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SBIM 2008: Call for participation

by Stefanie Behnke

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 Call for participation ---------------------------- 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. The workshop is small and provides plenty of time for interaction. The detailled program, which includes key-note talks, research papers, and interactive demos, is online at: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~karan/sbim/ We are looking forwards to see you in Annecy! General chair: Karan Singh Paper co-chairs: Christine Alvarado & Marie-Paule Cani EG SBIM working group chair: Joaquim Jorge

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Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation VRIPHYS 08

by Stefanie Behnke

We are pleased to announce the fifth Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation VRIPHYS 08. The workshop is hosted by the Grenoble Universities, France. It is organized in cooperation with Eurographics. VRIPHYS is one of the well-established international conferences in the field of computer animation and virtual reality. The workshop provides an opportunity for researches in virtual reality and computer animation to present and discuss their latest results and to share ideas for potential directions of future research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - animation, e. g. physically-based, vision-based, knowledge-based and geometric approaches - virtual and augmented reality - planning, learning, optimization for animation, - interfaces for creating and editing animations - perception in animation - autonomous characters, group and crowd behavior - natural phenomena - mathematical foundations of animation - haptics - sound interfaces - related techniques, e. g. collision detection and contact handling - applications, e. g. in robotics, medicine, entertainment =============================== Important Dates: July 4, paper submission Aug 22, notification Sep 5, camera-ready version Sep 12, early-bird registration Nov 13-14, conference =============================== More information on http://www.vriphys.org/workshops/vriphys08/

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First Call for Papers to the GCR'09 Track in SAC'09

by Stefanie Behnke

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Geometric Constraints and Reasoning a technical track of The International ACM Symposium on Applied Computing SAC2009 March 8-12, 2009 Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Geometric Constraints and Reasoning (GCR) is a technical track of the International Symposium on Applied Computing (see http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009). For the past twenty years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact, and present their work. SAC is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), its proceedings are published by ACM in both printed form and CD-ROM; they are also available on the web through ACM's Digital Library. More information about SIGAPP and past SACs can be found at URL: http://www.acm.org/sigapp. As a special track of SAC, the GCR is devoted to geometric reasoning taken in a broad sense. Initially, this track focused on geometric constraint solving but it appears that geometric computing and reasoning is closely related to this topic. Our aim is then to widen the audience and to make GCR a place where the communities of geometric constraint solving, computer aided deduction in geometry and related disciplines can meet and have fruitful exchanges. See http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~robert/gcr2009/gcr2009.html. SAC 2009 is also an opportunity to attend tracks related to GCR, about combinatorial optimization, constraint programming (non geometrical constraints), graph algorithms, numerical methods or interval analysis, etc. TOPICS Specific topics of interest for the GCR track include, but are not limited to, the following: * Resolution of geometric constraints, with computer algebra, numerical analysis, interval analysis, logical approaches (e.g. provers), or other methods. * Proving geometric theorems with logical approaches, deductive databases, Computer Algebra, etc. * Decomposition of systems of geometric constraints. * Mixing geometric and non geometric constraints (combinatorial or logical), white boxes, black boxes, geometric constraints and constraints programming. * Detection of dependences between constraints, debugging geometric constraints. * Constrained curves, surfaces, blends. * Exotic (eg non cartesian) formulations of constraints. * Comparison of resolution methods or constraints formulations for the same problems. * Mathematical background: combinatorial rigidity, graph theory, matroid theory, computer algebra (polynomial systems, dimension of ideals). * Applications in Computer Graphics, CAD-CAM, robotics, mechanism design, chemistry (eg molecule configurations), photogrammetry, virtual reality. * Sensitivity to parameters vales and other robustness issues, * Geometry of computations: using topological ad geometrical ideas in provers. * Dynamic geometry, pedagogical purposes, generating explanations, examples, counter examples. * Computer-human interfaces for geometric constraints. * Geometric constraints and data exchange. * Topological constraints, eg optimal curves or surfaces with prescribed, topology (homology, homotopy, isotopy). * Shape optimization. * Integration of geometric solvers into modelers, solvers architecture. * Geometric constraints and Human Computer interfaces. * Persistent naming problem and geometric modeling by constraints. Authors are invited to contribute original papers in the listed or other realted topics in the following categories of submissions: 1) Original and unpublished research work. 2) Reports of innovative applications to the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas. 3) Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. 4) Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems. All submissions will be peer reviewed. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance relevance and clarity of presentation. IMPORTANT DATES * August 16, 2008: Paper submissions * October 11, 2008: Author notification of acceptance/rejection * October 25, 2008: Camera-ready copy of accepted papers SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS * Submissions will be in electronic format, via the website http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2009/ * Submissions must follow the template that can be downloaded from http:www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/downloads09.htm * To facilitate blind review, papers should include in the first page just the title. Author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the paper body and self-references should be in the third person. * Camera ready manuscripts can have up to 5 pages. Up to three extra pages are allowed at a cost of 80USD per extra page. * Papers submitted to more than one track will be rejected. TRACK CHAIRS * Xiao-Shan Gao: xgao(a)mmrc.iss.ac.cn * Robert Joan-Arinyo: robert(a)lsi.upc.edu * Dominique Michelucci: Dominique.Michelucci(a)u-bourgogne.fr

