General November 2017

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Call for nominations for EG PhD Award 2018

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Dear all, The deadline for nomination for EG PhD award is December 17, 2017. Candidates who have defended and awarded PhD degree from May 1st, 2016 to October 31st, 2017 are eligible for this round. Eligibility includes a PhD Thesis defended and mainly conducted in Europe or in countries having a Eurographics Chapter or in EG Organizational Member Institutions. The award committee will take into consideration both the quality of the research conducted and the scholarliness of the submitted thesis. Please find details about the nomination process at: <https://www.eg.org/wp/eurographics-awards-programme/phd-award/> https://www.eg.org/wp/eurographics-awards-programme/phd-award/ Please put forward suitable candidates and encourage your colleagues to nominate their students. Self-nomination is also allowed. If you have any question(s), please directly contact Niloy Mitra ( <mailto:n.mitra@cs.ucl.ac.uk> n.mitra(a)cs.ucl.ac.uk). thanks Niloy Mitra Chair EG PhD Award Committee

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Call for Eurographics 2018 EDUCATION Papers

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Call for Eurographics 2018 EDUCATION Papers =========================================== The 39th Eurographics conference will be held on April 16-20, 2018 in Delft, The Netherlands. The conference is organized by the Eurographics Association covering the wide field of Computer Graphics. Part of the conference is a track on Computer Graphics Education: https://www.eurographics2018.nl/submitters/education-papers/ We are seeking original contributions for presentation and publication in the EG 2018 education track. We seek to build and enhance a vibrant community of computer graphics teachers who share their knowledge and experience of bringing computer graphics to the classroom and getting others excited about the field. The scope of the track includes topics in education related to computer graphics, such as use in education, teaching/classroom experience, "nifty assignments" and outstanding student projects. Authors are invited to submit papers, panels and student projects. We invite submissions related to the following topics: - Teaching computer graphics to diverse/mixed audiences (e.g. students in computer science, engineering, arts, etc.); - Designing curricula for computer graphics and related disciplines (e.g. image processing, visualization, animation and games, etc.); - Designing and teaching online and hybrid courses in computer graphics; - Classroom challenges in computer graphics (innovative and effective assessment, engaging student interest, managing diverse student backgrounds, teaching mathematical foundations, etc.); - Enabling and exploiting visual tools and techniques to teach in other disciplines; - Incorporating recent technology in computer graphics courses (e.g. VR, AR, 3D printing, etc.); - Bringing computer graphics research into the classroom; - Promoting undergraduate research in computer graphics. The best papers will be recommended to the editors of prestigious journals in the field, Computer Graphics Forum, Computers and Graphics and IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, who may invite the authors of these papers to submit extended versions to their journals. The best nifty assignments may be published in the CGEMS. - Education papers and experience reports should provide new insights or experience that improve student learning and emphasize on how instructors can directly use them in the classroom. - Proposals for panels should state the problem to be discussed and include a short statement from proposed panelists. - Nifty assignments should explain the assignment, provide examples of handouts and starter code and example student work. Authors may provide them as supplementary materials during submission, and agree to provide access to them online upon acceptance. - Outstanding student projects (individual or group) should describe the learning context for the project and show how the student(s) brought creativity to the work. Upon acceptance authors will be expected to demonstrate the project during their presentation. Submission Details ================== Anonymous submissions of up to 8 pages for education papers or up to 2 pages for notes on nifty assignments or outstanding student projects must be formatted according to the Eurographics Author's guidelines. Submissions will be made electronically through the Eurographics Submission and Review Management (SRM) system and subject to a review process. [link here to https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/EG_2018EDU ] Proposals for education panels should be emailed directly to the education papers co-chairs at chairs-eg2018edu(a)eg.org. DEADLINES ========= - *Submission deadline* for education papers is 23:59 UTC/GMT, Friday, January 12, 2018. - Notification to authors will be on Friday, February 9, 2018. Education Papers Co-chairs For any question concerning education paper submissions please contact the papers program co-chairs: chairs-eg2018edu(a)eg.org. Jiri Zara Frits Post

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Graphics Interface (GI) 2018

