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* SAMT 2008 - CALL FOR WORKSHOPS *
* 3rd International Conference on *
* Semantics And digital Media Technologies *
* Koblenz, Germany, 3-5 December 2008 *
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In cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and Eurographics.
SAMT 2008 invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction
with the Third International Conference on Semantics And digital
Media Technology. Workshops will be held on Wednesday, December 3,
2008, before the start of the main technical program.
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Objectives and Topics
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As the volume of multimedia material grows, so do the problems of
managing of distribution and access to multimedia content. The SAMT
conference series addresses these problems from the perspective of
semantics and pragmatics of multimedia generation, management and
user access. As well as research papers, the conference programme
also includes workshops and tutorials.
The purpose of the SAMT workshops programme is to provide a platform
for presenting and exchanging research ideas in a less formal and
possibly more focused way than the conference itself. They should
stimulate and facilitate an atmosphere of active and constructive
exchange on current issues of interest. They also offer a good
opportunity for young researchers to present their work and to
obtain feedback from an interested community.
We are seeking proposals for workshops that will encourage discussions
on how to bridge the gap between low-level data representations
used in media such as computer graphics, images, and audio, and
the high-level meaning that content providers and users associate
with multimedia content. In particular, from a content perspective,
we encourage workshops that: i) investigate the use and application
of technologies for improving multimedia access and processing; ii)
explore best practices and adaptation of those technologies in these
contexts. These workshops are expected to complement those that
focus on fundamental research issues and multi-disciplinary topics.
Workshop proposals should address current issues related to semantics
and digital media that will benefit from the small-group format that
workshops provide for information exchange and discussion. Workshops
are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences.
We strongly encourage workshop submissions on falling within the main
six main themes of the conference:
1) Semantic Analysis and Multimedia
2) Semantic Retrieval and Multimedia
3) Semantic Metadata Management of Multimedia
4) Semantic User Interfaces for Multimedia
5) Semantics in Visualization and Computer Graphics
6) Applications of Semantic Multimedia
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Submitting a Proposal
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Workshop proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length and should
contain the following information:
1) The title and brief description of the workshop, specifying the
goals and the technical issues that it will focus on. How relevant
and significant this workshop is to the conference.
2) A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest,
and the expected range of number of participants.
3) A brief description of the proposed workshop format, discussing the
mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels,
and general discussion.
4) An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a
half-day or full-day meeting.
5) Links to relevant material, related workshops or similar events,
project web sites etc.
6) The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the
proposed organizing committee, short description of their relevant
experience and short CVs.
We strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably from
different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop
topic. Workshop attendees will have to pay the SAMT 2008 workshop
registration fee, and also register and attend the main SAMT 2008
conference. The organizer(s) of approved workshops will be responsible
for advertising their workshop and for the reviewing process for
their workshop's papers.
Please send your proposals by 15 May 2008 and any inquiries by email to
the Workshop Chairs. The submission templates and instructions can be
downloaded from the conference web page http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de
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Conference
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The 3-day-conference gives us the opportunity to take part in various
additional activities such as: industrial exhibition, social events,
excursions, etc. The conference will take place in Koblenz, a
2000-year-old town situated in the picturesque landscape of the Rhine
and Moselle. The region of Koblenz is also famous for its excellent
wines.
For more information please visit the conference web site:
http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de
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Important Dates
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Proposals May 15
Notification May 30
Submissions August 31
Notifications October 5
Camera-ready October 26
Workshop Day December 3
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Workshop Chairs
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Prof. Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK
Prof. David Duce, Oxford Brooks University, UK
Email: samt-workshop-chair(a)uni-koblenz.de
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* SAMT 2008 - CALL FOR TUTORIALS *
* 3rd International Conference on *
* Semantics And digital Media Technologies *
* Koblenz, Germany, 3-5 December 2008 *
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In cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and Eurographics.
Proposals are invited for the tutorial program of the 3rd
International Conference on Semantics And Digital Media Technology
(SAMT 2008). Tutorials will be held on 3rd December 2008.
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Objectives and Topics
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As the volume of multimedia material grows, so do the problems
of managing distribution of and access to multimedia content.
The SAMT conference series addresses these problems from the
perspective of semantics and pragmatics of multimedia generation,
management and user access. As well as research papers, the
conference programme also includes tutorials and workshops.
The purpose of the tutorial program is to provide an audience
of both postgraduate students and senior researchers with a
comprehensive overview of the latest research in the complementary
fields of multimedia analysis and the Semantic Web, with emphasis
on cross-disciplinary approaches. Tutorials should provide the
audience with the opportunity to gain deeper insights into the
important challenges to be addressed in these traditionally
disparate fields, and thereby provide motivation for future
interdisciplinary research. We seek high quality proposals
for tutorials on topics including but not limited to:
1) Semantic Analysis and Multimedia
2) Semantic Retrieval and Multimedia
3) Semantic Metadata Management of Multimedia
4) Semantic User Interfaces for Multimedia
5) Semantics in Visualization and Computer Graphics
6) Applications of Semantic Multimedia
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Submitting a Proposal
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Tutorial proposals can be submitted in any format (PDF, Word,
text). Proposals should be no more than 2 pages in length and
should contain the following information (note that tutorials
will be 1/2 day long):
1) The title and a brief technical description of the tutorial,
outlining the goals and the technical content it targets.
