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6th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
(EGPGV'06)
May 11-12, 2006, Braga, Portugal
(in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH)
http://www.di.uminho.pt/egpgv06
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Second Call for Papers
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Aims and Scope of the Symposium
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Following successful previous workshops/symposia that were held in
Grenoble (F) 2004, Bristol (UK) 1996, Rennes (F) 1998, Girona (E)
2000, and Blaubeuren (D) 2002, we are happy to announce the 6th
Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization. The
aim of this symposium is to share experiences and knowledge of
parallel and distributed computing and its application to all aspects
of computer graphics, virtual reality, scientific and engineering
visualization.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Cluster based graphics and visualization
Efficient graphics and visualization for shared and distributed memory
systems
Parallel and distributed systems for large and high resolution displays
Parallel and distributed systems for photo-realistic rendering
Parallel volume rendering
Real-time systems for 3D virtual reality
Data coherence in graphics algorithms
Large data set visualization
Large model realistic rendering
Large scale simulations and graphics rendering
Graphics and visualization in grid environments
Parallel simulations for interactive applications
Parallelism within GPU architectures
GPU clusters
The EGPGV Symposium will follow the Eurovis06 Symposium on Visualization and
the
Eurographics Workshop in Virtual Environments that will take place in
Lisbon, Portugal,
on the same week, from the 8th to the 10th of May, 2006 .
Invited Speakers
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Alan Chalmers
Department of Computer Science
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
James T. Klosowski
Visualization Systems
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Papers and Posters Submissions
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The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Eurographics
Proceedings Series.
Selected papers will also be published in a Special Issue of the Journal of
Parallel Computing, following a tradition established on 2004.
A poster session will take place during the symposium. Each poster will
be allowed a 4 page publication in a separate booklet distributed to the
symposium attendees. Students are especially encouraged to submit posters.
There will be a "best paper" award based on the content of the paper and
selected by the Program chairs. There will also be a "best presentation"
award based on the oral presentation and selected by all the symposium
attendees.
There is a page limit of eight pages for the submitted papers. These
must be prepared as a PDF file adhering strictly to the Eurographics
Submission Instructions.
Important Dates
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Full Paper Submission Deadline: 27, January, 2006
Poster Submission Deadline: 15, February, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: 10, March, 2006
Final Paper Submission Deadline: 24, March, 2006
Workshop and Program co-chairs
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Luis Paulo Santos, University of Minho
Bruno Raffin, IMAG-ID, MOAIS/INRIA
Alan Heirich, Sony Computer Entertainment America
Local Organizers
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Aderito Marcos, Center for Computer Graphics
Antonio Augusto Sousa, FE, University of Porto
Antonio Ramires Fernandes, DI, University of Minho
Cristina Santos, DEI, University of Minho
Joao Lu¡s Sobral, DI, University of Minho
Joao Madeiras Pereira, IST/INESC
Luis Paulo Santos, DI, University of Minho
Vitor Sa , DSI, University of Minho
Program Committee
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Dirk Bartz, WSI/GRIS - VCM, University of Tubingen
Georges-Pierre Bonneau, CNRS
Kadi Bouatouch, IRISA
Montserrat Boo Cepeda, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Alan Chalmers, University of Bristol
Paolo Cignoni, IEI - CNR
Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart
Issei Fujishiro, Tohoku University
Charles Hansen, University of Utah
Jian Huang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ulrich Lang, ZAIG, University of Cologne
Margarita Amor Lopez, University of A Coruna
Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis
Jamie Painter, BlackMesa Capital
Xavier Pueyo, University of Girona
Erik Reinhard, University of Central Florida
Bengt-Olaf Schneider, NVIDIA
Han-Wei Shen, Ohio State University
Claudio Silva, University of Utah
Philipp Slusallek, Saarland University
Sam Uselton, Consultant
Rudiger Westermann, TU Mnchen
Craig M. Wittenbrink, NVIDIA
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Web Page: http://www.di.uminho.pt/egpgv06
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Luis Paulo Peixoto dos Santos
Auxiliar Professor
Dept. of Informatics
Universidade do Minho Tel.: +351 253 604439
Campus de Gualtar Fax.: +351 253 604471
4710-057 Braga psantos(a)di.uminho.pt
Portugal http://www.di.uminho.pt/~psantos
SORRY FOR DUPLICATES !
