*PhD position in visualization at Inria Saclay, France (20km from
Paris): Visualization of structural and functional connectivity in the
brain*
PDF version:
http://www.aviz.fr/wiki/uploads/Research/2014_AVIZ_PhD_Project_-_BrainVis.pd
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application deadline: September 15, 2014
starting date: end of 2014 at the latest
Description:
The study of brain connectivity is one of the fundamental ways to
investigate the complex functions of the (human) brain. For this purpose,
neuroanatomists capture and investigate two different types of
connectivity: anatomical connectivity arising from diffusion-weighted MRI
measurements and functional connectivity based on fMRI scans. Both types of
data have advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately it is essential to
study them in concert.
The research project:
The research in this PhD project will employ and combine approaches from two
sub-fields of visualization: the visualization of spatial relationships
(SciVis, for anatomical connectivity) and the visualization of abstract data
(InfoVis, for functional connectivity data). The goal is to be able to start
the interactive investigation with either type of data, being able to
interactively and freely switch between the different representations as it
is needed for the data exploration. The ultimate vision is two-fold: The
first and foremost aspect is to get to a more in-depth understanding on how
to support interactive data exploration using various new and
state-of-the-art visualization techniques in the neurosciences. The second
aspect is that to more generally push the boundaries of multimodal
visualization to be able to generalize the findings of this research to
other fields that work on a daily basis with data that has both spatial and
abstract characteristics.
For this purpose the project extends past results in the visualization of
dense line data as well as the visualization of weighted graphs. For the
first aspect of anatomical connectivity, the project will use methods from
illustrative visualization to deal with the dense fibertract datasets that
are generated from diffusion-weighted MRI. This aspect of the visualization
will provide an important visual reference and landmark for the exploration
of functional connectivity, for which the project will rely on the
visualization of weighted graphs. A general challenge in this context is the
question on how to create a visualization that combines both data types,
either in separate views or in a combined view. Separate linked views are
common in abstract data visualization and we will thus explore their
application for our application. A view that integrates both could combine
fibertracts inside the brain for anatomical connectivity with a bundled view
of functional links on its outside. This approach has the potential benefit
of not requiring a mental integration of separate points of reference.
On the other hand, this approach may lead to a cluttered and overloaded
depiction. The project will therefore explore new ways of controlling the
abstraction in the data depiction to deal with this issue to be able to show
the realistic large and complex datasets. This work will thus also require
research to understand how to apply illustrative visualization to abstract
data.
Such visualizations of the fibertracts in a more or less realistic way is
convenient for the neuroscientist, but we have to consider other
complementary linked views. These views often do not match the realistic
physical appearance of fibertracts but instead focus on the task at hand the
neuroscientist wants to perform with the data. So other representations than
graphs will be explored as part of this project such as scatter plots or
space-filling or pixel-based designs enabling to provide a mapping of the
information space more efficient to solve a specific visual analytic task.
Machine learrning techniques such as generative graphs will be used to
automatically extract summaries of the anatomical and functional
connectivity data. These geometrical and topological summaries will be used
as a backbone structure for the visualization of the information space to be
used for visual analysis tasks.
Moreover, an integral aspect of our approach is to combine the visualization
techniques in an interactive exploration tool that supports analists in
adjusting their exploration strategy as needed. An integral part of the
neuroanatomists' data exploration is the comparison of different datasets,
either derived from different people or captured at different points in
time. Therefore, the comparison of different datasets and the temporal
exploration will be an essential aspect of the project. To be successful in
this project, the PhD student will work closely with domain experts in the
neurosciences from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, both to develop the
integrated interactive visualization techniques using a participatory design
approach as well as to evaluate the new techniques in controlled
experiements.
By closely working with the domain experts, the PhD student will work toward
an interactive tool for neuroanatomical data exploration that integrates the
new visualization techniques. The goal for this tool is that it can be used
in a realistic context for the everyday analysis tasks of the
neuroanatomists and that it will be provided to the public as open-source
software. Beyond this implementation, the project will result in a deeper
understanding of how to combine spatially explicit data with connected
abstract data aspects to benefit visualization in the sciences in general.