2) A brief description of why and to whom the tutorial is of
interest, i.e. the target audience.
3) A list of related tutorials/courses/lectures held in the
last 3 years, or to be held in 2008.
4) The contact information (web page & email address) of the
proposed organizers and a short bio for each highlighting
relevant experience.
Tutorial attendees will be required to pay the SAMT 2008
tutorial registration fee, in addition to the standard conference
registration fee. Please send your proposals by 16th June 2008
and any inquiries by email to samt-workshop-chair(a)uni-koblenz.de .
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Conference
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The 3-day-conference gives us the opportunity to take part in
various additional activities such as: industrial exhibition,
social events, excursions, etc. The conference will take place
in Koblenz, a 2000-year-old town situated in the picturesque
landscape of the Rhine and Moselle. The region of Koblenz is
also famous for its excellent wines.
For more Information please visit the conference web site:
http://samt2008.uni-koblenz.de
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Important Dates
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Proposal Submission June 16
Acceptance Notification July 6
Notes November 3
Tutorial Day December 3
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Tutorial Chairs
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Prof. Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK
Prof. David Duce, Oxford Brooks University, UK
Email: samt-workshop-chair(a)uni-koblenz.de
IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume Graphics
August 10-11, 2008
Los Angeles, co-located with ACM Siggraph 2008
http://www.zib.de/vg08/
Volume Graphics 08 will be held in conjunction with the Point-Based
Graphics Symposium 08, under the auspices of IEEE VGTC and Eurographics
and will be co-located with ACM Siggraph 2008.
Volume graphics deals with the analysis, synthesis and presentation of
volumetric phenomena, both static and time-varying. Specifically, it
includes topics related to the acquisition, reconstruction and
transformation of volume data as well as feature analysis, information
extraction and rendering. Research papers are solicited that present
original, unpublished results concerning all aspects of volume
graphics. We especially invite research contributions that report
computational techniques derived from existing knowledge in numerical
analysis, signal processing and statistical modeling. Furthermore,
papers are solicited which demonstrate the efficacy of the methods of
volume graphics in enhancing practices or understanding of specific
applications.
The accepted papers will be published by Eurographics Publishing in
cooperation with IEEE VGTC Publishing. A selected number of the best
papers will be further invited to submit an extended version to the IEEE
Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics. A joint track on
'Sample-Based Graphics' will be organized to evaluate this as the
umbrella topic under which the two symposia will proceed jointly in the
future.
Please refer to
http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/SRM_VG08/subinstructions.html
preparation guidelines.
Important Dates
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May 02, 2008 Abstract submission deadline
May 09, 2008 Paper submission deadline
June 13, 2008 Author notification
July 17, 2008 Final paper submission deadline
All deadlines are at 24:00 Pacific Day Time.
Primary Symposium Topics
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+ Representation of Volume Information
+ Acquisition and Reconstruction of Volume Data
+ Volume Rendering
+ Modeling and Transformation of Volumetric Objects
+ Analysis of Volumetric Objects
+ Volume Graphics in Applications
General Chairs
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Valerio Pascucci, LLNL, USA
Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University, Sweden
Papers Chairs
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Hans-Christian Hege, ZIB, Berlin, Germany
David Laidlaw, Brown University, USA
Steering Committee
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Min Chen, University of Wales, Swansea, UK
Tom Ertl, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Issei Fujishiro, Tohoku University, Japan
Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University, USA
Torsten Möller, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Klaus Mueller, Stony Brook University, USA
Honorary Symposium Chair
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Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University, USA
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Symposium on Geometry Processing (http://www.geometryprocessing.org) is
the premier venue for disseminating new research ideas and cutting-edge
results in computerized processing of geometric models. In this emerging
area, concepts from applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering
are used to design efficient algorithms for acquisition, reconstruction,
manipulation, simulation and transmission of complex 3D models.
We invite submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics
in geometry processing:
* geometry and topology representations
* compression of static or animated geometry
* surface and volume parameterization
* approximation and meshing
* reverse engineering
* robust geometric computing
* simplification and level of detail
* smoothing and denoising
* multiresolution shape analysis and synthesis
* geometric aspects of rendering and other fields
* interactive techniques
* animation and simulation
Applications of geometry processing algorithms cover a wide range of areas
from multimedia, entertainment, and classical computer-aided design, to
bio-medical computing, reverse engineering, architectural design, and
scientific computing. We welcome papers related to applications of geometry
processing such as the above.
