Call for Participation: EG 3DOR Virtual Open Workshop, September 4-5, 2020
13th Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval 2020 (3DOR'20)
For the first time 3DOR is taking place as a Virtual Open Workshop, free for
all to participate, on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th of September 2020.
https://workshop.cgv.tugraz.at/3dor2020/
To attend, one has to first register by sending a registration request to
<mailto:3dor2020-eventchairs@cgv.tugraz.at>
3dor2020-eventchairs(a)cgv.tugraz.at including their full name and affiliation
by 31.8.2020. They will then receive attendance instructions a few days
before the workshop.
Enjoy 3DOR2020!
Workshop Chairs
Tobias Schreck (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Theoharis Theoharis (NTNU Trondheim, Norway, and NKUA, Greece)
Program Co-Chairs
Ioannis Pratikakis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
Michela Spagnuolo (CNR Imati, Italy)
Remco C. Veltkamp (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
=SCA 2020 Call for Posters=
Dear Colleagues,
This year, the 19th annual ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on
Computer Animation (SCA), the premier forum for innovations in the
software and technology of computer animation, will be held online,
September 2020 (dates to be announced soon).
We would like to bring your attention to our call for posters. Our
poster track is an ideal venue for researchers to
share their theories and innovations with peers and collaborators. Fresh
content generates discussion, feedback, and inspiration. Moreover, we
are happy to announce that poster abstracts (up to two pages in length)
will be included in the Eurographics Digital Library.
We look forward to receive your submissions,
and we hope to see you all in cyberspace!
Poster Instructions:
* Submission via email to <mailto:sca2020@computationalsciences.org>
sca2020(a)computationalsciences.org
* SCA will be using the Eurographics / Computer Graphics Forum style
* Submission deadline: August 29, 2020
* Notification of acceptance: September 3, 2020
Electronic Submission:
All poster abstracts should be submitted via email to
<mailto:sca2020@computationalsciences.org>
sca2020(a)computationalsciences.org by the submission deadline.
Each email message must be less than 25MB. 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 allowed.
Submission Instructions:
Poster abstracts are permitted to be up to three pages in length
(including references, acknowledgements, etc.) and have
to be submitted as a singe PDF file. Poster abstracts should be written
and presented in English. Submissions must be camera-ready, with author
names and affiliations listed. The review process will be single blind.
Supplemental material such as videos may also be submitted
electronically and will be made available to reviewers. Please find the
LaTeX template here. Finally, we also encourage the authors to submit a
PDF draft of the poster of size A0 as supplemental material.
Further Information:
Poster abstracts will be included in the Eurographics Digital Library.
WWW:
http://computeranimation.org/
Call for State-of-the-Art Reports
EUROGRAPHICS'2021 in Vienna, Austria, May 3-7, 2021, conferences.eg.org/eg2021 <http://conferences.eg.org/eg2021> ---> enjoy Vienna !
State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) provide an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of a special topic of current interest related to Computer Graphics. We welcome submissions on all topics relevant to EUROGRAPHICS, and particularly encourage STARs on topics that have not been covered in any recent edition. STAR reports on cross-sectional, multi-disciplinary areas are also highly welcomed. A STAR can also address the use of Computer Graphics techniques in a different scientific discipline or in industrial practice. For examples of suitable STAR topics, please refer to the EUROGRAPHICS digital library. A list of recent STARs <https://sites.google.com/site/drminchen/cgf-info/cgf-stars> can be found here <https://sites.google.com/site/drminchen/cgf-info/cgf-stars> .
Accepted STARs will be published in a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum, which appears right before the EUROGRAPHICS conference. 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. Submissions needing a major revision will be transferred to the standard submission track of Computer Graphics Forum.
At EUROGRAPHICS’2021, the authors of a STAR will be given 90 minutes to present the report at a level that allows non-experts in the particular domain to follow the presentation.
Timeline
October 29, 2020
STAR abstract submission deadline
November 3, 2020
Full STAR submission deadline
December 22, 2020
First review notification
February 23, 2021
Revised STAR submission
March 9, 2021
Second review notification
March 26, 2021
Camera-ready
* All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC
Submission details
Electronic submissions of STARs is mandatory and will be conducted using the Submission and Review Management System. Papers must be written in English and prepared according to this year’s template, which can be found at the Submission and Review Management (SRMv2) <https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/EG_2021STARs> system.