3IA'2006 CONFERENCE
THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Limoges (FRANCE), May 23 - 24, 2006
THE ONLY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT COMPUTER GRAPHICS
COOPERATION WITH EUROGRAPHICS
3RD CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
The 3IA International Conference on Computer Graphics and
Artificial Intelligence takes place every year in Limoges
(FRANCE). The aim of this Conference is to present the current
state of researches of Computer Graphics researchers who
use Artificial Intelligence techniques.
The ninth 3IA International Conference (3IA'2006) will take place
in May 2006, in Limoges (FRANCE).
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.
- ...
GENERAL CHAIR OF THE CONFERENCE :
Dimitri PLEMENOS, Professor
Universite de Limoges
Faculte des Sciences
XLIM 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
CONFERENCE E-mail : plemenos(a)unilim.fr
CONFERENCE Web site : http://msi.unilim.fr/3IA
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE :
Yury BAYAKOVSKY (Russia)
Rene CAUBET (France),
Giovanni DE PAOLI (Canada)
Jean-Francois DUFOURD (France),
Eugene FIUME (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),
Jiri ZARA (Czech Republic).
ORGANISING COMMITTEE :
Dimitri PLEMENOS, Suzanne SIMONET, Djamchid GHAZANFARPOUR,
Pierre BARRAL, Karim TAMINE, Claude TOULET, Benoit CRESPIN,
Pierre-Francois BONNEFOI, Vincent JOLIVET, Michel GAUTHIER,
Olivier TERRAZ, Pascale FRIBAULT, Sylvain DESROCHE, Dmitry
SOKOLOV, Emmanuelle DARLES, Pierre ROUSSEAU, Salman SHAHIDI,
Yann COULAIS, Damien PORQUET, Jean-Francois ELHAJJAR,
Georges MIAOULIS, Jean DRAGONAS, Georges BARDIS, Vassilios
GOLFINOPOULOS, Jean XYDAS, Dimitri MAKRIS, Abdallah BENSLIMANE,
Hubert MERCIER, Patrick POULINGEAS.
IMPORTANT DATES :
Return of the intention form: today.
Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2006.
Paper acceptance notification: March 20, 2006.
Short paper submission deadline: March 27, 2006.
Short paper acceptance notification: April 7, 2006
Final papers due : April 15, 2006.
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.msi.unilim.fr
username: 3ia2006
password: dep0t (the "o" of "depot" is a "0")
GUIDELINES FOR PREPARING PAPERS:
Maximal length: 12 pages
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:
180 Euros (Students: 120 Euros)
including:
- the proceedings of the conference,
- two lunches in the university canteen,
- a dinner in a restaurant Wednesday night.
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Participation Form to the 3IA'2006 conference
(to be retourned to the general chair of the conference)
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Professional address:
Phone number:
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WSCG 2006 REMINDER
WSCG 2006 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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This mail is just to remind you that the
14-th WSCG Int.Conf. in Central Europe
(http://wscg.zcu.cz)
will be held on January 30 - February 3, 2006
at the University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic
DO NOT MISS THE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND IT
Please, feel free to visit http://wscg.zcu.cz for details
Vaclav Skala
WSCG 2006 organiser
skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz
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17th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering
Cyprus, June 26-28, 2006
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Call for papers
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EGSR 2006 will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus, from June 26 to June 28,
2006. This is an event in the series of highly successful Eurographics
Symposia on Rendering and the Eurographics Workshops on Rendering,
held over the past 16 years.
The local organizers of the conference are Yiorgos Chrysanthou and
Daniel Cohen-Or. The program chairs are Wolfgang Heidrich and Tomas
Akenine-Möller.
Conference topics
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Conference topics include (but are not limited to):
- Global illumination methods
- Monte Carlo techniques
- Finite element techniques
- Sampling, filtering, and anti-aliasing
- Shadows and visibility
- Human perception and error measures
- Texture models, analysis, and synthesis
- Image-based methods
- 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
- Non-photorealistic rendering
We welcome short papers (max. 6 pages) as well as full papers (max. 12
pages). The presentation format will allow for ample discussion
time. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.
