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STAG 2020 - Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics, November 12-13, 2020
https://www.micc.unifi.it/stag2020/
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** COVID-19 NEWS ********
NEW Paper Deadline: September 27, 2020
This year the conference is in a VIRTUAL FORMAT.
We encourage authors to submit their work to STAG2020 as we will publish the
proceedings
and make them available in the Eurographics Digital Library.
A selection of best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to
the
Computers & Graphics Journal (Elsevier).
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics (STAG) is an annual international
conference organized by the Italian Chapter of the Eurographics Association
(EG).
For its seventh edition the conference will be held on November 12-13, 2020.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference will be held in a virtual
forum using a video conferencing platform. It is our intention to retain as
much of the conference programme as is practical, including all paper
presentations and keynotes.
The aim of STAG is the dissemination of research activities and novel ideas
on
both theoretical and application oriented aspects of Computer Graphics,
bringing
together researchers and practitioners from both national and international
scientific communities to share their latest developments.
Contributions on new ways to solve real problems, clever solutions to
optimize or
otherwise improve techniques and algorithms for real-world applications are
encouraged. System, libraries, and workflow papers with impact on real-world
applications are also welcome. We encourage submissions in all areas of
Computer
Graphics, Computer Vision, Visual Computing, and related disciplines.
This year, we invite contributions in the form of full papers, and we will
host, as
usual, the EG-Italy thesis award ceremony. Papers will be included in the
STAG
proceedings, and published in the Eurographics Digital Library.
For submission information please visit
https://micc.unifi.it/stag2020/submission/
From all accepted papers, an international jury will assign the best paper
award.
Authors of a selection of the best papers will be invited to submit an
extended
version of their work to a Special Issue of the Computers & Graphics Journal
(Elsevier).
Important dates
Papers submission: September 27, 2020
Notification: October 18, 2020
Camera Ready: October 25, 2020
Conference: November 12-13, 2020
<https://conferences.eg.org/eg2021/for-submitters/education-paper-submission/> Eurographics 2021 - Call for Education Papers
We are seeking original contributions for presentation and publication in the EG’2021 education track. We wish to build and enhance a vibrant community of Computer Graphics teachers who share their knowledge and experience of bringing computer graphics to the classroom and getting others excited about the field.
We invite authors to submit papers, panels and student projects related to the following topics:
* + Teaching Computer Graphics to diverse audiences (e.g. computer science, engineering, arts);
* + Designing curricula for Computer Graphics and related disciplines (e.g. image processing,
* visualization, animation and games);
* + Designing and teaching online and hybrid courses in computer graphics;
* + Classroom challenges in computer graphics (e.g. innovative and effective assessment, engaging
* student interest, managing diverse student backgrounds, teaching mathematical foundations);
* + Enabling and exploiting visual tools and techniques to teach in other disciplines;
* + Incorporating modern technology in Computer Graphics courses (e.g. VR, AR, XR, 3D printing);
* + Bringing Computer Graphics research into the classroom;
* + Promoting undergraduate research in Computer Graphics;
* + Harnessing Computer Graphics and Visualization in curricula for Data Science.
TIMELINE
January 24, 2021
Submission deadline
February 22, 2021
Notification to authors
March 14, 2021
Camera-ready
* All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC
EUROGRAPHICS EDUCATION PAPERS CHAIRS
Beatriz Sousa Santos, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Gitta Domik, Paderborn University, Germany
For any questions relating to submissions contact the chairs-eg2021edu(a)eg.org <mailto:chairs-eg2021edu@eg.org> .
