The Visual Computer, Volume 28
Volume 28, Number 1, January 2012
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann: Welcome all to the year 2012. 1-6
Jaehwan Ma, Sang Won Bae, Sunghee Choi: 3D medial axis point approximation using nearest neighbors and the normal field. 7-19
Chuhua Xian, Hongwei Lin, Shuming Gao: Automatic cage generation by improved OBBs for mesh deformation. 21-33
Steven Bergen, Brian J. Ross: Automatic and interactive evolution of vector graphics images with genetic algorithms. 35-45
Zhong Li, Yao Jin, Xiaogang Jin, Lizhuang Ma: Approximate straightest path computation and its application in parameterization. 63-74
Yong-Jin Liu, Yi-Fu Zheng, Lu Lv, Yuming Xuan, Xiaolan Fu: 3D model retrieval based on color + geometry signatures. 75-86
Zerrin Kasap, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann: Building long-term relationships with virtual and robotic characters: the role of remembering. 87-97
Yongjoo Cho, Minyoung Kim, Kyoung Shin Park: LOTUS: composing a multi-user interactive tiled display virtual environment. 99-109
Young-Taek Oh, Yong-Joon Kim, Jieun Lee, Myung-Soo Kim, Gershon Elber: Continuous point projection to planar freeform curves using spiral curves. 111-123
Soonhyun Kim, Min-Ho Kyung, Joo-Haeng Lee: Noiseless GPU rendering of isotropic BRDF surfaces. 125-135
Volume 28, Number 2, February 2012
Ho Lee, Guillaume Lavoué, Florent Dupont: Rate-distortion optimization for progressive compression of 3D mesh with color attributes. 137-153
Jun Wang, Zhouwang Yang, Falai Chen: A variational model for normal computation of point clouds. 163-174
Binh P. Nguyen, Wei-Liang Tay, Chee-Kong Chui, Sim Heng Ong: A clustering-based system to automate transfer function design for medical image visualization. 181-191
Xin Zhao, Bo Li, Lei Wang, Arie E. Kaufman: Texture-guided volumetric deformation and visualization using 3D moving least squares. 193-204
Gabriel Telles O'Neill, Won-Sook Lee, Paul E. Beaule: Segmentation of cam-type femurs from CT scans. 205-218
Purevtsogt Nugjgar, Tadahiro Fujimoto, Norishige Chiba: Markov-type velocity field for efficiently animating water stream. 219-229
Volume 28, Number 3, March 2012
Stefanie Hahmann, Georges-Pierre Bonneau, Sebastien Barbier, Gershon Elber, Hans Hagen: Volume-preserving FFD for programmable graphics hardware. 231-245
Yotam Livny, Gilad Bauman, Jihad El-Sana: Displacement patches for view-dependent rendering. 247-263
Vijeth Dinesha, Neeharika Adabala, Vijay Natarajan: Uncertainty visualization using HDR volume rendering. 265-278
Thai-Duong Hoang, Kok-Lim Low: Efficient screen-space approach to high-quality multiscale ambient occlusion. 289-304
Waleed Mohamed, A. Ben Hamza: Reeb graph path dissimilarity for 3D object matching and retrieval. 305-318
Yeongho Seol, Jaewoo Seo, Paul Hyunjin Kim, J. P. Lewis, Junyong Noh: Weighted pose space editing for facial animation. 319-327
Volume 28, Number 4, April 2012
Lili Wang, Zheng Yang, Zhiqiang Ma, Qinping Zhao: Approximating global illumination on mesostructure surfaces with height gradient maps. 329-339
Pedro Latorre, Francisco J. Serón, Diego Gutierrez: Birefringence: calculation of refracted ray paths in biaxial crystals. 341-356
Alexandre Bouënard, Sylvie Gibet, Marcelo M. Wanderley: Hybrid inverse motion control for virtual characters interacting with sound synthesis - Application to percussion motion. 357-370
Charles-Frederik Hollemeersch, Bart Pieters, Peter Lambert, Rik Van de Walle: A new approach to combine texture compression and filtering. 371-385
Bin Liao, Chunxia Xiao, Meng Liu, Zhao Dong, Qunsheng Peng: Fast hierarchical animated object decomposition using approximately invariant signature. 387-399
Jyh-Ming Lien, Fernando Camelli, David W. Wong, Yanyan Lu, Benjamin McWhorter: Creating building ground plans via robust K-way union - A step toward large-scale simulation in urban environment. 401-412
Wen-Chieh Lin, Yi-Jheng Huang: Animating rising up from various lying postures and environments. 413-424
Volume 28, Number 5, May 2012
Meng Yang, Wenjuan Chen: Fluid simulation with adaptively sharpening and embedded boundary conditions. 425-434
Amit Chattopadhyay, Simon Plantinga, Gert Vegter: Certified meshing of Radial Basis Function based isosurfaces. 445-462
Jianbing Shen, Ying Zhao, Ying He: Detail-preserving exposure fusion using subband architecture. 463-473
Yuqing Song, Shuyuan Jin: Matching sequences of salient contour points characterized by Voronoi region features. 475-491
Peng Du, Horace Ho-Shing Ip, Bei Hua, Jun Feng: Using surface variability characteristics for segmentation of deformable 3D objects with application to piecewise statistical deformable model. 493-509
Volume 28, Numbers 6-8, June 2012

