Due to several requests, the paper submission deadline was extended to
May 31st.
EG Multimedia 2004 Program Chairs
--
EG Multimedia 2004 - 7th Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia
http://egmm2004.di.fc.ul.pt
Nanjing University, China, 27-28 October 2004
***** Extended Submission Deadline: May 31st *****
Aims and Scope
------------------
This workshop is a follow up on the Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia
held in Manchester, UK, in September 2001 and continues a series of six
successful Eurographics workshops in the field. It is also the first
time that this workshop takes place in a location outside Europe, which
will promote interaction between researchers from different origins. The
workshop will cover a wide range of current subjects with a special
focus on issues related with Multimedia in Mobile and Augmented
Environments. These include approaches for mobile multimedia, using
video in mobile devices, using the physical world to present multimedia
information, and other context aware applications. Authors are invited
to submit technical papers in these or related areas. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
Mobile Multimedia
Context Aware Interactive Multimedia
Interactive Video
Audio and Video in Augmented Environments
Multimodal Interaction
Ubiquitous Media
Broadband Personal Interfaces
Auditory Interfaces
Audio/Image/Video Processing
Content Analysis
Media Databases and Search Engines
Content Based Retrieval
Media Information Retrieval on the Web
Delivery of Multimedia Data
Media Web Servers and Services
Video Coding and Description Standards
Multimedia Document Metaphors
Authoring Paradigms
Media Integration
Augmented Reality
Storytelling Environments
Applications: Entertainment, Learning, etc.
Submission Procedure
-----------------------
Authors are requested to submit papers, no longer than 10 pages, in the
Eurographics Conference Paper Format. Detailed guidelines will be
available at the EG Multimedia 2004 Workshop Site. Post-workshop
proceedings will be available on-line, through the Eurographics Digital
Library, and in paper book form, in the Eurographics Book Series.
Selection will be based upon technical and scientific content and
relevance to the workshop.
Workshop Format
--------------------
The workshop will be held in two days, including paper presentation
tracks and discussion plenary sessions. Participation is open to
everyone, not requiring submission of a paper. The workshop will take
place just after the ICIG'2004 Conference (Oct. 23-25, 2004, Hong Kong,
China, http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/icig2004). The workshop will be
co-located with a conference on Digital Media and Digital Cities. As
such, it will provide a very interesting opportunity for researchers
that want to attend or present communications at these events.
Important Dates
-----------------
May 31, 2004 Submission deadline (extended)
July 9, 2004 Notification of acceptance
July 27, 2004 Deadline for camera-ready copies
October 27-28, 2004 Workshop
Venue
-----
The workshop will be held at Nanjing University, China. Workshop
participants will be charged a registration fee that includes a workshop
proceedings book (printed by Eurographics Press), coffee breaks, and a
social event in the first evening of the Workshop. Nanjing University is
located in the Nanjing City, the Capital of Jiangsu Province. Present
day Nanjing, with tens of universities and hundreds of high-tech
companies, ranks fifth among the "50 strongest" of Chinese cities. It is
a transport and telecommunications hub in East China, and the second
largest international trade port after Shanghai in the Yangzi River
Delta. Comprehensive information about Nanjing, traveling and
accommodation will be available at the workshop Web page.
