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EuroVis 2009, Berlin/Germany -- Call for Participation --

by Stefanie Behnke

Call for Participation: Eurographics/IEEE Symposium on Visualization June 10 - 12, 2009 Berlin, Germany http://www.eurovis.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- - Early registration ends on Fri, May 9 http://www.zib.de/eurovis09/?page_id=240 - The program is available http://www.zib.de/eurovis09/?page_id=780 - The keynote speakers are * Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University * Helmut Grubmüller, MPI Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen http://www.zib.de/eurovis09/?page_id=689 - Two Visual Analytics related satellite events will take place http://www.zib.de/eurovis09/?page_id=551 - Accomodation in the Harnack House is still available http://www.zib.de/eurovis09/?page_id=362 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- We invite you to participate in EuroVis 2009, to be held in Berlin, Germany, June 10-12, 2009. EuroVis 2009 is the 11th annual Visualization Symposium jointly organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. This research field is geared towards the creation of foundations and practical solutions for visualization and visual analysis of complex data sets from all fields, ranging from sciences and engineering, business and finance, to humanities, social sciences and education. EuroVis brings together many of the best researchers in the field of data visualization, and there will be ample opportunity for informal discussions during breaks and the social event. Up to date information about EuroVis is made available via the official homepage http://www.eurovis.org. For questions regarding organization, please contact the local organizers at eurovis09[at]zib.de. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Looking forward to seeing you at EuroVis 2009, Symposium Co-chairs Hans-Christian Hege (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany) Ingrid Hotz (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany) Tamara Munzner (University of British Columbia, Canada)

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Cyberworlds 2009: Extended submission dateline: 30 April

by Stefanie Behnke

2009 International Conference on CYBERWORLDS 7-11 September 2009 University of Bradford, UK Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and organized in-cooperation with ACM and Eurographics http://www.inf.brad.ac.uk/cw09/ Deadline for submissions is extended until 30th April 2009 Invited Speakers (Confirmed thus far): Prof Dr Frank Van Reeth, University of Hasselt, Belgium; Prof. William Dutton, University of Oxford, UK; Prof. Adrian Hilton, University of Surrey, UK; Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva; Prof. Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