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Graphics Interface (GI) 2018, the 44th annual conference, will be held at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from May 8-11, 2018. <http://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2018> http://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2018 GI is the longest running conference in the field, consistently attracting high-quality submissions on recent advances in computer graphics, human-computer interaction (HCI), and visualization. All accepted GI papers will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library and will be open access in the Graphics Interface archive. The Michael A. J. Sweeney Award will be awarded at the conference to the best student papers in graphics and HCI. Authors of top papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions to the journals IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) and Computers & Graphics. Submit your paper at: <https://precisionconference.com/~gi/> https://precisionconference.com/~gi/ GI 2018 consists of both Graphics and HCI tracks, along with several joint sessions. We seek submissions covering all aspects of graphics, HCI, as well as visualization. Authors must request that their submissions be handled by either the Graphics or HCI sub-committee. In exceptional cases where significant overlap exists, a submission may be reviewed by members of both sub-committees. All paper submissions are fully peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and two external reviewers. Papers normally have a maximum length of eight pages. GI 2018 will be held in conjunction with Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of AI/GI/CRV 2018. A single registration provides access to all keynotes, invited and paper talks, as well as the common poster/demo session for the three conferences. Keynote Speakers: Kavita Bala, Cornell University Doug Bowman, Virginia Tech Invited Speaker Series Talks: Andrea Tagliasacchi, Google Waterloo Morgan McGuire, NVidia Research / Williams College Emily Whiting, Boston University Hao Li, University of Southern California / Pinscreen Fanny Chevalier, University of Toronto Nick Graham, Queen's University Ali Mazalek, Ryerson University In addition, talks will be given by the winners of the 2018 CHCCS Achievement Award and the 2017 Bill Buxton and Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation awards. Deadlines: Paper Deadline: Monday, Dec 18th, 2017, 11:59 pm EST Author notification: Monday, March 5th, 2018 Submission Information: Submissions should use the format shown in the conference template. Submissions should be converted to PDF and uploaded to the Precision Conference system at <https://precisionconference.com/~gi/> https://precisionconference.com/~gi/ by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 18th, 2017. The PCS system will be open for uploading submissions beginning on December 1. Submitting a Cover Letter and Previous Reviews: Authors of GI submission have the option to submit previous reviews and an accompanying cover letter (submitted as a single PDF). The previous reviews can be from a previous GI or any other conference submission. The cover letter should describe the results of the previous review process and the subsequent revisions that have been made for the current GI submission. When submitting a cover letter with previous submissions authors may decide whether the material should be shared with external reviewers or not. Submitted letters and reviews will be available to GI committee members.

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VRIPHYS 2018, first call for papers

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======================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS In cooperation with EG, a Eurographics2018 co-located event: The 14th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS'18) April 15-16, 2018, Delft (The Netherlands) Submission deadline ** January 30, 2018 ** https://vriphys2018.sciencesconf.org/ ======================================================== We are pleased to announce the 14th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation VRIPHYS 2018. The workshop will take place in Delft (NL) on April 15-16, 2018. It is organized in cooperation with EG. VRIPHYS is one of the well-established international conferences in the field of computer animation and virtual reality. The workshop provides an opportunity for researchers in virtual reality and computer animation to present and discuss their latest results and to share ideas for potential directions of future research. Plenary keynotes, an industrial session and a PhD competition will complete the program. For this edition, the workshop will be co-located once again with the 39th Eurographics Conference (April 16-20, 2018), and the best papers will be offered the opportunity to be published in the Computers&Graphics journal! 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 Submission ================ Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research and application papers addressing all areas of VRIPHYS. Paper submissions in PDF should be formatted according to the EG publication style, following the instructions: https://vriphys2018.sciencesconf.org/page/submission_page Submissions must be anonymous, should be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages. We encourage the submission of supplementary videos to particularly illustrate dynamic aspects of a submission. All materials will be submitted electronically through the SRM portal before January 30, 2018. https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/VRIPHYS_2018 All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the International Program Committee. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. All accepted papers will be published as part of the full proceedings in the EG Digital Library at the time of the workshop. Important dates ================== Preliminary Summary: January 23, 2018 Full Paper Submission: January 30, 2018 Full Paper Notification: March 10,2018 Camera-ready: March 27,2018 Conference: April. 15-16, 2018 Poster/Work-in-Progress submission: March 27, 2018 Best papers award + Computers&Graphics VSI ====================================================== The "best papers Award" will be given to the author(s) of full papers presented at the conference, selected by the Committee. Traditionally, the honored authors are invited to submit an extended version to the journal Computers & Graphics, for publication in a Virtual Special Issue (VSI). http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-graphics Steering committee ================== Sheldon Andrews ETS Montreal, Canada Jan Bender RWTH Aachen University, Germany Jérémie Dequidt Univ. Lille - INRIA North Europe, France Kenny Erleben University of Copenhagen, Denmark Fabrice Jaillet IUT Lyon 1, LIRIS, Lyon, France Matthias Teschner University of Freiburg, Germany Gabriel Zachmann University of Bremen, Germany For more information, please visit https://vriphys2018.sciencesconf.org/ And see you in Delft!