Workshop Co-Chairs
-----------------------
Nuno Correia, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Hong Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research, China
Program Co-Chairs
--------------------
Joaquim Jorge, IST/INESC, Portugal
Teresa Chambel, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Zhigeng Pan, Nanjing University, China
Honorary Chair
-----------------
José Encarnação, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
International Program Committee
-------------------------------
Adérito Marcos, Univ. of Minho, Portugal
C.C. Chang, National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan, China
Carol Strohecker, MIT Media Lab, USA
Christophe Quarre, STM-Shanghai, China
Colin Allison, Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
Cristina Lopes, UC Irvine, USA
David Duce, Oxford Brookes Univ., UK
Dongrong Xu, Columbia University, USA
Ephraim Glinert, NSF, USA
Frank Nack, CWI, The Netherlands
Fuyan Zhang, Nanjing Univ., China
Gareth Jones, Univ. of Exeter, UK
Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Lab, USA
Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Guido Lemos de Souza Filho, UFBP, Brazil
Gunnar Liestøl, Univ. of Oslo, Norway
Hiromi T. Tanaka, Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan
Hyun Seung Yang, KAIST, Korea
Jiaoying Shi, Zhejiang Univ., China
John Buford, Panasonic Digital Networking Lab, USA
Jônatas Manzolli, UNICAMP, Brazil
Lloyd Rutledge, CWI, The Netherlands
Luís Carriço, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
Makoto Sato, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
Mário Rui Gomes, IST/INESC, Portugal
Matthew Turk, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Monica Fleichmann, Fraunhofer-IMK, Germany
Nicholas Higgett, De Montfort Univ., UK
Nik Gaffney, FoAM Group, Brussels
Nuno Guimarães, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
P.C. Yuen, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., China
Piet Kommers, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands
Rainer Lienhart, Intel Corp., USA
Rebbeca Alen, Media Lab Europe, Ireland
Thomas Kirste, IGD/FhG, Germany
Robert K Jacob, Tufts Univ., USA
Ryohei Nakatsu, ATR MIC Research Labs., Japan
Sidney Fels, Univ. British Columbia, CA
Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya University, Japan
V. Michael Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA
Weiying Ma, MSRA, China
Wolfgang Mueller-Wittig, CAMTech, Singapore
WooWoontack, KJIST, Korea
Yangsheng Wang, IA-CAS, China
Local Organizing Committee
-----------------------------
Co-Chairs
Jian Lu, Nanjing University, China
Xianglin Fei, Nanjing University, China
Zhigeng Pan, Nanjing University, China
Members
Xiaohu Ma, Nanjing University, China
Gangshan Wu, Nanjing Univeristy, China
Weiqun Cao, Nanjing University, China
Weiqing Li, Nanjing Polytechnic University, China
Ruhui Yun, Nanjing Normal University, China
Jun Feng, Hehai University, China
Zongcai Ruan, South-East University, China
For more information please contact egmm2004(a)inesc-id.pt
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C A L L FOR P A R T I C I P A T I O N
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SMI & SM '04
International Convention on Shapes and Solids
Genova, ITALY, June 6-12, 2004
+
International Summer School on Computational Methods
for Shape Modeling and Analysis
Genova, ITALY, June 14-18, 2004
===============================================================
http://smism04.ge.imati.cnr.it
===============================================================
Extended dealine for hotel booking without price surcharge
until May 15
===============================================================
DEAR COLLEAGUES:
The Shape Modeling International Conference (SMI) and the ACM Symposium on
Solid Modeling and Applications (SM) are two of the most important annual
events that deal with the theoretical and algorithmic foundations for
modeling and visualizing real or virtual shapes in a variety of
manufacturing, engineering, biomedical scientific or entertainment
applications. To stimulate the interaction between these two communities,
the two events have been scheduled one after the other in 2004, as part of
the Convention on Shapes and Solids (SMI&SM04) which will be held in Genova,
Italy.
The symposium will be followed by the International School on Computational
Methods for Shape Modeling and Analysis.
It is meant for PhD, PostDoc or researchers with either a computer science,
informatics or mathematics background, and prior knowledge of geometric
modeling techniques. It will focus on different aspects of shape modeling,
processing and analysis, and the final programme will include training on
the
most up-to-date topics of the field.
Convention and school program/schedules can be found at:
http://smism04.ge.imati.cnr.it
LOCATION OF THE CONVENTION:
The Convention will be located at the 1st floor of the beautiful Palazzo
Ducale, the main ancient seat of power of the Republic of Genova
and the Doge's residence.
The Sala del Maggior Consiglio will provide a wonderful background for the
SMI&SM04 events.
The SMI&SM04 reception will be organized in the Acquarium of Genova, and
will include a guided tour of the Acquarium and a dinner in the Dolphin and
Shark Halls.
Views of the location are available at:
http://smism04.ge.imati.cnr.it/location.html
Please, note that Genova will be the European capital of Culture for the
year 2004 and the programme organized for this reason is very dense of
events. Therefore, we strongly reccommend to proceed with hotel booking
as soon as possible.A limited number of rooms are available and guaranteed
until MAY 15!
LOCATION OF THE SCHOOL:
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Area della Ricerca
via De Marini, 6 - 16149 Genova - Italy
http://www.ge.cnr.it/Area/inglese/Area/informazioni/sede.htm
REGISTRATION:
For organisation purposes we are asking to send your registration form
filled as soon as possible in even if you intend to pay the registration
fee directly at the event.
Please note that the convention and the school require two different
registrations. Instructions at:
http://smism04.ge.imati.cnr.it/registration.html (for the
convention)
http://smism04.ge.imati.cnr.it/intro_school.html (for the school)
CHAIRS AND CONTACTS:
Convention Honorary Chair:
Prof. Tosiyasu L. Kunii
Convention Chair:
Bianca Falcidieno
Convention Secretariat:
Marinella Pescaglia and Sandra Burlando
Local organizing committee:
mailto:smism04@ge.imati.cnr.it
=======================
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C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n
___________________________________________
-> Registration is open:
Early registration deadline is May 21, 2004.
