Pacific Graphics 2018 - Short Papers and Posters Proceedings
Hong Kong, China
8-11 October, 2018
(for Full Papers (CGF) see PG 2018 - CGF 37-7)


Registration and Reconstruction
StretchDenoise: Parametric Curve Reconstruction with Guarantees by Separating Connectivity from Residual Uncertainty of Samples
Stefan Ohrhallinger and Michael Wimmer
Lighting and Ray Tracing
Spherical Blue Noise
Kin-Ming Wong and Tien-Tsin Wong
Animation
Robust and Efficient SPH Simulation for High-speed Fluids with the Dynamic Particle Partitioning Method
Zhong Zheng, Yang Gao, Shuai Li, Hong Qin, and Aimin Hao
Sketch-based Interfaces
Bottom-up/Top-down Geometric Object Reconstruction with CNN Classification for Mobile Education
Ting Guo, Rundong Cui, Xiaoran Qin, Yongtao Wang, and Zhi Tang
Appearance and Illumination
Effects of Surface Anisotropy on Perception of Car Body Attractiveness
Jiri Filip and Martina Kolafová
Efficient Metropolis Path Sampling for Material Editing and Re-rendering
Tomoya Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Yatagawa, and Shigeo Morishima
Parameterization and Surface Texture
Mesh Parameterization: a Viewpoint from Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces
Hui Zhao, Kehua Su, Chenchen Li, Boyu Zhang, Shirao Liu, Lei Yang, Na Lei, Steven J. Gortler, and Xianfeng Gu
Tabby: Explorable Design for 3D Printing Textures
Ryo Suzuki, Koji Yatani, Mark D. Gross, and Tom Yeh
Towards Better Quality of Images/Videos
InspireMePosing: Learn Pose and Composition from Portrait Examples
Bin Sheng, Yuxi Jin, Ping Li, Wenxiao Wang, Hongbo Fu, and Enhua Wu
Skeleton and Deformation
Skeleton-based Generalized Cylinder Deformation under the Relative Curvature Condition
Ruibin Ma, Qingyu Zhao, Rui Wang, James Damon, Julian Rosenman, and Stephen Pizer
Anisotropic Spectral Manifold Wavelet Descriptor for Deformable Shape Analysis and Matching
Qinsong Li, Shengjun Liu, Ling Hu, and Xinru Liu
3D Modeling
Recovering 3D Indoor Floor Plans by Exploiting Low-cost Spherical Photography
Giovanni Pintore, Fabio Ganovelli, Ruggero Pintus, Roberto Scopigno, and Enrico Gobbetti
Modeling Detailed Cloud Scene from Multi-source Images
Yunchi Cen, Xiaohui Liang, Junping Chen, Bailin Yang, and Frederick W. B. Li
3D VAE-Attention Network: A Parallel System for Single-view 3D Reconstruction
Fei Hu, Xinyan Yang, Wei Zhong, Long Ye, and Qin Zhang
Progressive 3D Scene Understanding with Stacked Neural Networks
Youcheng Song and Zhengxing Sun
Visualization and GPU
A Visual Analytics Approach for Traffic Flow Prediction Ensembles
Kezhi Kong, Yuxin Ma, Chentao Ye, Junhua Lu, Xiqun Chen, Wei Zhang, and Wei Chen
Robust Material Graphs for Volume Rendering
Ojaswa Sharma, Tushar Arora, and Apoorv Khattar
Light-Field DVR on GPU for Streaming Time-Varying Data
David Ganter, Martin Alain, David Hardman, Aljosa Smolic, and Michael Manzke
Subdivision Surfaces
Gauss-Seidel Progressive Iterative Approximation (GS-PIA) for Loop Surface Interpolation
Zhihao Wang, Yajuan Li, Weiyin Ma, and Chongyang Deng
Direct Limit Volumes: Constant-Time Limit Evaluation for Catmull-Clark Solids
Christian Altenhofen, Joel Müller, Daniel Weber, André Stork, and Dieter W. Fellner
Visual Content Matching and Retrieval
Extreme Feature Regions for Image Matching
Baijiang Fan, Yunbo Rao, Jiansu Pu, and Jianhua Deng
A Deep Learned Method for Video Indexing and Retrieval
Xin Men, Feng Zhou, and Xiaoyong Li
Posters
GPU-based Real-time Cloth Simulation for Virtual Try-on
Tongkui Su, Yan Zhang, Yu Zhou, Yao Yu, and Sidan Du
TAVE: Template-based Augmentation of Visual Effects to Human Actions in Videos
Jingyuan Liu, Xuren Zhou, Hongbo Fu, and Chiew-Lan Tai
Japanese Kanji Font Style Transfer based on GAN with Unpaired Training
Hiroki Sakai, Daisuke Niino, and Takashi Ijiri
Facial-Expression-Aware Emotional Color Transfer Based On Convolutional Neural Network
Min Pei, Shiguang Liu, and Xiaoli Zhang
Shape Interpolation via Multiple Curves
Yusuf Sahillioglu and Melike Aydinlilar

