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CGF 2011 Cover Contest
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Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to announce this year's edition of the annual Computer
Graphics Forum Cover Contest. Entries are due November 10, 2010. The full
announcement and submission site can be found at:
<http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/cgf/index.php> http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/cgf/index.php
We are looking for the cover image to appear on all 2011 issues of Computer
Graphics Forum.
Why don't you send us a compelling image from one of your latest papers?
We are looking forward to your submissions!
Holly Rushmeier and Eduard Groeller
CGF EiCs
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SIGRAD 2010, http://www.idt.mdh.se/SIGRAD2010/
Call for papers
SIGRAD, the Swedish Chapter of Eurographics, invites contributions to
the conference SIGRAD 2010, which will be held at Mälardalen University
in Västerås, Sweden, during November 25-26, 2010.
The selected theme of this year's conference is "Content Aggregation and
Visualization". As seen in the list of topics below, however, we also
invite full papers and short papers on all other aspects of interactive
computer graphics and visualization. Topics for submissions include but
are not limited to the following
areas:
Content creation and visualization from digital libraries
Live content generation from existing media archives
Methods for live multimedia and video play back
Solutions and algorithms for virtual/augmented reality applications
User interfaces for media rich applications
Human-computer interaction
Industrial applications
Information Visualization
Visualization systems and software architectures
Simulation
Real-time rendering
Procedural methods and texture synthesis
Spatial data structures
Parallel graphics algorithms
Experimental studies of existing methods and techniques
Training and education
Teaching interaction, computer graphics, and visualization
Instructions to the authors
Submissions may be full research papers or short papers describing
proven and tested solutions, novel ideas, work-in-progress and/or recent
results. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages, while full
papers should not exceed 10 pages in length. Note that both types of
submissions must be formatted according to the same recommended style
mentioned below, and all accepted papers will be published in the
Proceedings of the conference. Authors retain the copyright to their work.
Authors are requested to submit their paper by September 15th, 2010 by
email to submissions2010(a)sigrad.se. The subject of the email should be
"SIGRAD submission". Authors experiencing problems with electronic
submission of contributions should contact the conference chair
directly. The submission email should contain the names and institutions
of all authors, contact information of one contact author (name, e-mail
and phone), and the title and abstract of the submission.
Use the Eurographics authors' guidelines. LaTeX style and template is
available at
http://www.eg.org/EG/Publications/guidelines.
Important deadlines
Paper submission deadline: September 15, 2010
Author notification: October 15, 2010
Conference registration is open until: November 5, 2010
Conference Co-Chairs
Thomas Larsson, Mälardalen University, thomas.larsson ( at ) mdh.se
Lars Kjelldahl, Royal Institute of Technology, lassekj ( at ) csc.kth.se
Rikard Lindell, Mälardalen University, rikard.lindell ( at ) mdh.se
Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, Telestream AB, kai ( at ) sigrad.se
Damir Isovic, Mälardalen University, damir.isovic ( at ) mdh.se
International programme committee
Tomas Akenine-Möller, Lund University
Ulf Assarsson, Chalmers University of Technology
Baran Curuklu, Mälardalen University
Mark E Dieckmann, Linköping University
Modris Dobelis, Riga Technical University
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mälardalen University
Morten Fjeld, Chalmers University of Technology
Anders Hast, University of Gävle
Damir Isovic, Mälardalen University
Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, Telestream AB
Ivana Kolingerova, University of West Bohemia
Thomas Larsson, Mälardalen University
Rikard Lindell, Mälardalen University
Lars Kjelldahl, Royal Institute of Technology
Stefan Seipel, University of Gävle
Jon Sporring, University of Copenhagen
Gustav Taxén, Royal Institute of Technology
Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University
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*** Apologies for cross postings ***
2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
ACM/SSPNET 2nd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FACIAL ANALYSIS AND
ANIMATION (FAA)
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/faa/
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK. October 21st, 2010
Important Dates:
10th September 2010: Deadline for extended abstract submission
17th September 2010: Notification of acceptance
Confirmed Keynotes:
Catherine Pelachaud, Telecom ParisTech
Bernd Bickel, Disney Research Zurich
Facial animation is a broad and exciting area of research drawing on
multiple disciplines: computer graphics and animation provide the
means to render and display a face, computer vision can be used to
measure, interpret and decode facial actions, while psychology can
help provide the emotive human element of animation. However, creating
convincing facial animation is an exceptionally difficult task – each
one of us is an expert judge in deciding whether an animation is
realistic or not. In today’s world, facial animation has more
applications than ever before: from video game characters to movie
actor doubles, from machine facial displays to psychological research
stimuli.