-> Program is online
Tenth Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments
(EGVE04)
In Cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH
June 8-9th, 2004
Grenoble, France
http://www.inrialpes.fr/egve04
Aims and Scope of the Symposium
We invite you to participate in the tenth Eurographics Symposium on
Virtual Environments. This event is the successor of the
successful Eurographics Workshops on Virtual Environments
held in the previous nine years.
It will be an international forum for the exchange of experience
and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with
virtual environments and virtual reality.
The EGVE symposium will be followed by the Fifth Eurographics Symposium on
Parallel Graphics and Visualization that will take place on June 10-11, 2004
in Grenoble
(http://www-id.imag.fr/EGPGV04).
You are cordially invited to attend EGVE'04 and register at
http://www.inrialpes.fr/egve04/REGISTRATION/registration1.php
We have put together an interesting program of invited
presentations, scientific papers, and other program items.
You can find the program online at
http://www.inrialpes.fr/egve04/Program.html
Invited speakers
* Lawrence Rosenblum (NRL, USA)
* Berndt Frölich, Germany
Symposium and Program co-chairs:
* Sabine Coquillart, i3D - INRIA-GRAVIR
* Martin Göbel, Germany
For further questions, please contact: egve04(a)inrialpes.fr
___________________________________________
C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n
___________________________________________
-> Registration is open:
Early registration deadline is May 21, 2004.
-> Program is online
Fifth Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
(EGPGV04)
In Cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH
June 10-11th, 2004
Grenoble, France
http://www-id.imag.fr/EGPGV04
Aims and Scope of the Symposium
Following successful previous workshops/symposia that were held in
Bristol (UK) 1996, Rennes (F) 1998, Girona (E) 2000, and Blaubeuren
2002 (D), we are happy to announce the 5th Eurographics Symposium on
Parallel Graphics and Visualization. The aim of this workshop is to
share experiences and knowledge on parallel and distributed computing
and its application to all aspects of computer graphics, virtual
reality, scientific and engineering visualization.
The EG PGV workshop will follow the Tenth Eurographics Symposium on
Virtual Environments that will take place on June 8-9, 2004 in Grenoble
(http://www.inrialpes.fr/egve04).
You are cordially invited to attend the EGPGV and register at
http://www.inrialpes.fr/egve04/REGISTRATION/registration1.php
We have put together an interesting program of invited
presentations, scientific papers, and other program items.
You can find the program online at
http://www-id.imag.fr/EGPGV04/program.php
Invited speakers
* Takashi Furumura, University of Tokyo
* Peter Welch, University of Kent
Symposium and Program co-chairs:
* Bruno Raffin, Apache/INRIA-ID
* Dirk Bartz, WSI/GRIS - VCM, University of Tübingen
* Han-Wei Shen, Ohio State University
For further questions, please contact: egpgv04(a)imag.fr
Papers Deadline is Friday May 21 2004 [not 14 - we apologize for the mistake]
[Please check important dates below]
EG Multimedia 2004 - 7th Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia
http://egmm2004.di.fc.ul.pt
Nanjing University, China, 27-28 October 2004
Aims and Scope
------------------
This workshop is a follow up on the Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia
held in Manchester, UK, in September 2001 and continues a series of six
successful Eurographics workshops in the field. It is also the first
time that this workshop takes place in a location outside Europe, which
will promote interaction between researchers from different origins. The
workshop will cover a wide range of current subjects with a special
focus on issues related with Multimedia in Mobile and Augmented
Environments. These include approaches for mobile multimedia, using
video in mobile devices, using the physical world to present multimedia
information, and other context aware applications. Authors are invited
to submit technical papers in these or related areas. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
Mobile Multimedia
Context Aware Interactive Multimedia
Interactive Video
Audio and Video in Augmented Environments
Multimodal Interaction
Ubiquitous Media
Broadband Personal Interfaces
Auditory Interfaces
Audio/Image/Video Processing
Content Analysis
Media Databases and Search Engines
Content Based Retrieval
Media Information Retrieval on the Web
Delivery of Multimedia Data
Media Web Servers and Services
Video Coding and Description Standards
Multimedia Document Metaphors
Authoring Paradigms
Media Integration
Augmented Reality
Storytelling Environments
Applications: Entertainment, Learning, etc.
