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EG2015: Call for STARs

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======================================================================= Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for STARs Please forward this mail to anyone interested ======================================================================= CALL FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORTS EUROGRAPHICS 2015 May 4-8, 2015 Zurich, Switzerland ** NEW for EG 2015: Accepted STARs will be published in Computer Graphics Forum ** State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) provide an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of a special topic of current interest related to Computer Graphics. We welcome submissions on all topics relevant to EUROGRAPHICS, and particularly encourage STARs on topics that have not been covered in any recent previous STAR. A STAR can also address the use of Computer Graphics techniques in a different scientific discipline or in industrial practice. For examples of suitable STAR topics, please refer to the EUROGRAPHICS digital library. At EUROGRAPHICS 2015, the authors of a STAR will be given 90 minutes to present the report at a level that also allows non-experts in the particular domain to follow this presentation. For any questions concerning STAR submissions please contact the STARs co-chairs by e-mail ( <mailto:kai.hormann@usi.ch> kai.hormann(a)usi.ch and <mailto:oliver.staadt@uni-rostock.de> oliver.staadt(a)uni-rostock.de). SUBMISSION DETAILS This year, STARs will undergo a single blind, double cycle review, similar to the one for regular papers. Hence, there is no need to prepare a STAR proposal first, and the full-length STAR with no more than 25 pages must be submitted before the submission deadline. Each STAR will be reviewed by three members of the IPC who are experts in the respective topic. Accepted STARs will be published in a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum, which appears right before the Eurographics conference. Submissions needing a major revision will be transferred to the standard submission track of Computer Graphics Forum. Brief biographies of the authors should be included in the submission, demonstrating their qualification to produce the proposed STAR. The deadline for the submission of STAR proposals is September 17, 2014, with notification of conditional acceptance on January 14, 2015. The revised version of conditionally accepted STARs will have to be submitted at a later date for a second review, and the camera ready version will be due about 6 weeks before the start of the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Full STAR submission: September 17, 2014 First review notification: January 14, 2015 Revised STAR submission: February 11, 2015 Second review notification: March 11, 2015 Final STAR submission: March 25, 2015 PROGRAM CHAIRS Kai Hormann (Universita della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) Oliver Staadt (University of Rostock, Germany)

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Special Issue on Processing Large Geospatial Data

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**************************************************************************** ********************** Computers & Graphics: Special Issue on PROCESSING LARGE GEOSPATIAL DATA CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS **************************************************************************** ********************** AIM AND SCOPE New emerging data acquisition techniques provide fast and efficient means for multidimensional spatial data collection. Airborne LIDAR surveys, SAR satellites, stereo-photogrammetry and mobile mapping systems are increasingly used for digital reconstruction. All these systems provide point clouds, often enriched with other sensor data, yielding high volumes of raw data. The special issue seeks to present an up-to-date view of approaches for data management, processing and visualization able to provide efficiently significant information contained in large geospatial datasets, and able to derive and visualize important knowledge for the relevant level of decision making. In this context, the special issue of Computers&Graphics calls for contributions on various aspects related to large geospatial data processing, with the intent of stimulating researchers from different fields such as Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Geomatics, Remote Sensing, HPC and Grid computing working on the common goal of processing 3D data. This will provide a ground for cross-fertilization and stimulate discussions on the future challenges in this important research area. **************************************************************************** ********************** TOPICS The special issue seeks to present an up-to-date view of cutting edge computational approaches for the management, processing and visualization of large geospatial datasets in cloud or grid infrastructures. Original research or practical applications are welcome in all areas related to processing large geospatial data. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: . Knowledge-driven processing . High-quality co-registration from multiple heterogeneous data sets . Efficient feature extraction and classification . Efficient surface generation and reconstruction . Multi-resolution and level-of-details techniques . High-quality change detection to characterize dynamic events . Visual analysis and inspection . Methods and architectures for data-intensive processing **************************************************************************** ********************** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Authors planning to send a contribution are kindly invited to send an abstract by email to the guest editors (iqmulus(a)ge.imati.cnr.it) with prospective title, authors and a short summary of the manuscript (deadline: July 30). Full papers (12 pages A4, Computers & Graphics style) should be submitted by September 1st on the Computers & Graphics submission system (http://ees.elsevier.com/cag/). To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special section you are editing, it is important that authors select "SI: GC Data" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. **************************************************************************** ********************** GUEST EDITORS Jan Boehm (University College London, UK) Roderik Lindenbergh (Delft University of Technology, NL) Michela Spagnuolo (CNR-MATI, Genoa, IT) **************************************************************************** ********************** TIMELINE Abstract submission: July 30 Paper submission: September 1st Review due - 1st: October 3 Revisions due: November 7 Review due - 2nd: December 3 Final notification: December 5

