Conference Program – CGI’21

Note:

Papers published in the Visual Computer are available at the following link: https://link.springer.com/journal/371/volumes-and-issues/37-9 ( The link will be activated during the conference from 6 to 9 September )
All times are in CEST

To join the Zoom meeting :

Track1 is for all sessions “A” and plenary sessions:

https://unige.zoom.us/j/65575515880

Track2 is for all sessions “B”:

https://unige.zoom.us/j/65481030160

Monday, September 6 CGI Conference Day 1
	First Parallel session SESSION A	Second Parallel Session SESSION B
	Workshop in Memory of Prof. Kunii	ENGAGE workshop
09:00-10:00	Introduction and Panel Watch the recorded sessions Chair: Prof. Ray Earnshaw, UK Participants: - John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Alexei Sourin, NTU, Singapore - Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Franz-Erich Wolter, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany - Brian Wyvill, University of Victoria, Canada - Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland - Bianca Falcidieno, CNR, Italy - Michela Spagnolo, CNR, Italy - Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada - Karol Myszkowski, Max-Plank-Institut fuer Informatik, Germany - Xiaoyang Mao, University of Yamanashi, Japan	ENGAGE/CGI Keynote : Andrew J. S. Hamilton. "The Rules of 4-dimensional Perspective" Chair: Dr. Werner Benger, Austria
10:00-11:00	Prof. Kunii 1 Social Robotics & Computer Vision Chair: Prof. Rae Earnshaw, UK	Engage 1 Chair: Prof. Joan Lasenby, Cambridge, UK
	Gauri Tulsulkar, Nidhi Mishra, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Hwee Lim Er, Mei Lee Ping, Siok Cheng Khoong, The use of Humanoid Social Robots to stimulate the interactivity of cognitive impaired elderly. Tsukasa Noma,Hideo Yokota, Ryoma Isumi, Kunio Yamamoto, Color2Hatch: Conversion of Color to Hatching for Low-Cost Printing. Kenji Ohmori, Formalization of Kublai Khan’s Globalization using Prof. Kunii’s Incrementally Modular Abstraction Hierarchy.	Eckhard Hitzer. Special affine Fourier transform for space-time algebra signals. David Da Silva: Error-Free Geometric Algebra. Kamron Abdulkhaev and Dmitry Shirokov. On Explicit Formulas for Characteristic Polynomial Coefficients in Geometric Algebras.
11:00-12:00	Prof. Kunii 2 VR and Virtual Worlds Chair: Prof. Xiaoyang Mao, Japan	Engage 2 Chair: Prof. Andreas Aristidou, Cyprus