Submission Procedure
-----------------------
Authors are requested to submit papers, no longer than 10 pages, in the
Eurographics Conference Paper Format. Detailed guidelines will be
available at the EG Multimedia 2004 Workshop Site. Post-workshop
proceedings will be available on-line, through the Eurographics Digital
Library, and in paper book form, in the Eurographics Book Series.
Selection will be based upon technical and scientific content and
relevance to the workshop.
Workshop Format
--------------------
The workshop will be held in two days, including paper presentation
tracks and discussion plenary sessions. Participation is open to
everyone, not requiring submission of a paper. The workshop will take
place just after the ICIG'2004 Conference (Oct. 23-25, 2004, Hong Kong,
China, http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/icig2004). The workshop will be
co-located with a conference on Digital Media and Digital Cities. As
such, it will provide a very interesting opportunity for researchers
that want to attend or present communications at these events.
Important Dates
-----------------
May 21, 2004 Submission deadline
July 9, 2004 Notification of acceptance
July 27, 2004 Deadline for camera-ready copies
October 27-28, 2004 Workshop
Venue
-----
The workshop will be held at Nanjing University, China. Workshop
participants will be charged a registration fee that includes a workshop
proceedings book (printed by Eurographics Press), coffee breaks, and a
social event in the first evening of the Workshop. Nanjing University is
located in the Nanjing City, the Capital of Jiangsu Province. Present
day Nanjing, with tens of universities and hundreds of high-tech
companies, ranks fifth among the "50 strongest" of Chinese cities. It is
a transport and telecommunications hub in East China, and the second
largest international trade port after Shanghai in the Yangzi River
Delta. Comprehensive information about Nanjing, traveling and
accommodation will be available at the workshop Web page.
Workshop Co-Chairs
-----------------------
Nuno Correia, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Hong Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research, China
Program Co-Chairs
--------------------
Joaquim Jorge, IST/INESC, Portugal
Teresa Chambel, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Zhigeng Pan, Nanjing University, China
Honorary Chair
-----------------
José Encarnação, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
International Program Committee
-------------------------------
Adérito Marcos, Univ. of Minho, Portugal
C.C. Chang, National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan, China
Carol Strohecker, MIT Media Lab, USA
Christophe Quarre, STM-Shanghai, China
Colin Allison, Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
Cristina Lopes, UC Irvine, USA
David Duce, Oxford Brookes Univ., UK
Dongrong Xu, Columbia University, USA
Ephraim Glinert, NSF, USA
Frank Nack, CWI, The Netherlands
Fuyan Zhang, Nanjing Univ., China
Gareth Jones, Univ. of Exeter, UK
Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Lab, USA
Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Guido Lemos de Souza Filho, UFBP, Brazil
Gunnar Liestøl, Univ. of Oslo, Norway
Hiromi T. Tanaka, Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan
Hyun Seung Yang, KAIST, Korea
Jiaoying Shi, Zhejiang Univ., China
John Buford, Panasonic Digital Networking Lab, USA
Jônatas Manzolli, UNICAMP, Brazil
Lloyd Rutledge, CWI, The Netherlands
Luís Carriço, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
Makoto Sato, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
Mário Rui Gomes, IST/INESC, Portugal
Matthew Turk, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Monica Fleichmann, Fraunhofer-IMK, Germany
Nicholas Higgett, De Montfort Univ., UK
Nik Gaffney, FoAM Group, Brussels
Nuno Guimarães, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
P.C. Yuen, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., China
Piet Kommers, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands
Rainer Lienhart, Intel Corp., USA
Rebbeca Alen, Media Lab Europe, Ireland
Thomas Kirste, IGD/FhG, Germany
Robert K Jacob, Tufts Univ., USA
Ryohei Nakatsu, ATR MIC Research Labs., Japan
Sidney Fels, Univ. British Columbia, CA
Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya University, Japan
V. Michael Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA
Weiying Ma, MSRA, China
Wolfgang Mueller-Wittig, CAMTech, Singapore
WooWoontack, KJIST, Korea
Yangsheng Wang, IA-CAS, China
Local Organizing Committee
-----------------------------
Co-Chairs
Jian Lu, Nanjing University, China
Xianglin Fei, Nanjing University, China
Zhigeng Pan, Nanjing University, China
Members
Xiaohu Ma, Nanjing University, China
Gangshan Wu, Nanjing Univeristy, China
Weiqun Cao, Nanjing University, China
Weiqing Li, Nanjing Polytechnic University, China
Ruhui Yun, Nanjing Normal University, China
Jun Feng, Hehai University, China
Zongcai Ruan, South-East University, China
For more information please contact egmm2004(a)inesc-id.pt
GraphiCon'2004 - International Conference on Computer Graphics
at Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, September 6-10, 2004
---------------------------------------------
FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE - 15 May 2004
---------------------------------------------
All materials should be submitted in electronic form through
http://submission.graphicon.ru:8080/GC2004/submit.html
Submission deadline for other sections is 1 July 2004.
