Publications

[Prof. Tong-Yee Lee] [Research Summary] [Major Journal Papers] [Selected Journal Papers] [Recent International Conference Papers]

● Ph.D students and postdoctoral positions in CS/CE/EE/Math/Applied Math background are available, please contact us. Experience with computer graphics, image/video processing, computer vision will be a “plus” but not a “must”. Foreign candidates are also very welcome!

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NoteProf. Tong-Yee Lee joins the IEEE TVCG Editorial Board (Impact Factor = 5.226, 2022) 2022/08/01, IEEE TVCG Editor Note, 2023/04

Major Journal Papers (ACM/IEEE Transactions/Journals)/SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia/CVPR (2024/10/07)

AnimeDiffusion: Anime Diffusion Colorization

Published in August, 2024

Yu Cao, Xiangqiao Meng, P. Y. Mok, Tong-Yee Lee, Xueting Liu, Ping Li, “AnimeDiffusion: Anime Diffusion Colorization,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 6956-6969, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3357568. (SCI/EI)

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Image Collage on Arbitrary Shape via Shape-Aware Slicing and Optimization

Published in August, 2024

Dong-Yi Wu, Thi-Ngoc-Hanh Le, Sheng-Yi Yao, Yun-Chen Lin, Tong-Yee Lee,“Image Collage on Arbitrary Shape via Shape-Aware Slicing and Optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) vol. 30, no. 8 (August), pp. 4449-4463, Aug. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3262039 (SCI/EI) (presented at IEEE Visualization 2023 at Australia—the first time VIS is being held in the Southern Hemisphere)

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ProSpect: Prompt Spectrum for Attribute-Aware Personalization of Diffusion Models

Published in December, 2023

Yuxin Zhang, Weiming Dong, Fan Tang, Nisha Huang, Haibin Huang, Chongyang Ma, Tong-Yee Lee, Oliver Deussen, Changsheng Xu, “ ProSpect: Prompt Spectrum for Attribute-Aware Personalization of Diffusion Models,” SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).,42, 6, Article 246 (December 2023), 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3618342 (SCI/EI)

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Balance-Aware Grid Collage for Small Image Collections

Published in February, 2023

Yu Song, Fan Tang, Weiming Dong, Feiyue Huang, Tong-Yee Lee, Changsheng Xu, “Balance-Aware Grid Collage for Small Image Collections,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Feb. 2023, pp. 1330-1344, vol. 29, DOI Bookmark: 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3113031 (SCI/EI)

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Generating Virtual Wire Sculptural Art from 3D Models

Published in May, 2022

Chih-Kuo Yeh, Thi-Ngoc-Hanh Le, Zhi-Ying Hou, and Tong-Yee Lee*, “Generating Virtual Wire Sculptural Art from 3D Models”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM), Volume 18, Issue 2, May 2022, Article No.: 51, pp 1–23 https://doi.org/10.1145/3475798.

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Living Donor-Recipient Pair Matching for Liver Transplant via Ternary Tree Representation with Cascade Incremental Learning

Published in August, 2021

Anam Nazir, Muhammad Nadeem Cheema, Bin Sheng, Ping Li, Jinman Kim, and Tong-Yee Lee, “Living Donor-Recipient Pair Matching for Liver Transplant via Ternary Tree Representation with Cascade Incremental Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, (featured article in the TBME August Issue) Volume: 68, Issue: 8, pp. 2540-2551, August 2021 (SCI/EI)

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Fast Accurate and Automatic Brushstroke Extraction

Published in May, 2021

Yunfei Fu, Hongchuan Yu,Chih-Kuo Yeh, Tong-Yee Lee, Jian J. Zhang, “Fast Accurate and Automatic Brushstroke Extraction,” ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, May 2021, Article No.: 44, pp 1–24 (SCI/EI)

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Image Retargetability

Published in March, 2021

Fan Tang, Weiming Dong, Yiping Meng, Chongyang Ma, Fuzhang Wu, Xinrui Li, Tong-Yee Lee, “Image Retargetability,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 22, No. 3, March, pp, 641~654, 2020 (SCI/EI)

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Generation of Eschar Arts with Dual Perception

Published in February, 2018

Shih-Syun Lin, Charles C. Morace, Chao-Hung Lin, Li-Fong Hsu, Tong-Yee Lee*, “Generation of Eschar Arts with Dual Perception,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 1103-1113, Feb., 2018 (SCI/EI) (Invited to present at Pacific Graphics 2017: http://www.siggraph.org.tw/pg2017/)

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Ambiguous Figure-Ground Images

Published in May, 2017

Ying-Miao Kuo, Hung-Kuo Chu, Ming-Te Chi, Ruen-Rone Lee, Tong-Yee Lee, “Ambiguous Figure-Ground Images,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), May Issue, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 1534~1545, 2017 (SCI/EI)