More detail at https://conferences.eg.org/eg2021/for-submitters/education-paper-submission/
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Educators! Are you teaching computer graphics or using computer graphics to teach? Submit your innovations, experiences and insights to EUROGRAPHICS'2021 in VIENNA !! 3-7 May, 2021 <http://conferences.eg.org/eg2021> conferences.eg.org/eg2021
Prof. Dr. Gitta Domik-Kienegger
Fakultät Elektrotechnik, Informatik und Mathematik (EIM)
Universität Paderborn
<https://cs.uni-paderborn.de/cgvb/> https://cs.uni-paderborn.de/cgvb/
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Faculty for Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
Paderborn University
<https://cs.uni-paderborn.de/en/cgvb/> https://cs.uni-paderborn.de/en/cgvb/
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New Post-Doctoral Position Opening
The Interactive Graphics and Simulation (IGS) Group, established in 2014
at University of Innsbruck, Austria, invites applications for the position
of a full-time post-doctoral researcher.
We are seeking a highly-qualified individual with interest and skill in
fields related to the research themes of the IGS group. This could include,
but is not limited to: medical training systems, virtual/augmented reality,
physically-based simulation, computer haptics.
Candidates should have earned a doctoral degree in a relevant field
(Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Mechatronics, or other related
areas), possess a publication record commensurate with experience, and
have demonstrated strengths in some of the interest domains of the IGS
group, as outlined above. Knowledge and experience in programming in C/C++
is required, as well as a good level in English, both written and spoken.
Experience in teaching and project management is a benefit.
We seek a candidate showing enthusiasm for leading-edge research, team
spirit, and capability for independent problem-solving. Applicants are
expected to assume active roles in research projects, and in supervision
of junior researchers and students. Responsibilities also include teaching
at Bachelor and Master level. The research directions will be defined in
accordance with the interests of the candidate and the research group.
The position is open immediately, with applications being reviewed on an
ongoing basis. The initial stage deadline is September 20th, 2020. The
position is offered for a duration of up to six years, on the level of
non-permanent university research staff. Salaries are internationally
competitive and commensurate with qualification and experience.
Candidates should send electronically a motivation letter, a research
statement, their curriculum vitae with a publication list, URLs to
2-3 selected publications (online only), contact information of at least
three references, and scans of relevant degree documents. The compiled
material should be sent in PDF format to:
matthias.harders(a)uibk.ac.at
Please feel free to get in contact in case of questions. A description
of the opening in PDF format can be found here:
https://igs.uibk.ac.at/igs_document/PostDoc_Opening_UIBK.pdf
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
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Prof. Dr. Matthias Harders
Interactive Graphics and Simulation Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Innsbruck
Technikerstrasse 21 A
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
Phone: +43 (0)512 507 53338
http://igs.uibk.ac.at/
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* XVIII Eurographics Workshop *
* on *
* Graphics and Cultural Heritage *
* EG GCH2020 *
* 18-20 november 2020 *
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* <https://www.gch2020.eu> https://www.gch2020.eu *
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NEW Regular Paper Deadline: September 28, 2020
Given the developing COVID-19 situation the conference has moved to a VIRTUAL FORMAT.
We encourage authors to submit work to GCH2020, as we will publish the proceedings and make them available in the Eurographics Digital Library.
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The 18th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2020) aims to engage practitioners and researchers across the world working at the interface of novel 3D digital technologies and cultural heritage. This year, EG GCH will be ONLINE, organized by the University of Granada.
The event will explore the role of computer graphics and digital technologies in cultural heritage preservation and dissemination, linking its development with other economic and scientific areas, such as conservation and restoration, or with the role of technologies in sustainable tourism.
GCH2020 welcomes presentations of projects and applications that demonstrate how computer graphics and other digital technologies could impact to cultural heritage. Specific sessions will be organized for active networking to seek new challenges and projects involving different stakeholders of the European Heritage ecosystem. Hence, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome to the event.
For the research community, GCH 2020 will provide, as always, an excellent scientific forum to exchange novel ideas and developments as well as to identify future research and application opportunities. For the practitioner community, GCH 2020 will provide a unique opportunity to feed into technical developments as well as to identify new techniques and ideas which can be transferred into practice.