The following sections will be organized for the conference:
- Full Paper Presentations
- Computer Graphics Tutorials
- STAR Reports
- Work in Progress Presentations
- Industrial Presentations
- Multimedia Shows and Animation Film Festival
- Education in Graphics panels
- Students Contest
Further information at www.graphicon.ru/2004
All submissions will be carefully and anonymously reviewed by
the International Program Committee. All accepted materials will
be distributed in printed and electronic form among the
participants. Selected papers will additionally be published in a
special issue of the "Computer Graphics & Geometry" journal
distributed through the Scientific Electronic Library
(http://elibrary.ru/cgg). The best full paper presentation
and student presentation selected by the international
jury will be awarded a prize.
Official language of the conference is English. Submissions in
Russian are possible, but they will be organized in separate
sections (English abstracts are required).
Conference Committee Chairs
Yuri Baykovsky (Russia) yurib(a)gin.keldysh.ru
Denis Ivanov (Russia) denis(a)fit.com.ru
International Program Committee Chairs
Daniel Thalmann (Switzerland)
Yevgeniy Kuzmin (Russia)
Conference email: gc2004(a)graphicon.ru
EG Multimedia 2004 - 7th Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia
http://egmm2004.di.fc.ul.pt
Nanjing University, China, 27-28 October 2004
Aims and Scope
- ------------------
This workshop is a follow up on the Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia
held in Manchester, UK, in September 2001 and continues a series of six
successful Eurographics workshops in the field. It is also the first
time that this workshop takes place in a location outside Europe, which
will promote interaction between researchers from different origins. The
workshop will cover a wide range of current subjects with a special
focus on issues related with Multimedia in Mobile and Augmented
Environments. These include approaches for mobile multimedia, using
video in mobile devices, using the physical world to present multimedia
information, and other context aware applications. Authors are invited
to submit technical papers in these or related areas. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
Mobile Multimedia
Context Aware Interactive Multimedia
Interactive Video
Audio and Video in Augmented Environments
Multimodal Interaction
Ubiquitous Media
Broadband Personal Interfaces
Auditory Interfaces
Audio/Image/Video Processing
Content Analysis
Media Databases and Search Engines
Content Based Retrieval
Media Information Retrieval on the Web
Delivery of Multimedia Data
Media Web Servers and Services
Video Coding and Description Standards
Multimedia Document Metaphors
Authoring Paradigms
Media Integration
Augmented Reality
Storytelling Environments
Applications: Entertainment, Learning, etc.
Submission Procedure
- -----------------------
Authors are requested to submit papers, no longer than 10 pages, in the
Eurographics Conference Paper Format. Detailed guidelines will be
available at the EG Multimedia 2004 Workshop Site. Post-workshop
proceedings will be available on-line, through the Eurographics Digital
Library, and in paper book form, in the Eurographics Book Series.
Selection will be based upon technical and scientific content and
relevance to the workshop.
Workshop Format
- --------------------
The workshop will be held in two days, including paper presentation
tracks and discussion plenary sessions. Participation is open to
everyone, not requiring submission of a paper. The workshop will take
place just after the ICIG'2004 Conference (Oct. 23-25, 2004, Hong Kong,
China, http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/icig2004). The workshop will be
co-located with a conference on Digital Media and Digital Cities. As
such, it will provide a very interesting opportunity for researchers
that want to attend or present communications at these events.
Important Dates
- -----------------
May 21, 2004 Submission deadline
July 9, 2004 Notification of acceptance
July 27, 2004 Deadline for camera-ready copies
October 27-28, 2004 Workshop
Venue
- -----
The workshop will be held at Nanjing University, China. Workshop
participants will be charged a registration fee that includes a workshop
proceedings book (printed by Eurographics Press), coffee breaks, and a
social event in the first evening of the Workshop. Nanjing University is
located in the Nanjing City, the Capital of Jiangsu Province. Present
day Nanjing, with tens of universities and hundreds of high-tech
companies, ranks fifth among the "50 strongest" of Chinese cities. It is
a transport and telecommunications hub in East China, and the second
largest international trade port after Shanghai in the Yangzi River
Delta. Comprehensive information about Nanjing, traveling and
accommodation will be available at the workshop Web page.