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Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics (TPCG) 2008 - Eurographics UK

by John Collomosse

Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008 University of Manchester, UK , 9-11th June 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Registration open ** Early bird registration deadline - May 26th 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). 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. Registration is open - the Early bird registration deadline for discounted registration is 26th May 2008. During this period there is also a heavily discounted 'buddy deal' package available for 1 delegate + 2 students. Event programme and registration details are available at the conference website: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote Speakers * Dr Martin Preston (Framestore CFC) - R&D in Film Production * Dr Mary Whitton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - The Illusion of Reality * Dr David Hodgetts (University of Manchester) - 3D Visualisation of Digital Outcrop Data and its Application in Earth Sciences ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG08/

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Early Bird Deadline: May 23 -- Computational Aesthetics 2008

by Joaquim A. Jorge

Computational Aesthetics 2008 http://computational-aesthetics.org June 18-20, 2008, Lisbon, Portugal Keynote Speakers: Pat Hanrahan, Stanford, CA / Ernest Edmonds, UT Sydney Turner Whitted, Microsoft Research / David Salesin, Adobe Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 23, 2008 Provisional Program Available at: http://computational-aesthetics.org You are invited to participate in the fourth annual symposium on Computational Aesthetics that will take place at the Hotel Riviera in Lisbon, Portugal from 18-20 June 2008. Computational Aesthetics bridges the analytic and synthetic and integrates aspects of computer science, philosophy, psychology, and the fine & performing arts. In particular it focuses on the mathematical and information theoretic aspects of both connectionist and symbol processing methods by humans and computers. Computational Aesthetics seeks to facilitate both the analysis and the augmentation of creative behaviour. It investigates the creation of tools that can enhance the expressive power of the fine and applied arts and furthers our understanding of aesthetic evaluation, perception and meaning. Invited talks will be given by individuals involved in the technical, artistic and theoretical aspects of this young field to help participants to better understand what aesthetics is, what computer technology is currently capable of delivering, and to appreciate what is involved in the creative process. Conference Chairs: Joaquim Jorge, INESC-ID, Portugal / Bruce Gooch, Univ. Victoria, Canada Program Chairs: Technical Program: Douglas Cunningham, Univ. of Tübingen, Germany Victoria Interrante, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Arts Program: Paul Brown, Univ. Sussex, UK Jon McCormack, Monash Univ., Australia Local Arts Chair: Adérito Marcos, Univ Minho, Portugal Publicity Chair: Tobias Isenberg, Univ. of Groningen, The Netherlands -- -J. Jorge http://web.ist.utl.pt/jorgej Yahoo IM: joaquim_jorge _________________________________________________________________________ Joaquim A. Jorge (jorgej(a)acm.org, jorgej(a)ieee.org) | PHONE:+351 213100363 INESC, Rua Alves Redol,9, 1000-029 Lisboa, PORTUGAL| TAGUS:+351 214233238 ____________________Simplex Sigillum Veri__________|____jaj(a)inesc.pt_____ Submit your paper to Computers & Graphics at: http://ees.elsevier.com/cag