The PhD research will be conducted under the supervision of Tobias Isenberg
and within the AVIZ research team at INRIA SaclayÎle-de-France which
concentrates on the visualization of complex data. AVIZ is one of the most
respected research labs in information visualization and visual analytics
worldwide. The PhD student will closely collaborate, in particular, with
Cédric Gouy-Pailler from the Laboratoire Analyse de Données et Intelligence
des Systèmes at CEA whose expertise in machine learning will be essential
for the work. In addition, we will work with domain experts in the
neurosciences from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
Required applicants skills:
* highly motivated student
* degree (M.Sc., M. Eng, or equivalent) in computer science or closely
related fields
* education background in one or more of the following fields:
visualization, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, and machine
learning
* interest in applications in neuroimaging or in knowledge discovery
* previous experience in these fields (in particular, neuroimaging) would be
highly beneficial
* experience in modern computer graphics (GPU) programming
* fluent in written and spoken English (French language skills are not
required but would be beneficial for living in France and interacting with
people outside of the lab)
* previous experience in research and publication of research results
beneficial
Application package:
* detailed CV
* motivation letter
* summary of the master thesis
* transcript of the grades
* contact details for two academic references
* prepare all application documents electronically and in English
* application deadline: applications are reviewed as they are received;
however, for full consideration please submit your application by September
15
Contact:
Dr. Tobias Isenberg <tobias.isenberg(a)inria.fr>
(http://tobias.isenberg.cc/)
Group:
AVIZ team, INRIA Saclay (20km from Paris)
(http://www.aviz.fr/)
Eurographics 2015: Call for Full Papers
( http://www.eurographics2015.ch/ )
The Eurographics 2015 Technical Papers programme will showcase innovative
research in Computer Graphics and related areas. We invite submissions of
new ideas, and encourage all forms of research creativity and originality.
We are interested in practice, experience, novel applications, technological
or theoretical papers, with the ambition of setting the standard in the
field and stimulating future trends.
Accepted papers will be presented at Eurographics 2015 and published in a
special issue of the Eurographics journal
<https://www.eg.org/index.php/publications/computer-graphics-forum> Computer
Graphics Forum. Therefore, submissions will undergo a two-step review
process. We encourage submissions from all areas related to computer
graphics such as rendering, modeling, animation, visualization, virtual
reality, computer vision, imaging, computer-aided fabrication,
human-computer interaction, and related disciplines.
Submission Dates
A preliminary abstract is due by 23:59 GMT, Friday, September 19, 2014, and
the full paper deadline is 23:59 GMT, Friday, September 26, 2014.
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Submission
Electronic submission of all papers is mandatory and will be conducted using
the Submission and Review Management (SRMv2) system. Papers must be written
in English, they must be anonymized, and must be formatted according to the
Eurographics Computer Graphics Forum publication guidelines. Accepted papers
must be presented in English at Eurographics 2015. This event uses a
double-blind reviewing approach, so please remove all personal data (such as
authors, affiliations, etc.) from your submission. Reviewers are asked to
keep confidential all materials sent to them for evaluation.
Note that this year, there is no arbitrary maximum length imposed on papers.
Papers should be as long as they need to be, but not longer. If a submission
is perceived as repetitive or unnecessarily long, it might be ranked lower
by reviewers than a concisely written submission.
Double Submission Policy
Authors are required to include a declaration that they have not previously
published the scientific contribution claimed in their paper, nor has it
been submitted to or is currently under review in any other conference or
journal before or during the Eurographics 2015 Technical Papers review
period. Any paper that does not adhere to these requirements will be
rejected without review.
Re-Submitted Material
For papers that have previously been reviewed for other venues and have been
rejected or withdrawn, the authors are encouraged to provide a cover letter
to describe the history of the paper (however, this does not imply reviewer
continuity). This cover letter can also answer the comments made in the
previous reviews, by either listing the changes that were made to comply
with them, or discussing/rebutting/clarifying some elements if need be.
Though not mandatory, this procedure is strongly recommended. The cover
letter has to be submitted through the SRM as an Additional Attachment
(last section of the SRM upload form).
Rebuttal, Notification, Publication & Prizes
* The reviews will be made available to the authors on November 13,
2014. A rebuttal period from November 13 to November 18, 2014 will allow
authors to submit a brief document to address any factual errors or clarify
other issues raised in the reviews.
* The date for notification of the results of the first round of the
review process is December 5, 2014.
* Revised versions of the papers conditionally accepted in the first
round must be submitted by December 31, 2014. The final notification of the
outcome of the second reviewing round will be made on January 14, 2015. The
camera-ready version of accepted papers will be due on January 28, 2015.
