Dear all,
This is a kind reminder for the submission deadline of SMI 2020. Please not
that that the deadline is strict; no extensions will be granted.
Kind regards,
Frederic
Shape Modeling International (SMI) 2020
Strasbourg, France, June 2-4, 2020
Shape Modeling International (SMI 2020) provides an international forum for
the dissemination of new mathematical theories and computational techniques
for modeling, simulating and processing digital representations of shapes
and their properties to a community of researchers, developers, students,
and practitioners across a wide range of fields. Conference proceedings
(long and short papers) will be published in a Special Issue of
<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-graphics> Computer &
Graphics Journal, Elsevier. Papers presenting original research are being
sought in all areas of shape modeling and its applications.
SMI 2020 will be co-located with the Symposium on Solid and Physical
Modeling (SPM 2020) and the Fabrication and Sculpting Event (FASE 2020).
FASE 2020 will present original research at the intersection of theory and
practice in shape modeling, fabrication and sculpting. SMI2020 also
participates in the <http://www.replicabilitystamp.org/> Replicability
Stamp Initiative, an additional recognition for authors who are willing to
go one step further, and in addition to publishing the paper, provide a
complete open-source implementation. For more details, check
<https://smi2020.sciencesconf.org/> the SMI2020 website.
We invite submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics:
* Acquisition & reconstruction
* Behavior and animation models
* Compression & streaming
* Computational topology
* Correspondence & registration
* Curves & surfaces
* Deep Learning Techniques for Shape Processing
* Digital Fabrication & 3D Printing
* Exploration of shape collections
* Feature extraction and classification
* Healing & resampling
* Implicit surfaces
* Interactive modeling, design & editing
* Medial and skeletal representations
* Parametric & procedural models
* Segmentation
* Semantics of shapes
* Shape analysis and retrieval
* Shape correspondence and retrieval
* Shape modeling applications (Biomedical, GIS, Artistic/cultural and
others)
* Shape statistics
* Shape transformation, bending & deformation
* Simulation
* Sketching & 3D input modalities
* Triangle and polygonal meshes
* Shape modeling for 3D printing and fabrication
* Biomedical applications
* Artistic and cultural applications
SUBMISSION:
Papers should present previously unpublished, original results that are not
simultaneously submitted elsewhere.
The SMI 2020 conference will use a double-blind review process.
Consequently, all submissions must be anonymous. All papers should be
submitted using <https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/SMI_2020> the SRM
website.
Submissions should be formatted according to the style guidelines for the
Computers &Graphics Journal and should not exceed 12 pages, including
figures and references. We strongly recommend using the
<https://www.elsevier.com/__data/promis_misc/elsarticle-CAG-template.zip>
LaTeX template to format your paper. We also accept papers formatted by MS
Word according to the style guidelines for Computers & Graphics. The file
must be exported to pdf file for the first round of submission. For format
details, please refer to the
<http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-graphics/0097-8493/guide-for-aut
hors> Computers & Graphics Journal Guide for Authors.
IMPORTANT DATES (23:59 UTC/GMT):
Full paper submission: March 11 (no extension possible)
First review notification: April 6
Revised papers: April 20
Second review notification: April 29
Final version: May 4
Conference: June 2-4
SMI CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Loïc Barthe (University of Toulouse, France)
Frédéric Cordier (University of Haute-Alsace, France)
Hui Huang (Shenzhen University, China)
SMI PROGRAM CHAIRS
David Bommes (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Ruizhen Hu (Shenzhen University, China)
Nico Pietroni (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Thank you for spreading this new opening to potential candidates.
(Please excuse any multiple postings)
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New PhD Student Position in VR-Based Stroke Rehabilitation
The Interactive Graphics and Simulation Group at the University of
Innsbruck, Austria invites applications for the position of a PhD
student in virtual reality content generation, with application
in stroke rehabilitation.
