graphic hardware opera house
GraphicsHardwarevienna 3 september
austria 2006

Program & Presentations

Sunday, 3 September

  • 8:30-9:15 Registration

  • 9:15-9:30 Welcome and Opening

  • 9:30-10:30 Keynote: Matt Pharr, Neoptica (bio)
    “Interactive Rendering in The Post-GPU Era” (abstract) [ pdf ]

  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

  • 11:00-12:15 Paper Session: Algorithms in Hardware (3 papers)

    • B-KD Trees for Hardware Accelerated Ray Tracing of Dynamic Scenes (best paper award) [ pdf ]
      › Sven Woop (Saarland University)
      › Gerd Marmitt (Saarland University)
      › Philipp Slusallek (Saarland University)
    • Efficient Video Decoding on GPUs by Point Based Rendering [ pdf ]
      › Bo Han (Peking University)
      › Bingfeng Zhou (Peking University)
    • Pseudorandom Number Generation on the GPU [ pdf, ppt ]
      › Myles Sussman (PeakStream)
      › William Crutchfield (PeakStream)
      › Matthew Papakipos (PeakStream)
  • 12:15-14:00 Lunch Break

  • 14:00-15:45 Paper Session: Hardware Architecture (4 papers)

    • The Visual Vulnerability Spectrum: Characterizing Architectural Vulnerability for Graphics Hardware [ ppt ]
      › Jeremy Sheaffer (University of Virginia)
      › David Luebke (NVIDIA Research)
      › Kevin Skadron (University of Virginia)
    • A Digital Rights Enabled Graphics Processing System [ ppt ]
      › Weidong Shi (Motorola Application Research Lab)
      › Hsien-Hsin “Sean” Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology)
      › Richard Myungon Yoo (Georgia Institute of Technology)
      › Alexandra Boldyreva (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    • Minimum Triangle Separation for Correct Z-Buffer Occlusion [ pdf ]
      › Kurt Akeley (Microsoft Research Asia)
      › Jonathan Su (Microsoft Research Asia)
    • Distributed Texture Memory in a Multi-GPU Environment [ pdf ]
      › Adam Moerschell (University of California, Davis)
      › John D. Owens (University of California, Davis)
  • 15:45-16:15 Coffee Break

  • 16:15-16:45 Hot3D presentation 1

    • High-Speed Distributed Rendering in the HoloVizio System
      › Péter Tamás Kovács, Holografika (abstract) [ pdf, video ]
  • 16:45-17:45 Free Time

  • 17:45-23:00 Social Event

Monday, 4 September

  • 9:00-10:00 Keynote: Peter-Pike Sloan, Microsoft (bio)
    “Direct3D 10 And Beyond” (abstract) [ ppt ]

  • 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

  • 10:30-11:45 Paper Session: Compression (3 papers)

    • High Quality Normal Map Compression [ pdf ]
      › Jacob Munkberg (Lund University)
      › Tomas Akenine-Möller (Lund University)
      › Jacob Ström (Ericsson Research)
    • Efficient Depth Buffer Compression [ pdf ]
      › Jon Hasselgren (Lund University)
      › Tomas Akenine-Möller (Lund University)
    • Compressed Lossless Texture Representation and Caching [ pdf ]
      › Tetsugo Inada (University of Waterloo, Sony)
      › Michael McCool (University of Waterloo, RapidMind)
  • 11:45-13:30 Lunch Break

  • 13:30-15:15 Paper Session: Realistic Rendering on GPUs (4 papers)

    • Realistic Soft Shadows by Penumbra-Wedges Blending [ pdf ]
      › Vincent Forest (IRIT-UPS-CNRS)
      › Loïc Barthe (IRIT-UPS-CNRS)
      › Mathias Paulin (IRIT-UPS-CNRS)
    • GPU-Accelerated Deep Shadow Maps for Direct Volume Rendering [ pdf ]
      › Markus Hadwiger (VRVis Research Center)
      › Andrea Kratz (VRVis Research Center)
      › Christian Sigg (ETH Zurich)
      › Katja Bühler (VRVis Research Center)
    • Non-interleaved Deferred Shading of Interleaved Sample Patterns
      › Benjamin Segovia (LIRIS University LYON I)
      › Jean-Claude Iehl (LIRIS University LYON I)
      › Richard Mitanchey (LASH - ENTPE)
      › Bernard Péroche (LIRIS University LYON I)
    • Quadtree Relief Mapping
      › Mark Schroders (Eximion)
      › Rob van Gulik (Eximion)
  • 15:15-15:45 Coffee Break

  • 15:45-16:45 Hot3D presentations 2 and 3

    • The NVIDIA Quadro Plex Visual Computing System
      › Mark Harris, Ian Williams, NVIDIA (abstract) [ pdf ]
    • A Performance-Oriented Data Parallel Virtual Machine for GPUs
      › Derek Gerstmann, ATI (abstract) [ pdf ]
  • 16:45-17:00 Best Paper presentation and closing

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