Invited Speakers

The 3DIMPVT 2012 conference will include keynote speeches from:

• Robert Neuman - "The Art of Making Stereoscopic Movies", Chief Stereographer, Walt Disney Animation Studios, USA.
• Richard Hartley - "Some Results on the Geometry of Surfaces", ANU, Australia.
• Pierre Alliez - "Robust Shape Reconstruction through Optimal Transportation", INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France.
• Wojciech Matusik - "From Virtual to Real", MIT, USA.
• Uwe Franke - "6D-Vision: Cars learn to See", Daimler AG, Germany.  

as well as a special session on 3D urban modeling with:

• Christophe Strecha - "UAV based Mapping - a Surveying Tool?", Pix4D, Switzerland.
• Jean-Philippe Pons - "3D Urban and Architectural Reconstruction: Computational Geometry can Help", Acute3D, France. 

Conference Program

The conference booklet is available here: <Conference-Guide.pdf>.

Registration will also be open on Friday, October 12th, from 16:30 until 18:30.

Saturday, October 13th

08:30 Registration

08:55 Opening

09:00 Keynote Speaker

Uwe Franke - Daimler AG
"6D-Vision: Cars learn to See" 

09:50 Oral session: Tracking, Detection

• Tracking Complete Deformable Objects with Finite Elements
  Stefanie Wuhrer, Saarland University; Jochen Lang, University of Ottawa; Chang Shu
• 3D Object Detection and Localization using Multimodal Point Pair Features
  Bertram Drost, MVTec Software GmbH; Slobodan Ilic, Technische Universität München

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Oral session: Reconstruction

• High-detail 3D capture and non-sequential alignment of facial performance
  Martin Klaudiny, University of Surrey; Adrian Hilton, University of Surrey
• High Resolution Surface Reconstruction from Multi-view Aerial Imagery
  Ali Ulusoy, Brown University; Fatih Calakli, Brown University; Maria Restrepo, Brown University; Joseph Mundy, Brown University; Gabriel Taubin, Brown University
• Robust Simultaneous 3D Registration via Rank Minimization
  Diego Thomas, National Institute Informatics; Akihiro Sugimoto, National Institute of Informatics; Yasuyuki Matsushita, Microsoft Research Asia
• Rapid Skin: Estimating the 3D Human Pose and Shape in Real-Time
  Matthias Straka, Graz University Of Technology; Stefan Hauswiesner, Graz University of Technology; Matthias Rüther, Graz University of Technology; Horst Bischof, Graz University of Technology

12:20 Lunch break

13:40 Keynote speaker

Wojciech Matusik - MIT
"From Virtual to Real" 

14:30 Oral session: Visualization

• Fast and Stable Color Balancing for Images and Augmented Reality
  Thomas Oskam, Disney Research Zurich; Alexander Hornung, Disney Research Zurich; Robert Sumner, Disney Research Zurich; Markus Gross, ETH Zurich / Disney Research Zurich
• Photo Tours
  Avanish Kushal, University of Washington; Ben Self, University of Washington; Yasutaka Furukawa, Google; Carlos Hernandez, Google; David Gallup, Google; Brian Curless, University of Washington; Steven Seitz, Google
• Dynamic Mosaics
  Rahul Garg, University of Washington; Steve Seitz, University of Washington

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Oral session: Alignment

• Accurate and automatic alignment of range surfaces
  Simone Fantoni, University of Verona; Umberto Castellani, University of Verona; Andrea Fusiello, Università di Udine - DIEGM
• Global Motion Estimation from Point Matches
  Mica Arie-Nachimson, Weizmann Institute of Science; Shahar Kovalsky, Weizmann Institute of Science; Ronen Basri, Weizmann Institute of Science; Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, ; Amit Singer,
• Boosting the computational performance of feature-based multiple 3D scan alignment by iat-k-means clustering
  Nicola Pezzotti, University of Brescia; Francesco Bonarrigo, University of Brescia; Alberto Signoroni, University of Brescia

