The Visual Computer, Volume 23

Volume 23, Number 1, January 2007

• Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann:
  Editorial. 1-3
  
• Georgios Passalis, Theoharis Theoharis, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris:
  PTK: A novel depth buffer-based shape descriptor for three-dimensional object retrieval. 5-14
  
• Hacer Yalim Keles, Alphan Es, Veysi Isler:
  Acceleration of direct volume rendering with programmable graphics hardware. 15-24
  
• Jonathan Dinerstein, Parris K. Egbert, David Cline:
  Enhancing computer graphics through machine learning: a survey. 25-43
  
• Simon Plantinga, Gert Vegter:
  Isotopic meshing of implicit surfaces. 45-58
  
• Shih-Ling Keng, Wang-Yeh Lee, Jung-Hong Chuang:
  An efficient caching-based rendering of translucent materials. 59-69
  
• Jian Chang, Jian J. Zhang, Lihua You:
  Physically-based deformations: copy and paste. 71-82
  
• Johannes Wallner, Helmut Pottmann, Michael Hofer:
  Fair webs. 83-94
  

Volume 23, Number 2, February 2007

• Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann:
  Guest editorial. 95
  
• Dennis Allerkamp, Guido Böttcher, Franz-Erich Wolter, Alan C. Brady, Jianguo Qu, Ian R. Summers:
  A vibrotactile approach to tactile rendering. 97-108
  
• Sylvain Cardin, Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo:
  A wearable system for mobility improvement of visually impaired people. 109-118
  
• Qiang Liu, Edmond C. Prakash, Mandayam A. Srinivasan:
  Interactive deformable geometry maps. 119-131
  
• Pascal Volino, Pierre Davy, Ugo Bonanni, Christiane Luible, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Mailis Mäkinen, Harriet Meinander:
  From measured physical parameters to the haptic feeling of fabric. 133-142
  
• Angel Domingo Sappa, Miguel Angel García:
  Generating compact representations of static scenes by means of 3D object hierarchies. 143-154
  

Volume 23, Number 3, March 2007

• Manuel N. Gamito, Steve C. Maddock:
  Ray casting implicit fractal surfaces with reduced affine arithmetic. 155-165
  
• David Chisnall, Min Chen, Charles D. Hansen:
  Ray-driven dynamic working set rendering. 167-179
  
• Livio De Luca, Philippe Véron, Michel Florenzano:
  A generic formalism for the semantic modeling and representation of architectural elements. 181-205
  
• Mario Gutiérrez, Alejandra García-Rojas, Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Laurent Moccozet, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Michela Mortara, Michela Spagnuolo:
  An ontology of virtual humans. 207-218
  
• Guy Sela, Gershon Elber:
  Generation of view dependent models using free form deformation. 219-229
  

Volume 23, Number 4, April 2007

• Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann:
  Editorial. 231
  
• Umberto Cugini, Monica Bordegoni:
  Touch and design: novel haptic interfaces for the generation of high quality surfaces for industrial design. 233-246
  
• Massimo Bergamasco, Fabio Salsedo, M. Fontana, F. Tarri, Carlo Alberto Avizzano, Antonio Frisoli, Emanuele Ruffaldi, Simone Marcheschi:
  High performance haptic device for force rendering in textile exploration. 247-256
  
• Lionel Dominjon, Jérôme Perret, Anatole Lécuyer:
  Novel devices and interaction techniques for human-scale haptics. 257-266
  
• Moustapha Hafez:
  Tactile interfaces: technologies, applications and challenges. 267-272
  
• Carsten Preusche, Gerd Hirzinger:
  Haptics in telerobotics. 273-284
  
• Kevin T. McDonnell, Hong Qin:
  A novel framework for physically based sculpting and animation of free-form solids. 285-296
  

Volume 23, Number 5, May 2007

• Daniel Thalmann, Alexei Sourin:
  Editorial. 297-298
  
• Enhua Wu, Hongbin Zhu, Xuehui Liu, Youquan Liu:
  Simulation and interaction of fluid dynamics. 299-308
  
• Asako Soga, Bin Umino, Takami Yasuda, Shigeki Yokoi:
  Automatic composition and simulation system for ballet sequences. 309-316
  
• Arjan Egges, George Papagiannakis, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann:
  Presence and interaction in mixed reality environments. 317-333
  
• Olga Sourina:
  Visual spatio-temporal function-based querying. 335-346
  
• Valery Afanasiev, Dmitry Baigozin, Ilia Kazanski, Sergey Fomin, Stanislav V. Klimenko:
  RTR-trees for space robotics behavior simulation and visualization. 347-358
  
• Gianluca Mura:
  The red and black semantics: a fuzzy language. 359-368
  
• Dai Hanawa, Tatsuhiro Yonekura:
  Improvement on the accuracy of the polynomial form extrapolation model in distributed virtual environment. 369-379
  