Recent Submissions

  • Extreme Feature Regions for Image Matching 

    Fan, Baijiang; Rao, Yunbo; Pu, Jiansu; Deng, Jianhua (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    Extreme feature regions are increasingly critical for many image matching applications on affine image-pairs. In this paper, we focus on the time-consumption and accuracy of using extreme feature regions to do the ...
  • A Deep Learned Method for Video Indexing and Retrieval 

    Men, Xin; Zhou, Feng; Li, Xiaoyong (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    In this paper, we proposed a deep neural network based method for content based video retrieval. Our approach leveraged the deep neural network to generate the semantic information and introduced the graph-based storage ...
  • Direct Limit Volumes: Constant-Time Limit Evaluation for Catmull-Clark Solids 

    Altenhofen, Christian; Müller, Joel; Weber, Daniel; Stork, André; Fellner, Dieter W. (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    We present a novel approach for efficient limit volume evaluation on Catmull-Clark (CC) subdivision solids. Although several analogies exist between subdivision surfaces and subdivision volumes, extending Stam's limit ...
  • Light-Field DVR on GPU for Streaming Time-Varying Data 

    Ganter, David; Alain, Martin; Hardman, David; Smolic, Aljosa; Manzke, Michael (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    Direct Volume Rendering (DVR) of volume data can be a memory intensive task in terms of footprint and cache-coherency. Rayguided methods may not be the best option to interactively render to light-fields due to feedback ...
  • Gauss-Seidel Progressive Iterative Approximation (GS-PIA) for Loop Surface Interpolation 

    Wang, Zhihao; Li, Yajuan; Ma, Weiyin; Deng, Chongyang (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    We propose a Gauss-Seidel progressive iterative approximation (GS-PIA) method for Loop subdivision surface interpolation by combining classical Gauss-Seidel iterative method for linear system and progressive iterative ...
  • Robust Material Graphs for Volume Rendering 

    Sharma, Ojaswa; Arora, Tushar; Khattar, Apoorv (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    A good transfer function in volume rendering requires careful consideration of the materials present in a volume. In this work we propose a graph based method that considerably reduces manual effort required in designing ...
  • A Visual Analytics Approach for Traffic Flow Prediction Ensembles 

    Kong, Kezhi; Ma, Yuxin; Ye, Chentao; Lu, Junhua; Chen, Xiqun; Zhang, Wei; Chen, Wei (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    Traffic flow prediction plays a significant role in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Due to the variety of prediction models, the prediction results form an intricate structure of ensembles and hence leave a ...
  • Progressive 3D Scene Understanding with Stacked Neural Networks 

    Song, Youcheng; Sun, Zhengxing (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    3D scene understanding is difficult due to the natural hierarchical structures and complicated contextual relationships in the 3d scenes. In this paper, a progressive 3D scene understanding method is proposed. The scene ...
  • 3D VAE-Attention Network: A Parallel System for Single-view 3D Reconstruction 

    Hu, Fei; Yang, Xinyan; Zhong, Wei; Ye, Long; Zhang, Qin (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    3D object reconstruction from single view image is a challenge task. Due to the fact that the information contained in one isolated image is not sufficient for reasonable 3D shape reconstruction, the existing results on ...
  • Modeling Detailed Cloud Scene from Multi-source Images 