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Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU): two DAAD PhD scholarships

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Starting in 2015, two DAAD PhD scholarships will become available for the Research Training Group Heterogeneous Image Systems in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany. The Research Training Group Heterogeneous Image Systems researches technical systems for processing, synthesizing, and transmitting digital images, such as those in mobile phones or game consoles, but also in medical image systems or advanced driver assistance systems. The PhD projects range from hardware-related topics like intelligent image sensors, to methods and tools for the design and modeling of heterogeneous image systems, and to applications in medical engineering and entertainment technology. The scholarships provide funding for a three-year period, starting in 2015. Applicants must have earned a Masters or Diploma degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (or closely related) within the past 6 years. Moreover, applicants may not have stayed in Germany for more than 15 months at the time of nomination for the DAAD (approximately September 2014). Good English skills and the ability to work well in a team are required. A completed application must include a curriculum vitae, a letter of motivation, including a specified area of research, letters of recommendation from two university professors from the applicant`s alma mater, and pre- and post-secondary certifications including those proving language skills. The documents must be submitted to <mailto:coord-hbs@i9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> coord-hbs(a)i9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de by the 15th of July, 2014 as a PDF via e-mail. Further information may be found at <http://hbs.fau.de/> http://hbs.fau.de/ or at <https://www.daad.de/gssp> https://www.daad.de/gssp Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg possesses the certificate audit familiengerechte Hochschule. The university aims to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching positions, and, therefore, strongly encourages female researchers to apply for these positions. Severely disabled applicants with essentially identical technical and personal suitability will be preferentially selected.

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SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Workshop

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SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Workshop on Indoor Scene Understanding: Where Graphics meets Vision. December 3, 2014, Shenzhen, China (Paper deadline: July 10, 2014) The best paper will be invited to submit a full journal version of the paper to Computers & Graphics (Elsevier). The proceedings of each workshop will also be included in the ACM Digital Library. ========== Call for Papers: The importance of making computers understand the scene presented to them cannot be understated. The ability to automatically infer the semantics and geometry of any given scene would enable a variety of different applications in the field of Augmented reality, Robotics, Image Processing and Visualization. Understandably, a large amount of research effort has been directed at this problem in the computer vision and machine learning communities, with plenty of motivation and interest in computer graphics. The availability of commodity depth sensors have led to a number of breakthroughs to made in this space. Much of this success can be attributed to the use of computer graphics for generating realistic sensor data. We believe the time is ripe for extending this promising approach to the more challenging problem of full scene understanding. However, to enable this, we need close collaboration between researchers from machine learning, computer vision, and computer graphics. This workshop is intended to bring researchers from these communities together. We are soliciting original contributions which employ shape analysis and image processing for abstracting, representing, and manipulating raw depth scans of indoor environments. Specific topics include, but are not limited, to: - Shape analysis - Scene Classification + RGBD data analysis - Modeling and recognition of scene-object interactions - 3D Spatial Understanding from Images - Physically Grounded Scene Interpretation - Large-scale Data-driven approaches for shape collection analysis - Understanding scenes from depth images and videos - Interaction applications combining raw scenes with virtual objects - Depth Datasets - Computer Vision as Inverse Graphics ========== Important Dates: July 10, 2014: Paper submission deadline: August 20, 2014: Notification of Acceptance September 15, 2014: Camera-ready deadline Please check <http://geometry.cs.ucl.ac.uk/workshops/IndoorSceneUnderstanding_sigga14> http://geometry.cs.ucl.ac.uk/workshops/IndoorSceneUnderstanding_sigga14 for updates. ========== Program committee Gabriel J. Brostow, University College London Peter Gehler, Max Planck Institut Derek Hoiem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Shi-Min Hu, Tsinghua University Vladimir Kim, Stanford University Ligang Liu, University of Science and Technology of China Daniele Panozzo, ETH Zürich Silvio Savarese, Stanford University Nathan Silberman, New York University Thorsten Thormaehlen, Philipps-Universität Marburg WeiWei Xu, Microsoft Research Asia Michael Wand, Utrecht University ========== Paper Submission: The manuscripts should be submitted as PDF files and should be no more than 8-10 pages in Siggraph paper format. All submissions must be prepared according to the ACM SIGGRAPH publication guidelines. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, novelty, and technical quality. In submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been submitted to another workshop or conference during the review period. The best paper will be invited to submit a full journal version of the paper to Computers & Graphics (Elsevier). The proceedings of each workshop will also be included in the ACM Digital Library. All workshop research papers must be original, unpublished work, written and presented in English. All submissions must be prepared according to the <http://www.siggraph.org/learn/instructions-authors> ACM SIGGRAPH publication guidelines. At least one author of each accepted workshop paper is to register for SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 (full conference pass) by 15 September 2014, and give a presentation at the workshop. To recognize the contribution of workshop paper presenters, the presenters can apply for a 25% discount per accepted paper submission. ========== Program Co-Chairs: Niloy J. Mitra, University College London Pushmeet Kohli, Microsoft Research Cambridge Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge Casten Rother, TU Dresden