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3IA'2009 - 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'2009 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Athens (GREECE), 29 - 30 of May, 2009 http://3ia.teiath.gr In cooperation with Eurographics General Chair: Dimitri PLEMENOS (plemenos(a)numericable.com) Local Chair: George MIAOULIS (gmiaoul(a)teiath.gr) Invited speakers: Elena MARTINOVA (Russia), Alfred INSELBERG (Israel), Mateu SBERT (Spain) REGISTRATION FEES: 190 Euro (regular participants) 130 Euro (students) Payment by Bank transfer (see http://3ia.teiath.gr) PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Friday, May 29, 2009, Morning 09:15 a.m: Reception 09:50 a.m: Opening of the Conference 10:00 a.m: Invited speaker (Elena Martinova) Realistic skin rendering on modern GPU. Elena Martinova (RUSSIA) 11:00 a.m: Coffee break 1st session: Human modelling and animation 11:30 a.m.: Affective states in behavior networks. Anja Johansson, Pierangello Dell'Aqua (SWEDEN). SHORT PAPER 12:00 a.m.: A framework for simulating the behavior of various kinds of crowds. Hakim Soussi, Joël Savelli, Marc Neveu (FRANCE). 2nd session: Textures SHORT PAPERS 12:20 a.m.: GENSHADE:Automation of texture production. Alaa Eldin M. Ibrahim (KOWAIT), Donald H. House (USA). 12:40 a.m.: Developing Dynamic Cellular Textures From Monotone Patterns Using Voronoi Diagrams. A.H.F. Navid, A.Z. Nasrollahy, A. Bastanfard (IRAN). 13:00 a.m. Lunch Friday, May 29, 2009, Afternoon 02:30 p.m.: Invited speaker (Mateu Sbert) Viewpoint Selection, Mesh Saliency and Geometry Simplification. Mateu Sbert, Miquel Feixas, Miguel Chover (SPAIN). 3rd session: Visualization 03:30 p.m.: A Neural Network Classifier of Volume Datasets. D. Zukic, C. Rezk-Salama, A. Kolb (GERMANY). 04:00 p.m.: Photometric Compression and Interpolation for Light Source Representation. S. Delepoulle, C. Renaud, P. Preux (FRANCE). 04:30 p.m: Coffee break 4th session: Image modelling and processing 05:00 p.m.: An Intelligent System for Overlaying Texts on Background Images Based on Computational Aesthetics. Chien-Yin Lai, Sheng-Wen Shih, Jen-Shin Hong (TAIWAN). SHORT PAPER 05:30 p.m.: Efficient algorithm of noise removal from a torn paper. T. Nawaz, K. A. Qazim, I. Ashraf (PAKISTAN). 05:50 p.m.: End of session Saturday, May 30, 2009, Morning 09:30 p.m.: Invited speaker (Alfred Inselberg) Visualizing Multidimensional Geometry with Applications to AI. Alfred Inselberg (ISRAEL). 5th session: Modelling 10:30 a.m.: An Adjectival Interface for Procedural Content Generation. Carl Hultquist, James Gain (SOUTH AFRICA), David Cairns (UK). 11:00 a.m.: Automation of style acquisition and implementation in 3D scene synthesis. Dimitrios Makris, Georgios Bardis, Georgios Miaoulis (GREECE), Dimitri Plemenos (FRANCE). 11:30 a.m.: Coffee break 6th session: Scene description and interpretation 12:00 a.m.: Performance Evaluation of User's Profile Estimation Methods in a Declarative Collaborative Framework. N. Doulamis, J. Dragonas, A. Doulamis, G. Miaoulis (GREECE), D. Plemenos (FRANCE). SHORT PAPER 12:30 a.m.: Optimal Scene Interpretation: Semantic Management of 3-D Objects from a Point Cloud Scene. Paul Cotofrei, Christophe Kunzi and Kilian Stoffel (SWITZERLAND). 12:50 a.m.: Lunch Saturday, May 30, 2009, Afternoon 7th session: Evolutionary methods 02:30 p.m.: AURAL: An Evolutionary Interface for a Robotic Sonification Process. A. Moroni, E. Guimaraes, G. de Paula, J. Manzolli (BRAZIL). SHORT PAPER 03:00 p.m.: Evolutionary techniques. Alaa Eldin M. Ibrahim (KOWAIT), Donald H. House (USA). 8th session: Various themes SHORT PAPERS 03:20 p.m.: Reconstruction of Three Dimensional Spatial Clusters Using Monocular Camera. Kai Zhou, Michael Zillich and Markus Vincze (AUSTRIA). 03:40 p.m.: Game technologies usage for users attraction to educational resources. A. Lavrov, N. Ilyina (RUSSIA). 04:00 p.m.: Raster Image Transformation for Laser Engraving Machine NC Programming. Olga V. Yepifanova, Alexander Inozemtsev, Dmitri I. Troitsky (RUSSIA). 04:20 p.m.: 3d-algorithms of conics construction in AutoCAD. 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://msi.unilim.fr/~plemenos/ I I 87000 LIMOGES - FRANCE I I | | | | Home address: | | | 44, rue Antoine Bourdelle | Home phone: (+33) 5 55 43 80 60 | | 87000 LIMOGES - FRANCE | Home e-mail: plemenos(a)numericable.com | I-------------------------------------------------------------------I

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GraVisMa 2009: Call for Papers and Participation