17:00-18:30 Poster & Demos session 1

• 3D Human Motion Analysis to Detect Abnormal Events on Stairs
  Gemma Parra Dominguez, Toronto Rehab Institute; Babak Taati, ; Alex Mihailidis,
• Polarization-based surface normal estimation of black specular objects from multiple viewpoints
  Daisuke Miyazaki, Hiroshima City University; Takuya Shigetomi, ; Masashi Baba, ; Ryo Furukawa, ; Shinsaku Hiura, ; Naoki Asada,
• Handling Occlusions for Accurate 3D Urban Cartography: A new Approach based on Characterization and Multiple Passages
  Ahmad Aijazi, Institut Pascal; Paul Checchin, Institut Pascal; Laurent Trassoudaine, Institut Pascal
• Efficient Multi-Scale Stereo of High-Resolution Planar and Spherical Images
  Alan Brunton, University of Ottawa; Jochen Lang, University of Ottawa; Eric Dubois, University of Ottawa
• High-Level Bottom-Up Cues for Top-Down Parsing of Facade Images
  David Ok, Imagine ENPC; Renaud Marlet, Imagine ENPC; Mateusz Kozinski, Imagine ENPC
• Exploiting Physical Inconsistencies for 3D Scene Understanding
  Andrea Fossati, ETH Zürich; Helmut Grabner, ETH Zürich; Luc Van Gool, ETH Zürich
• HyperSfm
  Kai Ni, Microsoft; Frank Dellaert, Georgia Tech
• 3D Facial Surface and Texture Synthesis Using 2D Landmarks From A Single Face Sketch
  Tanasai Sucontphunt, USC
• Sampling-based Multiview Reconstruction without Correspondences for 3D Edges
  Damien Teney, University of Liege; Justus Piater, University of Innsbruck
• A Robust Multi-Camera 3D Ellipse Fitting for Contactless Measurements
  Filippo Bergamasco, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia; Luca Cosmo, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia; Andrea Albarelli, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia; Andrea Torsello, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
• Toward compressed 3D descriptors
  Filippo Malaguti, University of Bologna; Federico Tombari, University of Bologna; Samuele Salti, University of Bologna; Danilo Pau, St Microelectronics; Luigi Di Stefano, University of Bologna
• Online Gaze Disparity via Binocular Eye Tracking on Stereoscopic Displays
  Rui Wang, Clemson University; Brandon Pelfrey, Clemson University; Andrew Duchowski, Clemson University; Donald House, Clemson University
• Markerless Motion Capture of Human Body Using PSO with Single Depth Camera
  TianWei Xing, NanJing University; Yao Yu, ; Yu Zhou, ; SiDan Du,
• Classification and Pose Estimation of Vehicles in Videos by 3D Modeling within Discrete-Continuous Optimization
  Michael Hödlmoser, Vienna University of Tech.; Branislav Micusik, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology; Ming-Yu Liu, University of Maryland College Park; Marc Pollefeys, ETH; Martin Kampel, Vienna University of Technology
• Cage-based Motion Recovery Using Manifold Learning
  Estelle Duveau, Inria; Simon Courtemanche, Inria; Lionel Reveret, Inria; Edmond Boyer, Inria
• Generating Dense Point Correspondence Ground-Truth Across Multiple Views
  Anil Usumezbas, Brown University; Benjamin Kimia, Brown University
• Optimising Light Source Positions to Minimise Illumination Variation for 3D Vision
  Tom Botterill, University of Canterbury; Steven Mills, University of Otago; Richard Green, University of Canterbury
• Semi-dense piecewise planar stereo reconstruction using SymStereo and PEARL
  Michel Antunes, ISR; João Pedro Barreto, ISR
• 3D City Modeling from Street-Level Data for Augmented Reality Applications
  Timo Pylvanainen, Nokia Research Center; Jerome Berclaz, Nokia Research Center; Varsha Hedau, Nokia Research Center; Thommen Korah, Nokia Research Center; Mridul Aanjaneya , Stanford University; Radek Grzeszczuk, Nokia Research
• Increasing the Efficiency of Local Stereo by Leveraging Smoothness Constraints
  Yilin Wang, UNC; Enrique Dunn, UNC; Jan-Michael Frahm, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Pinhole-to-projection pyramid subtraction for reconstructing non-rigid objects from range images
  Takuya Funatomi, Kyoto University; Haruna Akuzawa, Kyoto University; Masaaki Iiyama, Kyoto University; Michihiko Minoh, Kyoto University
• Solving the PnP Problem with Anisotropic Orthogonal Procrustes Analysis
  Valeria Garro, University of Verona; Fabio Crosilla, University of Udine; Andrea Fusiello, Università di Udine - DIEGM
• Uncalibrated View Syntesis with Homography Interpolation
  Pasqualina Fragneto, STMicroelectronics; Andrea Fusiello, Università di Udine - DIEGM; Luca Magri, STMicroelectronics; Beatrice Rossi, STMicroelectronics; Matteo Ruffini, STMicroelectronics
• Visual Landmark-based Localization for MAVs using Incremental Feature Updates
  Andreas Wendel, Graz University of Technology; Michael Maurer, Graz University of Technology; Horst Bischof, Graz University of Technology
• Automatic Calibration of Range Sensor and Camera System
  Hatem Alismail, Carnegie Mellon University; L. Douglas Baker, Carnegie Mellon University, National Robotics Engineering Center; Brett Browning, Carnegie Mellon University, National Robotics Engineering Center
• Incremental Reconstruction of Manifold Surface from Sparse Visual Mapping
  Maxime Lhuillier, Pascal Institute; Shuda Yu, Pascal Institute
• Extension of Tamura Texture Features for 3D Fluorescence Microscopy
  Tomáš Majtner, Masaryk University; David Svoboda, Masaryk University
• Robust and Flexible Calibration Of Optical See-Through Augmented Reality Systems
  Jim Braux-Zin, CEA, List; Adrien Bartoli, Universite Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand; Romain Dupont, CEA, List; Régis Vinciguerra, CEA, List