	Rae Earnshaw, A New Renaissance for Creativity in Technology and the Arts in the context of Virtual Worlds. Michael Cohen, Rintarō Satō, Ryota Noji, Takato Iida, Yoshiki Tokumitsu, Directional Selectivity in Panoramic and Pantophonic Interfaces: Flashdark, Narrowcasting for Stereoscopic Photospherical Cinemagraphy, Akabeko Ensemble. Zirui Lan, Tschoerner Benedikt, Fan Li, Zirui Lan, Yisi Liu, Wei Lun Lim, Jian Cui, Yu Lian Wong, Kevin Kho, Vincent Lee, Sourina Olga, Mueller-Witting Wolfgang, Human Factors Evaluation in VR-based Shunting Training.	Zhenjun Yan, Zhaoyuan Yu, Yun Wang, Wen Luo, Jiyi Zhang, Hong Gao and Linwang Yuan. Unified Expression Framework of Geodetic Stations Based on Conformal Geometric Algebra. Pavel Loučka and Petr Vašík. Algorithms for multi-conditioned conic fitting in Geometric algebra for conics. Manos Kamarianakis, Nick Lydatakis and George Papagiannakis. Never 'Drop the Ball' in the Operating Room: An efficient hand-based VR HMD controller interpolation algorithm, for collaborative, networked virtual environments.
12:00-12:40	Prof. Kunii 3 Computer Animation Chair: Prof. Issei Fujishiro , Japan
	Soraia Musse, Vincius Cassal, Daniel Thalmann, A History Of Crowd Simulation: Past, Evolution And New Perspectives. Cheng Li, Levi Fussell, Taku Komura, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Character Animation.
12:40-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-15:00	Prof. Kunii 4 Rendering Chair: Prof. Olga Sourina, Singapore
	Bin Chen, Chao Wang, Michal Piovarci, HP Seider, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski, Ana Serrano- The Effect Of Geometry And Illumination On Appearance Perception Of Different Material Categories. Wei Li, James Hahn, Efficient Ray Casting Polygonized Isosurface of Binary Volumes. Satoshi Nishimura, Grid-induced Bounding Volume Hierarchy for Ray Tracing Dynamic Scenes.
15:00-16:00	Prof. Kunii 5 Image Processing Chair: Prof. Karol Myszkowski, Germany
	Xiaoyang Mao, Zhenyang Zhu, Image Recoloring for Color Vision Deficiency Compensation: A Survey. Shin Yoshizawa, Hideo Yokota, Fast and Faithful Scale-Aware Image Filters. Chamin Morikawa, Chamin Morikawa, Michihiro Kobayashi, Masaki Satoh, Yasuhiro Kuroda, Teppei Inomata, Hitoshi Matsuo, Takeshi Miura, Masaki Hilaga; image and video processing on mobile devices: a survey.
16:00-17:00	Prof. Kunii 6 Visual Analysis Chair: Prof. Daniel Thalmann, Switzerland
	Issei Fujishiro, Baoqing Wang, Yume Asayama, Malik Olivier Boussejar, Hideki Shojo, Noboru Adachi, FORSETI: A Visual Analysis Environment for Authoring Autopsy Reports in Extended Legal Medicine Mark-up Language. Wentin Dai, Alexei Sourin, Marius Erdt, Detection and Segmentation of Image Anomalies based on Unsupervised Defect Reparation. Shigeo Takahashi, Daisuke Sakurai, Miyuki Sasaki, Hiroko Nakamura Miyamura, Yukihisa Sanada, Visual Analysis of Geospatial Multivariate Data for Investigating Radioactive Deposition Processes.