Conference web site
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/egsr2006/
International program committee co-chairs
Wolfgang Heidrich (CA) http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~heidrich
Tomas Akenine-Möller (SE) http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Tomas_Akenine_Moller
International program committee
Timo Aila (SF)
Kavita Bala (US)
Philippe Bekaert (BE)
Per Christensen (US)
Oliver Deussen (DE)
Fredo Durand (US)
Phílip Dutre (BE)
Aaron Hertzmann (CA)
Nicolas Holzschuch (FR)
Jan Kautz (US)
Alexander Keller (DE)
Hendrik Lensch (US)
Dani Lischinski (IS)
Marcus Magnor (DE)
Steve Marschner (US)
Wojciech Matusik (US)
Ann McNamara (IR)
Karol Myszkowski (DE)
Sumanta Pattanaik (US)
Fabio Pellacini (US)
Matt Pharr (US)
Ravi Ramamoorthi (US)
Eric Reinhard (UK)
Szymon Rusikiewicz (US)
Peter-Pike Sloan (US)
Marc Stamminger (DE)
Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos (HU)
Nicolas Tsingos (FR)
Bruce Walter (US)
Greg Ward (US)
Organizing chairs
Yiorgos Chrysanthou (CY) http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~yiorgos
Daniel Cohen-Or (IL) http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dcor
Keynote speakers
* Petri Nordlund, Bitboys
* Shree Nayar, Columbia University
Important Dates
Electronic abstract submission deadline:
April 10 (Mon)
Electronic paper submission deadline:
April 13 (Thu)
Author notification:
May 17 (Wed)
Camera-ready copy deadline:
May 24 (Wed)
Symposium dates:
June 26-June 28, 2006 (Mon-Wed)
Note: this year there is very little time between acceptance
notification and the due date for camera ready copies of the
paper. This is due to restrictions imposed by the publisher. We will
therefore have to strictly enforce all deadlines.
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First call for papers
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SIACG 2006 -3rd Ibero-American Symposium on Computer Graphics
EPCG: 14º Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica
CEIG: XVI Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 5-7, 2006
http://www.labsis.usc.es/siacg2006
This symposium is the third of a series of similar events organised every
other year and alternating between Europe and South America. Its mission
is to foster co-operation through joint projects and the exchange of
scholars, ideas and information between the Computer Graphics communities
in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Eurographics Proceedings Series.
This symposium replaces this year's annual events of the Spanish and
Portuguese Chapters of Eurographics.
Important Dates
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21 March 2006: Submission deadline
06 May 2006: Notification of acceptance
13 May 2006: Short presentations and poster proposals due
21 May 2006: Camera ready papers and pre-registration deadline
05-07 July 2006: Conference
Topics
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We invite researchers, students, academicians and practicians to
contribute papers from all areas related to computer graphics, multimedia
and hardware. In particular we are looking to novel applications,
algorithms and the human aspects of interaction with graphics.
Authors are invited to submit contributions addressing one or more of the
following (non-exhaustive) list of major areas/topics:
Computer Graphics Systems and Hardware
Visualisation
Computer Animation
Rendering Techniques and Global Illumination
Real-Time Rendering
Virtual Reality and Computer Human Interface
Computational Geometry and its Applications
Geometric Computing and Solid Modelling
Scientific Visualisation
Volume Graphics
Augmented and Mixed Reality
Game Design and Game Engine Development
Virtual Humans and Artificial Life
3D Reconstruction
GPU Programming
Graphical User Interfaces
Interaction Architectures and Models
Multimodal User Interfaces
Graphics and Multimedia
Computer Graphics for Mobile Applications
Computer Graphics applications (Arts, Education, Engineering, Entertainment, Medicine and Science)
Venue
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Santiago de Compostela is mainly a monumental town, a stony miracle which
has been shaped around the Apostle St James's sepulchre along the
centuries, and which has resulted in one of the most splendid and harmonic
architectural ensembles in the world. Considered to be one of the three
spiritual capitals of Christendom together with Rome and Jerusalem, from
the Middle Ages it became the goal of religious pilgrimages, a phenomenon
that would give birth to the pilgrims' Road to Santiago, the real spine of
the art and the thought from which, as Goethe said, the idea of Europe
would be born.