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SGP'14 and Graduate School: Last Day for Early Registration

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Call for Participation: Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP'14) and Graduate School Cardiff, UK Early Bird Registration Deadline: 20 June, 2014 Graduate School 7-8 July, 2014 Main Conference 9-11 July, 2014 Conference Keynote Speakers: Helmut Pottmann (KAUST and Vienna University of Technology) Wojciech Matusik (MIT) Misha Kazhdan (John Hopkins University) The Symposium on Geometry Processing 2014, a Eurographics symposium in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH, will be held from 9-11 July in Cardiff, United Kingdom. SGP is the premier venue for new research and results in geometry processing. The conference involves plenary high quality paper sessions as well as a poster session for work in progress with high potentials. The conference will also feature an industrial session. Three speakers will share their expertise in industries related to various applications of geometric modelling and processing, and in particular focus on challenges and unsolved problems within their industrial domains. A related Graduate School will be held from 7-8 July, 2014, which is specifically targeted towards graduate students at the beginning of their PhD studies. The courses will focus on fundamental concepts and important aspects of digital geometry processing, with 5 tutorials and two invited talks. Technical Programme: <http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/sgp2014/programme.html> http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/sgp2014/programme.html Graduate School Programme: <http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/sgp2014/gradschool.html> http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/sgp2014/gradschool.html Registration: <http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/sgp2014/registration.html> http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/sgp2014/registration.html Conference website: <http://geometryprocessing.org> http://geometryprocessing.org Sponsors: Microsoft Research, Pixar Research (Disney), Geometry Factory, INSIST

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The 12th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage

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Addendum to the 5th Call for Papers: - STAR / Exhibitions, Tutorials and Workshop Submission Deadline to June, 30th / July, 2nd - Notification Deadline moved to July, 31 - Updates on registration process and registration fees ============================================================================ ============ 5th C A L L F O R P A P E R S STAR / Tutorials & Exhibition Submission Deadline: June 30th / July 2nd, 2014 The 12th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage October, 6th - 8th 2014, Darmstadt, Germany in cooperation with TU Darmstadt Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt http://diglib.eg.org/GCH2014 Follow us on Twitter: @EGGCH2014 ============================================================================ ============ INVITATION: =========== You are cordially invited to contribute to the 12th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH) which, for the first time, will take place in Darmstadt, Germany. In the past, cultural Heritage scientists as well as ICT experts have collaborated to find solutions to optimize all aspects of digitally preserving, managing and delivering cultural information to new generations, but still many unsolved problems remain. Among the challenges the community faces are fast and economic, high quality, large scale 2D/3D digitization, certification, classification, annotation, visualization, storage and faithful 2D/3D replication of cultural heritage artefacts, the definition of digitization and preservation strategies for museum collections, the definition of standard data formats for digital models, the development of longterm data storage technologies as well as standard legislation for digital model rights. In continuation to last years' workshop series and to overcome the aforementioned challenges, we would like to invite and welcome all relevant stakeholders from cultural heritage institutions, academia, research, industry, economy, policy and law makers to create synergies, participate and contribute to the European Forum for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applied to the Cultural Heritage domain. Following a long tradition, this event focuses on the integration of digital tools and solutions into the practice of Cultural Heritage, Archaeology and Museums. LOCATION: ========= GCH 2014 will take place in Darmstadt, the birth place of the last Empress of Russia, Tsarina Alexandra Romanov. Darmstadt is famous for its 'Jugendstil' (art nouveau) buildings. The establishment of the Mathildenhöhe artists colony more than 100 years ago played its part in raising Darmstadt to prominence. Magnificent art nouveau houses give this hill of muses an unmistakable character. Through science, literature, art and architecture, Darmstadt has developed a wholly unique appeal that has earned it much acclaim. Today, Darmstadt boasts a great diversity of science and art, many publishing houses and graphic design studios, as well as the European Space Agency's satellite control centre and internationally acclaimed institutes for ICT, literature, art and music - all of this reflected in Darmstadt's official name as 'City of Science'. TOPICS: ======= The 12th EUROGRAPHICS Workshops on Graphics and Cultural Heritage aims to foster an international dialogue between the different fields of expertise and in particular allow ICT experts to have a better understanding of the critical requirements of CH scientists for managing, processing and delivering cultural information to a broader audience. Focus of this year's forum is to present and showcase new developments within the overall process chain, from data acquisition, 3D documentation, analysis and synthesis, semantical modelling, data management, to the point of virtual museums or new forms of interactive presentations and 3D printing solutions. GCH 2014 therefore provides scientists, engineers and CH managers a possibility to discuss new ICT technologies applied to data modelling, reconstruction and processing, digital libraries, virtual museums, interactive environments and applications for CH, ontologies and semantic processing, management and archiving, standards and documentation, as well as its transfer into practice. The result of this interaction will be disseminated through use of innovative digital techniques in research and education for Cultural Heritage and through publications: on-going project results, preliminary ideas and works in progress, and overviews of research in the use of digital technology in the context of Cultural Heritage. We therefore seek original, innovative and previously unpublished contributions in theoretical or applied areas of the digital cultural heritage domain, challenging the state of the art solutions and leveraging new ideas for future developments. In particular: * 2/3/4D data capturing and processing in Cultural Heritage * Material acquisition and presentation * Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations * Data acquisition technologies * Digital libraries and 3D documents * Digital capture and annotation of intangible heritage (performance, audio, dance, oral) * Interactive environments and applications for Cultural Heritage * Visualization and Virtual Museums * 3D printing based on new appearance models * Preservation and digital archiving of artefacts * Metadata, classification schemes, ontologies and semantic processing * Multilingual applications, tools and systems for Cultural Heritage * Multimedia data acquisition, management and archiving * Multi-modal interfaces and rendering for Cultural Heritage * On-site and remotely sensed data collections * Serious games in Cultural Heritage * Storytelling and design of heritage communications * Standards and documentation * Usability, effectiveness and interface design for Cultural Heritage Applications * Tools for education and training in Cultural Heritage * New business models and technology transfer into practice GCH 2014 will also include "State-of-the-Art Reports", inspired by the EG STARs. These are longer papers providing useful novel overviews of research in the fields of computer graphics, computer science and related fields that can benefit the multidisciplinary nature of GCH. They are survey papers in what the community considers important areas that have not been covered before or recently. Their aim is to give a detailed account of the principles, algorithms and open problems of a research area, so that an interested reader can quickly become up to speed in this field. We warmly encourage all colleagues to submit to the STAR reports. Two STAR reports will be selected by peer review and published in the local proceedings together with the short and project papers. GCH-STAR authors will present their work within a 60 minute presentation during GCH 2014. CONTRIBUTIONS: ============== We are seeking, as of now, contributions by following means: - GCH-STAR reports providing a useful novel overview of research in the fields of computer graphics, computer science and related fields that can benefit the multidisciplinary nature of this workshop series. We expect the STAR submissions as full version being available at submission deadline. - Tutorials and Workshops: the conference will also host half-day and full-day working sessions that provide an opportunity to get in touch with ongoing projects and cutting-edge research in the field of digital technologies for Cultural Heritage. You should download the form available on the web site, fill it in and submit it through the SRM submission system of GCH - Exhibitions: You are invited to submit proposals for installations, applications, digital artworks or technical demos to GCH2014. The Exhibition will showcase project results, demos, applications, inside the foyer of the IGD. Adequate spaces will be provided. The best papers of the Conference will be proposed for an extended submission to ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (http://jocch.acm.org/). !! NEW: All submissions should be anonymized on submission. Please, submit contributions as .pdf or .zip/.gzip archive !!! IMPORTANT DATES: ================ !!! June 30 STAR reports, as full paper submission !!! July 2 Workshops & Tutorials, Exhibitions !!! July 31 Notification !!! Sept 1 Final Camera Ready due for accepted works, early registration Formatting & Templates ---------------------- More details on templates, formatting guidelines and submission/registration procedures can be found at: http://diglib.eg.org/GCH2014 Registration ============ More details on registration can be found at: http://diglib.eg.org/GCH2014/#Registration For further inquiries get in contact with: info-GCH2014(a)eg.org COMMITTEE ========= * Event Co-Chairs: Dieter Fellner (TU Darmstadt/Fraunhofer IGD, Germany) Roberto Scopigno (CNR, Pisa, Italy) * Program Co-Chairs: Reinhard Klein (Univ. Bonn, Germany) Pedro Santos (Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany) * Program Committee: Pierre Alliez Dieter Fritsch Fabio Remondino Carlos Andujar Luc van Gool Patrick Reuter David Arnold Sorin Hermon Maria Roussou Juan Barcelo Wim Hupperertz Holly Rushmeier Andreas Bienert Marinos Ioannidis Robert Sablatnig Vinzenz Brinkmann Livio de Luca Michela Spagnuolo Alan Chalmers Marco Marchesi Didier Stricker Martin Dörr Sofia Pescarin Stella Sylaio Anastasios Doulamis Denis Pitzalis Tim Weyrich Franz Fischnaller Marc Pollefeys Laia Pujol Tost Michael Wimmer Selma Rizvic Antonella Guidazzoli * Local Organising Committee: Holger Graf Arjan Kuijper Stefanie Behnke Looking forward to meet you in Darmstadt! The Conference Chairs: Dieter Fellner Roberto Scopigno Reinhard Klein Pedro Santos ---