Following on from the success of FAA 2009 (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/faa2009/
), we are pleased to announce a call for submissions for FAA 2010, in
cooperation with ACM and sponsored by SSPNET. The aim of this meeting
is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia
and industry – particularly in VFX and games - interested in all
aspects of facial animation and related analysis. Submissions are
invited in the following broad topic areas:
• Acquisition of Facial Shape, Motion and Texture
• Performance Driven Animation and Expression Mapping
• Facial animation using Example Based Synthesis and Motion Graph
based techniques
• Facial Animation Production Pipelines
• Visual Speech Synthesis
• Animation of Non-Linguistic Behaviors and Vocalisations
• Perception of Facial Animation and the "Uncanny Valley"
• Facial Rendering (Photorealistic and Non-Photorealistic)
Research should be submitted as a 1 page extended abstract using the
SIGGRAPH formatting guidelines (see http://www.siggraph.org/publications/instructions)
. LaTeX and BibTeX class files following the “acmsiggraph” convention
may be downloaded from (http://www.siggraph.org/publications/acmsiggraph.zip
). An example submission may be found at (http://www.siggraph.org/publications/poster-abstract-example1.pdf
).
Submissions do not need to be anonymous. Contributions should
submitted via the following website:
https://cmt2.research.microsoft.com/FAA2010 by 10th September, 2010.
Authors of accepted submissions will have their work appear in the ACM
Digital Library (http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm). The program on the day
will consist of both oral and poster presentations, including invited
keynote talks from leading international experts.
Chairs: Darren Cosker (Uni. of Bath), Gregor Hofer (Uni. of
Edinburgh), Michael Berger (Uni. of Edinburgh) and Will Smith (Uni. of
York).
For general inquiries regarding FAA, including contact information for
the organisers, please visit: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/faa/contact.html
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010, in cooperation with Eurographics
---- Call for Technical Sketches and Posters
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This is your last opportunity to contribute to SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010, in the
fascinating Seoul, Korea. The call for technical sketches and posters is
available at:
<http://www.siggraph.org/asia2010/content/presenters/sketches-posters>
http://www.siggraph.org/asia2010/content/presenters/sketches-posters
< <http://www.eurographics2010.se/calls/posters/>
http://www.eurographics2010.se/calls/posters/>
The Technical Sketches & Posters program provides a dynamic forum for new
and thought-provoking ideas, techniques, and applications in computer
graphics and interactive techniques. Its content ranges from academic
research to industrial development and from practical tools to
behind-the-scenes explanations of commercial and artistic work. It is ideal
for presenting innovative ideas that are not yet fully polished, high-impact
practical contributions that build on existing research, and cool "tricks"
that help users solve challenging problems.
Please note the changes in this year's program, most notably the extended
sketch length and the new multimedia poster category.
Deadline is August 30th. We are looking forwards for your submissions!
Marie-Paule Cani and Alla Sheffer,
SA 2010 Sketches & Posters co-chairs
EUROGRAPHICS 2011 - Call for Special Track Papers on Graphics for Heritage
and Archaeology.
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Chairs
Andy Day
Roberto Scopigno
Eurographics 2011 will be the 32nd annual conference of the European
Association for Computer Graphics.
The conference will take place at Llandudno, Wales on the 11-15April 2011.
Full details of the conference are at:
(http://eg2011.bangor.ac.uk/).
We will invite contributions that advance the state of the art in computer
graphics technologies in the framework of their applications in the wide
Cultural Heritage (CH) domain.
The topics to be addressed include:
Data Acquisition: active 3D Data Capture technologies
Data Acquisition: image-based 3D reconstruction
Data Acquisition: 3D modelling
Geometric Processing of sampled data
Repositories and data collection of 3D data
2D and 3D GIS in CH
Visualization issues for CH data and applications
Non-Photorealistic Rendering of CH Data
Computer Animation for CH Applications and Virtual Heritage
Interactive Environments and Applications for CH
Multi-modal interfaces and rendering for CH
Virtual Museum Applications (e-Museums and e-Exhibitions)
Virtual Reality in Archaeology and Historical Research
Tools for Education and Training in CH
Usability, Effectiveness and Interface Design for CH Application
Applications (e.g. in Education, Tourism, Restoration)
Important dates:
Submission of papers (8 pages, formatted according to EG conference style):
December 10th, 2010
Notification of acceptance: January 28th, 2011
Submission of camera ready: February 15th, 2011
Accepted full-papers will be presented at Eurographics 2011 and published in
a separate proceeding published by Eurographics. Selected best papers will
be published in the ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage.