* From all accepted and presented papers, an international jury will
select the best papers. The best paper will receive the Günter Enderle
Award, including a cash prize of 1000 Euros, presented at Eurographics 2015.
For any question concerning full paper submissions please contact the papers
program co-chairs:
<mailto:chairs-eg2015@eg.org> chairs-eg2015(a)eg.org
Full Papers Chairs
<mailto:chairs-eg2015@eg.org> Olga Sorkine-Hornung, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
<mailto:chairs-eg2015@eg.org> Michael Wimmer, Vienna University of
Technology, Austria
Dear all,
we would like to invite you to present a poster at VMV 2014 in Darmstadt.
The VMV poster track offers the possibility to present and discuss
visualization, modelling and vision research with VMV attendees and a wider
audience. VMV will provide space for both poster and interactive
presentations. Example works include, but are not limited to: preliminary
research ideas, recent published work, student projects, as well as
application case studies.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit an abstract of the poster (max 1 page, paper template) via
e-mail to
<mailto:vmv2014-chairs@gris.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
vmv2014-chairs(a)gris.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
Submission deadline: September 1, 2014
POSTER SESSION
Authors should bring a hard copy poster for display at VMV. Interactive
demonstrations should bring their own hardware (e.g., laptop) to the poster
session. Please let us know in advance, whether you plan to give interactive
demos.
At least one author should register to the conference, present their poster
personally and discuss their work during the poster sessions.
More information on the conference and conference program, please consult
<http://www.vmv2014.de> www.vmv2014.de
.
In case of questions, please contact chairs:
<mailto:vmv2014-chairs@gris.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
vmv2014-chairs(a)gris.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine VCBM 2014
<http://www.vcbm.org/> http://www.vcbm.org/
Call for Posters
EG VCBM is an annual event addressing state-of-the-art visual computing
research with a strong focus on applications in biology and medicine. EG
VCBM is unique, as it provides a highly interdisciplinary forum for experts
from computer graphics, visualization, computer vision, visual analytics,
human computer interfaces and end users from biology and medicine jointly
working on next generation visual computing solutions for healthcare and the
biotechnology sector.
EG VCBM 2014 continues the poster track to enable researchers to present
their work in progress, minor improvements beyond the state-of-the-art, and
the best results of the undergraduate student projects in the area of visual
computing for biology and medicine. Accepted posters will be placed in the
workshop area during the time of the event, and the program will feature a
dedicated poster session where the authors have the opportunity to present
their research and lead fruitful discussions with peer researchers that will
inspire for future research and cooperation.
The submission to the poster track at EG VCBM consists of a ½ 1 page
abstract (12pt) optionally including pictures. The posters will be reviewed
by conference chairs and the abstracts of the accepted posters will be
included in the conference publications. The material from the poster can be
re-used for a full paper submission somewhere else and this act is not to be
considered as a self-plagiarism. Authors of the accepted posters are
expected to bring their poster to the conference, register for the
conference participation, and present their work at the poster at the time
of the poster session. Please submit your non-anonymized poster submissions
including authors names, affiliations, and acknowledgments to
<mailto:chairs-vcbm2014@eg.org> chairs-vcbm2014(a)eg.org.
Important Dates
Poster submission: August 07, 2014
Poster notification: August 14, 2014
Workshop: September 4.-5., 2014
All deadlines are at 23:59 CET (UTC + 1) (
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html> convert to your
timezone).
Best wishes,
Katja Bühler, Ivan Viola, Timo Ropinski
VCBM 2014 Chairs
Dear colleagues,
the 2015 Symposium Geometry Processing will take place in Graz, Austria,
July 6-8 2015. Scientific Chairs are Mirela Ben-Chen and Ligang Liu, and
local organizer is Johannes Wallner. For more details see
http://www.geometryprocessing.org.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Workshop on
Indoor Scene Understanding: Where Graphics meets Vision.
December 3, 2014, Shenzhen, China
(Paper deadline: August 2, 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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Program Co-Chairs:
Niloy J. Mitra, University College London
Pushmeet Kohli, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Casten Rother, TU Dresden
-- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS --
SIACG 2014 Ibero-American Symposium in Computer Graphics
http://imaglabs.org/siagc/
October 20 - 22 2014
Bahia Blanca, Argentina
=== DEADLINE EXTENSION ===
Dear Colleague,
The purpose of SIACG is to promote the international cooperation between
researchers and professionals in Computer Graphics from the different
communities of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. This symposium is
the fifth of similar events organized every other year and alternating
between Europe and South America.