IMPORTANT DATES (http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/SGP08/dates.html)
Electronic abstract submission deadline: April 20, 2008
Electronic paper submission deadline: April 27, 2008 (23:59 PDT)
Author notification: May 26, 2008
Camera ready copy deadline: June 1st, 2008
Symposium: July 2-4, 2008
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE (http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/SRM_SGP08)
Authors are required to submit an abstract of their paper (in plain-text
format) by April 20, 2008, using an online form available at the above
website. Submitted manuscripts must be prepared for double-blind review,
and must be original work, not concurrently submitted to any other venue.
Submitted papers should describe their contributions concisely (we suggest
that papers not exceed 8 pages), and should adhere strictly to the EG
publication style (LaTeX files available online:
http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/SRM_SGP08/templates/latex.zip). A submission
can also be accompanied by electronic supplementary material (e.g. image,
video, demo). Submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the Program
Committee and selected external reviewers.
PROCEEDINGS
This year the SGP proceedings will appear for the first time as an issue of
the 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.
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Pierre Alliez, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Mediterranee
Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Princeton University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Bart Adams
Marc Alexa
François Anton
Dominique Attali
Andreas Bærentzen
Alexander Belyaev
Ioana Boier-Martin
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat
Mario Botsch
Pere Brunet
Frederic Cazals
Siu-Wing Cheng
Daniel Cohen-Or
David Cohen-Steiner
Leila De Floriani
Tony DeRose
Mathieu Desbrun
Neil Dogson
Herbert Edelsbrunner
Michael Floater
Thomas Funkhouser
Michael Garland
Natasha Gelfand
Steven Gortler
Craig Gotsman
Cindy Grimm
Eitan Grinspun
Xianfeng Gu
Leonidas Guibas
Stefan Gumhold
Igor Guskov
John Hart
Hugues Hoppe
Kai Hormann
Shi-Min Hu
Martin Isenburg
Misha Kazhdan
Ron Kimmel
Leif Kobbelt
Seungyong Lee
Bruno Lévy
Thomas Lewiner
Dinesh Manocha
Ralph Martin
Niloy Mitra
Heinrich Mueller
Steve Oudot
Mark Pauly
Gabriel Peyré
Konrad Polthier
Helmut Pottmann
Emil Praun
Jarek Rossignac
Scott Schaefer
Peter Schröder
Hans-Peter Seidel
Ariel Shamir
Alla Sheffer
Jonathan Shewchuk
Claudio Silva
Olga Sorkine
Michela Spagnuolo
Gabriel Taubin
Alper Ungor
Amitabh Varshney
Luiz Velho
Johannes Wallner
Michael Wand
Wenping Wang
Joe Warren
Mariette Yvinec
Eugene Zhang
Kun Zhou
Afra Zomorodian
Denis Zorin
ORGANIZING CO-CHAIRS
J. Andreas Bærentzen and Francois Anton
Technical University of Denmark
Call for Papers
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The Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2008 will take place in Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, from June 23 to June 25, 2008. This is the 19th
annual event in the series of very successful Eurographics Symposia on
Rendering and Eurographics Workshops on Rendering.
The local organizers are Jasminka Hasic and Selma Rizvic. The program chairs
are Steve Marschner and Michael Wimmer. Up-to-date information about the
conference is available on the EGSR 2008 web site:
http://egsr2008.ssst.edu.ba
Conference Topics
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Conference topics include (but are not limited to):
- Global illumination
- Monte Carlo techniques
- Finite element techniques
- Volume scattering and translucency
- Reflectance and scattering models
- Human perception and error measures
- Sampling, filtering, and anti-aliasing
- Shadows and visibility
- Texture models, analysis, and synthesis
- Computational photography
- Non-photorealistic rendering
- Image-based measurement and rendering
- Sensing for graphics
- Point-based rendering
- New rendering hardware and new uses of existing hardware
- Real-time rendering and real-time ray tracing
- Systems and software architecture for rendering
- Virtual/augmented reality and interactive systems
- Rendering dynamic/animated environments
Starting this year, the proceedings of EGSR will be a special issue of the
journal Computer Graphics Forum. This will improve the availability of EGSR
papers and make them citable as journal articles. Because of this there will
be a brief second review cycle for any papers that require changes to be
accepted; such papers will only be accepted after the changes have been
confirmed by the program committee.
Important Dates
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All deadlines are 11:59 p.m., US Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4).
Abstract submission deadline: Friday, April 4
Paper submission deadline: Monday, April 7
Author notification: Thursday, May 8
Revisions due: Friday, May 16
Final PDF files due for printing: Monday, May 19
Symposium: June 23-25
The EGSR review and publication process is very short, and to achieve this
quick turnaround all deadlines must be strictly observed. In particular,
final PDF files for printing must be finished on time.