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3IA'2008 - Final Call for Participation

by Stefanie Behnke

S O R R Y F O R D U P L I C A T E S !!!!! ========================================================================= 3IA'2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Athens (GREECE), 30 - 31 of May, 2008 http://3ia.teiath.gr In cooperation with Eurographics General Chair: Dimitri PLEMENOS (plemenos(a)unilim.fr) Local Chair: George MIAOULIS (gmiaoul(a)teiath.gr) Invited speakers: Alla SAFONOVA (USA), Theoharis THEOHARIS (Greece), Herve LUGA (France) PLACE OF THE CONFERENCE: Athens Imperial Hotel Karaiskaki Square 104 37, Athens, Greece Tel: +30 210 5201600 Fax: +30 210 5225521 Email: ai(a)classicalhotels.com REGISTRATION FEES: 190 Euro (regular participants) 120 Euro (students) Payment by Bank transfer (see http://3ia.teiath.gr) Here is the program of the 3IA'2008 international conference. If you wish to attend the conference, please fill the registration form located on the web site of the conference (http://3ia.teiath.gr) and follow the instructions for the payment of registration fees. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited speakers: Alla SAFONOVA (USA), Theoharis THEOHARIS (Greece), Herve LUGA (France) CONFERENCE PROGRAM Friday, May 30, 2008, Morning 08:30 a.m: Reception 09:20 a.m: Opening of the Conference 09:45 a.m: Invited speaker (Alla Safonova) Synthetizing Human Motion from Intuitive Constraints. Alla Safonova, Jessica K. Hodgins (USA) 10:45 a.m: Coffee break 1st session: Virtual Reality - Motion modelling 11:15 a.m.: Motion synthesis with adaptation and path fitting. N. Lau, B. Iu, C. Chow, P. Lee (HONG KONG). SHORT PAPERS 11:45 a.m.: Modeling and animation of virtual humans - Advancing towards compatibility. A. Avila, F. Luengo (VENEZUELA), A. Iglesias (SPAIN). 12:05 a.m.: Pedestrian behavioral simulation in real 3D environments. Leonel Deusdado, Orlando Belo, Antonio Fernandes (PORTUGAL). 12:25 a.m.: Virtual humans in the IViHumans platform. R. Abreu, A. P. Claudio, M. B. Carmo, L. Moniz, G. Gaspar (PORTUGAL). 12:45 a.m.: Cellular automata with biological sequence analysis approach to robotic soccer. P. Kiran Sree, Dr. Inampudi Ramesh Babu, N.S.S.S.N Usha Devi (INDIA). 13:05 a.m. Lunch Friday, May 30, 2008, Afternoon 02:30 p.m.: Invited speaker (Theoharis Theoharis) 3D object retrieval: Inter-Class vs Intra-Class. Theoharis Theoharis (GREECE). 2nd session: Intelligent modelling and rendering 03:30 p.m.: Genetic algorithms for light sources positioning. Samuel Delepoule, Christophe Renaud, Michael Chelle (FRANCE). 04:00 p.m.: Constructive path planning for natural phenomena Modeling. Ling Xu, David Mould (CANADA). 04:30 p.m: Coffee break 3rd session: Image processing - Medical Imagery SHORT PAPERS 05:00 p.m.: Artificial ants for spatial image clustering. Salima Ouadfel, Mohamed Batouche (ALGERIA) 05:20 p.m.: An approach for registration using elastic model, finite element method and mutual information for 3D medical imagery. F. T. Andriamanampisoa, J. P. Jessel (FRANCE), S. Rakotondraompiana (MADAGASCAR). 