The conference venue will be the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, at
the Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñería (Rúa Lope Gómez de Marzoa,
15782-Santiago de Compostela)
Paper Submission
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Submissions are invited as either a full paper of 6 to 10 pages (A4 paper)
for oral presentation or as a short paper of 2 to 4 pages (A4 paper). The
papers must be written in English, although presentations can be delivered
in Portuguese, Spanish or English. The program committee, composed of
internationally renowned experts, will review the submissions.
Please see the conference web site for submission details.
(http://www.labsis.usc.es/siacg2006)
Organized by
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Eurographics Spanish Chapter
Eurographics Portuguese Chapter
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Conference co-chair
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Juan Carlos Torres, UGR (ES)
António Ramires Fernandes, U. Minho (PT)
International Program Committee Co-chairs
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Pere Brunet, UPC (ES)
Nuno Correia, U. Nova de Lisboa (PT)
Gladimir V. G. Baranoski, U. Waterloo (CA)
Local Organising Committee
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Julián Flores, USC (ES)
Pedro Saco, USC (ES)
Juan E. Arias, USC (ES)
Jose Taboada, USC (ES)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
Vienna, Austria Sat 2 - Mon 4 September, 2006
http://isg.cs.tcd.ie/SCA06/
After four very successful symposia, SCA has become the leading forum for
dissemination of the latest research results in computer animation. The
goal of SCA'06 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.
The symposium will be co-located with Eurographics 2006, held from the
Saturday to the Monday before the main conference to encourage a broad
range of participants. A full proceedings will be published at the time of
the Symposium and a selection of the best papers will appear in a special
issue of the journal Graphical Models.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- autonomous characters
- physically based animation
- 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
April 28: Firm deadline for paper submissions
May 2: Firm deadline for poster/demo submissions
June 14: Paper acceptance/rejection notification
June 16: Poster/demo acceptance/rejection notification
July 1: Camera ready papers and animations due
July 1: Camera ready 2 pages poster due
Sept 2-4: Symposium
Papers must be written and presented in English. Paper length should not
exceed 10 A4 pages, should be anonymous and formatted according to the EG
publication style. 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 web site (available soon). 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 demos and poster sessions. Submissions
directly targeting the Poster & Demo session are also accepted (see
calendar).
Looking forward to seeing you in Vienna!
Paper chairs:
Marie-Paule Cani and James O'Brien
General chairs:
Carol O'Sullivan and Fred Pighin
Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems: 2006
Call for Papers
July 26-28, 2006, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
In Co-operation with Eurographics, ACM SIGCHI, the BCS HCI group and IFIP WG 13.5
Submission Deadline: February 24, 2006
Full details of call are available on http://www.dsvis2006.org
Themes
Interactive systems, the human computer interface and support for
collaboration, have always presented significant challenges for designers
and developers. Developments in ubiquitous and mobile computing have brought
further challenges to interface design. DSV-IS provides a forum where
researchers working on model based techniques and tools for the design and
development of interactive systems can come together with practitioners and
with those working on HCI models and theories.
The XIIIth International Workshop on the Design, Verification and
Specification of Interactive Systems provides a venue for researchers and
practitioners to present their latest results and developments. Papers are
invited on topics that relate the user interface and software engineering,
including theory, techniques and tools for the design, development and
validation of interactive systems.
Topics of interest include software engineering aspects of user interfaces
and user interface tools and techniques :
* Software architectures
* Development processes
* Model based design
* Usability requirements
* Software engineering models in HCI (including formal models, UML)
* HCI models; e.g. context, user, task, domain
* Verification and Validation
* Specification of Interactive Systems
As applied to:
* Interfaces for mobile devices
* Ubiquitous interactive systems
* Multimodal user interfaces
* Interfaces for groupware
* Information visualization and navigation
* Virtual reality, augmented reality
* Adaptive and customizable systems
* Interfaces for multiple devices
* Safety critical interfaces, including cockpits and command&control
workstations
* Incident and accident analysis, investigation and modelling
Publication of proceedings:
Selected revised papers will be included in the final proceedings to be
published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Authors should follow the formatting instructions at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Submissions may be made in the following categories:
* full papers (up to 14 pages)
* short position papers (up to 6 pages).
* practical experience reports (6 pages).