Keynote Speakers:
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David Salesin, Adobe Systems
Heinrich Bülthoff, Max Planck Institute
International Program Committee
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Program Chairs: Steve Marschner (US) and Michael Wimmer (AT)
International Program Committee:
Aseem Agarwala (US)
Kavita Bala (US)
Philippe Bekaert (BE)
Jiri Bittner (CZ)
Per Christensen (US)
Craig Donner (US)
George Drettakis (FR)
Philip Dutre (BE)
Michael Goesele (GE)
Baining Guo (US)
Tim Hawkins (US)
Wolfgang Heidrich (CA)
Nicolas Holzschuch (FR)
Greg Humphreys (US)
Henrik Wann Jensen (US)
Stefan Jeschke (AT)
Jan Kautz (UK)
Jaroslav Krivanek (CZ)
Samuli Laine (FI)
Jason Lawrence (US)
Jaakkoo Lehtinen (US)
Hendrik Lensch (GE)
Danni Lischinski (IL)
Bill Mark (US)
Wojciech Matusik (US)
Sumanta Pattanaik (US)
Fabio Pellacini (US)
Holly Rushmeier (US)
Marc Stamminger (GE)
Lefebvre Sylvain (FR)
Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos (HU)
Nicolas Tsingos (FR)
Greg Ward (US)
Peter Wonka (US)
Local Organizing Chairs: Jasminka Hasic (BA) and Selma Rizvic (BA)
Instructions for Submission
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All contributions submitted to Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2008 must
be original, unpublished work. Any work that has previously been published
or simultaneously been submitted in substantially similar form to any other
conference or journal will be rejected. Contributions must be written and
presented in English.
Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Submitted manuscripts should
be formatted using the Eurographics publication style proceedings templates,
and be anonymized for the double-blind reviewing process.
Papers should be as long as their content requires, but not longer. Papers
with average length requirements are expected to be 8 formatted pages long,
including references and all figures; up to 10 pages will be allowed only
where justified. During the review process, each paper's contribution will
be judged in proportion to its length: a solid contribution described
clearly and succinctly is more likely to be accepted than the same result
submitted in a longer paper.
All submissions must be made through the Eurographics Submission and Review
Management system, using the following URL.
http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/SRM_SR2008
The submission deadlines will be strictly enforced. The authors of each
accepted paper need to complete and return the EG Copyright Assignment Form
before the paper can be published.
Point-Based Graphics 2008 - Call for Papers
Los Angeles, CA, USA - August 9-10, 2008
http://www.point-graphics.org
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2008
Co-sponsored by Eurographics and the IEEE-CS Visualization and Graphics
Technical Committee (VGTC)
The drive for increasingly complex 3D geometric models, especially those
scanned from the real-world, has brought about a growing interest in methods
that build on point primitives. Following the highly successful 2004, 2005,
2006, and 2007 Symposia on Point-Based Graphics, the 5th symposium of its
series, PBG08, aims to further demonstrate the applicability of point-based
methods in modeling, rendering, and simulation, and in a wide range of
application domains. PBG08 will take place in in Los Angeles, CA, USA, from
August 9-10, 2008, co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 and co-organized with
the International Symposium on Volume Graphics (VG08).
We invite your original contributions in areas including, but not limited
to, the following:
- Data acquisition and surface reconstruction
- Geometric modeling using point primitives
- Sampling, approximation, and interpolation
- Transmission and compression of point-sampled geometry
- Rendering algorithms for point primitives
- Geometry processing of point models
- Topological properties of point clouds
- Hardware architectures for point primitives
- Animation and morphing of point-sampled geometry
- Hybrid representations and algorithms
- Use of point-based methods in real-world applications
PBG was established do develop and leverage the newly created field of point
based graphics and to establish a community of its own. With the 5.
symposium of this kind in 2008 and the broad spectrum of scientific
publications on the subject, we believe that our initial mission is
accomplished. At the same time we observe a natural evolution and confluence
of point graphics and volume graphics into the broader field of "Sample
Based Graphics". In order to address this development VG'08 and PBG'08 will
organize a joint track on the topic to evaluate its suitability as new
direction into which both symposia might evolve in the years to come.
For more information about submission, please visit
http://point-graphics.org
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: Apr 30, 2008
Notification of acceptance: Jun 4, 2008
Camera-ready copy: Jun 18, 2008
Symposium: Aug 9-10, 2008
General Chairs:
Mario Botsch, ETH Zurich
Matthias Zwicker, University of California, San Diego
Papers Chairs:
Renato Pajarola, University of Zurich
Oliver Staadt, University of Rostock
*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2008
July 7-9, 2008
Dublin, Ireland
Conference Chairs:
Eugene Fiume (University of Toronto)
Jerry Tessendorf (Rhythm & Hues Studios)
Program Chairs:
Markus Gross (ETH Zurich)
Doug James (Cornell University)
Symposium's web site: http://gv2.cs.tcd.ie/sca08
After six very successful symposia, SCA has become the leading forum for
dissemination of the latest research results in computer animation. The goal
of SCA'08 is to provide an opportunity for researchers in computer animation
to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations of their work, and
discuss emerging directions for the field. Keynote presentations will also
be given by leaders from the animation community:
* Markus Kurtz (Rhythm and Hues Studios)
* Jos Stam (Autodesk)
A full proceedings will be published at the time of the Symposium and will
appear in the EG and ACM digital libraries. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:
* autonomous characters
* physically based animation (fluids, solids, ...)