Volume 23, Number 6, June 2007

• Waqar Saleem, Oliver Schall, Giuseppe Patanè, Alexander G. Belyaev, Hans-Peter Seidel:
  On stochastic methods for surface reconstruction. 381-395
  
• Haitao Zhang, Arie E. Kaufman:
  Point-and-edge model for edge-preserving splatting. 397-408
  
• Cledja Rolim, Alejandro César Frery, Eliana Almeida, Evandro Costa, Luiz Marcos Gonçalves:
  Enhancing the experience of 3D virtual worlds with a cartographic generalization approach. 409-418
  
• José Luis Crespo, Marta E. Zorrilla, Pilar Bernardos, Eduardo Mora:
  A new image prediction model based on spatio-temporal techniques. 419-431
  
• Chunxia Xiao, Wenting Zheng, Yongwei Miao, Yong Zhao, Qunsheng Peng:
  A unified method for appearance and geometry completion of point set surfaces. 433-443
  
• Jian Lu, Zhongxing Ye, Yuru Zou:
  Automatic generation of colorful patterns with wallpaper symmetries from dynamics. 445-449
  

Volume 23, Number 7, July 2007

• Diego Gutierrez, Siti Mariyam Hj. Shamsuddin:
  Guest editorial. 451-452
  
• Jonas Unger, Stefan Gustavson, Anders Ynnerman:
  Spatially varying image based lighting by light probe sequences. 453-465
  
• Francesco Banterle, Patrick Ledda, Kurt Debattista, Alan Chalmers, Marina Bloj:
  A framework for inverse tone mapping. 467-478
  
• Shawn Singh, Petros Faloutsos:
  The photon pipeline revisited. 479-492
  
• Adolfo Muñoz, Diego Gutierrez, Francisco J. Serón:
  Optimization techniques for curved path computing. 493-502
  
• Shinichi Fukushige, Hiromasa Suzuki:
  Polygon visibility ordering via Voronoi diagrams. 503-511
  
• Nicolas Pronost, Georges Dumont:
  Dynamics-based analysis and synthesis of human locomotion. 513-522
  
• Paul Noble, Wen Tang:
  Automatic expressive deformations for implying and stylizing motion. 523-533
  

Volume 23, Number 8, August 2007

• Carlos J. Ogáyar, Antonio J. Rueda Ruiz, Rafael Jesús Segura, Francisco R. Feito:
  Fast and simple hardware accelerated voxelizations using simplicial coverings. 535-543
  
• Seok-Jae Jeong, Arie E. Kaufman:
  Interactive wireless virtual colonoscopy. 545-557
  
• Shiguang Liu, Zhangye Wang, Zheng Gong, Qunsheng Peng:
  Real time simulation of a tornado. 559-567
  
• Tino Dornbusch, Peter Wernecke, Wulf Diepenbrock:
  Description and visualization of graminaceous plants with an organ-based 3D architectural model, exemplified for spring barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.). 569-581
  
• Renato Pajarola, Enrico Gobbetti:
  Survey of semi-regular multiresolution models for interactive terrain rendering. 583-605
  
• Ming Cui, Peter Wonka, Anshuman Razdan, Jiuxiang Hu:
  A new image registration scheme based on curvature scale space curve matching. 607-618
  

Volume 23, Numbers 9-11, September 2007

• Daniel Thalmann, Soraia Raupp Musse:
  Editorial. 619
  
• Luiz Velho, Jonas Sossai Jr.:
  Projective texture atlas construction for 3D photography. 621-629
  
• Jianbing Shen, Xiaogang Jin, Xiaoyang Mao, Jieqing Feng:
  Deformation-based interactive texture design using energy optimization. 631-639
  
• Jianbing Shen, Xiaogang Jin, Hanqiu Sun:
  High dynamic range image tone mapping and retexturing using fast trilateral filtering. 641-650
  
• Zhi-Quan Cheng, Huafeng Liu, Shiyao Jin:
  The progressive mesh compression based on meaningful segmentation. 651-660
  
• Yong-Jin Liu, Qian-Yi Zhou, Shi-Min Hu:
  Handling degenerate cases in exact geodesic computation on triangle meshes. 661-668
  
• Pascal Volino, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann:
  Stop-and-go cloth draping. 669-677
  
• Kyungha Min, Dimitris N. Metaxas:
  A combustion-based technique for fire animation and visualization. 679-687
  
• Etienne Lyard, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann:
  A simple footskate removal method for virtual reality applications. 689-695
  
• Yoshinori Dobashi, Yoshihiro Enjyo, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Nishita:
  A fast rendering method for clouds illuminated by lightning taking into account multiple scattering. 697-705
  
• Parag Chaudhuri, Prem Kalra, Subhashis Banerjee:
  Reusing view-dependent animation. 707-719
  
• Yu-Ming Cheng, Chung-Ming Wang:
  An adaptive steganographic algorithm for 3D polygonal meshes. 721-732
  