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VCBM 2014: New deadline 22.6.2014 and page limit extension

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Dear Colleagues, this year's Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM) will be taking place September 4th to 5th in Vienna with two extra Satellite events on September 3rd! Due to several requests for a deadline extension the EG VCBM paper submission deadline has been moved to the end of the week. The new paper deadline is June 22nd, 2014 23:59:59 CET. We hope this gives you some extra time to hand in your paper as well! The page limit has been extended from 8 to 10 pages to give enough space for your contribution! For further information, and regular updates and news, visit our website: <http://www.vcbm.org/> http://www.vcbm.org/ or follow us on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/vcbm_2014> https://twitter.com/vcbm_2014 Registration is already open!!!! Best regards, Katja Bühler, Ivan Viola, Timo Ropinsky VCBM Chairs Contact: <mailto:Vcbm-chairs@cg.tuwien.ac.at> Vcbm-chairs(a)cg.tuwien.ac.at

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Fraunhofer IGD - ESR 3 year PhD position in image processing and 3D reconstruction

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Fraunhofer IGD - ESR 3 year PhD position in image processing and 3D reconstruction Job Vacancy to be found under Ref. No. 33936585 under http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/ For enquiries: pedro.santos(a)igd.fraunhofer.de Full Time Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher Positions in the fields of Computer Science to work on image processing and 3D reconstruction of cultural heritage artifacts Applications are invited from candidates who possess the necessary qualifications in order to fill one (1) full time Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher (ESR) Fellow Position within the Competence Center for Cultural Heritage Digitization at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research in Darmstadt, Germany. The selected Marie Curie ESR will work for 36 months within the ITN-Digital Cultural Heritage (ITN-DCH: www.itn-dch.eu) Marie Curie ITN Programme which, is the only EU funded programme bringing together fourteen (14) leading European Institutions as full partners and nine (9) other as associated partners in a transnational network, aiming at implementing a multidisciplinary and intersectorial research and training programme between the academic and the industrial partners. Description: Cultural Heritage (CH) is an integral element of Europe and vital for the creation of a common European identity and one of the greatest assets for steering Europe's social, economic development and job creation. However, the current research training activities in Cultural Heritage are fragmented and mostly design to be of a single-discipline, failing to cover the whole lifecycle of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) research, which is by nature a multi- disciplinary and intersectorial research agenda. ITN-DCH aims for the first time worldwide that top universities, research centers, industries and CH stakeholders, end-users and standardized bodies will collaborate to train the next generation of researchers in DCH. The project aims to analyze, design, research, develop and validate an innovative multi-disciplinary and intersectorial research training framework that covers the whole lifecycle of digital CH research for a cost-effective preservation, documentation, protection and presentation of CH. ITN-DCH targets innovations that covers all aspects of CH ranging from tangible (books, newspapers, images, drawings, manuscripts, uniforms, maps, artifacts, archaeological sites, monuments) to intangible content (e.g., music, performing arts, folklore, theatrical performances) and their inter-relationships. The project aims to boost the added value of CH assets by re-using them in real application environments (protection of CH, education, tourism industry, advertising, fashion, films, music, publishing, video games and TV) through research on (i) new personalized, interactive, mixed and augmented reality enabled e-services, (ii) new recommendations in data acquisition, (iii) new forms of representations (3D/4D) of both tangible /intangible assets and (iv) interoperable metadata forms that allow easy data exchange and archiving. One ESR will be recruited by the host organization at the Competence Center for Cultural Heritage Digitization at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research in Darmstadt, Germany Position ESR7: One ESR to be recruited by the host organization of the Competence Center for Cultural Heritage Digitization at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research in Darmstadt, Germany for the duration of 36 months under full employment contract. The selected candidate's contract can be extended up to 60 months when desired and if performing well. The fellow will perform research along the following lines: We are looking for a motivated early stage researcher to join our group and help us achieve fast and economic mass digitization of 3D cultural heritage artifacts by automation and parallel processing technologies from images or videos. This objective implies the sub-goals of optimizing performance and parallelism, accuracy, robustness and scalability of 3D reconstruction algorithms. The position will be tightly linked with research challenges in the computer vision domain, especially optical flow and feature recognition techniques, as well as development of parallel, multi-core and GPU-based technologies to speed up 3D photogrammetric reconstruction techniques. Drawing from a data pool of highly unstructured videos and still images, one of the challenges will be making the algorithms robust to changes in background, various lighting situations and optical degradation of input data, thus experience in automated data selection and filtering methodologies is vital. The required competence and experience is as follows: Knowledge in the field of computer vision and image processing is recommended, including the tasks of background extraction, robust separation of dynamic and static content, drawing from methods of optical flow and 2D features, as well as feature- and marker-based tracking. 