Tuesday, September 7 CGI Conference Day 2
09:00-09:15	Welcome to CGI by Professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, CGI 2021 Chair SESSION A
09:15-10:15	CGI Keynote 1 Prof. Enrico Gobbetti Chair: Prof. George Papagiannakis, Greece SESSION A
	First Parallel session SESSION A	Second Parallel Session SESSION B
10:15-11:45	TVC 1 Geometric Computing Chair: Prof. Jianmin Zheng, Singapore	LNCS 1 Image Processing 1 & VR/AR 2 Chair: Dr. Ruggero Pintus, Italy
	Dennis Bukenberger and Hendrik Lensch. Tetrahedra of Varying Density and Their Applications. Guillaume Damiand, David Coeurjolly and Pierre Bourquat. Stripped halfedge data structure for parallel computation of arrangements. Jie Jiang, Hock Soon Seah, Quan Chen and Hong Ze Liew. Handling Gaps for Vector Graphics Coloring. Shengjun Liu, Tao Liu, Yuanyuan Shang and Xinru Liu. Variational Progressive-Iterative Approximation for RBF-based Surface Reconstruction.	Zhongmin Xue, Beibei Wang and Lei Ma. A Deep Learning Method for 2D Image Stippling. Dapeng Zhao and Yue Qi. Generative Face Parsing Map Guided 3D Face Reconstruction Under Occluded Scenes. Vladimir Soares da Fontoura and Anderson Maciel. Characterizing Visual Acuity in the use of Head Mounted Displays.
11:45-13:00	LUNCH BREAK
13:00-14:30	TVC 2 Rendering & Textures 1 Chair: Prof. Kadi Bouatouch, France	LNCS 2 Computer Vision 1 Chair: Dr. Werner Benger, Austria
	Hiroki Okuno and Kei Iwasaki. Binary Space Partitioning Visibility Tree for Polygonal and Environment Light Rendering. Yifan Lu, Siyuan Fu and Ning Xie. Denoising Monte Carlo Renderings via a Multi-scale Featured Dual-residual GAN. Nianchen Deng, Jiannan Ye, Nuo Chen and Xubo Yang. Towards Stereoscopic On-vehicle AR-HUD. Jinkai Hu, Milo Yip, Guillermo Elias Alonso, Shihao Gu, Xiangjun Tang and Xiaogang Jin. Efficient Real-time Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination Using Signed Distance Fields.	Xiaoyi Long, Ruimin Hu and Xin Xu. Variance weight distribution network based Noise Sample Learning for Robust Person Re-identification. Yijing Chen, Chuhua Xian, Shuo Jin and Guiqing Li. Sketch-based 3D Garment Generation with Shape-adapted. Chaoyang Peng, Lihong Yao, Tanfeng Sun, Xinghao Jiang and Zhongjie Mi. SE_EDNet: A Robust Manipulated Faces Detection Algorithm. Feihu Yan, Jiawei Wen, Zhaoxin Li and Zhong Zhou. Monocular Dense SLAM with Consistent Deep Depth Prediction.
14:30-16:00	TVC 3 Rendering & Textures 2 Chair: Prof. Kadi Bouatouch, France	LNCS 3 Computer Vision 2 Chair: Dr. Werner Benger, Austria
	Xinyang Guan, Likang Luo, Honglin Li, He Wang, Chen Liu, Su Wang and Xiaogang Jin. Automatic embroidery texture synthesis for garment design and online display. Yuanzhen Li, Wenjie Li, Shengjie Zheng, Fei Luo and Chunxia Xiao. Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation Based on Image Texture Detail Enhancement. Alex R. C Lima, Manuel M. Oliveira, Arthur M. Medeiros and Vitor G. Marques. Real-Time Simulation of Accommodation and Low-Order Aberrations of the Human Eye using Light-Gathering Trees. Hansoo Kim, Jean-Michel Dischler, Holly Rushmeier and Bedrich Benes. Edge-based Procedural Textures.	Guillem Garrofé, Carlota Parés, Anna Gutierrez, Conrado Ruiz Jr., Gerard Serra and David Miralles. Virtual haptic system for shape recognition based on local curvatures. Lin Wei, Fei Luo and Chunxia Xiao. Stable Depth Estimation within Consecutive Video Frames. Yang Wen, Jihong Wang, Zhen Li, Bin Sheng, Ping Li, Xiaoyu Chi and Lijuan Mao. Progressive Multi-Scale Reconstruction for Guided Depth Map Super-Resolution via Deep Residual Gate Fusion Network. Wenyuan Ying, Tianyang Dong, Zhanfeng Ding and Xinpeng Zhang. PointCNN-based Individual Tree Detection Using LiDAR Point Clouds.