05:40 p.m.: Neural networks in 3D medical scan visualization D. Zukic (BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA), A. Elsner (GERMANY), Z. Avdagic (BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA), G. Domik (GERMANY). 06:00 p.m.: Face detection from still and video images using cellular automata based decision tree classifier with trust-region method & parallel scan algorithm. P. Kiran Sree, Dr. Inampudi Ramesh Babu, N.S.S.S.N Usha Devi (INDIA). 06:20 p.m.: End of session Saturday, May 31, 2008, Morning 09:30 p.m.: Invited speaker (Herve Luga) Automatic generation of behaviors, morphologies and shapes of virtual entities. Herve Luga (FRANCE). 4th session: Declarative modelling 10:30 a.m.: Handling imbalanced datasets of user preferences in a declarative scene modelling environment. G. Bardis, G. Miaoulis (GREECE), D. Plemenos (FRANCE). 11:00 a.m.: Collaborative evaluation using multiple clusters in a declarative design environment. N. Doulamis, G. Bardis, J. Dragonas, G. Miaoulis (GREECE), D. Plemenos (FRANCE). 11:30 a.m.: Coffee break 5th session: Genetic algorithms 12:00 a.m.: A spherical omnidirectional vision system to track a robot in the AURAL environment. Sidney Cunha, Artemis Moroni (BRAZIL). 12:30 a.m.: Applying fuzzy logic and genetic algorithm for multi criteria land valorization. A. Karabegovic, Z. Avdagic, M. Ponjavic (BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA). 13:00 a.m.: Lunch Saturday, May 31, 2008, Afternoon 7th session: Scene modelling - Data visualisation 02:30 p.m.: Searching multimedia databases using tree-structures graphs. Anastasios Doulamis, George Miaoulis (GREECE). SHORT PAPERS 03:00 p.m.: Melnikov Grammar. Daniel Cardoso, Takehiko Nagakura (USA). 03:20 p.m.: Processes aspects of modeling, interactive digital visualization and multimedia representation of architectural and urban area. Stelios Kouzeleas (GREECE). 03:40 p.m.: Invariant problem understanding for structural engineers. M. Van De Ruittenbeek (The NETHERLANDS), Yeoh Ker-Wei (SINGAPORE), F. Leon (ROMANIA). 04:00 p.m.: Correcting for individual distortion of connected adjacent scanned raster-maps. Takaharu Miyoshi, Takayoshi Kido (JAPAN). 04:20 p.m.: 3D-model of ruled surface with three curvilinear guides. Alexander Kheyfets (RUSSIA). 04:40 p.m.: End of the conference ========================================================================= -- I------------------------------------------------------------------I I Dimitri PLEMENOS I PHONE: (+33) 5 55 43 69 74 I I Universite de LIMOGES I FAX: (+33) 5 55 43 69 77 I I Laboratoire XLIM I E-MAIL: plemenos(a)unilim.fr I I 83,rue d'Isle I http://www.msi.unilim.fr/~plemenos/ I I 87000 LIMOGES - FRANCE I I I------------------------------------------------------------------I