Andy Day
Roberto Scopigno
EUROGRAPHICS 2011 - Call for Papers
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EUROGRAPHICS 2011:
32nd Annual Conference
of the European Association for Computer Graphics
April 10th to 15th, 2011
Llandudno, Wales, UK
Conference co-Chairs:
Jonathan C. Roberts, Bangor University
Eduard Gröller, Vienna University of Technology
Information:
http://eg2011.bangor.ac.uk/
Papers co-chairs
Min Chen, Swansea University, UK
Oliver Deussen, University of Konstanz, DE
Deadlines (http://eg2011.bangor.ac.uk/calls.html):
Full Papers Abstracts: 24 September 2010
Full Papers: 1 October 2010
STARS, Tutorials: October 8th, 2010
Short papers,
Education papers, and
Areas papers: December 10th, 2010
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Eurographics 2011 will be the 32nd annual conference of the European
Association for Computer Graphics. The 2011 conference will take place
in the town of Llandudno in Wales, UK at Venue Cymru. The hosts for
2011 are the Research Institute of Visual Computing, locally organised
by the Visualization and Medical Graphics group at the School of
Computer Science, Bangor University.
Authors are invited to submit original work presenting fundamental
research, practice and experience, or novel applications in all areas of
computer graphics and related topics thereof.
Please note that an abstract submission is required one week before
the full papers deadline to assist the papers chairs in allocating
reviewers and ensure that the review process runs to time.
Call for Participation
***** PACIFIC GRAPHICS 2010 *****
The 18th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications
September 25-27, 2010, Hangzhou, China
http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/pg2010/
Pacific Graphics 2010 will be held in Hangzhou, China, during September
25-27, 2010. For the first time in the series, Pacific Graphics 2010 will be
in Hangzhou. The widely expressed Chinese proverb, "in heaven there is
paradise and on earth there are Hangzhou and Suzhou" and the words of Marco
Polo who described this place as, "the most beautiful and magnificent city
in the world" have helped to make Hangzhou one of the biggest tourist
attractions in the entire country. Hangzhou is also famous for its silk and
tea. Please come and join us to have a successful conference and enjoy
fantastic nature of Hangzhou.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Early registration due: September 4, 2010
Conference: September 25-27, 2010
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Invited Talks
Hugues Hoppe
Principal researcher & Manager, Computer Graphics Group of Microsoft
Research
Editor-in-chief, ACM Transactions on Graphics
Niloy J. Mitra
Vision and Graphics Group
Dept. of Computer Science and Engg
Indian Institute of Technology
Holly Rushmeier
Professor of Computer Science
Yale University
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For more details, please visit the conference web site,
http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/pg2010/
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010, in cooperation with Eurographics
---- Call for Technical Sketches and Posters
=============================================
The call for two page technical sketches as well as multimedia and regular
posters is available at:
<http://www.eurographics2010.se/calls/posters/>
http://www.eurographics2010.se/calls/posters/
Please note the changes in this year's program, most notably the extended
sketch length and the new multimedia poster category.
The submission deadline is August 30th.
This is your last opportunity to contribute to SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010, in the
fascinating Seoul, Korea. We are looking forwards for your submissions!
Marie-Paule Cani and Alla Sheffer,
SA 2010 Sketches & Posters co-chairs
2010 International Conference on Cyberworlds
20-22 October 2010, Singapore <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/SCE/cw2010>
http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/SCE/cw2010
Organized by the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore.
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society.
In cooperation with Association for Computing Machinery and Eurographics
Association.
Supported by the Interactive Digital Media R&D Program Office, Media
Development Authority of Singapore.
Cyberworlds are information worlds or communities created on cyberspace by
collaborating participants either intentionally or spontaneously. As
information worlds, they accumulate information regardless whether or not
anyone is in, and they can be with or without 2D or 3D visual graphics
appearance. The examples of such cyberworlds are communities created in
different social networking services, 3D shared virtual environments, and
multiplayer online games. Cyberworlds are closely related to the real world
and have a serious impact on it. Cyberworlds have been created and applied
in such areas as e-business, e-commerce, e-manufacturing, e-learning,
e-medicine, and cultural heritage, etc. Cyberworlds augment and sometimes
replace the real life and become a significant component of real economy.
