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Call for Papers: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2008

by Stefanie Behnke

Call for Papers --------------- The Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2008 will take place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from June 23 to June 25, 2008. This is the 19th annual event in the series of very successful Eurographics Symposia on Rendering and Eurographics Workshops on Rendering. The local organizers are Jasminka Hasic and Selma Rizvic. The program chairs are Steve Marschner and Michael Wimmer. Up-to-date information about the conference is available on the EGSR 2008 web site: http://egsr2008.ssst.edu.ba Conference Topics ----------------- Conference topics include (but are not limited to): - Global illumination - Monte Carlo techniques - Finite element techniques - Volume scattering and translucency - Reflectance and scattering models - Human perception and error measures - Sampling, filtering, and anti-aliasing - Shadows and visibility - Texture models, analysis, and synthesis - Computational photography - Non-photorealistic rendering - Image-based measurement and rendering - Sensing for graphics - Point-based rendering - New rendering hardware and new uses of existing hardware - Real-time rendering and real-time ray tracing - Systems and software architecture for rendering - Virtual/augmented reality and interactive systems - Rendering dynamic/animated environments Starting this year, the proceedings of EGSR will be a special issue of the journal Computer Graphics Forum. This will improve the availability of EGSR papers and make them citable as journal articles. Because of this there will be a brief second review cycle for any papers that require changes to be accepted; such papers will only be accepted after the changes have been confirmed by the program committee. Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are 11:59 p.m., US Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4). Abstract submission deadline: Friday, April 4 Paper submission deadline: Monday, April 7 Author notification: Thursday, May 8 Revisions due: Friday, May 16 Final PDF files due for printing: Monday, May 19 Symposium: June 23-25 The EGSR review and publication process is very short, and to achieve this quick turnaround all deadlines must be strictly observed. In particular, final PDF files for printing must be finished on time. Keynote Speakers: ----------------- David Salesin, Adobe Systems Heinrich Bülthoff, Max Planck Institute International Program Committee ------------------------------- Program Chairs: Steve Marschner (US) and Michael Wimmer (AT) International Program Committee: Aseem Agarwala (US) Kavita Bala (US) Philippe Bekaert (BE) Jiri Bittner (CZ) Per Christensen (US) Craig Donner (US) George Drettakis (FR) Philip Dutre (BE) Michael Goesele (GE) Baining Guo (US) Tim Hawkins (US) Wolfgang Heidrich (CA) Nicolas Holzschuch (FR) Greg Humphreys (US) Henrik Wann Jensen (US) Stefan Jeschke (AT) Jan Kautz (UK) Jaroslav Krivanek (CZ) Samuli Laine (FI) Jason Lawrence (US) Jakkoo Lehtinen (FI) Hendrik Lensch (GE) Danni Lischinski (IL) Bill Mark (US) Wojciech Matusik (US) Sumanta Pattanaik (US) Fabio Pellacini (US) Holly Rushmeier (US) Marc Stamminger (GE) Lefebvre Sylvain (FR) Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos (HU) Nicolas Tsingos (FR) Greg Ward (CA) Peter Wonka (US) Local Organizing Chairs: Jasminka Hasic (BA) and Selma Rizvic (BA) Instructions for Submission --------------------------- All contributions submitted to Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2008 must be original, unpublished work. Any work that has previously been published or simultaneously been submitted in substantially similar form to any other conference or journal will be rejected. Contributions must be written and presented in English. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Submitted manuscripts should be formatted using the Eurographics publication style proceedings templates, and be anonymized for the double-blind reviewing process. Papers should be as long as their content requires, but not longer. Papers with average length requirements are expected to be 8 formatted pages long, including references and all figures; up to 10 pages will be allowed only where justified. During the review process, each paper's contribution will be judged in proportion to its length: a solid contribution described clearly and succinctly is more likely to be accepted than the same result submitted in a longer paper. All submissions must be made through the Eurographics Submission and Review Management system, using the following URL. http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/SRM_SR2008 The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. The authors of each accepted paper need to complete and return the EG Copyright Assignment Form before the paper can be published.