We are seeking a motivated and talented PhD student with interest
and skill in virtual reality, 3D content generation, and/or computer
haptics. The focus will be on automated techniques for generating
3D content to be used in VR-based hand rehabilitation. The work
consists of both hard- and software development, with the main
focus on the latter. The work will be carried out as part of a larger
collaboration, involving a rehabilitation clinic, a leading international
company developing robotic rehabilitation solutions, the VASCage
research center, and the university of applied sciences MCI.
The position is open immediately until filled. It is offered on the
level of a non-permanent research student for three years.
Candidates should send their application material electronically
in PDF format to: <mailto:matthias.harders@uibk.ac.at>
<matthias.harders(a)uibk.ac.at>.
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
---
Matthias Harders
Interactive Graphics and Simulation Group
University of Innsbruck
Austria
<http://igs.uibk.ac.at/> http://igs.uibk.ac.at/
Full-time position
with the Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Lab at the University of
Bremen, Germany,
Salary is according to the German Federal pay scale, TV-L 13, full-time
(100%).
The goal of this project it to research and develop novel methods for
autonomous navigation that will allow ambitious space missions in the
future, and which can also be transferred into terrestrial applications. The
overall focus of the project, which involves a number of partners, will
build on the results of a previous project that laid some groundwork for
autonomous space navigation.
The position advertised here will mainly work on algorithms and methods in
the area of geometric computing and virtual reality. In particular, the
simulation of bi-static radar imaging, simulation of gravity fields, its
inverse problem, distance computations between spacecraft and surface, and
asteroid geometry generation are the focus of this position.
You can find more details about the project and how to apply at
https://cgvr.cs.uni-bremen.de/jobs/
Dear colleagues,
We have an open Ph.D. position in the field of computational
fabrication. More precisely, we are interested in developing new algorithms
for designing and fabricating objects with the prescribed appearance and
tactile properties. The position is fully-funded with a competitive salary
in line with Swiss universities. The starting date is flexible. The priority
will be given to candidates who send their application until March 31, 2020.
Official flyer: <https://www.pdf.inf.usi.ch/jobs_fabrication.pdf>
https://www.pdf.inf.usi.ch/jobs_fabrication.pdf
Information about the group and available positions:
<https://www.pdf.inf.usi.ch/> https://www.pdf.inf.usi.ch/
Contact: <mailto:piotr.didyk@usi.ch> piotr.didyk(a)usi.ch
I kindly ask for forwarding this call to interested students.
Thank you very much,
--
Piotr Didyk
Assistant Professor at University of Lugano, Switzerland
<https://www.pdf.inf.usi.ch/people/piotr/>
https://www.pdf.inf.usi.ch/people/piotr/
Due to multiple requests, the deadline has been extended to: March 8, 2020
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EGPGV 2020 - Call for Papers (Regular Deadline)
Regular Abstract Deadline: March 2, 2020
Regular Paper Deadline: March 8, 2020
https://conferences.eg.org/egpgv20
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The Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV)
aims to foster the exchange of experiences and knowledge on exploiting and
defining new trends in parallel graphics and visualization. This area is of
growing importance due to the rapidly increasing availability of multi-core
CPUs, GPUs, and cluster systems. Computationally demanding and
data-intensive applications in graphics and visualization are strongly
affected by this trend and require novel, efficient parallel solutions.
EGPGV 2020 will be collocated with Eurographics and EuroVis 2020, held May
25-29, 2020, in Norrköping, Sweden. The proceedings of EGPGV will be
published in the Eurographics Proceedings Series and in the Eurographics
Digital Library. Best papers from the EGPGV symposium will be invited to
submit an extended journal version to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics.
EGPGV seeks papers on graphics and visualization that involve any type of
parallel computing, and/or focus on very large data sets. Papers on
techniques, data structures, algorithms, systems, and applications are
welcomed. Parallel computing is broadly defined, including high-performance
computing and cloud environments, (multi-)GPU computing and heterogeneous,
hybrid architectures, and shared and/or distributed memory architectures.