Wednesday, September 8 CGI Conference Day 3
09:15-10:15	CGI Keynote 2 Prof. Nicolas Pronost Chair: Prof. Daniel Thalmann, Switzerland SESSION A
	First Parallel session SESSION A	Second Parallel Session SESSION B
10:15-11:45	TVC 4 Physics-based Simulation Chair: Prof. Daniel Thalmann, Switzerland	LNCS 4 Visual Analytics Chair: Prof.Taku Komura, Hongkong, China
	Ick Hoon Cha and Hyeong Seok Ko. BLI-Resolver: Resolving the Boundary-Loop-Interior Type Intersections for Clothing Simulation. Naoyuki Hirasawa, Takashi Kanai and Ryoichi Ando. A Flux-Interpolated Advection Scheme for Fluid Simulation. Xincheng Liu, Yi Chen, Haitong Zhang, Yuhong Zou, Zhangye Wang and Qunsheng Peng. Physically-based modeling and rendering of avalanches. Wentao Chen, Tian Sang, Yitian Ma, Qian Chen, Yuwei Xiao, Zhigeng Pan and Xubo Yang. Real-Time Simulation of Violent Boiling in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid Dilution.	Guoqin Peng, Hao Zhang and Dan Xu. Image emotion analysis based on the distance relation of emotion categories via deep metric learning. Victor Araujo, Bruna Dalmoro, Rodolfo Favaretto, Felipe Vilanova, Angelo Costa and Soraia Musse. How much do we perceive geometric features, personalities and emotions in avatars?. Hunmin Park, Huo Yuchi and Sung-Eui Yoon. MeshChain: Secure 3D model and intellectual property management powered by blockchain technology. Chenkai Xu and Hongwei Lin. High-Dimensional Dataset Simplication by Laplace-Beltrami Operator.
11:45-13:00	LUNCH BREAK
13:00-14:30	TVC 5 Visual Analytics Chair: Prof. Meili Wang, China SESSION A	LNCS 5 Physics-based Simulation Chair: Prof. Yiyu Cai, Singapore SESSION B
	Qiru Wang, Robert Laramee, Arron Lacey and William Pickrell. LetterVis: A Letter-Space View of Electronic Health Records. Zhihua Chen, Jun Qiu, Bin Sheng, Xiaobing Zhou, Ping Li and Enhua Wu. GPSD: Generative Parking Spot Detection Using Multi-Clue Recovery Model. Jiqing Zhang, Kai Zhao, Bo Dong, Yingkai Fu, Yuxin Wang, Xin Yang and Baocai Yin. Multi-domain Collaborative Feature Representation for Robust Visual Object Tracking. Victor Araujo, Bruna Dalmoro and Soraia Musse. Analysis of charisma, comfort and realism in CG characters from a gender perspective.	Hyewon Seo, Kaifeng Zou and Frederic Cordier. DSNet: Dynamic skin deformation prediction by Recurrent Neural Network. Florian Pellegrin, Andre Beauchamp and Eric Paquette. Curvature Analysis of Sculpted Hair Meshes for Hair Guides Generation. Minyoung Kim and Young J. Kim. Synthesizing Human Faces with Local Weight Autoencoder. Zhifeng Xie, Guisong Zhang, Chunpeng Yu, Jiaheng Zheng and Bin Sheng. CFMNet: Coarse-to-Fine Cascaded Feature Mapping Network for Hair Attribute Transfer.
14:30-16:00	TVC 6 Human Poses & Gestures Chair: Prof. Meili Wang, China	LNCS 6 Medical Imaging Chair: Prof. Jinman Kim, Australia
	Gang Chu, Chi Xie, Jiewen Wang and Shuang Liang. Joint Relation Based Human Pose Estimation. Guiqing Li, Zihui Wu, Yuxin Liu, Yongwei Nie and Aihua Mao. 3D Hand Reconstruction From A Single Image Based on Biomechanical Constraints. Sofiane Zeghoud, Saba Ghazanfar Ali, Egemen Ertugrul, Aouaidjia Kamel, Bin Sheng, Ping Li, Xiaoyu Chi, Jinman Kim and Lijuan Mao. Real-Time Spatial Normalization for Skeleton-Based Gesture Classification. Md Shopon, A S M Hossain Bari and Marina Gavrilova. Residual Connection Based Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Gait Recognition.	Carlos Marcelo Gurjão de Godoy, Mateus Coelho Selusniacki, Victor Silva dos Santos, Caio Cigagna de Godoy, Guilherme Melo dos Santos and Regina Célia Coelho. In Silico Heart Versatile Graphical Interface with Systole and Diastole Phases Customizable for Diversified Arrhythmias Simulations. Dongjin Huang, Hao Guo and Yue Zhang. ADD-Net:Attention U-Net with Dilated Skip Connection and Dense Connected Decoder for Retinal Vessel Segmentation. Hui Ding, Qirui Niu, Yufeng Nie, Yuanyuan Shang, Nianzhe Chen and Rui Liu. BDFNet: Boundary-assisted and Discriminative Feature Extraction Network for COVID-19 Lung Infection Segmentation. Yang Wen, Yupeng Xu, Kun Liu, Bin Sheng, Lei Bi, Jinman Kim, Xiangui He and Xun Xu. A Classication Network for Ocular Diseases Based on Structure Feature and Visual Attention.
16:00-17:00	CGI Keynote 3 Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos Chair: Prof. Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Switzerland SESSION A