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SAMT 2008 - Call for Research Papers

by Stefanie Behnke

*************************************************************** * SAMT 2008 - Call for Research Papers * * 3rd International Conference on * * Semantics And digital Media Technologies * * Koblenz, Germany, 3-5 December 2008 * *************************************************************** In cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and Eurographics. --------------------- Objectives and Topics --------------------- Large amounts of multimedia material, such as images, audio, video and 3D/4D material, as well as computer generated 2D, 3D and 4D content, already exist and are growing at increasing rates. While these amounts are growing, managing distribution of and access to multimedia material is becoming ever harder, both for lay and professional users. The SAMT conference series tackles these problems by investigating the semantics and pragmatics of multimedia generation, management and user access. The conference targets scientifically valuable research tackling the semantic gap between the low-level signal data representation of multimedia material and the high-level meaning that providers, consumers and prosumers associate with the content. We welcome innovative solutions that consider some or all factors in the process of multimedia generation and consumption, including methods from low-level signal processing up to the mobile context in which a user operates. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1) SEMANTIC ANALYSIS AND MULTIMEDIA a) Knowledge assisted multimedia analysis b) Content-based multimedia analysis linked with natural language and speech processing 2) SEMANTIC RETRIEVAL AND MULTIMEDIA a) Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval b) Semantic retrieval of 3D objects c) Machine Learning and relevance feedback for finding semantics d) Semantic-driven multimedia content adaptation and summarization 3) SEMANTIC METADATA MANAGEMENT OF MULTIMEDIA a) Metadata management for multimedia b) Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures c) Standards bridging the multimedia and knowledge domains 4) SEMANTIC USER INTERFACES FOR MULTIMEDIA a) Interfaces and personalization for interaction with large multimedia repositories b) Semantic media annotation c) Inference and machine learning for semi-automatic annotation d) Browsing multimedia archives e) Device-specific access to and adaptation of multimedia 5) SEMANTIC VISUALIZATION AND GENERATION OF MULTIMEDIA, SEMANTIC COMPUTER GRAPHICS a) Semantics-driven multimedia presentation generation b) Semantics-enhanced virtual environments and content generation 6) APPLICATIONS OF SEMANTIC MULTIMEDIA a) Social multimedia tagging b) Context, user, network and semantics-aware media engineering c) Multimedia mash-ups d) Case studies with clear, innovative lessons learned ---------- Submission ---------- The conference proceedings will appear in the ACM digital library. Original contributions equivalent of 8 pages ACM style are supposed to be electronically submitted according to the instructions that will be posted to the conference web site. The papers should present original and previously unpublished results that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. ------------------- Conference Web Site ------------------- http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de --------------- Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: June 6 Paper Submission: June 13 Notification: August 22 Camera Ready: September 15 Conference: December 3-5 -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- General & local chairs: Dietrich Paulus, Koblenz, DE Steffen Staab, Koblenz, DE samt-chairs(a)uni-koblenz.de Program chairs: Lynda Hardman, CWI, NL Alex Hauptmann, CMU, US David Duke, Leeds, UK samt-program-chairs(a)uni-koblenz.de Demo & poster chairs: Michela Spagnuolo, Genova, IT Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, IE samt-poster-demo-chairs(a)uni-koblenz.de Workshop & tutorial chair: Fabio Ciravegna, U. Sheffield, UK David Duce, Oxford Brookes, UK samt-workshop-chair(a)uni-koblenz.de Publicity chair: Marcin Grzegorzek, Koblenz, DE samt-publicity-chair(a)uni-koblenz.de Registration chair: Ruth Götten, Koblenz, DE samt2008(a)uni-koblenz.de

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Call for Papers for Cyberworlds (CW 2008)

by Stefanie Behnke

Call for Papers for Cyberworlds (CW 2008) URL: http://www.china-vr.com/cw08/index.htm Hangzhou, China(September 22-24, 2008) The conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Manuscripts should be written in English conforming to the IEEE standard conference format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column) as shown in http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html. Manuscripts should be submitted through the conference online website. Each manuscript may not exceed 8 pages of IEEE format. Solicited papers of high-quality will be published in "The Visual Computer", "Transactions on Edutainment", "The International Journal of Virtual Reality". Cyberworlds are information worlds being formed on Internet either intentionally or spontaneously, with or without design. As information worlds, they are either virtual or real, and can be both. In terms of information modeling, the theoretical ground for the Cyberworlds is far above the level of integrating spatial database models and temporal database models. This conference will deal with large distributed information worlds on Internet and methods/tools used for creating such worlds. Conference Topics * Philosophy, evolution, and ethics of Cyberworlds * Cyberworlds and their impact on the real worlds * Telemedicine, healthcare in Cyberworlds * Mobile computing, mobile graphics, mobile game * E-learning, web-based learning and edutainment * Intelligent agents in Cyberworlds * Digital watermarking, Internet security, information hiding * Distributed virtual environments * Cyber fairs and digital museums * Game engine, game algorithm, and multi-user web games * VR/AR/MR for Industrial design, digital heritage * Shared virtual worlds, Collaborative work using Cyberworlds * Human animation in Cyberworlds * Virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed Reality * Computer vision for Cyberworlds * Cyberethics and cyberlaws * Communication in Cyberworlds * Data mining and warehousing in Cyberworlds * Bioinformatics for cyberlife and medicine * E-business in Cyberworlds * Cyberworlds for manufacturing, civil planning, and bioengineering * Multimedia information retrieval/indexing in Cyberworlds * Biometrics in Cyberworlds Invited Speakers Harold Thwaites, Concordia University , Canada Richard Blade, University of Colorado, USA Kun Zhou, Microsoft Reaerch Asia, China Bob Liang, Intel Corporation [to be confirmed] Workshops (1) VR for Safety and Security (2) DMAMH'2008 (Digital Media and Its Application in Museum and Heritage) (3) Robotics Simulation and VR [Deadline for submission is May 30, 2008] Important dates Submission: 15 May, 2008 Notification: 10 June 2008 Registration: 20 June, 2008 Camera Ready: 25 June, 2008 Conference: 22-24 September, 2008 Web Site: http://www.china-vr.com/cw08 E-mail: cw2008(a)cad.zju.edu.cn