The deadline for the submission of STAR abstracts is October 29, 2020. The submission of an abstract is not mandatory, but will support the chairs in recruiting the right reviewers for your submission.
The deadline for the submission of STARs is 23:59 UTC, November 3, 2020, with notification of conditional acceptance on December 22, 2020. The revised version of conditionally accepted STARs will have to be submitted by February 23, 2021, for a second review, the final notification will happen by March 9, 2021, and the camera ready version will be due on March 26, 2021.
The STARs undergo a single-blind review process. To demonstrate the relevant expertise needed to produce the proposed STAR, authors should include their short biographies as supplementary materials.
We do not impose strict maximum lengths for these submissions. However, it is recommended that papers be up to 20 pages excluding references and the authors’ short bios, to conform to the general recommendation for CGF survey papers.
Eurographics’2021 STAR Chairs
Holly Rushmeyer, Yale University, United States
Katja Bühler, VRVis Research, Vienna, Austria
For any question concerning STAR submissions please contact the STAR co-chairs: chairs-eg2021stars(a)eg.org <mailto:chairs-eg2021stars@eg.org>
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Save the date: EUROGRAPHICS'2021 in VIENNA !!
May 3-7, 2021 conferences.eg.org/eg2021
---> enjoy Vienna !
Dear XR Educators,
Do you have student XR, VR, AR works to share and showcase?
Wednesday August 26th, 2:00 - 3:00 (US Pacific time)
Birds of a Feather meeting: Postcards from the Immersive Edge and Bloopers
from the Virtual Classroom
We would like to invite educators to share students' XR, VR and AR projects
at the session. Anyone with a valid SIGGRAPH pass can join the meeting,
including a Basic pass.
Please send us images, a brief 1-min video or 360 image/video of your
student works.
If you are interested in entering your student works, please contact Miho
Aoki (maoki3(a)alaska.edu <mailto:maoki3@alaska.edu> ). We will send you a
link for uploading files.
Hye Yeon Nam
Louisiana State University
Miho Aoki
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Open PhD Positions in Computer Graphics, Geometry Processing and
Visualization
The Institute for Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization at Graz
University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria is seeking applications for a
new PhD position, to work on novel applications in Visual Computing:
Currently, we offer a 3-year and a 4-year PhD Position at the Institute for
Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization, with a focus on research in
3D computer graphics, geometry processing and visualization.
For more details please see attachments.
How to apply
To apply, please send your CV, academic credentials and a letter of
motivation to by August 26, 2020 to the Dean of the Faculty of Computer
Science and Biomedical Engineering, E-Mail:
<mailto:applications.csbme@tugraz.at> applications.csbme(a)tugraz.at.
Dear colleagues and EG members:
we have one Early Stage Researcher/PhD position on visual computing subjects available in our group. The activity will concern scalable reconstruction and exploration of complex indoor environments (main topics: 3D reconstruction, (deep) learning, modeling, plus eventually rendering and visualization depending on candidate's skills and interest). The position, available immediately, is funded by a H2020 Marie Curie project (see below). The call is open until 21 September 2020 and we are admitting students eligible for PhD (i.e., already got their master or close to getting it) and for funding in this project (i.e., in the first four year of their research career and not having spent too much time in Italy in the past three years...).
Could you be so kind to inform your students and colleagues of this opportunity? Thanks a lot!
-- Enrico Gobbetti
CRS4/Visual Computing
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EXTENDED DEADLINE:
ONE H2020 ESR/PhD POSITION IN VISUAL COMPUTING STILL OPEN AT CRS4!
The Center for Research, Development, and Advanced Studies in Sardinia
(CRS4) is happy to announce the availability of One Early-Stage
Researcher (ESR) position (PhD student) in the EU H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Innovative Training Network on Advanced Visual and Geometric Computing
for 3D Capture, Display, and Fabrication (EVOCATION).
The ESR/PhD Student hosted at CRS4 will focus on
scalable reconstruction and exploration of complex indoor environments.