Workshop Co-Chairs
- -----------------------
Nuno Correia, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Hong Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research, China
Program Co-Chairs
- --------------------
Joaquim Jorge, IST/INESC, Portugal
Teresa Chambel, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Zhigeng Pan, Nanjing University, China
Honorary Chair
- -----------------
José Encarnação, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
International Program Committee
- -------------------------------
Adérito Marcos, Univ. of Minho, Portugal
C.C. Chang, National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan, China
Carol Strohecker, MIT Media Lab, USA
Christophe Quarre, STM-Shanghai, China
Colin Allison, Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
Cristina Lopes, UC Irvine, USA
David Duce, Oxford Brookes Univ., UK
Dongrong Xu, Columbia University, USA
Ephraim Glinert, NSF, USA
Frank Nack, CWI, The Netherlands
Fuyan Zhang, Nanjing Univ., China
Gareth Jones, Univ. of Exeter, UK
Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Lab, USA
Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Guido Lemos de Souza Filho, UFBP, Brazil
Gunnar Liestøl, Univ. of Oslo, Norway
Hiromi T. Tanaka, Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan
Hyun Seung Yang, KAIST, Korea
Jiaoying Shi, Zhejiang Univ., China
John Buford, Panasonic Digital Networking Lab, USA
Jônatas Manzolli, UNICAMP, Brazil
Lloyd Rutledge, CWI, The Netherlands
Luís Carriço, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
Makoto Sato, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
Mário Rui Gomes, IST/INESC, Portugal
Matthew Turk, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Monica Fleichmann, Fraunhofer-IMK, Germany
Nicholas Higgett, De Montfort Univ., UK
Nik Gaffney, FoAM Group, Brussels
Nuno Guimarães, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
P.C. Yuen, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., China
Piet Kommers, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands
Rainer Lienhart, Intel Corp., USA
Rebbeca Alen, Media Lab Europe, Ireland
Thomas Kirste, IGD/FhG, Germany
Robert K Jacob, Tufts Univ., USA
Ryohei Nakatsu, ATR MIC Research Labs., Japan
Sidney Fels, Univ. British Columbia, CA
Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya University, Japan
V. Michael Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA
Weiying Ma, MSRA, China
Wolfgang Mueller-Wittig, CAMTech, Singapore
WooWoontack, KJIST, Korea
Yangsheng Wang, IA-CAS, China
Local Organizing Committee
- -----------------------------
Co-Chairs
Jian Lu, Nanjing University, China
Xianglin Fei, Nanjing University, China
Zhigeng Pan, Nanjing University, China
Members
Xiaohu Ma, Nanjing University, China
Gangshan Wu, Nanjing Univeristy, China
Weiqun Cao, Nanjing University, China
Weiqing Li, Nanjing Polytechnic University, China
Ruhui Yun, Nanjing Normal University, China
Jun Feng, Hehai University, China
Zongcai Ruan, South-East University, China
For more information please contact egmm2004(a)inesc-id.pt
Next Generation User Interface Technology for Consumer Electronics
ACM SIGGRAPH Workshop - May 2004 - Snowbird, UT
SIGGRAPH Panel - August 2004 - Los Angeles, CA
Overview
As the power and complexity of consumer electronic devices continues to
increase, the difficulty of the user experience also increases. If VCRs
still flash 12:00, just think what will happen with the new generation of
devices. The technology in the new consumer devices rivals the CPU and
graphics horsepower of workstations of only a few years ago. The purpose of
this workshop is to investigate the application of existing tools and
techniques from other disciplines to the next generation of consumer
devices.
The problem domain for this workshop includes:
Dealing with large quantities of information, e.g. extremely large music and
video libraries, photo albums, program schedules, etc.
- Can we leverage some of the work of the SciViz community?
Creating a comfortable user experience - Games and CGI?
Given the power of the CPU and graphics being designed into the next
generation of devices is it possible/meaningful/useful/appropriate to
exploit such technologies as:
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In addition to advancements in technology, while each of the CE vendors
wish to maintain the identity of their products, there is a pragmatic need
for overall interoperation. Just as automobile manufacturers have
standardized on the basics for interaction, there is still plenty of room
for product differentiation in the marketplace.
As we are about to step off into a new world of human interaction with
electronics devices in our daily lives, it is important to begin to address
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Call for Academic and Industrial Posters
Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments 2004
Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization 2004
In Cooperation with ACM Siggraph (agreement pending)
June 8-9th, 2004
June 10-11th, 2004
Grenoble, France
http://www.inrialpes.fr/egve04http://www-id.imag.fr/egpgv04
During the EGVE and EGPGV Symposia, room will be open to research projects,
laboratories and companies to expose their activities, applications,
softwares or products.