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Morphable Word Clouds for Time-varying Text Data Visualization

Published in December, 2015

Ming-Te Chi, Shih-Syun Lin, Shiang-Yi Chen, Chao-Hung Lin, Tong-Yee Lee* “Morphable Word Clouds for Time-varying Text Data Visualization,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), VOL. 21, NO. 12, DECEMBER ,2015 (SCI/EI) (also presented at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Kobe, Japan, Nov. 2-5. 2015 ),

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2.5D Cartoon Hair Modeling and Manipulation

Published in March, 2015

Chih-Kuo Yeh, Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman, Xiaopei Liu, Chi-Wing Fu, Tong-Yee Lee*, “2.5D Cartoon Hair Modeling and Manipulation” , IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (SCI/EI), Vol. 21 , March, Issue: 3 ,2015, pp.304-314(http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=7024234)

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Drawing Road Networks with Mental Maps

Published in September, 2014

Shih-Syun Lin ,Chao-Hung Lin, Yan-Jhang Hu, Tong-Yee Lee*, “Drawing Road Networks with Mental Maps,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 20, No. 9, 2014, pp. 1241-1252. (SCI/EI) (also presented in ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2014,Shenzhen, China. Dec. 2014)

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Double-sided 2.5D Graphics

Published in February, 2013

Chih-Kuo Yeh, Peng Song, Peng-Yen Lin, Chi-Wing Fu, Chao-Hung Lin, Tong-Yee Lee,“Double-sided 2.5D Graphics” ,IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 19, No.2, pp. 225-235, 2013.

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Resizing by Symmetry-Summarization

Published in December, 2010

Huisi Wu, Yushuen Wang, Kun-Chuan Feng, Tien-Tsin Wong, Tong-Yee Lee, Pheng-Ann Heng “Resizing by Symmetry-Summarization” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2010) Volume 29, Issue 6, Article No. 159, Dec., Seoul, 2010.

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CAMOUFLAGE IMAGES

Published in July, 2010

Hung-Kuo Chu, Wei-Hsin Hsu, Niloy J. Mitra, Daniel Cohen-Or, Tien-Tsin Wong, Tong-Yee Lee “CAMOUFLAGE IMAGES” ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2010)

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Emerging Images

Published in March, 2009

Niloy J. Mitra, Hung-Kuo Chu, Tong-Yee Lee, Lior Wolf, Hezy Yeshurun, Daniel Cohen-Or “Emerging Images,” ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2009) An article in Technology Review published by MIT reported this work(http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24313/page1/).

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A High Capacity 3D Steganography Algorithm

Published in May, 2009

Min-Wen Chao, Chao-Hung Lin, Cheng-Wei Yu, and Tong-Yee Lee “A High Capacity 3D Steganography Algorithm” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) March/April ,vol. 15 no. 2, pp. 274-284,2009

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Adaptive Geometry Image

Published in April, 2008

Zhi-Yuan Yao, Tong-Yee Lee “Adaptive Geometry Image” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) July/Aug., Vol.14, No.4, 2008, pp. 948-960

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Stylized Rendering for Anatomic Visualization

Published in January, 2007

Tong-Yee Lee, Chung-Ren Yen, Ming-Te Chi “Stylized Rendering for Anatomic Visualization” Special Issue - Anatomic Rendering and Visualization, IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 13-19, Jan/Feb, 2007

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Interactive 3D Virtual Colonoscopy System

Published in February, 1999

Tong-Yee Lee, Ping-Hsien Lin, Chao-Hung Lin, Yung-Nein Sun, Xi-Zhang Lin. “Interactive 3D Virtual Colonoscopy System”,IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol 03, No. 02, pp. 139-150,1999.

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Other Journal and arxiv Papers (2024/09/10)

Fast Character Modeling with Sketch-Based PDE Surfaces

Published in June, 2020

Lihua You, Xiaosong Yang, Junjun Pan, Tong-Yee Lee*, Shaojun Bian, Kun Qian, Zulfiqar Habib, Allah Bux Sargano, Ismail Kazmi, Jian J. Zhang, “Fast Character Modeling with Sketch-Based PDE Surfaces,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, 79(31-32): 23161-23187, 2020 (SCI/EI)

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Example-driven Animation Synthesis

Published in June, 2008

Yu-Shuen Wang, Tong-Yee Lee, “Example-driven Animation Synthesis ”, Computer Graphics International 2008 (also selected as a special issue of CGI 2008 in The Visual Computer Journal, accepting rate: 39/220), Istanbul, Turkey , June 2008, SCI/EI

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Exaggeration Cloning From Example Sequence

Published in June, 2007

Tong-Yee Lee,Ping-Hsien Lin, Shao-Wei Yen, Ming-Te Chi, Zhi-Yuan Yao, Jin-Lung Lin, “Exaggeration Cloning From Example Sequence”, (Invited paper) International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering Systems (preliminary version appeared in CASA 2007, June 11th-13th, 2007, Belgium ).