18 years, 9 months

CFP: Eurographics 2008 Workshop on 3D object retrieval

by Stefanie Behnke

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ============================================== Call for Papers Eurographics 2008 Workshop on 3D object retrieval (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~egw3dor/) April 15, 2008 Crete, GREECE 3D object representations have become an integral part of modern computer graphics applications, such as computer-aided design, game development and film production. At the same time, 3D data have become very common in domains such as computer vision, computational geometry, molecular biology and medicine. The rapid evolution in graphics hardware and software development, in particular the availability of low cost 3D scanners, has greatly facilitated 3D model acquisition, creation and manipulation, giving the opportunity to experience applications using 3D models to a large user community. As the number of 3D models is continuously growing fast the problem of creating new 3D models has shifted to the problem of searching for existing 3D models. Thereupon, the development of efficient search mechanisms is required for the effective retrieval of 3D objects from large repositories, both of a single class (such as human faces) and across classes. The aim of this workshop is to stimulate researchers from different fields (computer vision, computer graphics, machine learning and human-computer interaction) who work on the common goal of 3D object retrieval, to present state-of-the-art work in the field and thus provide a cross-fertilization ground that will stimulate discussions on the next steps in this important research area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics Topics of interest include but are not limited to : - Invariant 2D / 3D feature extraction - Biologically inspired 3D representations - Mesh segmentation - Relevance feedback - Active learning - Ontology-driven search - Generative / Discriminative approaches in 3D object categorization - Indexing methodologies - Benchmarking issues - Applications in Multimedia industry, CAD industry, Games industry, Biometrics, e-Science, e-Learning, Medicine, Culture. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates Submission deadline: Monday, January 14th, 2008 (24:00 GMT) Notification of acceptance: Friday, February 15th, 2008 Camera-ready papers deadline: Monday, February 25th, 2008 Workshop: Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 (one full day) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The proceedings of the Workshop will be published in the Eurographics Proceedings Series and on the Eurographics Digital Library. The authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a peer-reviewed Journal. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organisation Workshop Chairs Ioannis Pratikakis ( IIT / NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece ) Theoharis Theoharis ( University of Athens, Greece ) Programme Chairs Stavros Perantonis ( IIT / NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece ) Nikolaos Sapidis (University of the Aegean, Greece ) Michela Spagnuolo ( IMATI / CNR, Italy ) Daniel Thalmann (EPFL, Switzerland ) International Programme Committee Philipos Azariadis (University of the Aegean, Greece) Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Florence, Italy) Petros Daras (Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece) Bianca Falcidieno (IMATI / CNR, Italy) Dieter W. Fellner (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany) Thomas Funkhouser (Princeton University, USA) John Illingworth (University of Surrey, UK); Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Georgios Papaioannou (AUEB, Greece) Nikos Paragios (Ecole Centrale de Paris, France) Nicholas Patrikalakis (MIT, USA) Karthik Ramani (Purdue University, USA) William Regli (Drexel University, USA) Marcos Rodrigues (University of Sheffield, UK) Dietmar Saupe (University of Konstanz, Germany) Ariel Shamir (Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, Israel) Ayellet Tal (Technion Institute of Technology, Israel) Theodore Trafalis (University of Oklahoma, USA) Dimitrios Tzovaras (Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece ) Remco Veltkamp (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Titus Zaharia (Institut National des Telecommunications, France) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact Information Ioannis PRATIKAKIS Computational Intelligence Laboratory Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" Tel: +30-210-650 3183 E-mail: ipratika(a)iit.demokritos.gr Theoharis THEOHARIS Department of Informatics & Telecommunications University of Athens Tel: +30 210-7275106 Email: theotheo(a)di.uoa.gr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE VISIT THE WORKSHOP WEB-SITE FOR UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION

18 years, 9 months

CFP: Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008

by Stefanie Behnke

================================================================= Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please forward this mail to anyone interested ================================================================= CFP: The UK Chapter of the Eurographics Association (EGUK) presents:- Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008 University of Manchester, UK , 9-11th June 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ** Paper deadline March 10th 2008 ** http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG08/ The 26th Conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics Association will be the sixth Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008 Conference (TP.CG.08). All accepted papers will be published by Eurographics and held on the Digital Library, and will be available at the conference. Call for Papers =============== This conference focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of Computer Graphics and brings together top practitioners, users and researchers, thereby inspiring further collaboration between participants, particularly between academia and industry. The Programme Committee is seeking refereed papers and work-in-progress reports in all aspects of computer graphics and its applications. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): computer animation, computer-based art and entertainment, computation geometry, display technologies, fundamental algorithms, graphics application systems, graphics architectures and acceleration hardware, fractal and natural phenomena, human computer interaction, image processing, Internet graphics and collaborative environments, medical imaging, modelling methods, rendering techniques, texture synthesis, scientific visualization, information visualization, virtual reality and virtual environments, volume graphics, web graphics. Further details and submission categories may be found on http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG08/

18 years, 9 months

Eurographics 2008 Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization: Call for Papers - Deadline Extension

by Stefanie Behnke

================================================================== Eurographics 2008 Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV'08) April 14-15, 2008, Crete, Greece Co-located with Eurographics '08 http://vidi.cs.ucdavis.edu/EGPGV08 ================================================================== ------------------------------------ Call for Papers - Deadline Extension ------------------------------------ Aims and Scope of the Symposium ------------------------------- Following the success of previous EGPGV symposia, we are happy to announce the 8th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization. The new generation of parallel architectures introduce many exciting research opportunities. The extreme-scale of these new parallel systems redefines the scalability problem of many graphics and visualization applications. The aim of this symposium is to foster greater exchange of experiences and knowledge of parallel and distributed computing and its application to all aspects of computer graphics and data visualization. Topics of interest include but not limited to: - Cluster based graphics and visualization - Efficient graphics and visualization for shared and distributed memory systems - Parallel and distributed systems for large and high resolution displays - Parallel and distributed systems for photo-realistic rendering - Parallel volume rendering - Data coherence in graphics algorithms - Large data set visualization - Realistic rendering of large models - Large scale simulations and graphics rendering - Graphics and visualization in Grid environments - Parallel simulations for interactive applications - Parallelism within GPU architectures - GPU and GPGPU clusters - Parallel graphics and visualization on multi-core CPUs and other parallel architectures The EGPGV Symposium is co-located with the Eurographics Annual Conference, which will take place from April 14-18. Eurographics Annual Conference web page: http://www.ics.forth.gr/eg2008/ Paper Submission and Important Dates ------------------------------------ The proceedings of the Symposium will be published in the Eurographics Proceedings Series and on the Eurographics Digital Library. The authors of up to three of the best papers of the Symposium will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Abstract submission (mandatory): December 27, 2007 Paper submission: January 6, 2008 Author notification: February 15, 2008 Camera-ready paper: February 29, 2008 Organizers ---------- Symposium Chair Daniel Weiskopf, Universitaet Stuttgart Program Chairs Jean Favre, Swiss National Supercomputing Center Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California at Davis ---------------------------------------------------------- Web Page: http://vidi.cs.ucdavis.edu/EGPGV08 For further questions please contact: egpgv08(a)visus.uni-stuttgart.de