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Eurographics 2018: Call for tutorials

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Call for tutorials ================== The Eurographics 2018 Tutorials Committee invites you to propose tutorials teaching the technical background of a given subject, or demonstrating its potential creative applications. Tutorials are intended to show what can be done, but even more importantly, how this is done and what kind of tools can be used to do it. In a proposal for a tutorial you should consider that tutorial attendees come from diverse backgrounds, ranging from research and development to education and application. We are soliciting half-day and full-day tutorial proposals at the beginning, intermediate, or advanced level in all areas pertinent to Computer Graphics. Half-day tutorials are about three hours, plus a coffee break in the middle. Full-day tutorials are twice that long, plus two coffee breaks and a longer lunch break. Full-day tutorials should be motivated by sufficient scientific material. Tutorial proposals are about 4-5 pages in length, clearly indicating the audience that is addressed as well as the syllabus of instruction. They will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs, supported by external reviewers. The final selection will be based on quality of the submission, qualification of the presenters, relevance to the conference topics, and balance of topics. Accepted tutorials will be distributed on the conference's USB stick and also will be included in the Eurographics digital library. Eurographics does not require a copyright for the tutorial notes it publishes. The tutorial speakers may reuse their material freely. For each accepted tutorial, a free registration is provided for one author/presenter of that tutorial. For any questions concerning tutorial submissions please contact the tutorial co-chairs: chairs-eg2018tut(a)eg.org For additional details, see https://www.eurographics2018.nl/submitters/tutorials Submission Details ================== Tutorial proposals (in PDF) should be submitted by using the SRM system via: https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/EG_2018TUT The submitted proposals should contain the following information: - Presenter(s) details: Name(s) Institution(s) email address(es) URL(s) - Tutorial details: Title of Tutorial Keywords Half or full day tutorial (either 2×90 minutes or 4×90 minutes) A detailed outline of the tutorial. A statement on the necessary background and potential target audience for the tutorial. A brief resume of the presenter(s) indicating their background in the area the tutorial addresses. If a (similar) tutorial was previously held, indicate the location (i.e., which conference), date, and the number of attendees. Please provide information highlighting changes, improvements and/or why the tutorial should be held again in this form. Important Dates =============== - (NEW) November 20th 2017 (Monday): Submission of full tutorial proposals. - December 8th 2017 (Friday): Acceptance/rejection notification. - March 2018: Submission of final materials (see course notes below). Course Notes ============ Sample course notes, although not required in the submission, are highly encouraged to accompany the tutorial proposals. Notes may include original text, formatted according to the Eurographics publication guidelines, reprints of earlier papers (subject to copyright approval), slides, videos, software, datasets, and any other material the authors consider useful. The acceptance of tutorial proposals is contingent upon the final submission of complete course notes. Upon acceptance of the tutorial, additional material should be submitted using the same link in the SRM system as for submitting the proposal. All course notes of accepted tutorials will be distributed to conference participants online and on USB Sticks. Tutorials Chairs ================ For any question concerning tutorials submissions please contact the tutorial program co-chairs: chairs-eg2018tut(a)eg.org Tobias Ritschel (t.ritschel(a)ucl.ac.uk), University College London, UK Alexandru Telea (a.c.telea(a)rug.nl), University of Groningen, Netherlands

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Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication: Junior Research Group Program