How to apply
1. FIRST, REGISTER HERE FOR ESR03: https://evocation.eu/recruitment/apply/
2. THEN, APPLY HERE, SENDING ALL REQUIRED
FORMS BY EMAIL BY 21 Sep. 2019: http://jobs.crs4.it/show/jo-48-0635
Benefits
Training: You will receive scientific skills in cutting-edge techniques
in a highly stimulating and collaborative international environment,
which will include leading research and industrial partners all over Europe,
such as University of Rostock, CRS4, University of Zurich, CNR, TU Wien,
Fraunhofer IGD, Holografika, and Gexcel.
PhD: You will have the opportunity to register for the Doctorate program
in Computer Science of the University of Cagliari. Activities performed
within EVOCATION counting for the doctorate program.
Research topic: The focus will be on scalable reconstruction and exploration
of complex indoor environments. Main topics are 3D reconstruction,
(deep) learning, modeling, plus eventually rendering and visualization depending
on skills and interest. Collaboration with other academic and industrial
groups is foreseen.
Salary: You will receive a highly competitive salary according to Marie
Skłodowska-Curie Actions rules. The salary will include living and
mobility allowances.
Hosting conditions: Each recruited fellow will have a supervisory team
to develop training and career plans. Participation to local and networked
training activities and International mobility to other partners is part of
the project.
Job location: The ESR will be hosted by the Visual Computing Group of
the CRS4 research center in Italy, at the forefront of research in the
acquisition, storage, processing, distribution, and interactive exploration
of massive data. More information on the Visual Computing group
is available at http://vic.crs4.it/ . The main office is Cagliari (Italy).
Application deadline: 21 September 2020 12:00 - Europe/Brussels
For further information and application instructions, please
visit this link: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/547499
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Enrico Gobbetti ( Enrico.Gobbetti(a)crs4.it )
Director of Visual Computing, CRS4 ( http://www.crs4.it/vic/ )
Main Lab: CRS4, Via Ampère 2, I-09134 Cagliari (CA), ITALY
Pula Offices: CRS4, POLARIS Ed. 1, C.P. 25, I-09010 Pula (CA), ITALY
Eurographics'2021 - Call for Full Papers
EUROGRAPHICS'2021 in Vienna, Austria, 3-7 May, 2021, conferences.eg.org/eg2021 <http://conferences.eg.org/eg2021> ---> enjoy Vienna !
The EUROGRAPHICS’2021 Full Papers Program will showcase innovative research in Computer Graphics and related areas. We invite submissions of new ideas, and encourage all forms of research creativity and originality. We are interested in practice, experience, novel applications, technological, system or theoretical papers, with the ambition of setting the standard in the field and stimulating future trends.
Accepted full papers will be presented at EUROGRAPHICS’2021 and published in a special issue of the Eurographics journal Computer Graphics Forum <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678659> ; the submissions will undergo a two-step review process. We encourage submissions from all areas related to computer graphics, including but not limited to rendering, modeling, animation, simulation, visualization, virtual and augmented reality, display technology, image processing, computational imaging, computational fabrication, human-computer interaction, and related disciplines. Gold Open Access publishing will be offered to all Eurographics Full Papers at attractive conditions of 340 EUR per publication, with special discount to Eurographics members for only 260 EUR.
Timeline
September 28, 2020
Preliminary abstract due (required for any further submission)
October 5, 2020
Full paper due
November 23, 2020
Reviews available
November 23 to 29, 2020
Rebuttal period
December 14, 2020
Notification to Authors
January 22, 2021
Revised version due
February 8, 2021
Final notification
February 22, 2021
Camera-ready version due
April 12, 2021
Fast-Forward video deadline
May 3-7, 2021
Conference in Vienna
* All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC
Submission dates
A preliminary abstract is due by 23:59 UTC, September 28, 2020, and the full paper deadline is 23:59 UTC, October 5, 2020. Note that a full paper can only be submitted if an abstract has been submitted by the abstract deadline.
Submission details
Electronic submission of all papers is mandatory and will be conducted using the Submission and Review Management (SRMv2) <http://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/EG_2021> system. Papers must be written in English, must be anonymized, and must be formatted according to the Eurographics Computer Graphics Forum guidelines. The publication guidelines and LaTeX templates are available on SRMv2 <https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/EG_2021/Instruction> . Accepted papers must be presented orally in English at Eurographics’2021. Review of full papers is based on a double-blind reviewing approach, so please be sure to remove all personal data (such as authors, affiliations, etc.) from your submission. References to your own work should be made in the third person to maintain anonymity. Reviewers are asked to keep confidential all materials sent to them for evaluation.