18 years, 10 months

CFP: Symposium on Geometry Processing 2008

by Stefanie Behnke

CALL FOR PAPERS The Symposium on Geometry Processing is the premier venue for disseminating new research ideas and cutting-edge results in computerized processing of geometric models. In this emerging area, concepts from applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering are used to design efficient algorithms for acquisition, reconstruction, manipulation, simulation and transmission of complex 3D models. We now invite submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics in geometry processing: * geometry and topology representations * compression of static or animated geometry * surface and volume parameterization * approximation and meshing * reverse engineering * robust geometric computing * simplification and level of detail * smoothing and denoising * multiresolution shape analysis and synthesis * geometric aspects of rendering and other fields * interactive techniques * animation and simulation Applications of geometry processing algorithms cover a wide range of areas from multimedia, entertainment, and classical computer-aided design, to bio-medical computing, reverse engineering, architectural design, and scientific computing. We welcome papers related to applications of geometry processing such as the above. IMPORTANT DATES Electronic abstract submission deadline: April 20, 2008 Electronic paper submission deadline: April 27, 2008 Author notification: May 26, 2008 Camera ready copy deadline: June 1st, 2008 Symposium: July 2-4, 2008 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submit Papers to: http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/SRM_SGP08 (available in January 2008). Authors are requested to submit an abstract of their paper (in plain text format) by April 20, 2008. The abstract submission should contain the names and institutions of all the authors, contact information of one contact author (name, e-mail, postal address, phone and fax numbers), and the working title and abstract of the submission. Submitted manuscripts should be prepared for double-blind review, and should be original work, not concurrently submitted to any other venue. The length of a submitted paper should typically not exceed 8 pages, formatted in the proper publication style (LaTeX files available online). A submission can also be accompanied by electronic supplementary material (e.g. video). Submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee and selected external reviewers. PROCEEDINGS This year, the SGP proceedings will appear for the first time as an issue of the Computer Graphics Forum, the International Journal of the EUROGRAPHICS Association. The journal status of the proceedings requires a two-stage review process with conditional acceptance after the first round and final acceptance based on the revised submissions. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Pierre Alliez, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Princeton University PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bart Adams Marc Alexa François Anton Dominique Attali Andreas Bærentzen Alexander Belyaev Ioana Boier-Martin Jean-Daniel Boissonnat Mario Botsch Pere Brunet Frederic Cazals Siu-Wing Cheng Daniel Cohen-Or David Cohen-Steiner Leila De Floriani Tony DeRose Mathieu Desbrun Neil Dogson Herbert Edelsbrunner Michael Floater Thomas Funkhouser Michael Garland Natasha Gelfand Steven Gortler Craig Gotsman Cindy Grimm Eitan Grinspun Xianfeng Gu Leonidas Guibas Stefan Gumhold Igor Guskov John Hart Hugues Hoppe Kai Hormann Shi-Min Hu Martin Isenburg Misha Kazhdan Ron Kimmel Leif Kobbelt Seungyong Lee Bruno Lévy Thomas Lewiner Dinesh Manocha Ralph Martin Niloy Mitra Heinrich Mueller Steve Oudot Mark Pauly Gabriel Peyré Konrad Polthier Helmut Pottmann Emil Praun Jarek Rossignac Scott Schaefer Peter Schröder Hans-Peter Seidel Ariel Shamir Alla Sheffer Jonathan Shewchuk Claudio Silva Olga Sorkine Michela Spagnuolo Gabriel Taubin Alper Ungor Amitabh Varshney Luiz Velho Johannes Wallner Michael Wand Wenping Wang Joe Warren Mariette Yvinec Eugene Zhang Kun Zhou Afra Zomorodian Denis Zorin ORGANIZING CO-CHAIRS J. Andreas Bærentzen and Francois Anton Technical University of Denmark