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Max Planck Institute for Informatics The Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication (MPC-VCC) was established as a joint program by the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG) and Stanford University in 2003 (http://www.mpc-vcc.org). With this call the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication (MPC-VCC) invites applications for its Junior Research Group Program Our Junior Research Group program offers young scientists in information technology the opportunity to develop their own research program addressing important problems in areas such as * image communication * computer graphics * geometric computing * imaging systems * computer vision * human machine interface * distributed multimedia architectures * multimedia networking * visual media security. The center includes an outstanding group of faculty members at Stanfords Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and Saarland University. The program begins with a preparatory 1-2 year postdoc phase (Phase P) at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, followed by a two-year appointment at Stanford University (Phase I) as a visiting assistant professor, and then a position at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics as a junior research group leader (Phase II). However, the program can be entered flexibly at each phase, commensurate with the experience of the applicant. Applicants to the program must have completed an outstanding PhD. Exact duration of the preparatory postdoc phase is flexible, but we typically expect this to be about 1-2 years. Applicants who completed their PhD in Germany may enter Phase I of the program directly. Applicants for Phase II are expected to have completed a postdoc stay abroad and must have demonstrated their outstanding research potential and ability to successfully lead a research group. Reviewing of applications will commence on 01 Jan 2018. The final deadline is 31 Jan 2018. Applicants should submit their CV, copies of their school and university reports, list of publications, reprints of five selected publications, names of 3-5 references, a brief description of their previous research and a detailed description of the proposed research project (including possible opportunities for collaboration with existing research groups at Saarbrücken and Stanford) to: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Campus E 1 4, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany; Email: <mailto:mpc-vcc@mpi-inf.mpg.de> mpc-vcc(a)mpi-inf.mpg.de The Max Planck Center is an equal opportunity employer and women are encouraged to apply. Additional information is available on the website www.mpc-vcc.org

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Faculty Position in Graphics at Université de Montréal

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(Apologies if you received multiple copies of this message) Dear friends and colleagues, We are very excited to announce that the computer graphics group (LIGUM) at the Université de Montréal (UdeM) has secured an opening for a tenure-track position in computer graphics at the rank of Assistant Professor. As such, we are looking for highly motivated, strong candidates with proven track record to strengthen and complement our lab. We invite applications from all areas of computer graphics and also encourage candidates with cross-disciplinary background in graphics and other areas such as robotics, digital fabrication, vision, and more. If you know of strong candidates, please do not hesitate to forward them our official announcement (see below). PhD student applicants will be expected to have graduated by June 1st, 2018. If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: Pierre Poulin ( <mailto:poulin@iro.umontreal.ca> poulin(a)iro.umontreal.ca) or Bernhard Thomaszewski ( <mailto:bernhard@iro.umontreal.ca> bernhard(a)iro.umontreal.ca). We are happy to provide additional information not listed in the official posting, such as details on UdeMs generous consulting and sabbatical policies, our student population, as well as information about the city of Montreal. Montreal is a bilingual city, famous for its booming graphics industry in video games and visual effect productions, and its leading academic research environments. Our graduate students do not have to work in French, but undergraduate teaching is carried out in French; non-francophone candidates will have support for up to two years to develop their language skills before teaching in French. Note that the application deadline is fast approaching (December 1st, 2017), however we will continue to accept reference letters until a later date (December 12th, 2017). For more information about LIGUM, please visit our lab website ( <http://www.ligum.umontreal.ca/> www.ligum.umontreal.ca) and/or refer to our personal websites ( <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bernhard/> www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bernhard/ and <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~poulin/> www.iro.umontreal.ca/~poulin/). Official announcement in English: <http://diro.umontreal.ca/fileadmin/Documents/FAS/Informatique/Documents/6-O ffres_d_emploi/IRO_aff_prof_CG_anglais_final.pdf> http://diro.umontreal.ca/fileadmin/Documents/FAS/Informatique/Documents/6-Of fres_d_emploi/IRO_aff_prof_CG_anglais_final.pdf Official announcement in French: <http://diro.umontreal.ca/fileadmin/Documents/FAS/Informatique/Documents/6-O ffres_d_emploi/IRO_aff_prof_CG_franc%CC%A7ais_final.pdf> http://diro.umontreal.ca/fileadmin/Documents/FAS/Informatique/Documents/6-Of fres_d_emploi/IRO_aff_prof_CG_franc%CC%A7ais_final.pdf Pierre and Bernhard

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CGF cover contest for 2018

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Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce the 2018 edition of the Computer Graphics Forum Cover Contest. Entries are due November 30, 2017. The full announcement and submission site can be found at: <http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/cgf/> http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/cgf/ We are looking for the cover image to appear on 2018 issues of Computer Graphics Forum. Thanks again to Federico Ponchio for coordinating. Why don't you send us an interesting image from one of your latest papers? We are looking forward to your submissions! Richard Zhang and Min Chen CGF EiCs

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Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) 2018 - First Call for Papers