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PBG'08: Submission Deadline Extended to May 9, 2008.

by Stefanie Behnke

*** EXTENTED Deadline: May 9, 2008 *** Point-Based Graphics 2008 - Final Call for Papers Los Angeles, CA, USA - August 9-10, 2008 http://www.point-graphics.org Co-sponsored by Eurographics and the IEEE-CS Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) The drive for increasingly complex 3D geometric models, especially those scanned from the real-world, has brought about a growing interest in methods that build on point primitives. Following the highly successful 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Symposia on Point-Based Graphics, the 5th symposium of its series, PBG08, aims to further demonstrate the applicability of point-based methods in modeling, rendering, and simulation, and in a wide range of application domains. PBG08 will take place in in Los Angeles, CA, USA, from August 9-10, 2008, co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 and co-organized with the International Symposium on Volume Graphics (VG08). We invite your original contributions in areas including, but not limited to, the following: - Data acquisition and surface reconstruction - Geometric modeling using point primitives - Sampling, approximation, and interpolation - Transmission and compression of point-sampled geometry - Rendering algorithms for point primitives - Geometry processing of point models - Topological properties of point clouds - Hardware architectures for point primitives - Animation and morphing of point-sampled geometry - Hybrid representations and algorithms - Use of point-based methods in real-world applications PBG was established do develop and leverage the newly created field of point based graphics and to establish a community of its own. With the 5. symposium of this kind in 2008 and the broad spectrum of scientific publications on the subject, we believe that our initial mission is accomplished. At the same time we observe a natural evolution and confluence of point graphics and volume graphics into the broader field of "Sample Based Graphics". In order to address this development VG'08 and PBG'08 will organize a joint track on the topic to evaluate its suitability as new direction into which both symposia might evolve in the years to come. For more information about submission, please visit http://point-graphics.org Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: May 9, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Jun 4, 2008 Camera-ready copy: Jun 18, 2008 Symposium: Aug 9-10, 2008 General Chairs: Mario Botsch, ETH Zurich Matthias Zwicker, University of California, San Diego Papers Chairs: Renato Pajarola, University of Zurich Oliver Staadt, University of Rostock

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Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biomedicine (EG VCBM) 2008: CFP