    Cen, Yunchi; Liang, Xiaohui; Chen, Junping; Yang, Bailin; Li, Frederick W. B. (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    Realistic cloud is essential for enhancing the quality of computer graphics applications, such as flight simulation. Data-driven method is an effective way in cloud modeling, but existing methods typically only utilize one ...
  • Recovering 3D Indoor Floor Plans by Exploiting Low-cost Spherical Photography 

    Pintore, Giovanni; Ganovelli, Fabio; Pintus, Ruggero; Scopigno, Roberto; Gobbetti, Enrico (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    We present a novel approach to automatically recover, from a small set of partially overlapping panoramic images, an indoor structure representation in terms of a 3D floor plan registered with a set of 3D environment maps. ...
  • Skeleton-based Generalized Cylinder Deformation under the Relative Curvature Condition 

    Ma, Ruibin; Zhao, Qingyu; Wang, Rui; Damon, James; Rosenman, Julian; Pizer, Stephen (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    Deformation of a generalized cylinder with a parameterized shape change of its centerline is a non-trivial task when the surface is represented as a high-resolution triangle mesh, particularly when self-intersection and ...
  • Anisotropic Spectral Manifold Wavelet Descriptor for Deformable Shape Analysis and Matching 

    Li, Qinsong; Liu, Shengjun; Hu, Ling; Liu, Xinru (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    In this paper, we present a novel framework termed Anisotropic Spectral Manifold Wavelet Transform (ASMWT) for shape analysis. ASMWT comprehensively analyzes the signals from multiple directions on local manifold regions ...
  • InspireMePosing: Learn Pose and Composition from Portrait Examples 

    Sheng, Bin; Jin, Yuxi; Li, Ping; Wang, Wenxiao; Fu, Hongbo; Wu, Enhua (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    Since people tend to build relationship with others by personal photography, capturing high quality photographs on mobile device has become a strong demand. We propose a portrait photography guidance system to guide user's ...
  • Tabby: Explorable Design for 3D Printing Textures 

    Suzuki, Ryo; Yatani, Koji; Gross, Mark D.; Yeh, Tom (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    This paper presents Tabby, an interactive and explorable design tool for 3D printing textures. Tabby allows texture design with direct manipulation in the following workflow: 1) select a target surface, 2) sketch and ...
  • Mesh Parameterization: a Viewpoint from Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces 

    Zhao, Hui; Su, Kehua; Li, Chenchen; Zhang, Boyu; Liu, Shirao; Yang, Lei; Lei, Na; Gortler, Steven J.; Gu, Xianfeng (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    We present a unified mesh paramterization algorithm for both planar and spheric domains based on mesh deformation. Unlike previous methods, our approach can produce intermediate frames from the original to target meshes. ...
  • Efficient Metropolis Path Sampling for Material Editing and Re-rendering 

    Yamaguchi, Tomoya; Yatagawa, Tatsuya; Morishima, Shigeo (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    This paper proposes efficient path sampling for re-rendering scenes after material editing. The proposed sampling method is based on Metropolis light transport (MLT) and distributes more path samples to pixels whose values ...
  • Effects of Surface Anisotropy on Perception of Car Body Attractiveness 

    Filip, Jiri; Kolafová, Martina (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    In the automotive industry effect coatings are used to introduce customized product design, visually communicating the unique impression of a car. Industrial effect coatings systems achieve primarily a globally isotropic ...
  • Bottom-up/Top-down Geometric Object Reconstruction with CNN Classification for Mobile Education 

    Guo, Ting; Cui, Rundong; Qin, Xiaoran; Wang, Yongtao; Tang, Zhi (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    Geometric objects in educational materials are often illustrated as 2D line drawings, which results in the loss of depth information. To alleviate the problem of fully understanding the 3D structure of geometric objects, ...
  • Robust and Efficient SPH Simulation for High-speed Fluids with the Dynamic Particle Partitioning Method 

    Zheng, Zhong; Gao, Yang; Li, Shuai; Qin, Hong; Hao, Aimin (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
    In this paper, our research efforts are devoted to the efficiency issue of the SPH simulation when the ratio of velocities among fluid particles is large. Specifically, we introduce a k-means clustering method into the SPH ...

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