Hannes Thielhelm, Alexander Vais, Daniel Brandes, Franz-Erich Wolter: Connecting geodesics on smooth surfaces. 529-539
Xin Zhao, Arie E. Kaufman: Structure revealing techniques based on parallel coordinates plot. 541-551
Huai-Ping Lee, Ming C. Lin: Fast optimization-based elasticity parameter estimation using reduced models. 553-562
Seunghoon Cha, Jinho Park, Jonghyun Hwang, Junyong Noh: An efficient diffusion model for viscous fingering. 563-571
L. H. You, Hassan Ugail, Jian J. Zhang: Controllable C1 continuous blending of time-dependent parametric surfaces. 573-583
Po-Ram Kim, Ho-Young Lee, Jong-Hyun Kim, Chang-Hun Kim: Controlling shapes of air bubbles in a multi-phase fluid simulation. 597-602
Ian C. Doidge, Mark W. Jones, Benjamin Mora: Mixing Monte Carlo and progressive rendering for improved global illumination. 603-612
Ronghua Liang, Yunfei Wu, Feng Dong, Gordon Clapworthy: Accumulation of local maximum intensity for feature enhanced volume rendering. 625-633
Yang Li, Guo Zhou, Chunpeng Li, Xianjie Qiu, Zhaoqi Wang: Adaptive mesh subdivision for efficient light baking. 635-645
Jinjin Shi, Dengming Zhu, Yingping Zhang, Zhaoqi Wang: Realistically rendering polluted water. 647-656
Michitaka Hata, Masahiro Toyoura, Xiaoyang Mao: Automatic generation of accentuated pencil drawing with saliency map and LIC. 657-668
Markus Ihmsen, Nadir Akinci, Gizem Akinci, Matthias Teschner: Unified spray, foam and air bubbles for particle-based fluids. 669-677
Guillaume Gilet, Jean-Michel Dischler, Djamchid Ghazanfarpour: Multiple kernels noise for improved procedural texturing. 679-689
Guojun Chen, Pieter Peers, Jiawan Zhang, Xin Tong: Real-time rendering of deformable heterogeneous translucent objects using multiresolution splatting. 701-711

Yun Ling, Caiping Yan, Chunxiao Liu, Xun Wang, Hong Li: Adaptive tone-preserved image detail enhancement. 733-742
Ying Tang, Xiaoying Shi, Tingzhe Xiao, Jing Fan: An improved image analogy method based on adaptive CUDA-accelerated neighborhood matching framework. 743-753
Wei Hua, Rui Wang, Xusheng Zeng, Ying Tang, Huamin Wang, Hujun Bao: Compressing repeated content within large-scale remote sensing images. 755-764
Yujun Chen, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Brian Foster Allen: Physical simulation of wet clothing for virtual humans. 765-774
Chris G. Willcocks, Frederick W. B. Li: Feature-varying skeletonization - Intuitive control over the target feature size and output skeleton topology. 775-785
Nawel Takouachet, Nadine Couture, Patrick Reuter, Pierre Joyot, Guillaume Rivière, Nicolas Verdon: Tangible user interfaces for physically-based deformation: design principles and first prototype. 799-808
Arnaud Emilien, Adrien Bernhardt, Adrien Peytavie, Marie-Paule Cani, Eric Galin: Procedural generation of villages on arbitrary terrains. 809-818
Jiang Tian, Wenfei Jiang, Tao Luo, Kangying Cai, Jingliang Peng, Wencheng Wang: Adaptive coding of generic 3D triangular meshes based on octree decomposition. 819-827
Tsz Ho Wong, Geoff Leach, Fabio Zambetta: Virtual subdivision for GPU based collision detection of deformable objects using a uniform grid. 829-838
Meng-fei Li, Ruofeng Tong: All-hexahedral mesh generation via inside-out advancing front based on harmonic fields. 839-847