by Stefanie Behnke

GraVisMa 2009 Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Mathematics WORKSHOP in cooperation with EUROGRAPHICS Association http://GeometryAlgebra.zcu.cz/GraVisMa/ Call for Papers and Participation GraVisMa workshop is a unique forum for researchers, practitioners, developers and academia experts to discuss new approaches and methods in Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Scientific Computation, Scientific, Medical and Information Visualization with applications of the latest developments in Mathematics and Physics. Goals of the GraVisMa workshops is to bring theory of the Projective Geometry, Geometric Algebra and Conformal Geometry to practice especially in the fields related to Computer Graphics and Vision, Scientific Computation and Visualization. GraVisMa workshop will bring new impulses to related fields of computer science, especially in development of new approaches to algorithms and data structures, will stimulate research activities between mathematicians and computer science experts. Informal atmosphere of the GraVisMa workshops will stimulate discussions between researchers and practitioners, that will lead to further international research collaborations and projects proposals as well. Important dates Extended Abstract (1 page A4 GraVisMa format/two column) May 31, 2009 Acceptance notification for presentation: June 30, 2009 Venue (Expected): September 2-4, 2009 Paper submission (8 pages A4/double column): September 30, 2009 Acceptance decision after reviews November, 2009 Final paper submission November, 2009 GraVisMa 2009 proceedings with ISBN*: December, 2009 Abstract / Paper registration: http://wscg-reg.zcu.cz/GraVisMa/ Main topics of workshops (but not limited to) Computer Science fields Mathematical fields Interdisciplinary · Computer Graphics (modeling, rendering, 3D imaging) · Computer Vision (3D reconstruction, image transformations) · Algorithms and Data Structures · GPU/CUDA/TESLA Computing · Scientific and Medical Visualization · Scientific Computing · 3D TV and HCI related issues, · Applications · Numerical Computation · Projective Geometry · Geometric Algebra · Conformal Algebra · Grassmann Algebra · Other related Mathematical Aspects · Influence o Mathematics to Computer Science o Computer Science to Mathematics · Educational Aspects · Programming Tools and Systems · Other related topics Abstracts of accepted papers will be published in the GraVisMa proceedings with ISBN Post-conference proceedings papers (8 pages A4 format/double column - GraVisMa format) will be anonymously reviewed and after revision accepted papers will be published in GraVisMa FULL papers proceedings with ISBN. The best papers will be selected to publication in the Journal of WSCG (with ISSN indexed by ISI and others) and other recognized research journals. Post-workshop DVD will be produced. The GraVisMa workshop is to be held at Contact: prof.Vaclav Skala skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz Subj. GraVisMa http://herakles.zcu.cz/~skala University of West Bohemia (http://www.zcu.cz) Faculty of Applied Sciences Department of Computer Science and Engineering Center of Computer Graphics and Visualization Plzen - Campus Bory http://www.zcu.cz/plzen/ Czech Republic Come and explore the Plzen city, very historical and cultural city, famous of invention of a unique beer technology used worldwide, nowadays.

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2009 Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE - ICAT - EuroVR --- Call for Papers and Short Papers

by Stefanie Behnke

Apologies for Cross Postings _______________________ *** 2009 Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE - ICAT - EuroVR *** EGVE - the 15th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments ICAT - the 19th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence EuroVR - the 6th EuroVR (INTUITION) Conference http://jvrc09.inrialpes.fr December 7-9, 2009, Lyon, France (during the Light Festival see http://www.lumieres.lyon.fr/lumieres/sections/en) *** Call for Papers and Short Papers: DEADLINE May 29, 2009 *** In 2009, the 15th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, the 19th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, and the 6th EuroVR (INTUITION) Conference are merged together into the JVRC09 - Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE - ICAT - EuroVR. JVRC09 will provide an opportunity for virtual reality researchers, engineers and users to interact, share new results and new applications, show live demonstrations of their work, and discuss emerging directions for the field. JVRC09 will include an open call for papers, short papers, posters, demos, lab. presentations, as well as industrial presentations and exhibitions from industrial partners and research projects in the wider area of Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and 3D User Interfaces. The conference is organized by INRIA, France. * About EGVE * EGVE is the Eurographics international symposium for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with using and improving virtual environments. It started in 1993 as a workshop, and the symposium has most recently been held in Zurich 2003, Grenoble 2004, Aalborg 2005, Lisbon 2006, Weimar 2007 and Eindhoven 2008. * About ICAT * ICAT is the oldest international conference on Virtual Reality and Telexistence. ICAT 2009 follows on from the successful ICAT conferences held in Tokyo 2003, Coex 2004, Christchurch 2005, Hangzhou 2006, Esbjerg 2007 and Yokohama 2008. * About EuroVR * EuroVR is the continuation of the INTUITION Network of Excellence on Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments for Future Workspaces (www.intuition-eunetwork.net). INTUITION featured 58 partners from 15 countries across Europe, representing the key player in the field at technology, system, academia, research and industry level. EuroVR 2009 follows on from the five successful INTUTION conferences held in Athens 2004, Paris 2005, Stuttgart 2006, Athens 2007 and Turino 2008. Original, unpublished papers and short papers documenting new research contributions, practice and experience, or novel applications, from all areas of virtual environments, mixed reality and 3D user interfaces, are invited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Display and Projection Technologies - Tracking & Sensing - Haptics, Audio and Multimodal Interfaces - VR system architecture and development - 3D input and output devices - Augmented and mixed reality (AR and MR) - Collaborative and distributed VR - 3D User Interfaces - User studies and evaluation - Presence and cognition - Interactive rendering, modelling and simulation - VR, AR, and MR applications * Submission information * Submissions of papers and short papers will be on-line in PDF format only. Information about the submission procedure and formatting instructions will be available online at http://jvrc09.inrialpes.fr. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the Eurographics symposium series. Additionally, a selection of the best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of a journal. * Important Dates * May 20, 2009: Deadline for papers and short papers abstracts May 29, 2009: Deadline for submissions of papers and short papers July 10, 2009: Notification of acceptance of papers and short papers * General Co-chairs * (jvrc09_chairs(a)inrialpes.fr) Sabine Coquillart (INRIA) Carolina Cruz-Neira (U. of Louisiana at Lafayette) Yoshifumi Kitamura (Osaka U.) Dennis Saluäär (Volvo) * International Program Committee Co-chairs * (jvrc09_ipc_chairs(a)inrialpes.fr) Michitaka Hirose (U. of Tokyo) Dieter Schmalstieg (TU Graz) Chadwick A. Wingrave (U. of Central Florida) * Important Contacts* For more information on other submissions, please visit http://jvrc09.inrialpes.fr