Mesh Pose-Editing Using Examples

Published in March, 2007

Tong-Yee Lee, Chao-Hung Lin, Hung-Kuo Chu,Yu-Shuen Wang,Shao-Wei Yen, Chang-Rung Tsai, “Mesh Pose-Editing Using Examples”, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal, 2007

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Progressive Mesh Metamorphosis

Published in July, 2005

Chao-Hung Lin, Tong-Yee Lee, Hung-Kuo Chu, Zhi-Yuan Yao, “Progressive Mesh Metamorphosis”, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal,Vol. 16, No. 3-4, July 2005, pp. 487-498

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Distributed Volume Morphing

Published in March, 1999

Leewen Lin, C.N. Lee, Tong-Yee Lee, “Distributed Volume Morphing”, Cluster Computing Journal (The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications) Vol. 2 No. 3, pp. 219-227, 1999

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Recent International Conference Papers (2005~present)

Design for Hypnotic Line Art Animation from a Still Image

Published in December, 2024

Xin-Wei Lin, Zhi-Yang Goh, Dong-Yi Wu, Thi-Ngoc-Hanh Le, HuiGuang Huang, and Tong-Yee Lee*. 2024. “Design for Hypnotic Line Art Animation from a Still Image,” Poster, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, Dec., Tokyo, Japan

Animated Pictorial Maps

Published in December, 2024

Dong-Yi Wu, Li-Kuan Ou, HuiGuang Huang, Yu Cao, Thi-Ngoc-Hanh Le, Xin-Wei Lin, Sheng-Yi Yao, and Tong-Yee Lee*. 2024. “Animated Pictorial Maps,” Poster, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, Dec., Tokyo, Japan

Lighting Image/Video Style Transfer Methods by Iterative Channel Pruning

Published in April, 2024

Kexin Wu, Fan Tang, Ning Liu, Oliver Deussen, Thi-ngoc-hanh Le, Weiming Dong, Tong-Yee Lee*, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), (oral presentation paper) Seoul, Korea, 14~19 April 2024, hosted by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. IEEE, 2024, pp. 3800-3804. ISSN 1520-6149. eISSN 2379-190X. ISBN 979-8-3503-4485-1. Available under: doi: 10.1109/icassp48485.2024.10446950

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Generation of Photorealistic QR Codes

Published in November, 2019

Shih-Syun Lin, Yu-Fan Chang, Thi Ngoc Hanh Le, Sheng-Yi Yao, Tong-Yee Lee* “Generation of Photorealistic QR Codes”, SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, Poster, Brisbane, Australia, Nov. 2019

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Alphabet Collage Art Generation

Published in December, 2018

Ming-Te Chi, Hao-Hsuan Tang, Chih-Kuo Yeh, Charles Morace, Hui-Nieg Chou, Tong-Yee Lee* “Alphabet Collage Art Generation”, SIGGRAPH Asia 2018, Poster, Tokyo, Dec., 2018.

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Content Enhanced Word Art with Depth Perception

Published in December, 2016

Shao-Wei Yen, Chih-Kuo Yeh, Charles C. Morace, Sheng-Yuan Chen, Shih-Syun Lin, Chia-Hsiang Chen, Tong-Yee Lee* “Content Enhanced Word Art with Depth Perception” Poster, SIGGRAPH Asia 2016, Macao, China, Dec.,2016.

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Resizing by Symmetry-Summarization

Published in December, 2010

Huisi Wu, Yushuen Wang, Kun-Chuan Feng, Tien-Tsin Wong, Tong-Yee Lee, Pheng-Ann Heng “Resizing by Symmetry-Summarization” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2010) Volume 29, Issue 6, Article No. 159, Dec., Seoul, 2010.

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CAMOUFLAGE IMAGES

Published in July, 2010

Hung-Kuo Chu, Wei-Hsin Hsu, Niloy J. Mitra, Daniel Cohen-Or, Tien-Tsin Wong, Tong-Yee Lee “CAMOUFLAGE IMAGES” ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2010)

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Emerging Images

Published in March, 2009

Niloy J. Mitra, Hung-Kuo Chu, Tong-Yee Lee, Lior Wolf, Hezy Yeshurun, Daniel Cohen-Or “Emerging Images,” ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2009) An article in Technology Review published by MIT reported this work(http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24313/page1/).