* facial animation
* real-time animation, animation for games
* group and crowd behavior
* expressive motion / communication
* nonphotorealistic animation
* physical realism / measuring the real world for animation
* nature in motion (natural phenomena, plants, clouds, ...)
* planning / learning / optimization for animation
* intuitive interfaces for creating and editing animations
* sound and speech for animation
* perceptual metrics for animation
* mathematical foundations of animation
* 2D animation systems
* new time-based art forms on the computer
Important Dates
Apr 18, 2008: Deadline for paper submissions
Apr 25, 2008: Deadline for submission of scientific and industry posters
May 16, 2008: Notification of acceptance for papers and posters
May 23, 2008: Deadline for camera-ready lab posters and posters invited
from papers
May 30, 2008: Notification of acceptance for lab and invited posters
May 30, 2008: Camera-ready papers due
Jul 7-9 2008: Symposium
*** NOTE: STUDENT TRAVEL BURSARIES AVAILABLE ***
Thanks to a significant donation from Science Foundation Ireland, all
students are eligible to apply for travel bursaries to help defray travel
costs. More details on the website.
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Full Papers
Paper submissions must be anonymous, should not exceed 10 A4 pages, and
should be formatted according to the EG publication style. Papers should be
written and presented in English. Authors must include a declaration
stating that the main contribution claimed in their paper has not previously
appeared in, and is not currently submitted to, any other conference or
journal.
To be considered for review, all papers must be submitted electronically
through the SCA submission website:
http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/SRM_SCA08
Full submission instructions and templates are available there.
Supplementary material such as videos may also be submitted electronically
and will be made available to reviewers.
All papers will be reviewed carefully by the International Program Committee
members. Given the limited time between submission and final version, papers
will be evaluated as submitted.
Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for preparing a final
camera-ready electronic version of their paper. In addition to the printed
proceedings, a DVD-ROM will be published with supplemental materials. If an
author submits supplemental materials for review with their paper, that
material (or a revised version) must also be provided by the authors for
inclusion on the DVD-ROM.
Authors of some rejected papers with high potential will be invited to
submit their work to the combined posters and demos sessions.
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Posters and Demos
A poster and demo presentation is the perfect opportunity for authors to
display and discuss late-breaking technical achievements that are either not
ready or not suitable for publication as full papers.
The poster and demo session will be an integral part of the SCA program,
with specific time allotted for poster presenters and symposium participants
to view and discuss the work. A pamphlet containing summaries of the posters
will be distributed to all participants, and all presenters will have the
opportunity to give a one-minute description of their work during a poster
fast-forward session.
This year, there are two deadlines for different types of posters. The first
is for scientific and industry posters. This deadline is near to the time of
the paper deadline, as these posters will be reviewed by the International
Program Committee members. The second deadline is for invited and lab
posters.
Eligibility
Poster presentations are not formal publications, so work submitted as a
poster is still eligible for later publication in a journal or conference
proceedings.
We encourage any of the following types of poster submissions:
* Up and coming computer animation research
* Technically novel production work
* Work done outside of SCA that would be of interest to the computer
animation community. This includes animation-related works recently accepted
to other conferences such as I3D or NPAR, or the SIGGRAPH Sketches program.
* Lab overviews which present a snapshot of the ongoing animation-related
research at a given institution.
Please note that in order to maintain the quality of discussions and
interactivity at the poster session, there must be at least one dedicated
presenter for each poster.
Format
The submission for a poster should consist of a summary of no more than 2
pages in length. Each submission must be saved as PDF and formatted
according to the EG publication style. Submissions must be camera-ready.
This means that author names must be present in the submission. The review
process will be single blind.
Supplementary Materials
The submission of supplementary materials is not required; however, a draft
of the poster in PDF format is encouraged. For the final presentation,
videos and interactive demonstrations are also highly encouraged. We will
provide electrical outlets and tables so that authors can display such
demonstrations using their own equipment.
Electronic Submission
All PDF poster summaries should be submitted via email to
SCA2008.Posters(a)gmail.com by the deadline. Due to GMails limits, each email
message must be less than 10MB. If this is not sufficient for your
submission or supplemental materials, you may send your submission in parts
as attachments to several emails. For supplemental materials, links to
external websites are also allowable.
Fast Forward Slide
Authors of accepted posters will be required to provide a PowerPoint slide
describing their work for the poster fast forward presentation session.
Details about preparation of the slide will be provided later via email to
accepted presenters.