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SBIM 2009 paper submission deadline extended

by jjl＠eecs.ucf.edu

Colleagues, The paper submission deadline for the sixth Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling has been extended to April 20th. See the website for details. http://sbim09.cse.wustl.edu/index.php -- Joseph J. LaViola Jr. Assistant Professor University of Central Florida School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Orlando, FL 32816-2362 Phone: 407-882-2285 Fax: 407-823-5419 URL: www.eecs.ucf.edu/~jjl ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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7th Eurographics "Symposium on Geometry Processing": CFP

by Stefanie Behnke

7th Eurographics "Symposium on Geometry Processing" Berlin, July 15-17, 2009 http://sgp09.mi.fu-berlin.de 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 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 IMPORTANT DATES (http://sgp09.mi.fu-berlin.de/dates.html) Abstract submission deadline: April 22, 2009 Paper submission deadline: April 26, 2009 Author notification: June 1, 2009 Camera ready copy deadline: June 14, 2009 Conference: July 15-17, 2009 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE (http://sgp09.mi.fu-berlin.de/submission.html) Authors are requested to submit an abstract of their paper (in plain text format) by April 22, 2009. The abstract 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 and strictly adhere to the EG publication style. A submission can be accompanied by electronic supplementary material (e.g. image, video, demo). Submitted papers will be carefully reviewed by members of the Program Committee and selected external reviewers. PROCEEDINGS The SGP proceedings will appear as a regular issue of 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. POSTERS SESSION: A posters session will provide an additional informative look into ongoing research. Papers with obvious potential but which missed the threshold will be invited to be presented in a poster session during the symposium. EVENT CHAIR Konrad Polthier (Freie Universität Berlin) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Marc Alexa (Technische Universität Berlin) Michael Kazhdan (Johns Hopkins University) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pierre Alliez (INRIA) Nina Amenta (UC Davis) Alexander Belyaev (Heriot-Watt University) Jean-Daniel Boissonnat (INRIA) Mario Botsch (Universität Bielefeld) David Breen (Drexel University) Benedict Brown (Princeton University) Marie-Paule Cani (INPG) Daniel Cohen-Or (Tel Aviv University) David Cohen-Steiner (INRIA) Doug DeCarlo (Rutgers University) Leila De Floriani (University of Maryland) Mathieu Desbrun (California Institute of Technology) Herbert Edelsbrunner (Duke University) Eugene Fiume (University of Toronto) Natasha Gelfand (Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto) Steven Gortler (Harvard University) Craig Gotsman (Technion) Cindy Grimm (Washington University) Eitan Grinspun (Columbia University) Markus Gross (ETH Zürich) Leonidas Guibas (Stanford University) Hugues Hoppe (Microsoft Research) Kai Hormann (TU Clausthal) Martin Isenburg (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Tao Ju (Washington University) Leif Kobbelt (RWTH Aachen) Bruno Levy (INRIA) Thomas Lewiner (PUC - Rio de Janeiro) Charles Loop (Microsoft Research) Ken Museth (Digital Domain) Andy Nealen (Rutgers University) Sylvain Paris (Adobe Research) Mark Pauly (ETH Zürich) Konrad Polthier (FU Berlin) Holly Rushmeier (Yale) Szymon Rusinkiewicz (Princeton University) Scott Schaefer (Texas A&M University) Peter Schroeder (California Institute of Technology) Arik Shamir (The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) Andrei Sharf (UC Davis) Claudio T. Silva (University of Utah) Patricio Simari (Johns Hopkins University) Karan Singh (University of Toronto) Olga Sorkine (New York University) Michela Spagnuolo (CNR) Robert Sumner (ETH Zürich) Luiz Velho (IMPA) Wenping Wang (Hong Kong University) Max Wardetzky (Universität Göttingen) Richard Zhang (Simon Fraser University) Denis Zorin (New York University) -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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PACIFIC GRAPHICS 2009: CFP