• Ubiratã A. Ignácio, Cláudio Rosito Jung:
  Block-based image inpainting in the wavelet domain. 733-741
  
• Matthias Specht, Renaud Lebrun, Christoph P. E. Zollikofer:
  Visualizing shape transformation between chimpanzee and human braincases. 743-751
  
• Chao Jin, Thomas Fevens, Shuo Li, Sudhir P. Mudur:
  Motion learning-based framework for unarticulated shape animation. 753-761
  
• Tom Van Laerhoven, Frank Van Reeth:
  Brush up your painting skills. 763-771
  
• Sylvain Charneau, Lilian Aveneau, Laurent Fuchs:
  Exact, robust and efficient full visibility computation in Plücker space. 773-782
  
• Long Zhang, Wei Chen, David S. Ebert, Qunsheng Peng:
  Conservative voxelization. 783-792
  
• Helton Hideraldo Bíscaro, Antônio Castelo Filho, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira:
  A topological approach for surface reconstruction from sample points. 793-801
  
• Harlen Costa Batagelo, Shin-Ting Wu:
  Estimating curvatures and their derivatives on meshes of arbitrary topology from sampling directions. 803-812
  
• Reynold J. Bailey, Cindy M. Grimm:
  Perceptually meaningful image editing. 813-821
  
• Rubens Fernandes Nunes, Creto Augusto Vidal, Joaquim B. Cavalcante Neto:
  Sensory state machines for physically-based animation. 823-832
  
• Chunxiao Liu, Yanwen Guo, Liang Pan, Qunsheng Peng, Fuyan Zhang:
  Image completion based on views of large displacement. 833-841
  
• Renaud Ott, Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo:
  Haptic feedback in mixed-reality environment. 843-849
  
• Jeronimo S. Venetillo, Waldemar Celes Filho:
  GPU-based particle simulation with inter-collisions. 851-860
  
• Xin Huang, Sheng Li, Guoping Wang:
  Displacement modeling: Hardware-accelerated interactive feature modeling on subdivision surfaces. 861-872
  
• Kyong Joon Lee, Dong Hwan Kim, Il Dong Yun, Sang Uk Lee:
  Three-dimensional oil painting reconstruction with stroke based rendering. 873-880
  
• Lakin Wecker, Faramarz F. Samavati, Marina L. Gavrilova:
  Contextual void patching for digital elevation models. 881-890
  
• Feng Dai, Yanfei Shen, Yongdong Zhang, Shouxun Lin:
  Selection of the most efficient tile size in tile-based cylinder panoramic video coding and transmission. 891-896
  
• Maurício Bammann Gehling, Christian Hofsetz, Soraia Raupp Musse:
  Normalpaint: an interactive tool for painting normal maps. 897-904
  
• Yunhao Tan, Jing Hua, Ming Dong:
  3D reconstruction from 2D images with hierarchical continuous simplices. 905-914
  
• Marc Fournier, Jean-Michel Dischler, Dominique Bechmann:
  A new vector field distance transform and its application to mesh processing from 3D scanned data. 915-924
  
• William Van Haevre, Tom Van Laerhoven, Fabian Di Fiore, Frank Van Reeth:
  From dust till drawn. 925-934
  
• Takashi Imagire, Henry Johan, Naoki Tamura, Tomoyuki Nishita:
  Anti-aliased and real-time rendering of scenes with light scattering effects. 935-944
  
• Adam Runions, Faramarz Samavati, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz:
  Ribbons. 945-954
  
• Richard Pusch, Faramarz F. Samavati, Ahmad H. Nasri, Brian Wyvill:
  Improving the sketch-based interface. 955-962
  

Volume 23, Number 12, December 2007

• Hongbin Zha, Hua Li, Bingfeng Zhou:
  Editorial. 963-964
  
• M. Haitham Shammaa, Hiromasa Suzuki, Takashi Michikawa:
  Registration of CAD mesh models with CT volumetric model of assembly of machine parts. 965-974
  
• Jean-Baptiste Debard, Romain Balp, Raphaëlle Chaine:
  Dynamic Delaunay tetrahedralisation of a deforming surface. 975-986
  
• Wei Zhao, Shuming Gao, Hongwei Lin:
  A robust hole-filling algorithm for triangular mesh. 987-997
  
• Xiaotian Yin, Miao Jin, Xianfeng Gu:
  Computing shortest cycles using universal covering space. 999-1004
  
• Zhangjin Huang, Guoping Wang:
  Improved error estimate for extraordinary Catmull-Clark subdivision surface patches. 1005-1014
  
• Huaiping Yang, Bert Jüttler:
  3D shape metamorphosis based on T-spline level sets. 1015-1025
  
• Xin Li, Jiansong Deng, Falai Chen:
  Surface modeling with polynomial splines over hierarchical T-meshes. 1027-1033