There is no maximum length imposed on papers. However, papers should only be as long as they need to be, but not longer. Reviewers might rank submissions perceived as being either repetitive or unnecessarily long lower than they would score concisely written papers.
Authors of accepted papers will present a super short summary or a teaser during a fast-forward session. This presentation will be around 25 seconds (exact length to be decided) and shall be augmented by slides. To ensure a smooth organization, they will be asked to prepare a short video of the slides for this purpose, in two versions: one with the spoken text and one without. These FF presentations will be available on the web throughout the conference. Details will be sent to accepted paper authors.
Plagiarism
A submission to the Eurographics Full Papers program should describe an original work of the authors. Authors must not use ideas or content originating from others without properly crediting their original sources. Note that such sources are not limited to peer-reviewed publications but also include patents, textbooks, technical reports, theses, unpublished work posted on arXiv, and other posts on the World Wide Web. Failure to comply with this requirement will be considered plagiarism and result in rejection.
Prior Art
Authors are expected to cite, discuss differences and novelty, and compare results, if applicable, with respect to relevant existing publications, provided they have been published in a peer-reviewed venue.
This also applies to patents, which also undergo a professional reviewing process. But what about technical reports, and other non-peer-reviewed publications, such as technical reports or papers posted on arXiv, which we henceforth refer to as pre-publications? With the rapid progress of search engines and the increased perusal of arXiv papers by the scientific community, asking authors to thoroughly compare their work to these pre-publications imposes an unreasonable burden — a seemingly relevant report that is incomplete in its disclosure or validation might appear online shortly before the deadline. Although peer-reviewed publications are certainly not immune to these shortcomings, they have, at least, been judged sufficiently complete and valid by a group of peers. Consequently, authors are not required to discuss and compare their work with recent pre-publications (arXiv, technical reports, theses, etc.), although they must properly cite those that inspired them (see “Plagiarism” above). Nevertheless, we encourage authors to mention all related works they are aware of as good academic practice dictates. Note that with new works posted on arXiv on a daily basis, it is increasingly likely that reviewers might point out similarities between the submitted work and online reports that have been missed by the authors. In this case, authors of conditionally accepted papers should be prepared to cite these pre-publications in their final revision as concurrent work, without the burden of having to detail how their work compares to or differs from these pre-publications.
Double Submission Policy
By submitting a manuscript to the Eurographics Full Papers program, authors acknowledge that the technical contributions they claim have not been previously published or accepted for publication in another peer-reviewed venue, and that no manuscript substantially similar in content is currently under review. Violations constitute grounds for rejection.
Re-submitted material
For papers that have previously been reviewed by other venues and have been rejected or withdrawn, the authors are encouraged to provide a cover letter to describe the history of the paper (however, this does not imply reviewer continuity). This cover letter can also answer the comments made in the previous reviews, by either listing the changes that were made to comply with them, or discussing/rebutting/clarifying some elements if need be. Though not mandatory, this procedure is strongly encouraged. The cover letter has to be submitted through SRM as an ‘Additional Attachment’ (see last section of the SRM upload form for details).
Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative
Authors who are willing to go one step further toward replicability of their contributed algorithm and provide a complete open-source implementation can get an additional recognition via submission to the Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (see http://www.replicabilitystamp.org/). All articles published in the Computer Graphics Forum are eligible to apply for the stamp.
Rebuttal, Notification, Publication, and Prizes
* The reviews will be made available to the authors on November 23, 2020. During a rebuttal period from November 23 to November 29, 2020, authors will be able to submit a brief document to address any factual errors or clarify any issues raised by reviews.
* The date for notification of the results of the first round of the review process is December 14, 2020.
* Revised versions of papers conditionally accepted in the first round must be submitted by January 22, 2021.
* The final notification of the outcome of the second reviewing round will be made on February 8, 2021.
* The camera-ready version of accepted papers will be due on February 22, 2021.
* From all accepted and presented papers, an international jury will select the best papers. The best paper will receive the Günter Enderle Award, including a cash prize of €1,000, presented at Eurographics’2021.