18 years, 10 months

EG 2008 John Lansdown award

by Stefanie Behnke

EUROGRAHICS 2008: The John Lansdown Prize for Interactive Digital Art All those working in interactive digital art are invited to submit for this international prize, awarded annually by the Eurographics Association. The first prize has a cash value of 750 Euros and there is 250 Euros for the runner-up. The closing date for submission is 18th January 2008. The criteria for the Award centre on the creative use of the digital medium for interactive art, in any form. The work submitted must have been created within the last two years. Details of the winning entries from the 2007 and 2006 competitions have been published on the Eurographics Web site, http://www.eg.org/about/awards. Background Eurographics presented the John Lansdown Prize for the first time at the Eurographics 2000 conference. The award was renamed the Prize for Interactive Digital Art in 2006, to better describe the kind of entry that the judges are looking for. The prize is dedicated to the memory of Professor John Lansdown, who died in February 1999. In his varied career, John Lansdown was involved in many creative activities, from his first discipline of architecture, through computer graphics to computer-mediated artwork of many forms, culminating in multimedia production. Creativity is an overworked word, but it can be justly applied to John Lansdown's approach to everything he explored, so the criteria for the award centre on the creative use of computers to generate interactive art. The results of the competition will be announced at Eurographics 2008 in Crete in April 2008. A certificate will accompany the cheque. The judges look forward to receiving a stimulating set of submissions and wish all submitters good luck with their research and development work. Judging Criteria The submission awarded first prize will demonstrate innovation in the use of interaction with images, sound and animation. The judges will take into account whether the work looks and sounds "good" and behaves "well", the strength of the underlying ideas and the degree to which the system "works" both conceptually and mechanically, in other words the fitness for purpose of the submission. A successful work will show a significant understanding of the needs, motivations, conceptions and actions of the user. Fundamental characteristics that the judges will expect to find in a successful submission include: * Innovation * Usability * Degree of finish * Technical ingenuity * Coherence * Usefulness * Meeting declared aims * Selectivity or appropriateness * Fertility for development * Awareness of "state of the art" The judges reserve the right to make no award or to award only a second prize if, in their opinion, the standard of work submitted does not reach the high standards of creativity associated with John Lansdown. The judges' decision is final. They may, at their discretion, give private advice or comments to submitters of work on future development, but will not openly discuss their decisions nor respond to direct questioning on the reasons for decisions after the award ceremony. Rules for submission A submission may be made by companies, Universities, Research organisations, individuals -in short anyone- from any country in the world. The work submitted must have been created within the last two years. The work must be submitted on CD-ROM or DVD (five copies). The submission should be accessible using standard software on standard equipment (for example, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer, Adobe Acrobat on PC and/or Macintosh platforms). If specialist plug-ins or Xtras are needed, arrangements to download these should be made clear in the submission. If the work is a web site, a disk copy should be submitted. If the work is an installation, it is acceptable to submit a video describing the work and including a tour through the work. Videos may be submitted on CD-ROM or DVD. Entries that run on mobile devices should also be submitted as video, e.g. by capturing the screens. Submissions should be received by the Chairman of the judges, Nuno Correia, on or before 18th January 2008. Submissions received after this closing time will not be considered. Each submission should contain: * the name, address, telephone, FAX, email and company or university affiliation (when relevant) of a contactable submitter, as well as a signed and dated statement indicating willingness to accept the rules of the competition and for Eurographics to have the right to use extracts from the work for publicity purposes; * the names, addresses and affiliations of any collaborators, plus a signed and dated statement from each indicating their agreement that the work should be submitted to the competition and that they accept the competition rules; * TWO signed copies of the "Licence to Use Agreement" (DOC, PDF). One copy, signed by Eurographics, will be returned to you; * a brief statement (no more than one A4 page) indicating the aims and status of the work (for example, commercial product, joint or individual student project, "proof of concept" development, etc.); * complete operating instructions for the work, to include any special requirements of the operating platform and/or software. Contact details Professor Nuno Correia Eurographics 2008 John Lansdown Award Competition Informatics Department Faculty of Sciences and Technology New Universyty of Lisbon Quinta da Torre, 2829 -516 CAPARICA Portugal Fax: +351 21 2948541 email: nmc(a)di.fct.unl.pt