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Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) 2018 - First Call for Papers Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France 711 July, 2018 Conference website: <http://geometryprocessing.org> http://geometryprocessing.org The Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) 2018 will be held at Telecom ParisTech in Paris, France on 911 July, 2018. Following the success of previous editions, a graduate school will offer tutorials taught by leading experts on the weekend of 78 July. SGP is the premier venue for disseminating new research ideas and cutting-edge results in geometry processing. In this research area, concepts from mathematics, computer science, and engineering are studied and applied to offer new insights and to design efficient algorithms for acquisition, modeling, analysis, manipulation, simulation and other types of processing of 3D models and shape collections. The SGP proceedings will appear as a regular electronic 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. We invite submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics: Acquisition and reconstruction Analysis and design for fabrication Architectural and industrial geometry Computational geometric design Computer-aided design and manufacturing Discrete differential geometry Exploration of shape collections Geometry and topology representations Geometry compression Geometric data sorting, clustering, and visualization Geometry processing applications Interactive techniques for shape design and editing Isogeometric analysis Machine learning in geometry Mesh editing and deformation Meshing and remeshing Multiresolution modeling and subdivision meshes Multimodal shape processing Procedural geometric modeling Processing of big geometric datasets Shape analysis and synthesis Simulation and animation Smoothing and denoising Surface and volume parameterization Timeline Abstract submissions: April 6, 2018 Full paper submissions: April 12, 2018 Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2018 Revised version due: June 15, 2018 Camera ready copy due: June 25, 2018 Paper submission is via the Submission and Review Management (SRMv2) system: <https://srmv2.eg.org> https://srmv2.eg.org. All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC/GMT. Awards and Recognitions Following its traditions, SGP 2018 will attribute three best paper awards, a software award recognizing the authors of an open-source software that has greatly influenced the field, and a data set award designed to acknowledge the suppliers of high quality datasets used in geometry processing. In addition, SGP provides papers with the reproducibility stamp to recognize the effort of researchers who, in addition to publishing their paper at SGP 2018, provide a complete open-source implementation of their algorithm. Program Chairs Tao Ju (Washington University in St. Louis) Amir Vaxman (Utrecht University) Graduate School Chairs Alec Jacobson (University of Toronto) Jean-Marc Thiery (Telecom ParisTech) General Chairs Pooran Memari (CNRS, École Polytechnique) Maks Ovsjanikov (École Polytechnique) Tamy Boubekeur (Telecom ParisTech)

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Eurographics 2018: Call for Posters

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<https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/xEf56BvKe0KgTVuL2d6fDUVRV66K6kIoSFwsoSUdL iCbzYFtX2tJmhmVhR8HXSsvFOCNomYaFBpvkq4t1ONTyh72p5rC5UFZUBYpXbvTQxH99Go2esIaz -YBYf3xUqf9vxRLB48g> Call for Posters Authors are invited to submit proposals for poster presentations of recent results, work in progress, new ideas and other smaller projects which may be of interest to the general community, but which are still too speculative, incomplete or not of sufficient extent to warrant a (full or short) paper. Accepted posters will be included in the digital media. Posters will also be displayed during the conference and will form the focus of a poster session to be run in conjunction with one of the social events. We encourage submissions from all areas related to computer graphics, such as rendering, modeling, visualization, perception, animation, simulation, virtual reality, computer vision, and imaging. Authors of accepted posters are expected to be present at their posters during the poster session to discuss their work and answer questions. Submission Details Submitted posters should be in the form of a 2-page paper which must be formatted according to the Eurographics Author's guidelines and may be accompanied by a preliminary version of the actual poster. Anonymous submissions will be made electronically through the <https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/EG_2018P> Submission and Review Management (SRMv2) and subject to a review process. The authors of accepted posters will be asked to submit the final version in two formats: a 2-page paper and an A4 version of the final poster. Both documents will be included in the conference digital media with the proceedings and other material. For any question concerning poster submissions please contact the poster chairs: <mailto:chairs-eg2018posters@eg.org> chairs-eg2018posters(a)eg.org Deadlines The submission deadline for posters is 23:59 UTC/GMT, Friday, February 2nd, 2018. Notification to authors will be on Saturday, Feb 24th, 2018. Eurographics Poster Chairs <mailto:chairs-eg2018posters@eg.org> chairs-eg2018posters(a)eg.org Eakta Jain, University of Florida, USA Jiří Kosinka, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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