* tool papers (6 pages)
Program Committee
* Rémi Bastide, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
* Ann Blandford, UCL, England.
* Jose Campos, University of Minho, Portugal.
* Anke Dittmar, University of Rostock, Germany.
* Alan Dix, University of Lancaster, England.
* Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland.
* Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
* Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany.
* Nicholas Graham, Queen's University, Canada.
* Michael Harrison, University of Newcastle, England.
* Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
* Joaquim Jorge, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal.
* Rick Kazman, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
* Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.
* Mieke Massink, CNR, Pisa, Italy.
* Philippe Palanque, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
* Fabio Paterno, CNR, Pisa, Italy.
* Chris Roast, Sheffield-Hallam University, England.
* Kevin Schneider, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
* Alistair Sutcliffe, University of Manchester, England.
* Harold Thimbleby, University of Swansea, Wales.
Contact:
For further information contact Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin,
Gavin.Doherty(a)cs.tcd.ie
CALL FOR PAPERS - Web3D 2006
--- NEW: Invitation to submit short papers (deadline: December 18,
2005) ---
--- UPDATE: Deadline for full papers extended to December 18, 2005 ----
The 11th International Symposium on 3D Web Technology
April 18-21, 2006
Columbia, Maryland, USA
http://www.web3d2006.org
Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH
In cooperation with the Web3D Consortium and Eurographics
Eleventh in the series, the 2006 International Web3D Symposium will
address a
wide range of 3D technologies on the Internet, ranging from
languages, tools
and high performance 3D graphics to human-computer interaction issues
and the
latest mobile applications. The annual Web3D Symposium is a major
event which
unites researchers, developers, experimenters, and content creators in a
dynamic learning environment. Attendees share and explore methods of
using,
enhancing, or creating new 3D Web technology, such as X3D, VRML, MPEG4,
OpenHSF, and Java3D. Authors are invited to submit their work for
review by
the international Program Committee. Both research and applications
papers are
of interest to Web3D 2006. The papers must be innovative and
contribute to the
advancement of 3D technologies on the Web. Topics of interest include
but are
not limited to:
* 3D graphics for wireless PDAs and cellular phones.
* Animated humanoids and complex reactive characters.
* Computer Aided Design (CAD) technology and methods for lossless
cross-application data exchange.
* Geometry/object behaviors in Web3D settings.
* High-performance 3D graphics for distributed environments and tele-
operation
systems.
* Innovative user-interface paradigms for navigating real-time 3D
graphics
environments and Web3D worlds.
* Interaction methods for Web-based 3D graphics systems.
* Methods for designing, representing, interacting with, and visualizing
complex geometry, structure and behaviors.
* Multimodal user interaction in Web3D worlds.
* Web3D content for medical education, training and simulation.
* Innovative applications using 3D graphics on the Web and on mobile
devices.
* Integration and interoperation with other XML-based Web standards.
Authors are invited to submit short papers of up to 4 pages
(including figures and references) in PDF
format via the Symposium Web Page. Regular papers of up to 9 pages
will continue to be accepted until
the short paper submission deadline. Papers must be formatted using
the document templates for
conferences sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH. Accepted papers will appear in
the Symposium Proceedings,
published by ACM Press.
Short/Regular Paper submission deadline: December 18, 2005
Decision notification: January 15, 2006
Final manuscript due: February 5, 2006
General Chair:
* Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech, USA
Program Co-Chairs:
* Julian Gómez, Polished Pixels, USA
* Roberto Ranon, University of Udine, Italy
Publicity Co-Chairs:
* Alan Hudson, Yumetech, USA
* Pablo Figueroa, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Local Arrangements Chair:
* Ben Benokraitis, Loyola College in Maryland, USA
Registration Chair:
* Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA
Tutorials Chair:
* Nicholas Polys, Virginia Tech, USA
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Fourth Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing
in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, June 26-28 2006
http://www.geometryprocessing.org
Program Co-Chairs:
* Alla Sheffer, University of British Columbia
* Konrad Polthier, Zuse Institute Berlin
Organizing Co-Chairs:
* Riccardo Scateni, Università di Cagliari
* Roberto Scopigno, ISTI-CNR Pisa
CALL FOR PAPERS:
The Symposium on Geometry Processing 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. 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, and scientific computing.