19:00 Dinner in Dozentenfoyer

Sunday, October 14th

09:00 Keynote Speaker

Pierre Alliez - Inria Sophia Antipolis
"Robust Shape Reconstruction through Optimal Transportation" 

09:50 Oral session: Point data

• Watertight As-Built Architectural Floor Plans Generated from Laser Range Data
  Eric Turner, U.C. Berkeley; Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley
• Non Local Point Set Surfaces
  Thierry Guillemot, Telecom ParisTech; Andres Almansa, ; Tamy Boubekeur, Telecom Paristech

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Poster & Demos session 2

• Least Commitment, Viewpoint-based, Multi-view Stereo
  Xiaoyan Hu, ; Philippos Mordohai, Stevens Institute of Technology
• Robust Probabilistic Occupancy Grid Estimation from Positive and Negative Distance Fields
  Xiaoyan Hu, ; Philippos Mordohai, Stevens Institute of Technology
• Online algorithms for classification of urban objects in 3D point clouds
  Ioannis Stamos, CUNY; Olympia Hadjiliadis, Brooklyn College; Hongzhong Zhang, Columbia University; Thomas Flynn, Graduate Center of CUNY
• Real-time Reshaping Of Humans
  Michal Richter, MPI für Informatik,Saarbrücken; Kiran Varanasi, MPI für Informatik,Saarbrücken; Nils Hasler, MPI für Informatik,Saarbrücken; Christian Theobalt, MPI Informatik
• Towards Bundle Adjustment with GIS Constraints for Online Geo-Localization of a Vehicle In Urban Center
  Dorra Larnaout, CEA; Steve Bourgeois, CEA; Vincent Gay-Bellile, CEA; Michel Dhome, CEA
• High-resolution Performance Capture by Zoom-in Pan-tilt Cameras
  Norimichi Ukita, NAIST; Shigenobu Fujine, ; Norihiro Hagita,
• Grid-based Active Stereo with Single-colored Wave Pattern for Dense One-shot 3D Scan
  Ryusuke Sagawa, AIST; Nozomu Kasuya, AIST; Kazuhiro Sakashita, Osaka University; Ryo Furukawa, ; Hiroshi Kawasaki, Kagoshima University; Yasushi Yagi, Osaka University
• An Adaptive Hierarchical Approach to the Extraction of High Resolution Medial Surfaces
  Luca Rossi, Ca' Foscari University; Andrea Torsello, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
• Structure from motion using augmented Lagrangian robust factorization
  Michael Bronstein, University of Lugano; Klaus Glashoff, University of Lugano
• An Evaluation Method for Multiview Surface Reconstruction Algorithms
  Ran Song, ; Yonghuai Liu, ; Yitian Zhao, Aberystwyth University; Ralph Martin, ; Paul Rosin,
• Through-the-Lens Multi-Camera Synchronisation and Frame-Drop Detection for 3D Reconstruction
  Evren Imre, University of Surrey; Jean-Yves Guillemaut, University of Surrey; Adrian Hilton, University of Surrey
• A repeatable and efficient canonical reference for surface matching
  Alioscia Petrelli, University of Bologna; Luigi Di Stefano, University of Bologna