Thursday, September 9 CGI Conference Day 4
09:15-10:15	CGI Keynote 4 Prof George Papagiannakis Chair: Prof. Bin Shen, China SESSION A
	First Parallel session SESSION A	Second Parallel Session SESSION B
10:15-11:45	TVC 7 Shape Modelling/Analysis Chair: Prof. Frederic Cordier, France	LNCS 7 Computer Vision3 & Image Processing 2 Chair: Prof. Bin Shen, China
	Dennis Bukenberger and Hendrik Lensch. Be Water my Friend: Mesh Assimilation. Shuangbu Wang, Nan Xiang, Yu Xia, Lihua You and Jianjun Zhang. Real-time surface manipulation with C1 continuity through simple and efficient physics-based deformations. Ruggero Pintus, Alberto Jaspe-Villanueva, Antonio Zorcolo, Markus Hadwiger and Enrico Gobbetti. Practical and Efficient Model for Intensity Calibration of Multi-Light Image Collections. Mohamed Radwan, Stefan Ohrhallinger and Michael Wimmer. Occlusion-Based Point Cloud Exploration Using a Linear-Time Structure.	Maria Jeseca Baculo, Conrado Jr. Ruiz and Oya Aran. Cecid Fly Defect Detection in Mangoes using Object Detection Frameworks. Yongmin Zheng, Lunke Fei, Wei Jia, Jie Wen, Shaohua Teng and Imad Rida. Compact Double Attention Module Embedded CNN for Palmprint Recognition. Beiji Zou, Wenjun Yang, Kaiwen Li, Enquan Huang and Shu Liu. Character Flow Detection and Rectification for Scene Text Spotting.
11:45-13:00	LUNCH BREAK
13:00-14:30	TVC 8 VR/AR Chair: Prof. Frank Guan, Singapore SESSION A	LNCS 8 Rendering & Textures 1 Chair: Prof. Jean-Michel Dischler, France SESSION B
	Minyeong Seo and Hyeongyeop Kang. Towards Virtual Stair Walking. Rui Ding and Shiguang Liu. Underwater sound propagation for virtual environments. Miguel Saura-Herreros, Angeles López and Jose Ribelles. Spherical panorama compositing through depth estimation. Christos Mousas and Dominic Kao. Evaluating virtual reality locomotion interfaces on collision avoidance task with a virtual character.	Julius Ikkala, Petrus Kivi, Joel Alanko, Markku Mäkitalo and Pekka Jääskeläinen. DDISH-GI: Dynamic Distributed Spherical Harmonics Global Illumination. Zheng Zhang, Junhao Zhao, Shiqing Xin, Shuangmin Chen, Yuanfeng Zhou, Changhe Tu and Wenping Wang. Simplicity Driven Edge Refinement and Color Reconstruction in Image Vectorization. Shiguang Liu and Yu Zhang. Temporal-Consistency-Aware Video Color Transfer. Yufei Guo, Xuhui Huang, Zhe Ma, Yongqing Hai, Rongli Zhao and Kewu Sun. An improved advancing-front-Delaunay method for triangular mesh generation.
14:30-16:00	TVC 9 Image Analysis /Processing Chair: Prof. Hyewon Seo, France	LNCS 9 Rendering & Textures 2 & Human Poses & Gestures Chair: Prof. Soraia Raupp Musse
	Kun Hu, Xiaochao Wang, Jianping Hu, Hongfei Wang and Hong Qin. A Novel Robust Zero-Watermarking Algorithm for Medical Images. Luying Li, Junshu Tang, Zhou Ye, Bin Sheng and Lizhuang Ma. Unsupervised Face Super-Resolution via Gradient Enhancement and Semantic Guidance. Yunhui Xiong, Zuxuan Lin, Guiqing Li, Chuhua Xian and Changxin Peng. Camera Focal Length from Distances in A Single Image. Soham Mukherjee. Denoising with Discrete Morse Theory.	Jihong Wang, Zhen Li, Saba Ghazanfar Ali, Bin Sheng, Ping Li, Xiaoyu Chi, Jinman Kim and Lijuan Mao. Dynamic Shadow Synthesis Using Silhouette Edge Optimization. Kangqiao Zhao, Feng Lin and Hock Soon Seah. Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Locomotion. Dan Li and Wuzhen Shi. Partially Occluded Skeleton Action Recognition based on Multi-stream Fusion Graph Convolutional Networks. Binhao Huang, Zhenwei Ma, Lianggangxu Chen and Gaoqi He. Social-Scene-Aware Generative Adversarial Networks for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction.