18 years, 10 months

Smartgraphics 2008 Call for Paper

by Stefanie Behnke

SG08: 8th International Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS http://www.smartgraphics.org/ June 2-4 2008 Rennes, France submission deadline Jan 10, 2008 Graphics become Smart Graphics when their design and implementation are grounded in an understanding of human abilities, activities, and motivations from design experience and the broad spectrum of cognitive and social sciences. When knowledge from these diverse fields is combined with new methods, tools and techniques in AI, HCI and computer graphics, environments are created that (1) engage the user and are esthetically satisfying; (2) participate in human cognition as external or distributed representations; (3) are sensitive to the real-time demands of the interaction in the context of the available informational and computational resources; (4) adapt the form of the output according to a wider set of constraints such as an individual's perceptual, attentive, and motor abilities and the nature of the presentation media and available interaction devices. The International Symposium on Smart Graphics aims at gathering people from the fields of Cognitive Science, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence and Graphics Design to share experiences and experiments in this new and emerging area of study. *** Come and Join the Smart Graphics Experience *** Smart Graphics 2008 welcomes submissions from researchers and practitioners, as well as artists and graphic designers interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the design of smart interactive visual, auditory, and haptic displays. Submission categories are divided into: * Full papers: these will encompass comprehensive descriptions of original work within the scope of the symposium (limited to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format). * Posters: tentative or preliminary results of research or design work with emphasis on the interdisciplinary evaluation of the ideas (limited to 4 pages in Springer LNCS format). Poster papers will be included in the proceedings. * System demonstrations: short descriptions of research or design work that the authors intend to show and discuss in a demo session at the symposium (limited to 2 pages in Springer LNCS format). System demonstration papers will be included in the proceedings. Smartgraphics specially encourages young researchers to submit their ideas and results. The best full paper and best poster, which first authors are students, will receive a prize. As in previous conferences, proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS) series. This year, we propose a specific emphasis on interaction in virtual reality as well as on constraint techniques in user interfaces. For a full description of the scope of the Symposium, and details of previous events, see the website: http://www.smartgraphics.org For any queries, please use the contact address: (marc.christie at irisa.fr) Submission Categories: Full papers Posters System demonstrations and artwork Important Dates: Jan 10, 2008 (submission deadline) Feb 21, 2007 (notification of results) Mar 13, 2007 (camera ready copy due) Jun 2-4 (Symposium in Rennes, France) ORGANIZERS: Andreas Butz (University of Munich, Germany) Marc Christie (IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France) Brian Fisher (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Antonio Krueger (University of Muenster, Germany) Patrick Olivier (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) COMMITEE: * Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg) * William Bares (Millsaps College) * Marc Cavazza (Teeside University) * Sarah Diamond (Ontario College of Art and Design) * Stephane Donikian (IRISA/INRIA Rennes) * Steven Feiner (Columbia University) * Veronique Gaildrat (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University Toulouse) * Knut Hartmann (University of Magdeburg) * Hiroshi Hosobe (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) * Tsvi Kuflik (University of Haifa, Israel) * Rainer Malaka (European Media Lab) * Jun Mitani (University of Tsukuba) * Shigeru Owada (Sony CSL) * W. Bradford Paley (Digital Image Design) * Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg) * Thomas Rist (University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg) * Shigeo Takahashi (University of Tokyo) * Takafumi Saito (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) * Lucia Terrenghi (University of Munich) * Massimo Zancanaro (ITC-irst Trento) * Michelle Zhou (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