Deadline for submission: April 16th, 2004
For more information and registration, see the symposia web servers:
http://www.inrialpes.fr/egve04http://www-id.imag.fr/egpgv04
or contact:
egve-egpgv04-poster(a)inrialpes.fr
First Call for Papers
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SIBGRAPI 2004 / SIACG 2004
17th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing
II Ibero-American Symposium on Computer Graphics
October 17-24 2004
Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
http://www.inf.ufpr.br/sibgrapi2004
sibgrapi2004(a)inf.ufpr.br
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SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Full Papers : May 16, 2004
Tutorial Proposals : May 23, 2004
Industrial track : June 30, 2004
Lab presentations : June 30, 2004
Educational track : June 30, 2004
Workshop of Thesis and Dissertation : June 30, 2004
Workshop of Undergraduate Work : June 30, 2004
Panel Proposals : July 07, 2004
Technical Posters : July 14, 2004
Videos : August 18, 2004
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The "Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing"
(SIBGRAPI) and the "Ibero-American Symposium on Computer Graphics"
(SIACG) will be held as a joint event in 2004 in Curitiba, Brazil.
SIBGRAPI is the most important Brazilian meeting in Computer Graphics,
Image Processing, and Computer Vision. Started in 1998 with the sponsorship
of the Brazilian Computer Society, this will be its 17th edition.
SIACG is a bi-annual symposium sponsored by the Eurographics Spanish and
Portuguese chapters. Its first meeting happened in 2002 in Portugal, and
this will be its 2nd edition.
Attesting to the relevance and quality of the SIBGRAPI series of
meetings, the proceedings have been published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press since 1997. Information on past SIBGRAPI events can
be found at http://www.sbc.org.br/cegrapi/. Special effort will be
made to publish the best papers in a special issue of a journal in the area.
You are cordially invited to participate by submitting your work in
all areas of Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Computer Vision.,
including but not limited to the topics listed at:
http://www.inf.ufpr.br/sibgrapi2004/submission.htm
Contributions should be in one of the following categories:
+FULL PAPERS scheduled as oral presentations and published in the
Proceedings as two-column, 8-page papers, in English.
+TECHNICAL POSTERS presented in a special session and published as
two-column, 1-page papers, in English.
+PANELS on topics related to the SIBGRAPISIACG themes, short
descriptions published as two-column, 2-page papers, in English.
+TUTORIALS about classical or timely topics, ranged from elementary
to advanced, consisting of three to six hours of
lectures with printed notes (20-30 pages), in Portuguese,
Spanish or English.
+VIDEOS generated by computer graphics or digital video processing
techniques to be presented in a special session.
+WORKSHOP OF THESIS AND DISSERTATION: Master's and PhD students are
invited to submit papers (in Portuguese, Spanish or English).
Special instructions will be given separately.
+WORKSHOP OF UNDERGRADUATE WORK: Undergraduate students are
invited to submit papers (in Portuguese, Spanish or English).
Special instructions will be given separately.
In case of questions please feel free to send an email to:
sibgrapi2004(a)inf.ufpr.br
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Conference Chairs:
GENERAL:
Olga Regina Pereira Bellon ( olga(a)inf.ufpr.br )
Universidade Federal do Paraná - Brazil
PROGRAM:
Arnaldo de Albuquerque ( arnaldo(a)dcc.ufmg.br )
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Brazil
João Comba ( comba(a)inf.ufrgs.br )
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
A. Augusto de Sousa ( augusto.sousa(a)fe.up.pt )
Universidade de Porto - Portugal
Isabel Navazo ( isabel(a)lsi.upc.es )