by Stefanie Behnke

(Please accept our apologies if you receive this CFP multiple times.) CALL FOR PAPERS ***** PACIFIC GRAPHICS 2009 ***** The 17th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications October 7-9, 2009, Jeju, Korea http://cg.postech.ac.kr/pg2009 Pacific Graphics 2009 will be held in Jeju, Korea, during October 7-9, 2009. Although Pacific Graphics has been held in Korea five times, all of them have been in Seoul, the capital city of Korea. For the first time in the series, Pacific Graphics 2009 will be in Jeju, which is a beautiful island and one of the most attractive tourist destinations in Korea. Please come and join us to have a successful conference and enjoy fantastic nature of Jeju at its best season. *** The conference proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2009 will be published as an issue of the Eurographics journal, Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), in print and online. *** *** Best paper awards will be given to three papers selected by an international jury among regular papers presented at Pacific Graphics 2009. *** ----- Important Dates Abstract submission: April 24 (Fri), 2009 Paper submission: April 30 (Thu), 2009 Author notification: June 22 (Mon), 2009 Revision for 2nd review: July 10 (Fri), 2009 Final acceptance: July 17 (Fri), 2009 Camera-ready paper: July 24 (Fri), 2009 Conference: October 7 (Wed) ~ 9 (Fri), 2009 ----- Conference Organization Honorary Conference Co-Chairs Hans-Peter Seidel (MPI Informatik, Germany) Sung Yong Shin (KAIST, Korea) Conference Co-Chairs Baining Guo (MSRA, China) Chang-Hun Kim (Korea Univ., Korea) Leif Kobbelt (RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany) Program Co-Chairs Seungyong Lee (POSTECH, Korea) Dani Lischinski (Hebrew Univ., Israel) Yizhou Yu (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Organization Co-Chairs Jung-Ju Choi (Ajou Univ., Korea) Gyuhwan Oh (Ajou Univ., Korea) Byeong-Seok Shin (Inha Univ., Korea) Hyun Joon Shin (Ajou Univ., Korea) In Cooperation with EUROGRAPHICS Organized by Korea Computer Graphics Society (KCGS) and Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) Sponsored by Microsoft Research and NVIDIA ----- Call for Papers Original unpublished papers are invited in all areas of computer graphics and its applications. The topics include (but are not limited to) modeling, rendering, animation, and imaging, as well as visualization, human-computer interaction, and graphics systems and applications. Any interesting new ideas related to computer graphics and applications are welcome. The conference proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2009 will be published as an issue of the Eurographics journal, Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), in print and online. Regular (full) papers will be presented in oral sessions and appear in the journal issue. A few submissions with strong potentials but not accepted as regular papers will be recommended for a second review cycle after major revisions. Poster papers will be accepted and included in the conference poster proceedings, which is separate from the issue of CGF. ----- Best Paper Awards Three best papers will be selected by an international jury among regular papers presented at Pacific Graphics 2009. Best paper awards will be given to the three papers with memorable prizes. ----- For more details, please visit the conference web site http://cg.postech.ac.kr/pg2009