We are now inviting 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
- simplification and level of detail
- smoothing and denoising
- computational geometry
- multiresolution shape analysis and synthesis
- geometric aspects of rendering and other fields
- interactive techniques
- animation and simulation
PROCEEDINGS:
The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the
Eurographics Proceedings Series, in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH.
NEW: proceedings will be full-color throughout (to be confirmed).
INVITED SPEAKERS:
In addition to the technical paper presentations the conference
will have two distinguished invited speakers:
* Markus Gross, ETH Zurich
* Ron Kimmel, Technion.
INDUSTRY PANEL:
NEW: the industry panel will be a new conference feature where
representatives of major companies actively involved in geometry
processing and its application will present and discuss the most
challenging research problems in the work of their companies.
This year's panelists are:
* Richard Huddy (ATI)
* David Bonner (Dassault Systems)
* Rasmus Tamstorf (Disney)
* Olivier Paugam (Mental Images)
POSTER SESSION:
A posters session will provide an additional informative look into
ongoing research. Papers with obvious potential but which missed
the threshold may be invited to be presented as posters during the
symposium. Two page abstracts of the posters will be published in
a separate volume distributed to the symposium participants.
IMPORTANT DATES:
* Electronic abstract submission deadline: April 19, 2006
* Electronic paper submission deadline: April 26, 2006 PMT
* Author notification: May 17, 2006
* Camera ready copy deadline: May 24, 2006
* Symposium: June 26-28, 2006
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Details of the all-electronic submission procedure are available
on the official SGP website: http://www.geometryprocessing.org
Authors are requested to submit an abstract of their paper (in
plain text format) by April 19, 2006. The abstract submission
should contain the names and institutions of all the authors,
contact information of one contact author (name, e-mail, postal
address, phone and fax numbers), and the working title and
abstract of the submission.
Submitted manuscripts should be prepared for double-blind review,
and should be original work, not concurrently submitted to any
other venue. The length of a submitted paper should typically not
exceed 10 pages, formatted in the proper publication style (LaTeX
files available online). A submission can also be accompanied by
electronic supplementary material (e.g. video).
Submitted papers will be carefully reviewed by members of the
Program Committee (see list online and on attached flier) and
selected external reviewers.
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Point-Based Graphics 2006 - Call for Papers
Co-sponsored by Eurographics and the
IEEE-CS Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)
In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH
Web: http://www.point-graphics.org
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 and 2005 Symposia on Point-Based Graphics, the 3rd symposium of its series, PBG06, aims to further demonstrate the applicability of point-based methods in modeling, rendering, and simulation, and in a wide range of application domains. The PBG06 will take place in Boston, MA, July 29-30, 2006, and will be co-located with SIGGRAPH and the International Workshop on Volume Graphics. The best papers of PBG06 will additionally be published in a special issue of Computers & Graphics. 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
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 models
Hybrid representations and algorithms
Use of point-based methods in real-world applications
Transmission and compression of point-sampled geometry
Important Dates:
21 April 2006 Electronic abstract submission
24 April 2006 Electronic paper submission
2 June 2006 Author notification
16 June 2006 Camera-ready copy
Organization
Conference Chairs:
Mark Pauly, ETH Zurich
Matthias Zwicker, University of California at San Diego
Papers Chairs:
Mario Botsch, ETH Zurich
Baoquan Chen, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities
Papers Committee:
Marc Alexa
Daniel Aliaga
Kavita Bala
Loic Barthe
Frederic Cazals
Daniel Cohen-Or
Oliver Deussen
Tamal Dey
Philip Dutre
David Ebert
Issei Fujishiro
Joachim Giesen
Enrico Gobbetti
Markus Gross
Hans-Christian Hege
Arie Kaufman
Leif Kobbelt
Anselmo Lastra
Wojciech Matusik
Nelson Max
Torsten Moeller
Klaus Mueller
Matthias Mueller
Renato Pajarola
Hanspeter Pfister
Voicu Popescu
Werner Purgathofer
Szymon M. Rusinkiewicz
Dietmar Saupe
Claudio Silva
Oliver Staadt
Marc Stamminger
Alexandru Telea
Matthias Teschner
Amitabh Varshney
Luiz Velho
Michael Wand
Ruediger Westermann
Afra Zomorodian