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Prof. Carol O'Sullivan
GV2: Graphics, Vision and Visualisation group
Computer Science Dept, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Phone +353 1 8961220, Fax: +353 1 8963677
http://gv2.cs.tcd.ie, http://isg.cs.tcd.ie/cosulliv/
Dean of Graduate Studies, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Phone +353 1 896 1561 www.tcd.ie/graduate_studies
SG08: 8th International Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS
http://www.smartgraphics.org/
Aug 27-29 2008
Rennes, France
submission deadline Apr 7th, 2008
Graphics become Smart Graphics when their design and implementation are
grounded in an understanding of human abilities, activities, and
motivations from design experience and the broad spectrum of cognitive
and social sciences.
When knowledge from these diverse fields is combined with new methods,
tools and techniques in AI, HCI and computer graphics, environments are
created that
(1) engage the user and are esthetically satisfying;
(2) participate in human cognition as external or distributed
representations;
(3) are sensitive to the real-time demands of the interaction in the
context of the available informational and computational resources;
(4) adapt the form of the output according to a wider set of constraints
such as an individual's perceptual, attentive, and motor abilities
and the nature of the presentation media and available interaction
devices.
The International Symposium on Smart Graphics aims at gathering people
from the fields of Cognitive Science, Computer Graphics, Artificial
Intelligence and Graphics Design to share experiences and experiments in
this new and emerging area of study.
*** Come and Join the Smart Graphics Experience ***
Smart Graphics 2008 welcomes submissions from researchers and
practitioners, as well as artists and graphic designers interested in
an interdisciplinary approach to the design of smart interactive visual,
auditory, and haptic displays.
Submission categories are divided into:
* Full papers: these will encompass comprehensive descriptions of original
work within the scope of the symposium (limited to 12 pages in Springer
LNCS format).
* Posters: tentative or preliminary results of research or design work
with emphasis on the interdisciplinary evaluation of the ideas (limited
to 4 pages in Springer LNCS format). Poster papers will be included in
the proceedings.
* System demonstrations: short descriptions of research or design work
that the authors intend to show and discuss in a demo session at the
symposium (limited to 2 pages in Springer LNCS format). System
demonstration papers will be included in the proceedings.
Smartgraphics specially encourages young researchers to submit their ideas
and results. The best full paper and best poster, which first authors
are students, will receive a 500 euros prize each donated by the Metivier
Foundation. As in previous conferences, proceedings will be published in the
Springer Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
* information visualization
* visual analytics
* graphical abstraction
* multimodal information presentation
* non-desktop interfaces
* user interaction
* sketch-based interfaces
* interaction science
* scene perception
* cognitive sciences
* user studies
* computer graphics
* artificial intelligence
* virtual and mixed reality
* graphics design
This year, we propose a specific emphasis on interaction in virtual
reality as well as on constraint techniques in user interfaces.
Important Dates:
Apr 7th, 2008 (submission deadline)
May 15th, 2008 (notification of results)
June 12th, 2008 (camera ready copy due)
Aug 27-29, 2008 (Symposium in Rennes, France)
Invited Talks:
* Daniel A. Keim, Konstanz University, Germany
http://infovis.uni-konstanz.de/members/keim
* David S. Ebert, Purdue University, United States
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~ebertd/
ORGANIZERS:
Andreas Butz (University of Munich, Germany)
Marc Christie (IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France)
Brian Fisher (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Antonio Krueger (University of Muenster, Germany)
Patrick Olivier (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)
COMMITEE:
* Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg)
* William Bares (Millsaps College)
* Marc Cavazza (Teeside University)
* Sarah Diamond (Ontario College of Art and Design)
* Stephane Donikian (IRISA/INRIA Rennes)
* Steven Feiner (Columbia University)
* Veronique Gaildrat (Paul Sabatier University Toulouse)
* Knut Hartmann (University of Magdeburg)
* Hiroshi Hosobe (Tokyo National Institute of Informatics)
* Tsvi Kuflik (University of Haifa)
* Rainer Malaka (European Media Lab)
* Jun Mitani (University of Tsukuba)
* Shigeru Owada (Sony CSL)
* W. Bradford Paley (Digital Image Design)
* Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg)
* Thomas Rist (University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg)
* Roberto Theron (University of Salamanca)
* Shigeo Takahashi (University of Tokyo)
* Takafumi Saito (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
* Lucia Terrenghi (University of Munich)
* Massimo Zancanaro (ITC-irst Trento)
* Michelle Zhou (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
For a full description of the scope of the Symposium, and details of
previous events, see the website:
http://www.smartgraphics.org
For any queries, please use the contact address:
(marc.christie at irisa.fr)
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3IA'2008 CONFERENCE
THE ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Athens (GREECE), May 30 - 31, 2008
THE ONLY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT COMPUTER GRAPHICS
IN COOPERATION WITH EUROGRAPHICS
INVITED SPEAKERS
Alla SAFONOVA (USA): Synthetizing Human Motion from Intuitive
Constraints.