3D reconstruction will be based on photogrammetric approaches, and thus, knowledge and experience in 3D/4D-reconstruction techniques based on videos and images, using Photometric Stereo and Multi-view Stereo, e.g., and other photogrammetric methods is recommended. We also want to process image streams to do 3D reconstruction of dynamic content, so experience in video streaming and stream decomposition into frames is useful. Furthermore, knowledge of parallelization techniques is welcome, such as methodologies for multi-threading, multi-core and multi-GPU computation, as well as out-of-core computation, as handling of large amounts of data. The position will be tightly coupled with active research and practical implementation within a large software framework, which is why we require experience in scientific work and publication. From the implementation side, excellent programming skills in C++ and optional Java, and GLSL or OpenCL, as well as experience with cross-platform build systems such as cmake are an absolute requirement. Since we will be working intensely in a team, excellent proficiency in the English language is mandatory, and knowledge of the German language is encouraged. Professional experience in the industry and/or with previous EU projects is welcome. The ESR is expected to present his/her research results on project meetings, international conferences and in scientific publications and to contribute to patents applications. Research Fields Computer Science, Computer Vision, Photogrammetry, Computer Graphics, Parallel CPU/GPU Computing Career Stage Early stage researcher or 0-4 years of experience (Post graduate) - According to the FP7-PEOPLE (Marie Curie Actions) Regulations. Eligibility rules for the Marie Curie fellows can be found at the FP7-PEOPLE 2013 Work programme: http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/about-mca/actions/i tn/marie-curie-actions-fellowships-people-wp-201301_en.pdf Research Profile Recognized Researcher (R2) Benefits . Competitive salary to cover living and, mobility costs, social and health insurance (according to the FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie Actions Programme regulations). . In the context of a personal Career Development Plan, opportunities for international collaboration and exchanges to world-class academic and industrial partners will take place. . Possibility for a PhD fellowship . Training in a range of state-of-the-art scientific skills, intellectual property and project management skills. . Secondment placements within the network's partners (max. duration 2 months). For more details on salary and other benefits please refer to the FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie actions website at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/careers_en.htm and the FP7-PEOPLE ITN2013 work programme: http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/about-mca/actions/i tn/marie-curie-actions-fellowships-people-wp-201301_en.pdf Applicants are requested to submit the following: 1. Detailed Curriculum Vitae with all the certified copies of their awards translated in English. 2. Motivation Letter 3. Official transcripts of grades from all academic institutions of higher education listed in his/her application, certified copies of degrees, or/and certifications of fulfillment of the required obligations for entering a graduate PhD programme 4. Official certified copies of titles and documents in English 5. Names of three referees who, upon request, can provide recommendation letters 6. Copies of any related research papers or other significant work by the applicant Applications must be submitted in a closed express courier envelope marked as "Application for Marie Curie ITN-DCH Research Fellow Position" - Pedro Santos, Head of Competence Center Cultural Heritage Digitization, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, Fraunhoferstrasse 5 - 64283 Darmstadt - Germany. Otherwise it must be sent via regular registered post with a clearly visible post office stamp of a date not later than 30th of June 2014, 24:00 that is the deadline for the submission of the applications. Applicants are also requested to send their applications electronically to these email addresses pedro.santos(a)igd.fraunhofer.de and marinos.ioannides(a)cut.ac.cy before the deadline of 30th of June 2014, 24:00, however, please note that the electronic submission alone will not be considered as a formal application unless the printed application is received as requested in the previous paragraph. For enquiries: pedro.santos(a)igd.fraunhofer.de Start of the fellowship: 1st of August 2014 Comment/web site for additional job details The Applicant should have: . Master of Science Degree from a recognized university in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Physics, Optics, Archaeology, Geography, Geodesy or any other course providing the candidate with a background in image processing and/or 3D reconstruction . Excellent knowledge of the English language at a proficiency level (spoken and written) is required, Knowledge of German is encouraged. More information: . http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de . http://www.cultlab3d.de Requirements - The ESR candidate, at the time of recruitment, must not have resided (or carried out his/her main activity e.g. work, studies, etc.) in Belgium (host country), for more than 12 months in the last 3 years immediately prior to the reference recruitment date! (See also: http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/about-mca/actions/i tn/marie-curie-actions-fellowships-people-wp-201301_en.pdf) - The EST must not have PhD yet. - Required Education Level Degree Scientific Master Degree or equivalent, as described above Degree Field Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Physics, Optics, Archaeology, Geography, Geodesy, Image processing Required Languages Language ENGLISH Language Level Excellent Additional Languages (optional) Language German, French Language Level Good