by Stefanie Behnke

CALL FOR PAPERS: ================ Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biomedicine (EG VCBM) 2008 October 6-7, 2008 Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Aims and Scope: =============== Visual Computing for Biomedicine addresses the integration of state-of-the-art visualization and image analysis for application to biomedical research. Integrating visualization and image analysis brings with it particular challenges, but also yields new possibilities, especially when extended for application to the wide gamut of biomedical research topics, such as molecular imaging, quantitative longitudinal studies, pre- and intra-operative surgical guidance, and computer-aided diagnosis. VCBM is unique in that it will bring together researchers and practitioners from visualization, image processing and (bio-)medicine. We expect to attract a number of attendees with (bio-)medical backgrounds, as well as from the surrounding academic medical centers. This will pose a unique opportunity to showcase the latest ideas from engineering and science, to get feedback from medical practitioners, and to explore new possibilities for cooperative research. VCBM solicits the submission of original application-oriented research papers that advance the fusion of visualization and image analysis with imaging-based medicine and biomedical science. All papers should focus on a well-defined biomedical context, and should demonstrate a significant innovation or improvement in visual computing that addresses ongoing problems in that context. Topics: ======= Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to: * Interactive segmentation and registration * Computer-aided diagnosis and detection * Facilitating medical research with visual computing * Intervention and therapy planning (e.g. pre-operative surgical planning and radiation therapy planning) * Intra-operative guidance for surgery * Ultra-sound based planning and intra-operative guidance * Visualization and Simulation for Surgical Training * Coupled simulation and visualization * Multi-field medical visualization and processing (multi-modality, structural + functional) * Processing and visualization of advanced modalities * Molecular imaging * Perception-based studies for medical visualization * Anatomical reconstruction from microscopy data * Creation and visualization of biological atlases * Ontology-based visualization * Visualization methods for neurobiology, plant biology and developmental biology Invited Speakers: ================= * Prof. dr. Heinz-Otto Peitgen, president of MeVis research, and * Prof. dr. Nicolas Ayache, research director at INRIA. Conference Location: ==================== VCBM 2008 will be held in Delft, The Netherlands. Picturesque Delft is ideally located in the Dutch "Randstad" (conurbation or megacity), close to the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam and well-connected to the train network. The city is home to the Delft University of Technology, a world-famous technical research institute and also host to the VCBM workshop. In addition, there are three academic medical centers (Leiden, Rotterdam and Amsterdam) close by. Important Dates: ================ Paper submission: June 22, 2008 Author notification: August 8, 2008 Camera-ready papers: August 22, 2008 Conference: October 6 - 7, 2008 Workshop Co-chairs: =================== Charl Botha - Delft University of Technology Gordon Kindlmann - Harvard Medical School Wiro Niessen - Erasmus Medical Centre Bernhard Preim - University of Magdeburg International Program Committee: ================================ Dirk Bartz, Univ. Leipzig Katja Bühler, VRVis Wien Min Chen, University of Wales, Swansea Herve Delingette, INRIA Thomas Deserno (Lehmann), RWTH Aachen James Duncan, Yale University Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart Bernd Fischer, University of Lübeck Alejandro Frangi, Pompeu Fabra University James Gee, University of Pennsylvania Guido Gerig, University of Utah Polina Golland, MIT Eduard Gröller, Techn. Univ. Wien Horst Hahn, MeVis Research, Bremen Heinz Handels, University of Hamburg Peter Hastreiter, Univ. Erlangen Joachim Hornegger, University of Erlangen Arie Kaufmann, Stony Brook University, New York David Laidlaw, Brown University Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Leiden University Patric Ljung, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton Lars Linsen, Jacobs-Univ. Bremen Bill Lorensen Torsten Möller, Simon Fraser University Vancouver Klaus Müller, Stony Brook University, New York Nassir Navab, Technical University of Munich Josien Pluim, University of Utrecht Felix Ritter, MeVis Research, Bremen Bart ter Haar Romeny TU Eindhoven Timo Ropinski, Univ. Münster Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College Paul Suetens, KU Leuven Gabor Székely, ETH Zürich Ulf Tiede, University Hamburg Ragini Verma, University of Pennsylvania Anna Vilanova, TU Eindhoven Frans Vos, TU Delft Carl-Fredrik Westin, Harvard Medical School Ross Whitaker, University of Utah Ivo Wolf, DKFZ Heidelberg Anders Ynnermann, Norrköping Terry Yoo, NIH/NLM Stefan Zachow, Zuse-Institut Berlin Publication Information: ======================== Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and will appear in the EG-published conference proceedings. A small number of excellent papers will be recommended for publication in the EG Journal Computer Graphics Forum. Contact Information: ==================== For more information please visit http://vcbm.org/ or contact: Charl Botha - c.p.botha(a)tudelft.nl Bernhard Preim - bernhard(a)isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Sponsors: ========= * IRTG 1131 * MeVis * NWO * Eurographics

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