Theoharis THEOHARIS (Greece): 3D Object Retrieval: Inter-Class
vs Intra-Class.
Herve LUGA (France): Automatic generation of behaviors,
morphologies and shapes of virtual entities.
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| CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS |
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The eleventh 3IA International Conference (3IA'2008) will take place
in May 2008, in Athens (GREECE).
TOPICS :
Under the title "Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence", several
themes could be covered by the authors of papers. The following list gives
an idea of possible themes :
- Artificial intelligence techniques in scene modeling.
- Declarative techniques in scene modeling.
- Artificial intelligence techniques in rendering.
- Artificial intelligence techniques in construction of geometric figures.
- Animation and artificial intelligence.
- Behavioural animation.
- Design of intelligent graphic interfaces.
- Scene properties description techniques.
- Intelligent methods of exploring virtual worlds.
- Computer graphics and learning.
- Combination of classical and AI techniques.
- Application of AI techniques in CAD and GIS.
- Intelligent visualisation.
- Intelligent collaborative design.
- Semantics-based approaches in design.
- Decision support systems in design.
- Intelligent computational aesthetics.
- Intelligent CG applications in bioinformatics and medical informatics.
- ...
GENERAL CHAIR OF THE CONFERENCE :
Dimitri PLEMENOS, Emeritus Professor
Universite de Limoges
Faculte des Sciences
MSI Laboratory
83, rue d'Isle
87000 LIMOGES
phone : (+ 33) 5 55 43 69 74, (+33) 5 55 43 69 76
fax : (+33) 5 55 43 69 77
E-mail : plemenos(a)unilim.fr
plemenos(a)numericable.com
CONFERENCE E-mail : 3ia(a)teiath.gr
CONFERENCE Web site : http://3ia.teiath.gr
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE :
Yury BAYAKOVSKY (Russia)
Christian BOHN (Germany)
Rene CAUBET (France),
Giovanni DE PAOLI (Canada)
Jean-Francois DUFOURD (France),
Yves DUTHEN (France)
Eugene FIUME (Canada),
Marina GAVRILOVA (Canada)
Djamchid GHAZANFARPOUR (France),
Gerard HEGRON (France),
Andres IGLESIAS (Spain),
Andrey IONES (USA)
Prem KALRA (India),
Stanislav KLIMENKO (Russia),
Ivana KOLINGEROVA (Czech Republic),
Jean-Claude LAFON (France),
Nadia MAGNENAT-THALMANN (Switzerland),
Michel MERIAUX (France),
Georges MIAOULIS (Greece),
Zhigeng PAN (China),
Bernard PEROCHE (France),
Pascal LIENHARDT (France),
Dimitri PLEMENOS (France),
Xavier PUEYO (Spain),
Mateu SBERT (Spain),
Vaclav SKALA (Czech Republic),
Daniel THALMANN (Switzerland),
Nikolaos VASSILAS (Greece),
Jiri ZARA (Czech Republic).
LOCAL CHAIR
Georges MIAOULIS
e-mail: gmiaoul(a)teiath.gr
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Dimitri PLEMENOS (France), Georges MIAOULIS (Greece),
Nikolaos VASSILAS (Greece), Jean DRAGONAS (Greece),
Giola DIONYSSOPOULOU (Greece), Georges BARDIS (Greece),
Vassilios GOLFINOPOULOS (Greece), Dimitrios MAKRIS (Greece),
Jean XYDAS (Greece), Christos YIAKOUMETTIS (Greece),
Suzanne SIMONET (France).
IMPORTANT DATES:
Return of the intention form: today.
Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2008 (extended to February 11). DONE
Paper acceptance notification: March 20, 2008. DONE
Short paper submission deadline: March 27, 2008.
Short paper acceptance notification: April 7, 2008
Final papers due : April 15, 2008.
HOW TO SUBMIT PAPERS:
Papers should be sent as attached PDF files by e-mail to the general
Chair of the Conference. It is also possible to submit a paper
in PDF format by ftp. In this case, please use the following
information:
ftp: 3ia-ftp.teiath.gr
username: 3ia2008
password: dep0t (the "o" of "depot" is a "0")
GUIDELINES FOR PREPARING PAPERS:
Maximal length: 12 pages (full papers), 6 pages (short papers)
Font to use: times
Characters size: 12 pt for text, 18 pt bold for title, 14 pt bold
for section titles and 12 pt bold for sub-section titles.
Paper format: two-column A4 format
REGISTRATION FEES:
190 Euros (Students: 120 Euros)
including:
- the proceedings of the conference,
- two lunches in the university canteen,
- a dinner in a restaurant Friday evening.
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(to be retourned to the general chair of the conference: plemenos(a)unilim.fr
or plemenos(a)numericable.com)
Name:
Professional address:
Phone number:
E-mail:
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
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Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biomedicine (EG VCBM) 2008
October 6-7, 2008
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Aims and Scope:
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Visual Computing for Biomedicine addresses the integration of
state-of-the-art visualization and image analysis for application to
biomedical research. Integrating visualization and image analysis
brings with it particular challenges, but also yields new
possibilities, especially when extended for application to the wide
gamut of biomedical research topics, such as molecular imaging,
quantitative longitudinal studies, pre- and intra-operative surgical
guidance, and computer-aided diagnosis.
