registration form by mail or courier. Insure that your check or money order specifies the registrant's name to insure payment. Confirmations to registrants will be sent by US Mail. For registrations received after October 15, confirmation will be enclosed in registration packet picked up on site. If you have questions about registration, please call the VIS92 phone at 1-510-423-9368 (Pacific Standard Time). ============================================================================ Visualization '92 Conference Committee ============================================================================ Conference Co-Chairs: Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts at Lowell Bruce Brown, Oracle Corporation Program Co-Chairs: R. Daniel Bergeron, University of New Hampshire Carol Hunter, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Papers Co-Chairs: Gregory Nielson, Arizona State University Arie Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony Brook Panels Co-Chairs: Larry Rosenblum, Naval Research Laboratory Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corporation Case Studies Co-Chairs: Lloyd Treinish, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Deborah Silver, Rutgers University Tutorials Co-Chairs: Hikmet Senay, George Washington University Roni Yagel, Ohio State University Workshop Co-Chairs: Mike Rhodes, Toshiba America Corporation Jerome Cox, Washington University Videos Co-Chairs: Eric Grosse, AT&T Bell Laboratories Ed Council, Timberfield Systems Demonstrations Co-Chairs: Matt Ward, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Paul Hazan, John Hopkins University Science Advisory Group Chair: David Salzman, Harvard University Publicity Co-Chairs: Jeff Beddow, Hennepin County Kay Howell, Naval Research Laboratory Finance Chair: Michael Danchak, Hartford Graduate Center Registration Chair: Haim Levkowitz, University of Massachusetts at Lowell Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Susan Stearman, Digital Equipment Corporation Stu Smith, University of Massachusetts at Lowell =============================================================================== Visualization '92 Program Committee =============================================================================== Mike Bailey, San Diego Supercomputing Center H. Harlyn Baker, SRI International Andreas Buja, Bellcore Susan Chipman, Office of Naval Research Donna Cox, National Center for Supercomputing Applications Rae A. Earnshaw, University of Leeds Jose Encarnacao, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt William Feeney, San Diego State University Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina Richard S. Gallagher, Swanson Data Analysis Michel Grave, ONERA Hans Hagen, Universitaet Kaiserslautern Roger D. Hersch, Peripheral Systems Lab, EPFL Lambertus Hesselink, Stanford University William Hibbard, University of Wisconsin - Madison F.R.A. Hopgood, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories Ron Jacob, Naval Research Laboratory David Kamins, Application Visual Systems Inc. Fred Kitson, Hewlett Packard Labs Stanislav Klimenko, Institute for High Energy Physics Tosiyasu Kunii, University of Tokyo Gary Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Marc Levoy, Stanford University Robert McDermott, Utah Supercomputer Institute, University of Utah Ted Mihalisin, Mihalisin Associates, Inc. Art Olson, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic Richard L. Phillips, Los Alamos National Lab Ron Pickett, University of Massachusetts at Lowell Jeffrey Posdamer, AT&T Bell Laboratories Frits Post, TU Delft Bill Ribarsky, Georgia Tech Phil Robertson, Australia National University Alyn Rockwood, Arizona State University Bernice Rogowitz, IBM Research Azriel Rosenfeld, University of Maryland John Staudhammer, University of Florida Ken Stewart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Werner Stuetzle, University of Washington Craig Upson, Silicon Graphics, Inc. Don Vickers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Gary Watkins, Evans & Sutherland Stephen Watson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Val Watson, NASA Ames Research Center Elizabeth M. Wenzel, NASA Ames Research Center Peter Wilson, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Allan R. Wilks, AT&T Bell Laboratories James M. Winget, Silicon Graphics, Inc. -- Dr. Georges Grinstein - Institute for Visualization and Perception Research University of Lowell Lowell, MA 01854 Internet: grinstein@cs.ulowell.edu Phone: (508) 934-3627 UUCP: {(backbones),harvard,mit-eddie,et al}!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!grinstein