Tsinghua-Cardiff workshop on Visual Computing

General Information

The Tsinghua-Cardiff workshop on visual computing will be held in Tsinghua University China on September 13, 2016.

The Visual Computing Group at Cardiff University and the Computer Graphics Group at Tsinghua have been cooperating for over 13 years, and have published more than 40 joint papers. Professor Ralph R Martin is a guest professor of Tsinghua University, as well as a high end expert of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. He won a Friendship Award of China in 2014. During the one day workshop, 6 faculty members from Cardiff and 7 faculty members from Tsinghua will present some of their latest research results.

Venue & Registration

The Tsinghua-Cardiff workshop on visual computing will take place in the Lecture Hall of the Future Internet Technology (FIT) building, located at the South-East Gate of Tsinghua University.

The workshop is free, but all participants are requested to register by filling in their personal details including their name, affiliation and email below. Registered participants of the workshop will receive a conference bag, which includes a printed program, recent issues of the CVM journal, and a free copy of a book by Professor Ralph Martin on scientific writing. A buffet lunch will be provided free of charge in the Unisplendour Hotel to registered participants only - please register now!
 
Program


8:45 -9:00 Welcome Session
Session 1 Geometric computing with application
9:00-9:30 Apply Database Optimization Technologies to Find Features in CAD Models
Ralph R Martin, Cardiff University
9:30-10:00 Change multiple steps into one step for computing Chaikin curves and slicing of 3D printers
Junhai Yong, Tsinghua University
10:00-10:30 3D Dynamic Reconstruction for Human
Feng Xu, Tsinghua University
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
Session 2 Editing and scene modeling

10:45-11:15 Data-Driven Shape Editing and Registration
Yu-Kun Lai, Cardiff University
11:15-11:45 Efficient Modeling and Decoration of 3D Indoor Scenes
Kun Xu, Tsinghua University
11:45-12:15 Q-MAT: Computing Medial Axis Transform by Quadratic Error Minimization
Bin Wang, Tsinghua University
12:15-13:30 Lunch
Session 3 Data management and Learning from Data

13:30-14:00 Interactive Machine Learning: from Information Understanding to Model Diagnosis and Refinement
Shixia Liu, Tsinghua University
14:00-14:30 Designing Personal Data Lake with Data Gravity Pull
Coral Walker, Cardiff University
14:30-15:00 Towards A Reliable Collection of Eye-tracking Data for Image Quality Research: Challenges, Solutions and Applications
Hantao Liu, Cardiff University
15:00-15:30 Traffic-Sign Detection and Classification in the Wild
Song-Hai Zhang, Tsinghua University
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
Session 4 Image-based computing and interaction

15:45-16:15 Some Non-Photorealistic Rendering of Portraits
Paul Rosin, Cardiff University
16:15-16:45 Shape from Shading with Simplified User Interaction
Jing Wu, Cardiff University
16:45-17:15 Sketch-based operations on mobile devices for video and 3D geometry processing
Yong-Jin Liu, Tsinghua University
17:15-17:30 Closing session