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Spain
TUTORIAL
Manuel M. Oliveira Neto, ( oliveira(a)inf.ufrgs.br )
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
Mário F. Montenegro Campos ( mario(a)dcc.ufmg.br )
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Brazil
POSTER:
Isabel Manssour, ( manssour(a)inf.pucrs.br )
Pontifícia Universidade Católica/RS - Brazil
Paulo Cortes ( cortez(a)deti.ufc.br )
Universidade Federal do Ceará - Brazil
INDUSTRIAL TRACK:
Marcelo Zuffo, ( mkzuffo(a)lsi.usp.br )
Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil
Francisco Seron ( seron(a)unizar.es )
Universidad de Zaragoza - Spain
EDUCATIONAL TRACK:
Márcio Lobo Netto, ( lobonett(a)lsi.usp.br )
Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil
Joaquim Madeira( jmadeira(a)det.ua.pt )
Universidade de Aveiro - Portugal
LAB PRESENTATIONS
Carla Freitas, ( carla(a)inf.ufrgs.br )
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
Jordi Regincós ( jorgi.regincos(a)udg.es )
Universitat de Girona, Spain
WORKSHOP OF THESIS AND DISSERTATION
Rodrigo Carceroni, ( carceron(a)dcc.ufmg.br )
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Brazil
Marcelo Dreux ( dreux(a)tmec.puc-rio.br )
Pontifícia Universidade Católica/RJ - Brazil
WORKSHOP OF UNDERGRADUATE WORK
Sílvio Guimarães, ( sjamil(a)pucminas.br )
Pontifícia Universidade Católica/MG - Brazil
Ricardo Farias ( rfarias(a)cos.ufrj.br )
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
VIDEO FESTIVAL
Luciana Silveira, ( silveira(a)ppgte.cefetpr.pr )
CEFET-PR - Brazil
Soraia Musse ( soraiarm(a)exatas.unisinos.br )
Unisinos - Brazil
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Gerald Banon, INPE, Brazil
Ricardo Barandela, ITTOLUCA, Mexico
Rui Bastos, NVIDIA, USA
Olga Bellon, UFPR, Brazil
Rafael Bidarra, TU Delft, Netherlands
Dibio Borges, PUC/PR, Brazil
Kim Boyer, OSU, USA
Chris Brown, URochester, USA
Pere Brunet, UPC, Spain
Oscar Bustos, UNC, Argentina
Roberto Cesar Jr., USP/SP, Brazil
Alan Chalmers, Univ Bristol, UK
Paolo Cignoni, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Nuno Correia, DI/FCT/UNL, Portugal
Kostas Danilliidis, UPENN, USA
Alberto Del Bimbo, UNIFI, Italy
João Duarte Cunha, LNEC-FCUL, Portugal
David Duce, Brookes Univ, UK
José Miguel Salles Dias, ADETI-ISCTE, Portugal
Cláudio Esperança, UFRJ, Brazil
Fernando Nunes Ferreira, FEUP, Portugal
Luciano Fontoura, USP/SC, Brazil
Alejandro Frery, UFAL, Brazil
Jorge Galbiati UCV, Chile
Alex Garcia-Alonso, EHU, Spain
Theo Gevers, UvA, Netherlands
Luis Marcos Goncalves, UFRN, Brazil
Eduard Gröeller, TUWien, Austria
Roger Hubold, Univ of Manchester, UK
Robert K. Jacob, Univ. Tufts, USA
Ed Jernigan, UWaterloo, Canada
Xiaoyi Jiang, UMuenster, Germany
Cláudio Jung, UNISINOS, Brazil
Robert Joan-Arinyo, UPC, Spain
Joaquim A. Jorge, INESC-IST/UTL, Portugal
James Klosowski, IBM, USA
Neucimar Leite, UNICAMP, Brazil
Hélio Lopes, PUC/RJ, Brazil
Adérito Fernandes Marcos, CCG-DSI/EE/UM, Portugal
Jorge Salvador Marques, UTL, Portugal
Nelson Mascarenhas, UFScar, Brazil
Ana Maria Mendonça, FEUP, Portugal
Theo Moons, KUBrussel, Belgic
Ronei Moraes, UFPB, Brazil
Soraia Musse, UNISINOS, Brazil
Luciana Nedel, UFRGS, Brazil
Luiz Gustavo Nonato, USP/SC, Brazil
Hélio Pedrini, UFPR, Brazil
Francisco Perales, UIB, Spain
Sylvie Philipp-Foliguet, ENSEA, France
Armando Pinho, UA, Portugal
Xavier Pueyo, UdG, Spain
Maria Andréia F. Rodrigues, UNIFOR, Brazil
Philippe Salembier, UPC, Spain
Beatriz Sousa Santos, IEETA/UA, Portugal
Manuel Próspero dos Santos, DI/FCT/UNL, Portugal
Mateu Sbert, UdG, Spain
Jacob Scharcanski, UFRGS, Brazil
Francisco Seron, UdZ, Spain
Jean Serra, ENSMP, France
Luciano Silva, UFPR, Brazil
Cláudio Silva, University of Utah, USA
José Carlos Teixeira, DM/UC, Portugal
Wu, Shin-Ting, UNICAMP, Brazil
Juan Carlos Torres, UGr, Spain
Clesio Tozzi, UNICAMP, Brazil
Agma Traina, USP/SC, Brazil
Emanuele Trucco, UHeriot-Watt, UK
Luiz Velho, IMPA, Brazil
José Santos-Victor, IST, Portugal
Roberto Vivo, UPV, Spain