Further, papers focused on processing very large data sets (either for
visualization or graphics) are welcomed, even if they do not have a
particular focus on parallelism.
Typical symposium topics include:
- Computationally and data intensive rendering
- Scientific visualization (e.g., volume rendering, flow, and tensor
visualization)
- Information visualization and visual analytics
- In situ analytics and in situ visualization
- Out-of-core processing of large data sets for visualization or graphics
- Simulations for virtual environments (physics-based animation, collision
detection, acoustics)
- Mesh processing, level-of-detail, and geometric methods
- Visual computing (image- and video-based rendering, image processing and
exploitation, segmentation)
- Scheduling, memory management, and data coherence
- Parallelization approaches and algorithms, such as MapReduce
- Database-related methods, algorithms or approaches, and query-based
visualization
- Advanced hardware for data handling or visualization
- Large and high resolution displays, virtual environments
- Scientific, engineering, and industrial applications
- Data analytics on large scientific data sets
- Machine learning as applied to parallel graphics, visualization, and/or
large data analytics
In general, appropriate topics for the symposium fall into one of four
categories:
(1) parallel graphics,
(2) rendering of very large data sets,
(3) parallel visualization and analytics, and
(4) processing of large data sets for visualization or analytics.
EGPGV again calls for Full Papers (8 to 10 pages) and Short Papers (up to 4
pages) in Eurographics format.
New Deadlines:
Mar 02, 2020 Abstract submission deadline
Mar 08, 2020 Paper submission deadline
Apr 14, 2020 Notification
Apr 21, 2020 Camera-ready version
All deadlines are at 23:59 AOE
For additional information, please visit https://conferences.eg.org/egpgv20,
and feel free to contact us via papers(a)egpgv.org.
EGPGV Leadership:
Symposium Chair: Steffen Frey, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Program Co-Chair: Jian Huang, University of Tennessee, United States
Program Co-Chair: Filip Sadlo, Heidelberg University, Germany
Student Program Chair: Mohammad Raji, University of Tennessee, United
States
Call for Doctoral Consortium
The Eurographics Doctoral Consortium is a networking event that provides PhD
students, working in all areas of computer graphics, with an excellent
opportunity to present their work and interact with distinguished and
experienced researchers in the field, receiving feedback and mentoring, as
well as a different perspective from senior researchers outside their home
institution. In addition, the Doctoral Consortium provides a unique forum
for PhD students to share their work and experience among their fellow PhD
students. The Doctoral Consortium will take place within the Eurographics
2020 conference, to be held in Norrköping, Sweden.
For the first time the two conferences Eurographics and Eurovis (EGEV) will
run together, as a single event, to be hosted in Norrköping, Sweden. The
conference will be hosted at the Louis de Geer Conference Centre, in the
centre of the city, and will be organized by the department of Media and
Information Technology at the university of Linköping, May 25th-29th, 2020.
Who should apply?
PhD students working in all areas of computer graphics are encouraged to
apply. We particularly encourage applications from students who are in the
first half of their PhD work, especially those who already have a clear
research direction (possibly with some published results), as they have
sufficient time ahead to profit from their participation in the Doctoral
Consortium. Students who are close to finishing their doctorate degree, or
have very recently finished it, are also welcome, to share their experience
and to discuss their ongoing research and future research plans.
Timeline
28th March, 2020
Submission deadline
18th April 2020
Acceptance notification
* All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC
Submission guidelines
Submission website: Eurographics Submission and Review Management (SRM)
system <https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/EG_2020DC> .
Template: Format should be in accordance with Eurographics Authors
guidelines.
Eligible Doctoral Consortium students who would like to participatein the
Doctoral Consortium
should submit the following documents as a single PDF file:
Research Statement: A 3-4 pages extended abstract summarizing her/his
dissertation research, singly authored by herself/himself. The submissions
should NOT be anonymous. The use of figures is encouraged. This document
should include:
- university doctoral program context in which the work is being
conducted, including starting date and expected graduation date;
- motivation that drives the dissertation research;
- research objectives/questions;
- background and related work of the dissertation research;
- research approach, methodology and proposed experiments (where
appropriate);
- dissertation status and a description of the remaining work current
and expected contributions.
