ExHIbITION GuIDe - ACM Siggraph

RapidMind, Inc.
RapidMind: Accelerating
Medical Imaging
Applications
Thursday, 6 August | 9:45 - 11:30 am
Michael McCool, RapidMind Chief Scientist,
discusses how many-core processors, including
GPUs and emerging multi-core CPUs,
promise to radically increase the computing
power available to medical-imaging applications,
such as reconstruction, enhancement,
registration, segmentation, and analysis.
These medical-imaging modalities depend
instrinsically on computation to reconstruct
volumetric images from projections or other
indirect observations. Moreover, making sense
of these volumes involves various forms of
image enhancement and rendering, including
both image-processing operations that generate
new volumes or images and analysis algorithms
that characterize a volume or identify
structures. Improvements in the performance
of these algorithms can have a direct impact
on the quality of health care. This presentation
surveys a number of algorithms in the
medical-imaging domain and how many-core
computing is applied to them.
AMD
Next-Generation Graphics:
The Hardware and the APIs
Thursday, 6 August | 1 - 2:30 pm
Modern graphics APIs and the hardware that
they expose continue to add flexibility and features
to the developer’s toolkit. New OpenGL
extensions promise to unlock the latest
generation of hardware, including exposing
new tessellation capabilities and more efficient
access to generic data structures. This session
demos and explains the latest in AMD’s
GPU hardware and API capabilities.
LOCATION
Room 294
NvIDIA
Advances in GPU-Based
Image Processing and
Computer Vision
Wednesday, 5 August | 8:30 - 9:30 am
As a massively parallel processor, the GPU is
well-suited for performing “per-pixel” operations
in image processing and computer vision.
However, new changes in hardware, software,
and algorithm mappings allow entire vision algorithms
to be performed solely on GPU. This
session summarizes how GPU programming
now goes beyond per-pixel mappings and is
accelerating image-feature processing and
handling, frequency domain processing, graph
cuts segmentation, and more.
James Fung
NVIDIA Corporation
3D Vision Technology -
Develop, Design, Play in
3D Stereo
Wednesday, 5 August | 9:45 - 10:45 am
A detailed technical overview of implementing
a 3D stereo experience in your application.
Specifically, this session addresses the use
cases you must address to create compelling
3D stereo applications, with an emphasis on
some key technology challenges and how
many of them are easily addressed by some
basic implementation patterns. If you’re a 3D
graphics developer, you will gain a complete
set of knowledge on how to implement outstanding
3D stereo applications.
Samuel Gateau
NVIDIA Corporation
exHIBItOR
SEsSIOnS
Creating Immersive
Environments With
NVIDIA APEX
Wednesday, 5 August | 11 am - 12:15 pm
This talk introduces APEX, which greatly
speeds up content development by providing
artist-friendly tools as well as a framework
that enables turn-key solutions without a lot
of engineering effort. Find out about our newly
expanded suite of APEX packages (Matrix-like
destruction, cinematic smoke, free-flowing
clothing, fully destructible forests, interactive
leaves and other ground debris, and weaponimpact
effects) and see real-world game
examples in which artists were quickly able
to convert static environments into dynamic
Exhibitor Tech Talks
ones. Discover how you can enhance your
games and provide a truly immersive game
experience.
Jean Bordes
Randy Fernando
Monier Maher
NVIDIA Corporation
Alternative Rendering
Pipelines on NVIDIA CUDA
Wednesday, 5 August | 1:30 - 2:30 pm
This session shows how NVIDIA CUDA can be
used for solving complex graphics problems.
Ray tracing and REYES are known for being
hungry consumers of computational power,
and CUDA is a perfect tool for increasing
performance. The speakers present their
approaches to implementing ray tracing and
REYES on CUDA, and show how to use
CUDA features to achieve interactive performance.
Andrei Tatarinov
Alexander Kharlamov
NVIDIA Corporation
Efficient Ray Tracing
on NVIDIA GPUs
Wednesday, 5 August | 2:45 - 3:45 pm
Learn about a new general programming interface
for conducting incredibly fast ray tracing
on NVIDIA GPUs using C for CUDA. This new
technology is valuable for anyone who wants
to build a high-performance tracing renderer
(interactive or off-line), accelerate an existing
ray-tracing renderer, add ray-trace capabilities
to raster renderers, or even perform generic
ray-tracing functions.
Steve Parker
Phillip Miller
NVIDIA Corporation
Accelerating Realism With
the NVIDIA Scene Graph
Wednesday, 5 August | 4 - 5 pm
The NVIDIA Scene Graph quietly powers
many of the world’s most demanding real-time
design environments. Learn how applications
can adopt this technology to greatly increase
their real-time performance, interactive scene
size, and rendering realism through a highly
tuned scene graph, distributed GPU rendering,
CgFX, and now even ray tracing.
Holger Kunz
Phillip Miller
NVIDIA Corporation
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