• Texture Generation from a Large Set of Registered Images using Markov Random Fields
  Wilhelm Hannemann, TU Clausthal; Tilman Brock, TU Clausthal
• Incremental Large Scale 3D Reconstruction
  Roman PArys, University of Tuebingen; Andreas Schilling, University of Tuebingen
• On the Affinity between 3D Detectors and Descriptors
  Samuele Salti, University of Bologna; Alioscia Petrelli, University of Bologna; Federico Tombari, University of Bologna; Luigi Di Stefano, University of Bologna
• A Conveniet Domestic Body Scanner based on a Single Kinect
  Ruizhe Wang, USC
• Space-Time Joint Multi-Layer Segmentation and Reconstruction
  Jean-Yves Guillemaut, University of Surrey; Adrian Hilton, University of Surrey
• Interactive Disparity Map Post-processing
  Chris Varekamp, TP Vision; Caizhang Lin, TUE; Karel Hinnen, TP Vision; Gerard de Haan, TUE
• Sparse Modeling of Shape from Structured Light
  Guy Rosman, Technion; Anastasia Dubrovina, Technion; Ron Kimmel, Technion
• Simple, Accurate, and Robust Projector-Camera Calibration
  Daniel Moreno, Brown University; Gabriel Taubin, Brown University
• Sensor Fusion for Depth Estimation, including TOF and Thermal Sensors
  Jeroen Van Baar, Disney Research Zurich; Paul Beardsley, Disney Research Zurich; Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zürich; Markus Gross, ETH Zürich / Disney Research Zurich
• Registration of spherical panoramic images with Cadastral 3D models
  Aparna Taneja, ETH Zürich; Luca Ballan, ETH Zürich; Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zürich
• Leveraging Topographic Maps for Image to Terrain Alignment
  Georges Baatz, ETH Zürich; Olivier Saurer, ETH Zürich ; Kevin Koeser, ETH Zürich; Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zürich
• Complex Terrain Mapping with Multi-Camera Visual Odometry and Realtime Drift Correction
  Raia Hadsell, SRI International Sarnoff; Bogdan Matei, SRI International; Taragay Oskiper, SRI International Sarnoff; Garbis Salgian, SRI International Sarnoff; Aveek Das, SRI International Sarnoff
• The Difference of Normals as a Multi-Scale Operator in Unorganized 3D Point Clouds
  Yani Ioannou, University of Toronto; Babak Taati, ; Robin Harrap, ; Michael Greenspan,
• Dense Non-Rigid Structure From Motion
  Joao Fayad, Queen Mary, University of Lond; Chris Russell, Queen Mary, University of London; Lourdes Agapito, Queen Mary, University of London
• An Error Correcting 3D Scanning Technique Using Dual Pseudorandom Arrays
  Udaya Wijenayake, Kyungpook National University; Seung-Hae Baek, Kyungpook National University; Soon-Yong Park, Kyungpook National University
• Modeling Kinect Sensor Noise for Improved 3D Reconstruction and Tracking
  Chuong Nguyen, CSIRO; Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge; David Lovell, CSIRO