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WSCG 2015

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>>> 40 years of Computer Graphics in Plzen <<< WSCG 2015 23rd International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2015 in cooperation with the Eurographics Assciation & listed in ACM & SIGGRAPH Calendar to be held in Plzen (Pilsen) close to Praha (Prague), Czech Republic Primavera Hotel and Congress Centrum June 8 - 12, 2015 Conference Co-Chairs Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic Keynote Speakers Agreements pending Detailed information on WSCG 2015 will be available soon Important days * Title and abstract submission: February 26, 2015 (recommended only) * Paper submission: March 5, 2015 23:00 GMT - London time * Acceptance decision: April 14, 2015 * Final version submission: Full, Communication, Short, Posters - May 12, 2015 23:00 GMT - London time Main topics Computer graphics, scientific and medical visualization, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, GPU graphics, graphical human computer interfaces, geometric modelling, rendering and animation, virtual reality, haptic systems, medical imaging, graphical interaction, computational photography, data compression for graphics, image based rendering, mathematical methods for graphics and vision, physically based modelling, shape analysis & modelling & retrieval, surface and volume parameterization, parallel graphics, CAD, CAGD and GIS systems and related topics. Publications All papers will be available on-line at the WSCG WEB site with no access restriction => fast dissemination. Accepted and presented Full papers, Communication papers, Short papers and Posters will be published in the WSCG proceedings with ISBN in PDF form after the conference and will be available from the WSCG site (http://www.wscg.eu) for download - access free. Printed version will be made for indexing purposes only. The best selected papers will be published in the regular Journal of WSCG (see http://www.WSCG.eu => Digital Library). Journal of WSCG [ISSN 1213-6972 (hardcopy), ISSN 1213-6964 (CD version), ISSN 1213-6980 (on-line)] and WSCG proceedings with ISBN will be sent for indexing to Tompson Reuters/WoS-ISI, SCOPUS, INSPEC and others for citation indexing and other purposes. Indexing * Scopus * WSCG proceedings (http://wscg.zcu.cz/Scopus-stat-1.pdf) * Journal of WSCG (http://wscg.zcu.cz/Scopus-stat-2.pdf) * Thomson Reuters / ISI (http://wscg.zcu.cz/WoS-stat.pdf) and other indexing institutions. Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Ing.Vaclav Skala, CSc. FELLOW of the Eurographics Association http://www.eg.org/EG/About/organisation/fellows/eg_fellows_timeordered.htm c/o University of West Bohemia http://www.zcu.cz Computer Science Dept. http://www-kiv.zcu.cz Secretary: cse(a)kiv.zcu.cz Centre for Computer Graphics and Visualization http://Graphics.zcu.cz Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen-Bory Czech Republic e-mail: skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz WSCG URL: http://www.wscg.eu GraVisMa URL: http://www.GraVisMa.eu --------------------------------------------------- Direct Tel. +420-37-763-2473 Direct Fax. +420-37-763-2457 Tel.secretary: +420-37-763-2461, 2462, 2463 Fax Department: +420-37-763-2402

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VRIPHYS'14 - Work in Progress Session

by eurographics＠eg.org

VRIPHYS'14 - Work in Progress Session In the scope of the VRIPHYS 2014 conference, an oral session with short presentations (typically 15-20 min including questions) will be organized. These presentations should focus on aspects related to Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation. Work in progress, unpublished or recent results are particularly well suited for this session. The presented work will not be included in the proceedings, so that participants get feedback on their work without preventing them from submitting their work later. This workshop is therefore well suited for Ph.D. candidates. To present your work during these sessions, please send us an abstract (2 pages max.) at: <mailto:vriphys14@cs.uni-bremen.de> vriphys14(a)cs.uni-bremen.de by the 30th of August 2014. More information about this "Work in Progress" session can be found on the conference web site: <http://vriphys2014.uni-bremen.de> http://vriphys2014.uni-bremen.de . Best regards, VRIPHYS 2014 organization committee

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