From: Colin Godfrey <cgodfrey@cs.umb.edu>
Subject: SIGGRAPH/Boston at MIT, Wed 10 May
Date: Monday, May 01, 2000 10:17 PM

                 SIGGRAPH/Boston Meeting Announcement
                        Wednesday 10 May 2000

Fredo Durand of MIT will be presenting on the topic of his paper
accepted to SIGGRAPH 2000.  This will be a less formal, more
intimate, and more relaxed version of his presentation this summer in
New Orleans.


   Conservative Visibility Preprocessing using Extended Projections

    By Fredo Durand.  iMAGIS (France) - MIT Laboratory for Computer
    Science joint work with George Drettakis, Joelle Thollot and
    Claude Puech http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~fredo/PUBLI/Sig2000/

Visualization of very complex scenes can be significantly accelerated
using occlusion culling.  This talk is about a new method of
performing occlusion culling using visibility preprocessing.  A novel
method is introduced which permits efficient and conservative
occlusion culling for all viewpoints within a cell.

Fredo Durand (http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~fredo) is a post-doc in
the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT with Prof. Julie Dorsey.  He
has completed his PhD in France in the iMAGIS team under the
direction of Claude Puech and George Drettakis. His thesis
(http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~fredo/THESE/) proposes an analytical
study of visibility in line-space as well as applications of
visibility to lighting simulation and walkthroughs. It also contains
an extensive multidiciplinary survey on visibility.

His current research interests include human perception,
tone-mapping, visual adaptation, Image-Based Modeling and Rendering,
lighting simulation, digital cinematographic lighting, texture
synthesis and non-photorealistic rendering. He is also preparing a
course on visual art and science.


WHEN

  Wednesday, 10 May starting with networking time and refreshments at
  6:00pm, brief announcements followed by the feature presentation at
  7:00pm.


WHERE

  MIT room 4-231, which is on the second floor of builing 4.  This is
  deep in the bowels of the MIT campu, and defies verbal directions.
  See http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?locate=bldg_4 because it makes
  much more sense to look at a map.  For most people, arriving at MIT
  via the Kendall Square T station will be the easiest way to get
  there.  Parking is notoriously scarce around MIT.

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