Friday, September 10 CGI Conference Day 5
	First Parallel session	Second Parallel Session
09:15-10:45	TVC 10 Computer Vision --------------- LNCS 10 Robotics and Vision Chair: Dr. Manoj Ramanathan, Singapore	LNCS 11 Geometric Computing & Computer Animation Chair: Prof. Jian Jun Zhang, UK
	Haolong Li, Zizheng Zhong, Wei Guan, Chenghao Du, Yuxiang Wei, Yu Yang and Chen Ye. Generative Character Inpainting Guided by Structural Information. Yixuan Ju, Jianhai Zhang, Xiaoyang Mao and Jiayi Xu. Adaptive Semantic Attribute Decoupling for Precise Face Image Editing. ----------------------------------- Nidhi Mishra, Gauri Tulsulkar, Hanhui Li, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Hwee Er Lim, Mei Ping Lee and Siok Khoong Cheng. The use of a social robot in elderly home for recreational activities. Sijia Wang, Hao Jiang and Zhaoqi Wang. Resilient Navigation among dynamic agents with hierarchical reinforcement learning.	Anastasia Moutafidou, Vasilis Toulatzis and Ioannis Fudos. Temporal Parameter-free Deep Skinning of Animated Meshes. Alejandro Rios, Elena Molina and Nuria Pelechano. The impact of animations in the perception of a simulated crowd. Tian Sang, Wentao Chen, Yitian Ma, Hui Wang and Xubo Yang. Real-Time Fluid Simulation with Atmospheric Pressure Using Weak Air Particles. Penglei Ji, Hanchao Li, Luyan Jiang and Xinguo Liu. Light-Weight Multi-View Topology Consistent Facial Geometry and Reflectance Capture.
10:45-12:15	LNCS 12 VR/AR Chair: Prof. Junhui Hou, Hongkong, China	LNCS 13 Image Processing 3 Chair: Prof. Xiaoyang Mao, Yamanashi University, Japan
	Yujun Lu, Boyu Gao, Huawei Tu, Weiqi Luo and Hyungseok Kim. Effects of Different Proximity-based Feedback on Virtual Hand Pointing in Virtual Reality. Sungmin Lee, Hoijoon Jung, Euro Lee, Younhyun Jung and Seon Tae Kim. A Preliminary Work: Mixed Reality-integrated Computer-aided Surgical Navigation System for Paranasal Sinus Surgery using Microsoft HoloLens 2. Hui Liang, Fanyu Bao, Yusheng Sun, Chao Ge and Jian Chang. Virtual Scenes Construction Promotes Traditional Chinese Art Preservation.	Zhenjiang Du, Ning Xie, Zhitao Liu, Xiaohua Zhang and Yang Yang. TWIN-CHANNEL GAN: REPAIR SHAPE WITH TWIN -CHANNEL GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK AND STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS. Shiqi Jiang, Chenhui Li and Changbo Wang. CoPaint: Guiding Sketch Painting with Consistent Color and Coherent Generative Adversarial Networks. Yang Wen, Bin Sheng, Lei Bi, Jinman Kim, Ping Li, Yupeng Xu, Xiangui He and Xun Xu. Multi-Stream Fusion Network for Multi-Distortion Image Super-Resolution. Ying Chen, Wei Wang, Wei Hu and Xin Xu. M2M: Learning to Enhance Low-light Image from Model to Mobile FPGA.
12:15-13:00	Award and closing session