18 years, 10 months

John Lansdown Prize 2008, Call for Submissions

by Stefanie Behnke

The John Lansdown Prize for Interactive Digital Art All those working in interactive digital art are invited to submit for this international prize, awarded annually by the Eurographics Association. The first prize has a cash value of 750 Euros and there is 250 Euros for the runner-up. The closing date for submission is 18th January 2008. The criteria for the Award centre on the creative use of the digital medium for interactive art, in any form. The work submitted must have been created within the last two years. Details of the winning entries from the 2007 and 2006 competitions have been published on the Eurographics Web site, http://www.eg.org/about/awards. Background Eurographics presented the John Lansdown Prize for the first time at the Eurographics 2000 conference. The award was renamed the Prize for Interactive Digital Art in 2006, to better describe the kind of entry that the judges are looking for. The prize is dedicated to the memory of Professor John Lansdown, who died in February 1999. In his varied career, John Lansdown was involved in many creative activities, from his first discipline of architecture, through computer graphics to computer-mediated artwork of many forms, culminating in multimedia production. Creativity is an overworked word, but it can be justly applied to John Lansdown's approach to everything he explored, so the criteria for the award centre on the creative use of computers to generate interactive art. The results of the competition will be announced at Eurographics 2008 in Crete in April 2008. A certificate will accompany the cheque. The judges look forward to receiving a stimulating set of submissions and wish all submitters good luck with their research and development work. Judging Criteria The submission awarded first prize will demonstrate innovation in the use of interaction with images, sound and animation. The judges will take into account whether the work looks and sounds "good" and behaves "well", the strength of the underlying ideas and the degree to which the system "works" both conceptually and mechanically, in other words the fitness for purpose of the submission. A successful work will show a significant understanding of the needs, motivations, conceptions and actions of the user. Fundamental characteristics that the judges will expect to find in a successful submission include: * Innovation * Usability * Degree of finish * Technical ingenuity * Coherence * Usefulness * Meeting declared aims * Selectivity or appropriateness * Fertility for development * Awareness of "state of the art" The judges reserve the right to make no award or to award only a second prize if, in their opinion, the standard of work submitted does not reach the high standards of creativity associated with John Lansdown. The judges' decision is final. They may, at their discretion, give private advice or comments to submitters of work on future development, but will not openly discuss their decisions nor respond to direct questioning on the reasons for decisions after the award ceremony. Rules for submission A submission may be made by companies, Universities, Research organisations, individuals -in short anyone- from any country in the world. The work submitted must have been created within the last two years. The work must be submitted on CD-ROM or DVD (five copies). The submission should be accessible using standard software on standard equipment (for example, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer, Adobe Acrobat on PC and/or Macintosh platforms). If specialist plug-ins or Xtras are needed, arrangements to download these should be made clear in the submission. If the work is a web site, a disk copy should be submitted. If the work is an installation, it is acceptable to submit a video describing the work and including a tour through the work. Videos may be submitted on CD-ROM or DVD. Entries that run on mobile devices should also be submitted as video, e.g. by capturing the screens. Submissions should be received by the Chairman of the judges, Nuno Correia, on or before 18th January 2008. Submissions received after this closing time will not be considered. Each submission should contain: * the name, address, telephone, FAX, email and company or university affiliation (when relevant) of a contactable submitter, as well as a signed and dated statement indicating willingness to accept the rules of the competition and for Eurographics to have the right to use extracts from the work for publicity purposes; * the names, addresses and affiliations of any collaborators, plus a signed and dated statement from each indicating their agreement that the work should be submitted to the competition and that they accept the competition rules; * TWO signed copies of the "Licence to Use Agreement" (DOC, PDF). One copy, signed by Eurographics, will be returned to you; * a brief statement (no more than one A4 page) indicating the aims and status of the work (for example, commercial product, joint or individual student project, "proof of concept" development, etc.); * complete operating instructions for the work, to include any special requirements of the operating platform and/or software. Contact details Professor Nuno Correia Eurographics 2008 John Lansdown Award Competition Informatics Department Faculty of Sciences and Technology New Universyty of Lisbon Quinta da Torre, 2829 -516 CAPARICA Portugal Fax: +351 21 2948541 email: nmc(a)di.fct.unl.pt

18 years, 10 months

CFP SBIM 2008: Fifth Eurographics workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling

by Stefanie Behnke

CALL FOR PAPERS SBIM 2008 Fifth Eurographics workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling June 11-13, Annecy, France http://www.eg.org/sbm co-located with NPAR 2008 and the Annecy Animation Film Festival Important Dates March 15, 2008 Paper Deadline April 20, 2008 Notification of Decisions May 2, 2008 Final Papers Due June 11-13, 2008 Conference Dates Call for Papers Although computers are indispensable tools, pencil and paper still reign in the early stages of design in domains such as engineering, architectural design and in the entertainment industry, from 3D animation to video games. Enabled by advances in pen-based computer hardware, digital sketch-based interfaces are emerging as a way to combine the quick and intuitive feel of paper with the advantages of digital technology. However, fully realizing the potential of these sketch-based systems requires effective user interface design and underlying algorithms to analyse the input. Interpreting the users' sketches as advanced 2D or 3D models is a fascinating research area that builds on human perception, shape recognition and geometric modeling techniques. In addition to sketching from scratch, many tasks related to modeling, editing and control can be made more efficient through systems that allow the user to annotate existing data, from text and diagrams to images, videos or 3D shapes. The workshop will explore models, algorithms and technologies needed to enable effective sketch-based interfaces. It will investigate novel methods for classification and recognition of hand-drawn shapes, and the ways of using these techniques for creating or editing digital models, from text and 2D diagrams to 3D shapes. Likewise, the workshop will explore the application of sketch-based interfaces to domains as diverse as 3D computer graphics and animation, CAD, diagram editing, note taking, etc. Finally, the workshop will welcome empirical user studies aimed at clarifying the nature of sketch-based interfaces and comparing them to other interaction techniques. Created in 2004, SBIM provides a unique venue for researchers and students interested in sketch-based techniques to interact with one another, share lessons learned, show new results and discuss open issues. This year, the workshop will be held in Annecy, France, a friendly little town surrounded by the beautiful French Alps. It will take place during the famous Annecy Animation Film Festival and be held back to back with NPAR'2008 (the premier conference for techniques in expressive rendering and animation), encouraging participation in both events. The two-days workshop will include paper presentations (single track), coffee breaks, a social event and invited talks. All are welcome to attend the workshop; submission of a paper is not required for attendance. The proceedings will be published in the EG Workshop series and made available online through the Eurographics Digital Library. Authors are invited to submit original papers on topics in pen-based 2D and 3D modeling, sketch recognition, and pen-based interface design, including, but not limited to: * Multimodal interfaces for sketching * Novel sketch input devices * Novel pen-based interaction techniques * Low level ink processing and pen stroke segmentation * Sketch parsing, classification and recognition * Sketch-based interfaces for CAD systems * Sketch-based modeling and editing of 3D shapes * Sketch-based control of animations * Sketch-based interfaces for other applications (surface editing, diagram creation, mathematical annotations, games, etc.) * Rendering techniques for sketch-based systems (NPR) * Sketches for Medical and Volume data editing * Sketch-based retrieval of multimedia information * Usability studies of sketch-based systems * Studies of the impact of sketching on creativity and design The workshop is small and provides plenty of time for interaction, so authors of workshop papers are strongly encouraged to provide demos. Submission Information Authors are requested to submit original research papers, no longer than 8 pages, with the main body set in Eurographics Conference Paper Format. All submissions are electronic. You can get more information and download a set of LaTeX style files (starting early 2008) from the workshop web site: http://www.eg.org/sbm Please contact the program chairs (alvarado(a)cs.hmc.edu or marie-paule.cani(a)inrialpes.fr) with any submission questions. Conference Organization Chairs: General chair: Karan Singh Paper co-chairs: Christine Alvarado & Marie-Paule Cani EG SBIM working group chair: Joaquim Jorge Program Committee: Marc Alexa, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Ken Anjyo, OLM Digital, Japan Loic Barthes, University of Toulouse, France Alexandra Bartolo, University of Malta Ronen Barzel, ACM siggraph, USA Bill Baxter, OLM Digital, Japan Daniel Cohen-Or, Tel Aviv University, Israel Mario Costa Sousa, University of Calgary, Canada Randall Davis, MIT, USA Oliver Deussen, Konstanz University, Germany Julie Dorsey, Yale University, USA Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Adam Finkelstein, Princeton University, USA Andrew Forsberg, Brown University, USA Ken Forbus, Northwestern University, USA Xavier Granier, University of Bordeaux, France Cindy Grimm, Washington University in St Louis, USA Mark Gross, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University, USA Takeo Igarashi, University of Tokyo, Japan Joaquim Jorge, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal Prem Kalra, IIT-Delhi, India Burak Kara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA James Landay, University of Washington, USA Edward Lank, Univeristy of Waterloo, Canada Joseph LaViola Jr., University of Central Florida, USA Jean-Claude Leon, INP Grenoble, France M. Gopi, University of California, Irvine, USA Beryl Plimmer, University of Auckland, New Zealand Shengfeng Qin, Brunel University, UK Karthik Ramani, Purdue University, USA Eric Saund, PARC, USA Metin Sezgin, University of Cambridge, UK Michael Shilman, Microsoft Research, USA Tom Stahovich, University of California, Riverside, USA Michiel van de Panne, University of British Columbia, Canada Xin Wang, Microsoft Research, USA Liu Wenyin, City University of Hong Kong Brian Wyvill, University of Victoria, Canada Bob Zeleznik, Brown University, USA Sun Zhengxing, Nanjing University, China

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