Organized by the Universidad Nacional del Sur, the Eurographics Portuguese
Chapter and the Eurographics Spanish Chapter in Cooperation.
Authors are invited to submit papers from all areas related to computer
graphics, multimedia and hardware, for review by the international Program
Committee. Both research and applications papers are of interest to
SIACG2014.
Those papers which are accepted and presented orally at the symposium by one
of the authors will appear in the SIACG'2014 proceedings, which will be
published as a special issue of Springer Communications in Computer and
Information Science. Also, the best papers will be invited to submit
extended versions of their work to a short-track evaluation for Computer
Graphics Forum.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Computer Graphics Systems and Hardware
Visualization
Computer Animation
Rendering Techniques and Global Illumination
Real-Time Rendering
Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality
Computer Human Interface
Computational Geometry
Geometric Computing and Solid Modeling
Game Design and Engine Development
Virtual Humans and Artificial Life
3D Reconstruction
Procedural Modeling
GPU Programming
Graphics and Multimedia
Computer Graphics in Arts, Education, Engineering,
Entertainment, Medicine and Science
Computer Graphics for Mobile Applications
Image Processing
Interactive Environments
Software and Web accessibility
CAGD/CAD/CAM Systems
Multimedia Design
Digital and Interactive Art
Educational Strategies in Computer Graphics
Digital Interfaces and Emotional Expressivity in Multimedia
Communication.
Graphics & Perception
Computational Photography
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: July 31, 2014 === DEADLINE EXTENSION ===
Notification of acceptance: September 19, 2014
Final version: September 30, 2014
Symposium: October 20-22, 2014
COMMITEES
International Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Luis Paulo Santos (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Gustavo Patow (Universidad de Girona, Spain)
Organizing Committee Chair
Claudio Delrieux, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (
<mailto:cad@uns.edu.ar> cad(a)uns.edu.ar)
Local Organizing Committee
Alejandro Vitale
Marina Cipolletti
Natalia Revollo
Andrea Silvetti
Andrés Repetto
Jonathan Vainstein
José Francisco Manera
Diego Marcovecchio
Juan Bajo
Felix Thomsen
Leonardo Molas
International Program Committee
Joaquim Madeira, Universidade de Aveiro
Holly Rushmeier, yale
Omaira Rodriguez, UCV
Alexandra La Cruz La Cruz, Universidad Simon Bolivar
Rhadamés Carmona, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Luis Matey, CEIT
A. Augusto Sousa, FEUP / INESC Porto
Francisco Seron, Universidad de Zaragoza
Abel Gomes, Univeristy of Beira Interior, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering
Luciano Soares, Tecgraf/Puc-Rio
Ernesto Coto, Centro de Computación Gráfica. Universidad Central de
Venezuela
Antonio Coelho, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Gonzalo Besuievsky, Universitat de Girona
Aderito Marcos, Portuguese Open University
Teresa Chambel, LaSIGE, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon
Antonio Ramires Fernandes, Universidade do Minho
Carles Bosch, Barcelona Media
Belen Masia, Universidad de Zaragoza
Adolfo Muñoz, Universidad de Zaragoza
Robert Joan-Arinyo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Rui Rodrigues, FEUP
Pedro A Linares H, Universidad de Carabobo
Joao Madeiras Pereira, IST/INESC-ID
Pere Brunet, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Miguel Chover, Universitat Jaume I
Frutuoso Silva, University of Beira Interior
Helder Araujo, University of Coimbra
Diego Gutierrez, Universidad de Zaragoza
Rafael Bidarra, Delft University of Technology
Miguel Otaduy, URJC Madrid
Alex J. Cuadros-Vargas, San Pablo Catholic University
Álvaro Pardo, Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Eduardo Fernández, Universidad de la República
Jorge Lopez-Moreno, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Joaquim Jorge, IST/UTL/INESC-ID
Juan Carlos Torres, University of Granada
Alejandro Clausse,
Marcelo Venere,
Nestor Calvo,
Juliana Gambini,
Fran Gonzalez Garcia, Next Limit Technologies
Luis Magalhaes, UTAD
Maximino Bessa, INESC TEC, ECT UTAD
Miguel Sales Dias, Microsoft
Veronica Orvalho, FCUP
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit papers from all areas related to computer
graphics, multimedia and hardware, for review by the international Program
Committee. Both research and applications
papers are of interest to SIACG2014.