Jiawan Zhang, Yukun Hao, Liang Li, Di Sun, Li Yuan: StoryWizard: a framework for fast stylized story illustration. 877-887
Brian C. Ricks, Parris K. Egbert: More realistic, flexible, and expressive social crowds using transactional analysis. 889-898
Volume 28, Number 9, September 2012
Alfredo Ferreira, Hamid Laga, Tobias Schreck, Remco C. Veltkamp: Preface to Special Issue on 3DOR 2011. 899-900
Helin Dutagaci, Chun Pan Cheung, Afzal Godil: Evaluation of 3D interest point detection techniques via human-generated ground truth. 901-917
Paul Heider, Alain Pierre-Pierre, Ruosi Li, Rolf Mueller, Cindy Grimm: Comparing local shape descriptors. 919-929
Guillaume Lavoué: Combination of bag-of-words descriptors for robust partial shape retrieval. 931-942
Konstantinos Sfikas, Theoharis Theoharis, Ioannis Pratikakis: Non-rigid 3D object retrieval using topological information guided by conformal factors. 943-955
Volume 28, Number 10, October 2012

David Günther, Jan Reininghaus, Hubert Wagner, Ingrid Hotz: Efficient computation of 3D Morse-Smale complexes and persistent homology using discrete Morse theory. 959-969
Jorge Estrada-Sarlabous, Victoria Hernández-Mederos, Dimas Martínez Morera, Luiz Velho, Nayla López Gil: Conic-like subdivision curves on surfaces. 971-982
Ricardo Marroquim, Gustavo Pfeiffer, Felipe Carvalho, Antonio A. F. Oliveira: Texturing 3D models from sequential photos. 983-993
Rafael Fernandes Ivo, Creto Augusto Vidal, Joaquim Bento Cavalcante Neto: A method for clipping splats on sharp edges and corners. 995-1004
Fábio Markus Miranda, Waldemar Celes Filho: Volume rendering of unstructured hexahedral meshes. 1005-1014
Guilherme Kunigami, Pedro J. de Rezende, Cid C. de Souza, Tallys H. Yunes: Generating optimal drawings of physically realizable symbol maps with integer programming. 1015-1026
Paulo Joia, Erick Gomez Nieto, João Batista Neto, Wallace Casaca, Glenda Botelho, Afonso Paiva, Luis Gustavo Nonato: Class-specific metrics for multidimensional data projection applied to CBIR. 1027-1037
Priscila Saboia, Siome Goldenstein: Crowd simulation: applying mobile grids to the social force model. 1039-1048
Volume 28, Number 11, November 2012
Jinrong Wang, Jieqing Feng, Yongwei Miao: A robust confirmable watermarking algorithm for 3D mesh based on manifold harmonics analysis. 1049-1062
Pere-Pau Vázquez, Jordi Marco: Using Normalized Compression Distance for image similarity measurement: an experimental study. 1063-1084
Chandan Singh, Ekta Walia, Neerja Mittal: Robust two-stage face recognition approach using global and local features. 1085-1098
Eric Acosta, Alan Liu: A pipeline virtual environment architecture for multicore processor systems. 1099-1114
Xiaoqiang Zhu, Xiaogang Jin, Shengjun Liu, Hanli Zhao: Analytical solutions for sketch-based convolution surface modeling on the GPU. 1115-1125
Meili Wang, Jian Chang, Jens Kerber, Jian J. Zhang: A framework for digital sunken relief generation based on 3D geometric models. 1127-1137
Volume 28, Number 12, December 2012
Hyunjung Shim, Rolf Adelsberger, James Dokyoon Kim, Seon-Min Rhee, Taehyun Rhee, Jae-Young Sim, Markus H. Gross, Changyeong Kim: Time-of-flight sensor and color camera calibration for multi-view acquisition. 1139-1151

Meir Johnathan Dahan, Nir Chen, Ariel Shamir, Daniel Cohen-Or: Combining color and depth for enhanced image segmentation and retargeting. 1181-1193
Zhifeng Xie, Rynson W. H. Lau, Yan Gui, Mingang Chen, Lizhuang Ma: A gradient-domain-based edge-preserving sharpen filter. 1195-1207
Mubbasir Kapadia, Shawn Singh, William Hewlett, Glenn Reinman, Petros Faloutsos: Parallelized egocentric fields for autonomous navigation. 1209-1227
Subir Kumar Ghosh, Partha P. Goswami, Anil Maheshwari, Subhas C. Nandy, Sudebkumar Prasant Pal, Swami Sarvattomananda: Algorithms for computing diffuse reflection paths in polygons. 1229-1237