The research statement should transcend the scope of a single publication or
project, and
instead focus on the general research theme or agenda of the students PhD
thesis.
Supervisors letter of support: A one-page signed letter from the PhD
students supervisor, supporting her/his participation in the Doctoral
Consortium, and providing the following
information:
- the students status with respect to the institutions PhD
requirements;
- the expected date of thesis/dissertation defense or graduation;
- why attendance at this Doctoral Consortium would be particularly
beneficial to the student;
- what contributions the student is likely to make to the event if
invited to attend.
Curriculum vitae: A 1-2 pages CV plus the list of all publications.
All three documents must be written in English.
Review Process
The review process is single-blinded. The review and decision of acceptance
will take into
account:
1. Quality of the submission (potential contribution and impact of the
research to the field of computer graphics) and the authors stage of
doctoral research;
2. The benefits of the consortium for the authors PhD research;
3. The authors contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds
and profiles that will integrate the Consortium.
Participation
All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral
Consortium, where they will present their work to a panel of experts,
selected by the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs. to match the topics related
to the accepted submissions.
For this, the authors will prepare and bring a poster (format A0, portrait
orientation) which will be used to present their work.
The panelists will then interact with the presenter to discuss her/his
approach and provide
constructive advice and suggestions.
Dear colleagues,
We have just extended the deadlines, so there is still time to contribute to:
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VisGap - The Gap between Visualization Research and Visualization Software (co-located with EuroVis & Eurographics 2020) May 25th, 2020, Norrköping, Sweden
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Over the years, many visualization methods and tools have been developed and published by the visualization research community. However, most of these are prototypes and never reach a state that can be reliably used by the target audience, e.g., domain scientists. Also, availability of these prototypes as source code or at least as executables is still the exception rather than the norm. The VisGap Symposium aims to shed a light on this gap between research and practical applicability, examine the obstacles every researcher faces, and propose solutions to overcome this problem as a community.
VisGap'20 aims at gathering experts from all over the visualization community in order to advance the way our field works with software, sustains software, and values the effort our members put into developing said software.
We solicit papers with 4-8 pages, with an additional page allowed for references. All submissions must be original works that have not been published previously in any conference proceedings, magazine, journal, or edited book or must present a substantial extension of previous work (at least 30%). Papers must be submitted through PCS (https://new.precisionconference.com/). All submissions will undergo a single-blind, single-stage peer review process. Accepted papers will be published by the Eurographics Association, and be stored in the Eurographics Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the VisGap'20 workshop to present their work.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Requirements for successful visualization in applications in general
- Domain-specific requirements for visualizations
- Reflections on the research community and the visualization software ecosystem
- Incentives and funding for developing/maintaining visualization research software
- Legal requirements (e.g., licensing, certification) for visualizations in applications
- Case studies of (un)successful visualization solutions in applications
- Requirements for novel visualization libraries
Important Dates
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Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED!): March 10, 2020
Notification of Acceptance (EXTENDED!): April 10, 2020
Camera-ready Deadline (EXTENDED!): April 24, 2020
Workshop Date: May 25, 2020
More info:
https://visgap.gitlab.io/visgap20/
Organizers and Contact
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Christina Gillmann, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Michael Krone, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
Guido Reina, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Thomas Wischgoll, Wright State University, Dayton, USA
If you have any questions, please contact us:
mailto: visgap(a)googlegroups.com
Submission
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Please submit your short and full papers via PCS (Deadline: March 10, 2020):
https://new.precisionconference.com/ (EGEV2020 VisGap Workshop)
Please follow the VisGap'20 guidelines for writing the paper. You can find more info here and templates below:
https://visgap.gitlab.io/visgap20/#papershttps://visgap.gitlab.io/visgap20/files/egPublStyle-VisGap-2020.zip
Best regards,
Christina Gillmann, Michael Krone, Guido Reina, Thomas Wischgoll
VisGap'20 Organizing Committee
MLVis 2020: Machine Learning Methods in Visualisation - Call For Papers
https://www.tuni.fi/mlvis2020/
MLVis 2020 will be a co-located workshop at EGEV2020 - Eurographics &
EuroVis 2020 in Norrköping, Sweden. It aims to bring Machine Learning and
Visualization researchers together in order to exchange research ideas. We
solicit short papers on machine learning methods in visualisation, from both
the machine learning and visualisation communities, addressing how the two
technologies can be used together to provide greater insight to end users.
