Twelve papers with UBC-affiliated authors accepted to SIGGRAPH 2015

UBC Computer Science will be well represented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2015, the 42nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, to be held in Los Angeles, Aug 9-13, 2015. The 12 accepted papers corresponds to a total of 10% of the 118 conditionally-accepted papers at SIGGRAPH 2015 that will have a UBC affiliation.



Deformation Capture and Modeling of Soft Objects
Bin Wang, Longhua Wu (VisuCA/SIAT), KangKang Yin (National University of Singapore),
Uri Ascher, Libin Liu (UBC), Hui Huang (VisuCA/SIAT)

Restoring the Missing Vortices in Advection Projection Fluid Solvers
Xinxin Zhang (UBC), Robert Bridson (Autodesk, UBC), Chen Greif (UBC)

Simulating Rigid Body Fracture with Surface Meshes
Yufeng Zhu (UBC) Robert Bridson (Autodesk and UBC), Chen Greif (UBC)

Nonlinear Material Design Using Principal Stretches
Hongyi Xu (University of Southern California), Funshing Sin (USC and Blizzard Entertainment),  Yufeng Zhu (USC and UBC), Jernej Barbic (USC)

Doppler Time-of-Flight Imaging
Felix Heide (UBC, KAUST, Stanford), Wolfgang Heidrich (KAUST, UBC), Matthias Hullin (U. Bonn), Gordon Wetzstein (Stanford)

Biomechanical Simulation and Control of Hands and Tendinous Systems
Prashant Sachdeva (UBC), Shinjiro Sueda (California Polytechnic State University),  Susanne Bradley (UBC), Mikhail Fain (UBC), Dinesh K. Pai (UBC)

Dihedral Angle-based Maps of Tetrahedral Meshes
Gilles-Philippe Paille (U. Montreal), Nicolas Ray (INRIA-Nancy Grand-Est), Pierre Poulin (U. Montreal), Alla Sheffer (UBC), Bruno Levy (INRIA-Nancy Grand-Est)

Elements of Style: Learning Perceptual Shape Style Similarity
Zhaoliang Lun, Evangelos Kalogerakis (U. Massachusetts Amherst), Alla Sheffer (UBC)

Practical Hex-Mesh Optimization via Edge-Cone Rectification
Marco Livesu, Alla Sheffer, Nicholas Vining (UBC), Marco Tarini (ISTI-CNR, Italy)

Flow Aligned Surfacing of Curve Networks
Pan Hao (The University of Hong Kong), Yang Liu (Microsoft Research Asia),  Alla Sheffer, Nicholas Vining (UBC), Chang-Jian Li, Wenping Wang (The University of Hong Kong)

Vector Graphics Animation with Time-Varying Topology
Boris Dalstein (UBC), Remi Ronfard (INRIA Rhone-Alpes), Michiel van de Panne (UBC)

Dynamic Terrain Traversal Skills Using Reinforcement Learning
Xue Bin Peng (UBC), Glen Berseth (UBC), Michiel van de Panne (UBC)