From: "Colin Godfrey" <cgodfrey@cs.umb.edu>
Subject:   SIGGRAPH/BOSTON at MERL, Wed. July 21.
Date: Friday, July 16, 2004 12:10 AM



                SIGGRAPH/BOSTON at MERL

        Annual International SIGGRAPH Conference 
                Papers Preview Presentation

When:  Wednesday, July 21, 2004
       6:30 - 9:00 pm
       (Networking 6:30 to 7. Presentation starts at 7)

Where: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory
       201 Broadway, Cambridge MA 02139
       8th Floor

 
     Five papers that were selected for presentation at this years
     conference in Los Angeles in August will be given a special
     preview run-through. Each year so far it turns out that the paper
     with the most esoteric title is incredibly fun as well as having
     beautiful examples! So come and see what your favorite 3D tool
     will feature in year or two.

Here are the presentations: 

* Deformation transfer for triangle meshes - Bob Sumner (MIT)
     http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~sumner/research/deftransfer/

* 3D TV: A Scalable System for Real-Time Acquisition, Transmission, and 
Autostereoscopic Display of Dynamic Scenes - Wojciech Matusik (MIT/MERL)

* Non-Photorealistic Camera: Depth Edge Detection and Stylized Rendering 
Using Multi-Flash Imaging - Ramesh Raskar (MERL)
    http://www.merl.com/people/raskar/NprCamera/

* RFIG Lamps: Interacting With a Self-Describing World via Photosensing 
Wireless Tags and Projectors - Ramesh Raskar (MERL)
     http://www.merl.com/people/raskar/Sig04/

* Efficient BRDF Importance Sampling Using A Factored Representation - 
Jason Lawrence (Princeton)
     http://www.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/proj/brdf/
 

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. 

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