Final program

• Wednesday, July 19, Morning

• 9:30

  Opening. Welcome and Introduction
  The AIM@SHAPE vision:
  Why ontologies for shapes, why shapes for ontologies?
  Presenter: Ewald Quak (CENS-CMA & SINTEF)

  10:15

  Coffee break

  10:30

  Training Session:
  

  1. Introduction to the Semantic Web
  2. Introduction to ontologies
  3. Knowledge base/ontology query languages and demonstration of the AIM@SHAPE Search engine prototype

  12:45

  Lunch break

• Wednesday, July 19, Afternoon

• 14:00

  Training Session:
  Introduction to the Shape Acquisition Ontology
  Presenter: Laura Papaleo (DISI)

  15:00

  Coffee break

  15:30

  Training Session:
  

  1. Introduction to the Product Design Ontology
  2. Other application examples for ontologies in the design context
  3. Introduction to the semantic description of Web Services

  Presenter: Neyir Sevilmis (IGD)

  19:00

  Welcome party

• Thursday, July 20, Morning

• 9:30

  Invited Lecture: Research for the clothing industry
  Presenter: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (UNIGE)

  10:30

  Coffee break

  10:45

  Invited Lecture: Virtual Humans and their interactions
  Presenter: Daniel Thalmann (EPFL)

  11:45

  Invited Lecture: Toward semantic modelling applied to car aesthetics: a proposal
  Presenters: Chiara Catalano (IMATI) & Jean-Claude Léon (INPG)

  12:45

  Lunch break

• Thursday, July 20, Afternoon

• 14:00

  Training Session: The Virtual Human Ontology
  Presenters: Fréderic Vexo (EPFL) & Laurent Moccozet (UNIGE)

  15:00

  Coffee break

  15:30

  Training Sessions:

  • Semantics for metadata description
  • Geometical processing for retrieval
  • Semantics for interaction

  Presenters: Giuliana Ucelli & Giuseppe Conti (IGD-GraphiTech)

• Friday, July 21, Morning

• 9:30

  Invited Lecture: Geometry processing
  Presenter: Konrad Polthier (FU Berlin)

  10:30

  Coffee break

  10:45

  Invited Lecture: Surface tiling with discrete differential forms
  Presenter: Pierre Alliez (INRIA)

  11:45

  Training Session: Use of the AIM@SHAPE Shape Repository
  Presenter: Waqar Saleem (MPII)

  12:45

  Lunch break

• Friday, July 21, Afternoon

• 14:00

  Training Session: Use of the AIM@SHAPE Tools Repository
  Presenters: Pierre Alliez & Laurent Saboret (INRIA)

  15:00

  Coffee break

  15:30

  Training Session: Introduction to some software tools for geometry processing (CGAL)
  Presenters: Pierre Alliez & Laurent Saboret (INRIA)

  19:00

  Event dinner

• Saturday, July 22, Morning

• 9:30

  Invited Lecture: The needs for geometric modelling in the research of water waves
  Presenter: Tarmo Soomere (CENS)

  10:30

  Coffee break

  10:45

  Training Session: Communicating science to journalists
  Presenters: Iban Yarza Herrero (AlphaGalileo), Tarmo Soomere (CENS)

  11:45

  Lunch break

• Saturday, July 22, Afternoon

• 13:00-16:00

  Guided tour of Tallinn

• Sunday, July 23, all-day

• 10:00-19:00

  Excursion to Lahemaa

• Monday, July 24, Morning

• 9:30

  Invited Lecture: Modeling non-manifold shapes
  Presenter: Leila de Floriani (DISI)

  10:30

  Coffee break

  10:45

  Invited Lecture: Subdivision surfaces: what is their future and why?
  Presenter: Malcom Sabin (Numerical Geometry Ltd, Cambridge)

  12:15

  Lunch break

• Monday, July 24, Afternoon

• 14:00

  Invited Lecture: Automatic mesh repair and augmentation for rapid prototyping and simulation
  Presenter: Leif Kobbelt (RWTH Aachen)

  15:00

  Coffee break

  15:30

  Invited Lecture: The prospects of FP7 for IST
  Presenter: Albert Gauthier (European Commission)

  Farewell party

• Tuesday, July 25, PhD Student Workshop

• 9:30

  Geometric constructions for generalized barycentric coordinates
  Presenter: Torsten Langer (MPII)

  10:00

  Blending of natural quadrics with canal surfaces
  Presenter: Margarita Kazakeviciute (Vilnius University)

  10:30

  Coffee break

  10:45

  Multiscale approaches to image segmentation
  Presenter: Sharon Alpert (Weizmann Institute)

  11:15

  3D shape retrieval methods based on spherical harmonics
  Presenter: Panagiotis Papadakis (IIT Athens)

  11:45

  Image-Language association: are we looking at the right features?
  Presenter: Katarina Pastra (ILSP Athens)

  12:15

  Ontology Based Shape Annotation and Retrieval
  Presenter: Olga Symonova (GraphiTech)