From: "Colin Godfrey" Subject: [Cone-cal] SIGGRAPH/Boston at MERL, with elections, Wed July 10 Date: Sunday, July 07, 2002 5:36 PM SIGGRAPH/Boston Meeting Announcement including chapter elections ============================================================ Trainable Videorealistic Facial Animation Tony F Ezzat Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High Dynamic Range images Fredo Durand Place: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory 201 Broadway, Cambridge MA 02139 8th Floor Time: Wednesday July 10 2002 Networking time will start around 6:15pm. The meeting will start at 7:00 with brief announcement followed by elections. The feature presentations should start around 7:30 - 7:45. Trainable Videorealistic Facial Animation Tony F Ezzat MIT AI Laboratory Virtual Actors are rapidly becoming indistinguishable from real actors in certain situations such as impossible movie stunts, but no one is ever fooled when a simulation speaks. Tony presents new research where morphing elements of videoed speech produce videorelealistic visuals from text-to-speech generation. Paper: http://cuneus.ai.mit.edu:8000/publications/siggraph02.pdf Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High Dynamic Range images Fredo Durand MIT Laboratory for Computer Science One of the ongoing issues in the current war between digital and analog (film) is the limits of digital media compared to chemical. For example, a stunning scene in Citizen Kane may be just muddy after conversion to video. Fredo presents a paper that investigates filtering that may resolve some of these issues. A link to the abstract is here: http://www.lcs.mit.edu/research/researchabstracts.php?GID=15 Chapter Elections Every two years chapter officers are elected for a two year term at the last meeting of the season, and this is it. The elected positions are chair, vice chair, treasurer, and secretary. There will be opportunities for members to make nominations at the meeting, and yes, you can nominate yourself. To nominate a candidate before the meeting, please contact any member of the nominating committee: Olin Lathrop, olin@cognivis.com Bob Lamm, cync@world.std.com Hans Peter Pfister, pfister@merl.com When Networking time will start around 6:15pm. The meeting will start at 7:00 with brief announcement followed by elections. The feature presentation should start around 7:30 - 7:45. Directions to Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, 201 Broadway: Via T Get off the T at the Kendall Square stop on the Red Line. Exit from the subway and then walk directly into the lobby of the Marriott hotel, which is on a courtyard adjacent to the subway exit. Walk straight through the lobby and out the opposite side of the building. The street you are facing is Broadway. Turn left. Walk through 3 traffic lights. 201 Broadway is the first building on your right after the third light. We are on the 8th floor. Driving From the intersection of Storrow Drive and Cambridge Street, take the Longfellow bridge over the Charles river to Cambridge. Drive straight on away from the river. You are on Broadway. Go through one traffic light (the Marriot hotel is now on your left). Continue straight through two more traffic lights (you are now passing over some railroad tracks). (Between the first and second of these traffic lights is a parking garage open to the public. Depending on the time of day there may also be on street parking availabe near MERL.) Continue straight through one more light (Mitsubishi is the first building on your right after this light). It says 201 in large numbers on the corner of the building. MERL is on the eighth floor. ************************************************************************ SIGGRAPH/Boston Contacts WWW: http://www.siggraph.org/chapters/boston SIGGRAPH/Boston maintains a mailing list for e-mail announcements of meetings. Send e-mail to siggraphdistrib-request@cs.umb.edu if you want be added or dropped from this list. _______________________________________________