SIGGRAPH 2006

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Hi All,

I will be attending SIGGRAPH again this year, and I am naturally looking forward to the "High-Dynamic-Range Imaging: Theory and Applications" course w/ Greg et al, and I will be heading over to the Image Manipulation Papers on Monday. I'm generally wondering who else on this list (aside from the obvious) will be in Boston? And related to that, is the HDRI BOF worth a slot on the schedule?

I'll also be wandering the Conference w/ iBook, Canon and HDRcapOSX shooting HDRs in both framed and panoramic formats, and I hope to share them with the list shortly after I get back. (One of my goals is to capture a Brightside monitor in HDR for those who cannot attend!)

-Mark

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Mark,

I haven't posted much, but I will be at SIGGRAPH, and I have a piece of art in the gallery and a talk on Sunday morning about it. The image was rendered with Radiance, but had to be printed, so I guess it's not HDR anymore. It's at

http://mark.technolope.org/image/p67.html

Mark

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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Mark Banas (lists) wrote:

Hi All,

I will be attending SIGGRAPH again this year, and I am naturally looking forward to the "High-Dynamic-Range Imaging: Theory and Applications" course w/ Greg et al, and I will be heading over to the Image Manipulation Papers on Monday. I'm generally wondering who else on this list (aside from the obvious) will be in Boston? And related to that, is the HDRI BOF worth a slot on the schedule?

I'll also be wandering the Conference w/ iBook, Canon and HDRcapOSX shooting HDRs in both framed and panoramic formats, and I hope to share them with the list shortly after I get back. (One of my goals is to capture a Brightside monitor in HDR for those who cannot attend!)

-Mark

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Hi Jack & Mark (& anyone else who will be there),

This is why I was asking about the HDRI "birds of a feather" meeting on Tuesday (details below)

High-Dynamic-Range Imagery BOF
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center - Room 251
5 - 6 pm, Tuesday, 1 August

I'm also guessing that more than a few of us will be at the full-day HDRI seminar on Sunday, so there is a possibility of meeting up after that. It might be possible to find a very dark bar/ resto with very bright scenery out the windows... :wink: With only a few people it could all be very spur-of-the-moment.

-Mark

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On Jul 18, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Jack de Valpine wrote:

Hi Mark,

I am attending the conference (or at least the papers/panels). Perhaps
if there are enough people HDRI/Radiance we could figure out some way to
all meet somewhere? Any others attending?

-Jack de Valpine

PS: cross posted for other that might be interested...

Mark Banas (lists) wrote:

Hi All,

I will be attending SIGGRAPH again this year, and I am naturally looking forward to the "High-Dynamic-Range Imaging: Theory and Applications" course w/ Greg et al, and I will be heading over to the Image Manipulation Papers on Monday. I'm generally wondering who else on this list (aside from the obvious) will be in Boston? And related to that, is the HDRI BOF worth a slot on the schedule?

I'll also be wandering the Conference w/ iBook, Canon and HDRcapOSX shooting HDRs in both framed and panoramic formats, and I hope to share them with the list shortly after I get back. (One of my goals is to capture a Brightside monitor in HDR for those who cannot attend!)

-Mark

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How was it?

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On Jul 17, 2006, at 11:46 PM, Mark Banas (lists) wrote:

Hi All,

I will be attending SIGGRAPH again this year, and I am naturally looking forward to the "High-Dynamic-Range Imaging: Theory and Applications" course w/ Greg et al, and I will be heading over to the Image Manipulation Papers on Monday. I'm generally wondering who else on this list (aside from the obvious) will be in Boston? And related to that, is the HDRI BOF worth a slot on the schedule?

I'll also be wandering the Conference w/ iBook, Canon and HDRcapOSX shooting HDRs in both framed and panoramic formats, and I hope to share them with the list shortly after I get back. (One of my goals is to capture a Brightside monitor in HDR for those who cannot attend!)

-Mark

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Hi Kirk,

I personally thought it was huge, fun, interesting and exhausting all a the same time. Pretty much par for the course at SIGGRAPH...

The full-day HDRI session on Sunday was really packed (despite being 8+ hours) and had some interesting presentations of opinions, research and (games) industry uses, and the birds-of-a-feather was also well attended. I never got my press-pass for the conference (they've upped the requirements for what is "press"), so I was prevented from taking photos during the sessions and at the show floor... I did get some HDR shots around Boston, and I can post a link to those soon.

Some of the highlights of the conference (for me, a non-researcher) were:

- Finally got to meet Greg Ward in person, but he was always too swamped with groupies to have a real conversation with. :wink:

- Streaming HDR video (using the new MPEG-HDR codec) shown on the Brightside monitors!

- Well, actually seeing any HDR image on the Brightside monitors was just too cool for words. Helge thinks something similar will be mass-market available in just 2 years thanks to display industry trends!

- Erum Khan's presentation on Image-based Material Editing (on HDR images):
http://graphics.cs.ucf.edu/ekhan/project_ibme.htm

- I had a great opportunity to talk to Erik Reinhard about (among other things) what passes for "HDR" and tonemapping on Flickr (and that NYTimes article highlights this as well).

- The realization that lots of interested and talented people have "heard of" HDRI, but there really isn't a central gathering/ rallying point for people bridging the gap between research and commercial implementations.

- To this end, I talked to 5 vendors of photographic hardware and software to actively encourage them to add HDR capture/ input support to their imaging products. (Again, they've heard of it, but didn't know all of the immediately marketable uses and sales angles.)

Naturally, this is only what one guy saw while wandering from Sunday to Wednesday. I never did meet up with Jack or Mark from this list, but I'm sure they were at some of the same sessions.

-Mark

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On Aug 7, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Kirk Thibault wrote:

How was it?

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