VCBM is unique in that it will bring together researchers and
practitioners from visualization, image processing and (bio-)medicine.
We expect to attract a number of attendees with (bio-)medical
backgrounds, as well as from the surrounding academic medical centers.
This will pose a unique opportunity to showcase the latest ideas from
engineering and science, to get feedback from medical practitioners,
and to explore new possibilities for cooperative research. VCBM
solicits the submission of original application-oriented research
papers that advance the fusion of visualization and image analysis
with imaging-based medicine and biomedical science. All papers should
focus on a well-defined biomedical context, and should demonstrate a
significant innovation or improvement in visual computing that
addresses ongoing problems in that context.
Topics:
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Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
* Interactive segmentation and registration
* Computer-aided diagnosis and detection
* Facilitating medical research with visual computing
* Intervention and therapy planning (e.g. pre-operative surgical
planning and radiation therapy planning)
* Intra-operative guidance for surgery
* Ultra-sound based planning and intra-operative guidance
* Visualization and Simulation for Surgical Training
* Coupled simulation and visualization
* Multi-field medical visualization and processing (multi-modality,
structural + functional)
* Processing and visualization of advanced modalities
* Molecular imaging
* Perception-based studies for medical visualization
* Anatomical reconstruction from microscopy data
* Creation and visualization of biological atlases
* Ontology-based visualization
* Visualization methods for neurobiology, plant biology and
developmental biology
Invited Speakers:
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* Prof. dr. Heinz-Otto Peitgen, president of MeVis research, and
* Prof. dr. Nicolas Ayache, research director at INRIA.
Conference Location:
====================
VCBM 2008 will be held in Delft, The Netherlands. Picturesque Delft is
ideally located in the Dutch "Randstad" (conurbation or megacity),
close to the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam and well-connected to the
train network. The city is home to the Delft University of Technology,
a world-famous technical research institute and also host to the VCBM
workshop. In addition, there are three academic medical centers
(Leiden, Rotterdam and Amsterdam) close by.
Important Dates:
================
Paper submission: June 22, 2008
Author notification: August 8, 2008
Camera-ready papers: August 22, 2008
Conference: October 6 - 7, 2008
Workshop Co-chairs:
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Charl Botha - Delft University of Technology
Gordon Kindlmann - Harvard Medical School
Wiro Niessen - Erasmus Medical Centre
Bernhard Preim - University of Magdeburg
International Program Committee:
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Dirk Bartz, Univ. Leipzig
Katja Bühler, VRVis Wien
Min Chen, University of Wales, Swansea
Herve Delingette, INRIA
Thomas Deserno (Lehmann), RWTH Aachen
James Duncan, Yale University
Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart
Bernd Fischer, University of Lübeck
Alejandro Frangi, Pompeu Fabra University
James Gee, University of Pennsylvania
Guido Gerig, University of Utah
Polina Golland, MIT
Eduard Gröller, Techn. Univ. Wien
Horst Hahn, MeVis Research, Bremen
Heinz Handels, University of Hamburg
Peter Hastreiter, Univ. Erlangen
Joachim Hornegger, University of Erlangen
Arie Kaufmann, Stony Brook University, New York
David Laidlaw, Brown University
Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Leiden University
Patric Ljung, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton
Lars Linsen, Jacobs-Univ. Bremen
Bill Lorensen
Torsten Möller, Simon Fraser University Vancouver
Klaus Müller, Stony Brook University, New York
Nassir Navab, Technical University of Munich
Josien Pluim, University of Utrecht
Felix Ritter, MeVis Research, Bremen
Bart ter Haar Romeny TU Eindhoven
Timo Ropinski, Univ. Münster
Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College
Paul Suetens, KU Leuven
Gabor Székely, ETH Zürich
Ulf Tiede, University Hamburg
Ragini Verma, University of Pennsylvania
Anna Vilanova, TU Eindhoven
Frans Vos, TU Delft
Carl-Fredrik Westin, Harvard Medical School
Ross Whitaker, University of Utah
Ivo Wolf, DKFZ Heidelberg
Anders Ynnermann, Norrköping
Terry Yoo, NIH/NLM
Stefan Zachow, Zuse-Institut Berlin
Publication Information:
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Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and will appear in
the EG-published conference proceedings. A small number of excellent
papers will be recommended for publication in the EG Journal Computer
Graphics Forum.
Contact Information:
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For more information please visit http://vcbm.org/ or contact:
Charl Botha - c.p.botha(a)tudelft.nl
Bernhard Preim - bernhard(a)isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Sponsors:
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* IRTG 1131
* MeVis
* NWO
* Eurographics