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Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'09): 2nd Call For Papers

by Stefanie Behnke

2nd Call For Papers Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'09) http://iva09.dfki.de/ September 14-16, 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands ********************************************************************** Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or each other using natural human modalities such as speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action that allow them to participate in a dynamic social environment. IVA'09 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. In addition to presentations on theoretical issues, the conference encourages the showcasing of working applications. Researchers from the fields of human-human and human-robot interaction are also welcome to share work which has a bearing on intelligent virtual agents. IVA'09 is held in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the European Association for Computer Graphics (EG) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM SIGART and SIGCHI). SPECIAL TOPIC: GAMES IVA'09 particularly encourages submissions on this year's special topic of games. The game industry is the source of the world's largest selection of interactive characters. To date, the creation of these characters and their social behaviors has largely relied on carefully hand crafted techniques rather than automation. With larger environments, grander stories, more players and a greater demand for realism, hand crafted approaches are unlikely to scale. Imbuing characters with more intelligence and self-determination is an ongoing and so far unfulfilled goal of the game industry. IVA'09 is an opportunity to reveal, tackle and discuss the issues that relate to using intelligent virtual agents in games and aims to strengthen links and the exchange of knowledge between academia and the game industry. TOPICS OF INTEREST Design and modeling of IVAs - design criteria and design methodologies - evaluation methodologies and user studies - ethical considerations and social impact - applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics) - dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behavior - models of personality and cultural awareness - models of social competence - models of multimodal perception and action - models of emotional communicative behavior Implementation of IVAs - software engineering issues - real-time integrated systems - portability and reuse - standards / measures to support interoperability - specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains - specialized modeling and animation technologies Applications of IVAs - future role and/or current experience in various fields including - computer games - art and entertainment - education and training - simulation and visualization - delivery platforms: desktop, single/multi- user, virtual/augmented/mixed reality Conceptual Frameworks for IVAs - learned, evolved or emergent behavior - improvisational or dramatic interaction - stages of autonomy (from avatars to agents) - massive simulations of crowds SUBMISSION DETAILS Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (12-14 pages), short papers (6-7 pages), or poster papers (1-2 pages) in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. For details on how to submit your paper, consult the conference web site: http://iva09.dfki.de IMPORTANT DATES 26 April, 2009 Submission of short and long IVA09 papers 30 May, 2009 Notifications of acceptance 19 June, 2009 Camera-ready copies 01 June, 2009 GALA video submission 14-16 September, 2009 Conference ORGANIZATION Chairs Zsófia Ruttkay, University of Twente, The Netherlands Michael Kipp, DFKI, Germany Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Reykjavík University, Iceland Best Paper Chair Thomas Rist, FH Augsburg, Germany Submissions Chair Patrick Gebhard, DFKI, Germany Poster and Demo Chair Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Local Organization Chair Betsy van Dijk, University of Twente, The Netherlands Senior Program Committee Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg, Germany Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California, USA Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS, France Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, TELECOM-ParisTech, France Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan MORE INFORMATION Please visit the conference web site: http://iva09.dfki.de/ Contact conference chair: iva09(a)dfki.de GALA 2009 The Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents will take place at IVA'09. Demonstrate your agent in action, or develop a sensitive viewer of a tennis match - and win the 350 Euro Jury Award! NEW this year is that each GALA submission should have a 2 page paper, which will be published in the IVA09 Springer proceedings. For details, see: http://irgen.ncl.ac.uk/gala GALA 2 page paper deadline 1 May 2009 GALA video deadline 1 June 2009 CO-LOCATION WITH ACII'09 IVA'09 will be co-located in Amsterdam with the complementary Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction International Conference (ACII'09) (http://www.acii2009.nl/), held 10-12 September 2009. While this is a great opportunity to make the most of a trip to Amsterdam, the same paper cannot be submitted to both conferences: papers with a primary focus on embodied conversational agents and virtual agents are encouraged to submit to IVA'09; papers with a primary focus on emotion are encouraged to submit to ACII'09. LATEST NEWS - Two invited speakers are confirmed: Casey Hudson, project director at BioWare and Steve Di Paola, artist and scientist, associate professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada. - Accommodation may be reserved now. BE ON TIME to assure your hotel, as September will be overbooked in Amsterdam. -----------------------------------------------------------------

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CGI09 / CAe09: early bird deadline extended

by Stefanie Behnke

Computer Graphics International 2009: May 28-30, 2009 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Online registration is open at http://www.cgi09.org/ Computer Graphics International is co-located with Computational Aesthetics (http://www.computational-aesthetics.org/2009/ ).There is a heavily discounted joint registration fee for those wanting to attend both conferences. We have extended the early bird deadline for CGI/Cae 2009 conference registration. The deadline is now Friday, April 17th, 2009. Please note that the deadline for booking the conference hotel room at the conference rate is April 27th.

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