Paper submissions for MLVis should be at most 4 pages in MLVis 2020 latex
style (provided on the website), with an additional page allowed for
references. Papers are to be submitted via the PCS system, link on the
website.
Proceedings will be published by the Eurographics Association, and be stored
on the Eurographics Digital Library. Selected papers may be invited to
special issues, either in the Information Visualization journal or ACM
Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: March 25, 2020
Notification deadline: April 20, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: April 27, 2020
Workshop: May 25, 2020
All submission deadlines are at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth on the date
indicated.
EuroGraphics 2020, Norrköping, Student Volunteers
In May, 24-29 of May, the joint conference EGEV2020 (Eurographics and
Eurovis) will be held in Norrköping. These are the two largest European
conferences in computer graphics and visualization. We are expecting that
around 700 persons will attend the conference.
<https://conferences.eg.org/egev20/> https://conferences.eg.org/egev20/
For the conference we are recruiting student volunteers. Among the student
volunteer work tasks will be to support at the registration desk, guiding
and showing the way in hallways in the conference facilities, supporting in
the conference rooms (walking around with the handheld microphone and so
on), but also to man an information desk at the central train station
(primarily during Sunday and Monday).
As a student volunteer you will be working one work pass either before lunch
or after lunch during the conference. While youre not on duty, youll be
most welcome to visit the sessions at the conference (and I strongly
encourage you to take the opportunity to listen to interesting presentations
and make new connections with researchers and industry partners). Lunch will
be included for all student volunteers. And youll get nice blue t-shirts
that will make you shine among the conference attendees.
If you have any questions, or if you want to submit your interest in joining
the work force, dont hesitate to contact me!
With best regards,
/Niklas Rönnberg
<mailto:niklas.ronnberg@liu.se> niklas.ronnberg(a)liu.se
Hello everyone,
as the publicity chair of the High Performance Graphics conference I would
like to invite you to attend High Performance Graphics 2020 and to submit
your work. High-Performance Graphics is the leading international forum for
performance-oriented graphics and imaging systems research including
innovative algorithms, efficient implementations, languages, compilers,
parallelism, and hardware architectures for high-performance graphics. The
conference brings together researchers, engineers, and architects to
discuss the complex interactions of parallel hardware, novel programming
models, and efficient algorithms in the design of systems for current and
future graphics and visual computing applications.
High-Performance Graphics is co-sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics.
The program features three days of paper and industry presentations, with
ample time for discussions during breaks, lunches, and the conference
banquet. The conference is co-located with SIGGRAPH 2020 in Washington,
D.C. and will take place on July 16-18, 2020.
Besides our technical paper and posters track I want to specifically
highlight our student competition on creatively using novel GPU hardware
features as well as our diversity stipend supporting underrepresented
groups in STEM.
Please refer to our website for more details:
Call for participation:
https://www.highperformancegraphics.org/2020/call-for-participation/
Student competition:
https://www.highperformancegraphics.org/2020/student-competition/
Diversity scholarship:
https://www.highperformancegraphics.org/2020/diversity/
In the name of the HPG committee I want to thank you and we looki forward
to meeting you at HPG2020 in Washington D.C.