12:20 Lunch break

13:40 Keynote speaker

Richard Hartley - Australian National University 
"Some Results on the Geometry of Surfaces" 

14:30 Oral session: Stereo

• Multi-view Photometric Stereo using Semi-isometric Mappings
  Reza Sabzevari, Italian Institute of Technolog; Alessio Del Bue, Italian Institute of Technology; Vittorio Murino, Italian Institute of Technology
• PatchMatch-Based Content Completion of Stereo Image Pairs
  Bryan Morse, Brigham Young University; Joel Howard, Brigham Young University; Scott Cohen, Adobe Systems, Inc.; Brian Price, Adobe Systems, Inc.
• A Patch Prior for Dense 3D Reconstruction in Man-Made Environments
  Christian Häne, ETH Zürich; Christopher Zach, Microsoft Research Cambridge ; Bernhard Zeisl, ETH Zürich; Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zürich

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Invited session: Urban Modeling

Christophe Strecha - Pix4D
"UAV based Mapping - a Surveying Tool?" 

Jean-Philippe Pons - Acute3D
"3D Urban and Architectural Reconstruction: Computational Geometry can Help" 

17:00 Oral session: Texture, Reflectance

• Analysis-by-Synthesis Texture Reconstruction
  Florian Liefers, University of Tuebingen; Roman Parys, ; Andreas Schilling, University of Tuebingen
• Multiple View Stereo by Reflectance Modeling
  Sujung Kim, KAIST; Anders Dahl, TU Denmark; Seong-Dae Kim, KAIST; Knut Conradsen, TU Denmark; Rasmus Jensen, TU Denmark; Henrik Aanaes, TU Denmark

Monday, October 15th

08:30 Registration

09:00 Keynote Speaker

Robert Neuman - Walt Disney Animation Studios
"The Art of Making Stereoscopic Movies" 

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Special session: Telepresence

• Real-Time Volumetric 3D Capture of Room-Sized Scenes for Telepresence
  Andrew Maimone, Henry Fuchs
• Preserving Gaze Direction in Teleconferencing Using a Camera Array and a Spherical Display
  Ye Pan, Anthony Steed
• Advances in Shader Lamps Avatars for Telepresence
  Ryan Schubert, Greg Welch, Peter Lincoln, Arjun Nagendran, Remo Pillat, Henry Fuchs
• A Design for a Mobile Robotic Avatar - Modular Framework
  Gerald Seet, Wee Ching Pang, Burhan Burhan, Iastrebov Viatcheslav, William Gu, Choon Yue Wong
• Towards Next Generation 3D Teleconferencing Systems
  Claudia Kuster, Nico Ranieri, Agustina A, Henning Zimmer, Jean-Charles Bazin, Tiberiu Popa, Markus Gross
• Localizing a Mobile Robot with Intrinsic Noise
  Brian Allen, Flavien Picon, Sebastien Dalibard, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann

12:30 Lunch break

14:00-15:30 Panel session / Discussion

The Future of 3D in Entertainment and Communication
Chair: Markus Gross, Director Disney Research Zürich.

16:00-18:30 3D screening event

3D screening event @ Metropol cinema sponsored by  

19:00 Reception - Demo Party event

Including ETH and Disney Research visits and Demos.