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Example-driven Animation Synthesis

Published in June, 2008

Yu-Shuen Wang, Tong-Yee Lee, “Example-driven Animation Synthesis ”, Computer Graphics International 2008 (also selected as a special issue of CGI 2008 in The Visual Computer Journal, accepting rate: 39/220), Istanbul, Turkey , June 2008, SCI/EI

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Animation generation and retargeting based on physics characteristics

Published in November 26-28, 2007

Yao-Yang Tsai, Hung-Kuo Chu, Kuangyou B. Cheng, Tong-Yee Lee “Animation generation and retargeting based on physics characteristics” to appear in IEEE The third International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing(Special Session on Computer Graphics), Nov. 26-28, 2007

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WYSIWYG: Mesh Decomposition for Static Models

Published in November 26-28, 2007

Yu-Shuen Wang, Tong-Yee Lee “WYSIWYG: Mesh Decomposition for Static Models” to appear in IEEE The third International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing(Special Session on Computer Graphics), Nov. 26-28, 2007

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Mesh Pose-Editing Using Examples

Published in June, 2007

Tong-Yee Lee, Chao-Hung Lin, Hung-Kuo Chu,Yu-Shuen Wang,Shao-Wei Yen, Chang-Rung Tsai, “Mesh Pose-Editing Using Examples”. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal, 2007

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Exaggeration Cloning

Published in June 11-13, 2007

Tong-Yee Lee, Ping-Hsien Lin, Shao-Wei Yen, Zhi-Yuan Yao, Jin-Lung Lin. “Exaggeration Cloning.” International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2007), June 11th-13th, 2007, Belgium

Generating Genus-n-to-m Mesh Morphing Using Spherical Parameterization

Published in May, 2006

Tong-Yee Lee, Zhi-Yuan Yao, Hung-Kuo Chu, Ming-Jen Tai, and Cheng-Chieh Chen. “Generating Genus-n-to-m Mesh Morphing Using Spherical Parameterization” International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2006), Geneva, Switzerland 2006 (aslo selected in a special issue of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal,2006, CAVW 17(3-4), pp. 433-443 )

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Stylized Motion for 3D Character Rendering and Animation

Published in May, 2006

Tong-Yee Lee, Ming-Te Chi, Chung-Ren Yan, Chiung-Fu Chen, Yen-Chi Lin. “Stylized Motion for 3D Character Rendering and Animation” International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2006), Geneva, Switzerland 2006

Segmenting a Deforming Mesh into Near-Rigid Components

Published in May, 2006

Tong-Yee Lee, Yu-Shuen Wang , Tai-Guang Chen. “Segmenting a Deforming Mesh into Near-Rigid Components” The 14th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, (Pacific Graphics 2006) (also selected in a special issue of Visual Computer Journal Vol. 22, No. 9-11, Sept. 2006, pp. 729-739)

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Feature-constrained Texturing System for 3D Models

Published in September, 2005

Tong-Yee Lee, Shaur-Uei Yan “Feature-constrained Texturing System for 3D Models” International Workshop on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, September 14 - 16, 2005 Hilton Hotel Melbourne, Australia (also in Lecture Notes in AI 3683 Vol. Part III pp. 469-474 (LNCS/LNAI), Springer-Verlag, 2005)

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Feature-based Texture Synthesis

Published in September, 2005

Tong-Yee Lee and Chung-Ren Yan. “Feature-based Texture Synthesis” International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA) 2005, Singapore, May 2005 (also in Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS 3482) volume 3482, Springer-Verlag, pp. 1043-1049).

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Mesh Decomposition Using Motion Information From Animation Sequences

Published in July, 2005

Tong-Yee Lee, Ping-Hsien Lin, Shaur-Uei Yan, Chun-Hao Lin “Mesh Decomposition Using Motion Information From Animation Sequences” International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) Oct. 2005, Hong-Kong. (also selected in Special issue of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3-4, July, pp. 519-529, 2005)https://doi.org/10.1002/cav.79

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Progressive Mesh Metamorphosis

Published in October, 2005

Chao-Hung Lin, Tong-Yee Lee, Hung-Kuo Chu, Zhi-Yuan Yao “Progressive Mesh Metamorphosis” International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2005) Oct. 2005, Hong-Kong (also selected in Special issue of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal,Vol. 16, No. 3-4, July 2005, pp. 487-498 )

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Real-time 3D Artistic Rendering System

Published in October, 2005

Tong-Yee Lee, Shaur-Uei Yan, Yong-Nien Chen, Ming-Te Chi “Real-time 3D Artistic Rendering System” International Workshop on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, September 14 - 16, 2005 Hilton Hotel Melbourne, Australia (also in Lecture Notes in AI 3683, Vol. Part III pp. 456-462, (LNCS/LNAI), Springer-Verlag, 2005)

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