The event seeks different types of contributions including:
1. Research papers: original and innovative research (maximum 10 pages)
2. Short papers: update of ongoing research activities or projects (maximum 4 pages)
3. Posters: overview of activities (500 words abstract)
4. Tutorials of solutions available to the community. Text and class material prepared for 2h to 6h of teaching. It will be held on the pre-conference day.
5. Special sessions on topics of interest to the workshop
6. Panel sessions for international research projects
Topics
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Contributions are solicited (but not limited to) in the following topics:
● Digitisation of Cultural Heritage resources, such as 3D scanning, motion capture, multispectral imaging, X-ray, terahertz imaging
● Visual data analysis, processing and fusion
● Digital libraries, archiving and long-term preservation of 3D documents
● Visual data analysis and modelling, including semantic-aware representation of digital artefacts (metadata, classification schemes, annotation), similarity search and browsing
● Visualization and virtual museums, including serious games and storytelling
● Multi-modal and interactive environments
● Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
● Digital fabrication, including subtractive and additive methods such as 3D printing
● Computer Graphics related technologies applied to sustainable tourism solutions.
Important deadlines
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Research papers 28th september 2020
Short papers 23th october 2020
Poster 14th november 2020
Submission instructions
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Research papers, short papers and posters
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Please submit your work via the SRM conference management system:https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/GCH_2020
If you have any problems using these format templates, please contact the programme chairs directly at chairs-gch2020(a)eg.org <mailto:chairs-gch2020@eg.org>
For posters, please submit a 500 word abstract.
Special sessions
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Please submit the name of the proposer, a summary of the planned activity as well as list of speakers to chairs-gch2020(a)eg.org <mailto:chairs-gch2020@eg.org>
Proceedings
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All accepted research and short papers will be published by the Eurographics Association and archived in the EG Digital Library. The authors of the five selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH, see http://jocch.acm.org/).
We will seek to publish other contributions in collaboration with proposers of special sessions.
Organization
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CONFERENCE CHAIRS
● Carlos Andujar (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) -WS chair-
● Francisco Javier Melero (Universidad de Granada) -local chair
PROGRAMME CHAIRS
● Michela Spagnuolo (CNR-IMATI)
● Francisco Javier Melero (Universidad de Granada)
TUTORIAL CHAIRS
● Carlos Ureña (Universidad de Granada)
● Sofia Pescarin, CNR-ITAB
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Universidad de Granada
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We are pleased to announce 15 open PhD positions in the MSCA ITN PRIME
(Predictive Rendering In Manufacture and Engineering).
PRIME ( <http://prime-itn.eu/> http://prime-itn.eu/) is a Marie
Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network in the framework of Horizon
2020, starting on October 1st, 2020 with a four-year duration. The network
consists of 7 universities and one company as hiring institutions, plus 11
industrial partners.
The goal of this ITN is to have the participants develop skills and
protocols needed for industrial usage of Predictive Rendering (PR)
technologies - image synthesis which delivers results that one can actually
rely on to be visually accurate. Application areas of such systems are in
such diverse areas as product design, architecture, sensor system
calibration, training of autonomous vehicle systems, movie VFX and
manufacturing control. Goal of the ITN is to collectively train young
researchers in this promising, future-oriented and research-driven
application area: each PhD student has an industrially relevant cutting-edge
research topic, descriptions of which can be found in the individual job
adverts:
<http://prime-itn.eu/positions.html> http://prime-itn.eu/positions.html
PRIME brings some of the main European actors in the field of rendering
research together. And in addition to a high profile academic consortium,
the network can offer students a number of prominent end users of accurate
rendering technology as industrial partners. Having the likes of IKEA,
Procter & Gamble, Weta Digital, Zeiss and Adobe all together in one project
offers unique opportunities to see multiple real world usage cases for
predictive rendering technology in action.
Hiring is open until October 12th, 2020: please refer to
<http://prime-itn.eu/positions.html> http://prime-itn.eu/positions.html for
details on how to apply.
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