Eurographics’2021 Full Papers Chairs
Niloy Mitra, University College London, UK
Ivan Viola, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
For any question concerning full paper submissions please contact the papers program co-chairs: chairs-eg2021full(a)eg.org <mailto:chairs-eg2021full@eg.org>
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Save the date: EUROGRAPHICS'2021 in VIENNA !!
3-7 May, 2021 conferences.eg.org/eg2021
---> enjoy Vienna !
We are pleased to announce 15 PhD research positions within the MSCA-ITN-ETN
CLIPE (Creating Lively Interactive Populated Environments)
CLIPE ( http://clipe-itn.eu/ ) is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative
Training Network in the framework of Horizon 2020, starting on March 1st,
2020 with a four-year duration. The network consists of 9
universities/research centers and 5 industrial partners.
The primary objective of CLIPE is to train a generation of innovators and
researchers in the field of virtual characters simulation and animation.
Advances in technology are pushing towards making VR/AR worlds a daily
experience. Whilst virtual characters are an important component of these
worlds, bringing them to life and giving them interaction and communication
abilities requires highly specialized programming combined with artistic
skills, and considerable investments: millions spent on countless coders and
designers to develop video-games is a typical example. The research
objective of CLIPE is to design the next-generation of VR-ready characters.
CLIPE is addressing the most important current aspects of the problem,
making the characters capable of:
* behaving more naturally;
* interacting with real users sharing a virtual experience with them;
* being more intuitively and extensively controllable for virtual worlds
designers.
To meet our objectives, the CLIPE consortium gathers some of the main
European actors in the field of VR/AR, computer graphics, computer
animation, psychology and perception. CLIPE also extends its partnership to
key industrial actors of populated virtual worlds, giving students the
ability to explore new application fields and start collaborations beyond
academia.
Starting date is by September 2020. For more information about the project
can be found in the attached file, and in the project web site:
<http://clipe-itn.eu/> http://clipe-itn.eu/
Dear colleagues,
there is a postdoc opportunity to work at the Computer Graphics and
Visualization Group (TU Delft) on a collaboration project with the Dutch
Sailing Innovation Center. The main goal is to develop new and exciting
ways to interact with the sport using cutting-edge computer graphics
methods and techniques. The candidate will be able to propose his own
innovative ideas and choose which tools and knowledge that best fit
her/his profile and ambitions. For example, VR/AR, game technologies,
novel interactions and visualization modes, are all interesting approaches.
Apart from becoming part of the lively and exciting CGV group and
collaborating closely with the innovation staff, sailors and coaches
from the Sailing Center, TU Delft offers a rich multi-disciplinary
scenario where the candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate
with researchers from other areas, such as sport engineering and
industrial design.
For more information:
<https://www.academictransfer.com/en/292905/postdoc-computer-graphics-and-vi
sualization-group/>
https://www.academictransfer.com/en/292905/postdoc-computer-graphics-and-vis
ualization-group/
Application deadline: August 1st, 2020
Kind regards,
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Ricardo Marroquim
Computer Graphics and Visualization*
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*TU* Delft - EEMCS
http://graphics.tudelft.nl/
3rd IEEE Intl. Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Reality
Dec 14-18, 2020, http://ieee-aivr.org
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Update: IEEE AIVR 2020 goes virtual! Due to the ongoing corona situation,
the event will be held online from Dec 14-18, 2020. Submissions will go
through as planned.
IEEE AIVR is a unique event, addressing researchers and industries from all
areas of AI as well as Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality. It provides an
international forum for the exchange between those fields to present
advances in the state of the art, identify emerging research topics, and
together define the future of these exciting research domains. We invite
researchers from Virtual, as well as Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed
Reality (MR) to participate and submit their work to the program. Likewise,
any work on AI that has a relation to any of these fields or potential for
the usage in any of them is welcome. Areas of interest include but are not
limited to:
* Systems, including techniques, performance, and implementation
* Content creation and modelling
* Cognitive aspects, perception, user behaviour
* AI technologies for VR/AR
* Interactions / interactive and responsive environments
* Applications and use cases
* Ethical and societal aspects of AI and VR/AR
See website for futher details.
DEADLINES
July 24, 2020:
* Full & short papers
September 4, 2020:
* Special session papers
* Posters & work-in-progress
* Demo/video papers
* Industry contributions
September 24, 2020:
* Workshop papers