The international conferences on Cyberworlds have being organized annually
since 2002 with the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society and
special issues published in The Visual Computer and other research journals.
Advance program:
Key-note talks:
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Michael Yap
"The Future of Media: Co-Space and the Next Web"
Deputy CEO at Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore and an
Executive Director of the Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Programme Office.
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
"A Comprehensive Methodology to Visualize Articulations for the
Physiological Human"
Professor and Director of MIRALab, University of Geneva and Director of the
Institute for Media Innovations, NTU, Singapore
Tosiyasu L. Kunii
"Cyberworld Modeling for Cloud Computing"
Chief Technical Advisor of Morpho, Inc., Japan and Professor Emeritus of The
University of Tokyo, Japan
Dieter Fellner
"3D Semantics Pipeline: Creating, Handling and Visualization of
Semantically-Enriched Models"
Professor of computer science at TU Darmstadt and director of the Fraunhofer
Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD)
André Gagalowicz
"3D Tracking of non Verbal Facial Expressions from Monocular Video
Sequences"
Scientific Leader, Mirages, INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt research centre
Parallel Paper Sessions:
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Human-Computer Interaction
Shape Modeling for Cyberworlds
Simulation and Training
Datamining and Cybersecurity
Shared Virtual Worlds and Multi-user Games Brain-computer Interfaces,
Cognitive Informatics, EEG-based emotion recognition Cyberlearning in
Cyberworlds Virtual Humans and Avatars Cyberworlds and Real Worlds Networked
Collaboration Computer Vision, Augmented and Mixed Reality
Industrial demos and seminars:
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Attention: VMV Deadline extended to July 4th! Abstract due June 28th
Final Call for paper extended to July 4th: Vision, Modeling, Visualisation
2010 in Siegen, Germany ( <http://vmv2010.uni-siegen.de>
http://vmv2010.uni-siegen.de)
Vision, Modeling and Visualization are symbiotic disciplines. Although they
are different in terminology and formalism, they profit from the synergy of
jointly encountered problems and jointly used technologies.
Special interest topics range from image-based modeling and rendering,
future directions of photography, hardware graphics up to medical and
information visualization.
Authors are encouraged to submit their recent research results, practice and
experience reports, or novel applications relating to the topics of the VMV
2010 Workshop.
Topics may relate to any area in Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and
Visualization.
Important Dates: (Upload closes July 4th, 23.59 CET, no further extension)
Submission of Abstract: June 28th (EXTENDED)
Submission of full papers and supplement material: July 4th, 23.59 CET
(EXTENDED)
Notification of acceptance: September 4th
Workshop in Siegen: November 15-17th
A non-exclusive list containing the topic scope of the conference is listed
below:
* Animation
* Modeling and Simulation
* Image-based Modeling and Rendering
* Real-time Rendering
* Realistic Rendering
* Statistical Methods, Learning
* 3D Imaging
* GPGPU
* Virtual, Mixed, and Augmented Reality
* Geometric Modeling
* Human Computer Interaction
* Medical Image Processing and Visualization
* Volume, Flow, Vector and Tensor Visualization
* Information Visualization
* Image/Video Processing
* Motion Capture and Tracking
* Graphics & Perception
* Multi-Sensor Fusion
* Structure from Motion and Stereo
* Computational Photography
* Optical Flow
* Object Recognition
* Dynamic 3D Acquisition and Processing
* Image and Video Coding
* Applications (medicine, robotics, communications, ...)
This years VMV will be held in cooperation with the DFG Research Training
Group 1564 /Imaging New Modalities/ < <http://www.grk1564.uni-siegen.de>
http://www.grk1564.uni-siegen.de> and with the workshop series on Dynamic 3D
Imaging (Dyn3D) < <http://www.zess.uni-siegen.de/pmd-home/dyn3d>
http://www.zess.uni-siegen.de/pmd-home/dyn3d>.
Therefore, a special session on dynamic and multimodal imaging is planned
and paper submission focusing on the following topics are highly
welcome:
* Dynamic 3D Imaging using time-of-flight sensors
* Fusion and information retrieval for multi-modal imaging
* Image processing and analysis for new imaging modalities like THz or
multi-spectral imaging
Contact Information: <http://vmv2010.uni-siegen.de>
http://vmv2010.uni-siegen.de Reinhard Koch, Andreas Kolb, Christof
Rezk-Salama
email: <mailto:vmv2010@uni-siegen.de> vmv2010(a)uni-siegen.de