All the accepted and presented papers will be published as a special issue
of Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science. (
<http://www.springer.com/series/7899> http://www.springer.com/series/7899)
Submissions must be written in English, and can either be full papers (10-15
pages) or short papers (6-8 pages), following the authors instructions:
<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
and should be uploaded through the specific EasyChair track:
<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siacg2014>
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siacg2014
Electronic versions of the proceedings will be available at a minimum cost,
and participants will have temporary free access to the online version of
the proceedings.
Authors of the best presentations will be invited to submit extended
versions of their work to a short-track evaluation for Computer Graphics
Forum.
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8659)
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-8659%29>
Call for Contributions to EuroVR 2014
The European Association for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
(www.eurovr-association.org)
announces the 2014 edition of its annual conference, EuroVR.
The Conference
The EuroVR 2014 conference follows up on the previous issues of the Joint
Virtual Reality Conferences (JVRC)
2009 through 2013, with a new format.
Expanding on the success of JVRC, EuroVR 2014 is designed as a communication
and networking event
for the industrial and scientific communities in virtual reality, augmented
reality and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR)
to exchange scientific research, novel developments in technology,
real-world use-cases, and best practices.
In addition, the conference will be co-located with the 24th International
Conference on Artificial Reality and
Telexistence (ICAT) and the 20th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual
Environments (EGVE)..
Call for Contributions
We invite the submission of presentations describing novel research,
leading-edge technology,
innovative applications, customer needs, best practices, and R&D project
results in the areas of
Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR).
We welcome submissions from both industry and academia, and in a range of
formats spanning the following categories:
- Paper: 4-6 pages
- Poster plus, optionally, short paper of 1-2 pages
- Demos (video or live presentation) plus, optionally, short paper of 1-2
pages
- Oral presentation plus, optionally, handout
All contributions must be presented by at least one of the authors at the
conference.
Topics
EuroVR 2014 seeks original, high-quality submissions in all areas related,
but not necessarily restricted to:
- Novel devices (both input and output) for VR, AR, MR, and haptics
- VR system architectures
- Collaborative and distributed VR
- Augmented reality and mobile devices
- Novel ways for applying VR/AR/MR, etc.
- Perception and human factors
- Multi-modal and 3D interaction
- Presence, cognition, and embodiment in VR/AR/MR
- Haptics, audio, and other non-visual modalities
- Cyber sickness and other issues
- Tracking, sensing, and processing sensor data
- Tele-operation, tele-immersion, tele-presence
- Novel data flow architectures
- Cost effectiveness and cost efficiency
- Serious games and edutainment using VR/AR/MR
- Applications in manufacturing and engineering, aerospace, logistics,
construction and architecture,
medical and rehabilitation, training and education, cultural heritage,
etc.
Details about the submission procedure can be found on the
conference web page: http://eurovr14.uni-bremen.de
Publication
Accepted submissions that consist of or are complemented by a paper will be
published
in the conference proceedings with an ISBN number.
Awards
This year, a best paper award will be given to the authors of the best paper
presented at the conference.
In addition, NVIDIA is happy to support this with the donation of a Quadro
6000 graphics card.
Important dates
- Submission deadline: 29 August 2014
- Notification of review results: 15 September 2014
- Camera-ready version due: 13 October 2014
- Conference starts: 8 December 2014
Conference Venue
University of Bremen, Germany
Organizing Committee
Prof. Gabriel Zachmann, University of Bremen, Germany
Prof. Angelos Amditis, ICCS, Greece
Program Chairs
Jérôme Perret (DE)
Mascha van der Voort (NL)
James Ritchie (UK)
Kaj Helin (FI)
Vincent Lepetit (AT)
Jacques Lefaucheux (FR)
Francesco Ferrise (IT)
Jacques Lefaucheux (FR)
About EuroVR
EuroVR is the European Association for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
(www.eurovr-association.org).
It is an international, non-profit association designed to bring together
all those interested in VR/AR/MR technologies and to further the development
and deployment of such technologies.
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forward this mail to anyone interested
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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)